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Vladislav Davidzon
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Vladislav Davidzon
@VladDavidzon
Anarchic aesthete and journalist- Books: shorturl.at/nC6Pn newsletter: vladislavdavidzon.substack.com
- My Ukrainian wife just asked me to rip up or burn my Russian passport when I get back home to her. And I am going to do it.
- Ukrainians are taping looters all around the country to lamp posts and telephone poles using rope and tape.
00:00- Friends and comrades: the video is coming up soon but I have just burned my Russian passport in front of the Russian embassy in Paris along with my comrade in arms @IlvesToomas! Glory to Ukraine! Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
- Ukrainian woman heard my accent In Ukrainian when asking for directions (my clothes did not help) and asked me to recite Ukrainian folk rhymes to check if I was an infiltrator…
- This is totally false. The reports are real and have been confirmed- by people I know well- even if one did not look at the pictures of dazed Israeli women in blood stained pants being taken hostage. What is interesting is the idea that fanatic religious death squads who
- A senior Ukrainian Member of parliament confirms to me that the Ukrainian army is moving quicker in some sectors than the gov had expected “we did not think that the Russian lines were so thin or that they would be so cowardly”.
- My Franco-Ukrainian wife Regina Maryanovska-Davidzon attended the closing of the Paris- Basel art fair tonight. We ran into her old acquaintance- the well known Franco-Russian artist Daria Surovtseva. After some pleasantries Surovtseva began telling my wife about her projects
- Ukrainian nationalism is me (a Jew) listening to Jamala (a Crimean Tatar) singing Orthodox Carols with my Greco-Catholic friends…..
00:00 - A highly placed Zelensky admin source to me: “Keeping the Americans in the dark was also key to keeping the Russian intelligence services and army from being able to prepare. “We have learned some very hard lessons from the events of the previous counteroffensive,” a highlyMy report on the Kursk offensive yesterday triggered some sniping from those who for whatever reason didn’t like what I wrote. But now Volodymyr Zelensky himself is confirming significant part of the reporting: they didn’