“Imperial wars aren’t only fought for resources—they’re fought to monopolise our stories. When you silence people’s stories, it becomes easier to convince them they’re too small, too broken to rule themselves. That resistance is futile.” maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/rc101-disp...

🤯 Ukraine no longer needs imported armored vehicles. According to Defense Express, domestic production has scaled up so fully that all armored vehicles for the Armed Forces have been sourced locally for the past 2–3 years. 🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...

The psychological dissonance of living next to evil while pretending normalcy—this is exactly what Europe faces today. Pilecki understood: you can’t defend against evil if you refuse to name it. learn his story: maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/rc101-disp...

“Pilecki lived inside that pattern: continuous imperial occupation masked as separate historical episodes. His three anti-colonial resistance campaigns - against Nazi Germany and Soviet russia - weren't three different enemies—they were three iterations of the same imperial evil”

⚡️Ukraine just set a new drone warfare record using a digital incentive system.

RIP heroine. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 🇦🇺

“Lana ‘Sati’ was barely 26. But like most Ukrainians of her age, she/they made civil activism part of her/their daily life and never took democracy, equality, and freedom for granted.” — Maksym Eristavi

painful loss for the Ukrainian queer family. Lana aka Sati, a fearless, brave hero who sacrificed their life on the Ukrainian frontline so the rest of us in Europe can keep living as authentic selves in peace and comfort.

for this holiday season, we have a special Ukrainian present for you — a new @ukrainianspaces.bsky.social season in collab with a Ukrainian legacy newsroom @pravda.ua. episode two features @dovzhyk.bsky.social maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/ukrainian-...

honored to receive the Witold Pilecki Book Prize for Russian Colonialism 101 by @pileckiinstitut.bsky.social and @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

we are back with a new @ukrainianspaces.bsky.social season! open.substack.com/pub/maksymer...

@maksymeristavi.com 👍 He was a recent guest of Rick's. www.youtube.com/live/1YmXSY_...

🔥 Ukrainian Spaces returns for Season 5 with @pravda.ua Across six episodes, we open six windows on Ukraine: fear, belonging, language, love, resistance, and the future. Hosted by Val Voshevska and @maksymeristavi.com

If you’re not on Substack yet - it might be worth checking the Ukrainian voices there. Also - it’s another front of the information war. You’ll find many familiar names, able to post long pieces. @maksymeristavi.com - I hope you’re ok with that screen grab. substack.com/@maksymerist...

“any kind of life as a colony within an empire, it really sucks, because that’s what empires do: they get the best of the resources that they could get out of you. they erase your identity.” @dim0kq.bsky.social

🔴 UPD: Six people were killed, and at least 14 were injured as a result of the Russian attack on Kyiv overnight. 🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...

Russia carried out a massive overnight strike on Kyiv and the region, damaging homes and civilian infrastructure. Six people were killed and 13 injured. Strikes also hit Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, and Cherkasy regions. In total, russia used 22 missiles and more than 460 drones.

⚡️ Ukraine offers to share its anti-drone warfare experience with Lithuania amid growing Russian air threats.

In 2015 I accompanied my boss to #YESForum in Kyiv, where @maksymeristavi.com interviewed him. I was impressed by this young journalist and have been following him ever since. I am ordering his book #RussianColonialism101 today and I hope you will too! linktr.ee/russiancolon...

across half a century and several occupied nations, ordinary people answered russian colonial rule the only way left to them — by setting their own bodies on fire so their warning about the empire travels through time. my latest essay. please support it. maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/resistance...

speechless.

Today while walking in my garden I remembered the words of my friend from Kherson: "I can't walk in my garden. I am scared that I may die". For me walking in my garden is relaxing. For her walking in her garden can be a death sentence because of Russian petal mines. We both live in Europe. #Ukraine

russian colonialism 101 merch is back in stock, you guys 🪆🪓 istpublishing.org/en/merch

Today we mark day 29. In almost 31h we advanced with +5$ ❤️‍🩹. I'll be honest now, the way we're advancing now we will finish this fundraiser next year or we give up. We're supported only by a few friends & they can't carry all the weight alone. Please RT! PP: [email protected] #Ukraine #NAFO #FNDRUA

see you tonight in Hamburg. my final lecture this year.

I have one of these shirts (the one in Ukrainian). They’re very cool.

many thanks to fluctoplasma and @ukrindeu.bsky.social for landing me such a cool spot for my lecture on russian colonialism. i am bringing the story i have shared just once before. hamburg, see you soon 🪆🪓 www.fluctoplasma.com/program/colo...

russian colonialism 101 merch is back in stock, you guys 🪆🪓 istpublishing.org/en/merch

see you tomorrow, Frankfurt. @correctiv.org 🪆🪓

🔴 Russia tortured to death two 16-year-olds, Danylo Dakhov and Pavlo Hrymak, from Melitopol. Deputy Foreign Minister Mariana Betsa reported this at the UN General Assembly on September 4. 1/3

stop by @CORRECTIV Verlag booth at this year’s @buchmesse.de for an autograph session and pick up freshly-printed german translation of my Russian Colonialism 101 guidebook 🪆🪓 shop.correctiv.org/Russischer-K...

The list of russian crimes is endless. There can be no lasting peace without justice. #MakeRussiaPay

there’s no random evil in r*zzia kidnapping local kids during invasions and occupations. it is a well-tested warfare playbook that the empire successfully deployed for generations. please read, share and support my work on this newsletter if you find it important open.substack.com/pub/maksymer...

vitriol that @efdavies.bsky.social faced for exposing for German media the russian special ops infiltration of Western academia is nasty. also a sign that russia hates for this story to take roots in the mainstream conversation.

But Miller is not anyone. Until 2022, he was among the internationally most renowned historians of imperial Russia, a respected colleague in Western academia. Some reflections on Russo-centrism in academia, colonialism and how Western scholars failed Ukraine: 2/3

Russia is seeking to legitimise its genocidal war against Ukraine through the construction of historical narratives. Among those supporting this effort is historian Alexei Miller, a professor of history in St. Petersburg and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 1/3

honoured to be invited back to the world’s largest book fair, @buchmesse.de, to talk about russian colonial warfare and which stories from the past can prepare Europe to defend itself from russian imperialism today. stop by the Ukrainian National Stand! www.goethe.de/ins/ua/de/ve...

child theft isn’t just a war crime that happens during russian colonial invasions; it’s part of the strategic objective that russian military operations are designed around. read more: maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/russia-has...

European drone wall already exists — it runs through Ukraine and all we need to do is to empower and extend it. please support these incredible friends of mine. the defence of European democracy starts with each and every of us. linktr.ee/aidx10

russian troops kidnapped Sasha and his mother from Mariupol. The boy was rescued by his grandmother. His mother is still being held in russian captivity. Sasha has only one dream — to return his mom home. This is his story👇 Source: DW

omg. es ist endlich da. vielen dank @correctiv.org für die veröffentlichung der übersetzung. shop.correctiv.org/Russischer-K...

Even well-meaning voices suggesting Ukraine "give up some land" reveal just how systematically the world has been conditioned to misunderstand what "territorial solutions" mean for human beings living under Russian imperial control open.substack.com/pub/maksymer...

boah ey! 😅 bald…

Ukrainian pride march just kilometers from invading russian troops. Kharkiv Pride is the most important civil rights march in Europe and these people are the pride of the free world. congrats my dears on another historic milestone of being badass, queer and Ukrainian

overnight in this Kyiv apartment building russians murdered a one-year-old toddler peacefully sleeping in their bed. child murdering is russian culture.

in 1854, russians landed on a Korean beach and started barging into local homes uninvited, comparing locals to animals, and renaming local geography because “no civilised person had ever discovered this land before.” sounds familiar? open.substack.com/pub/maksymer...

rest in power, david. open.substack.com/pub/maksymer...

i am incredibly blessed with so many good people and their working moral compasses surrounding me here.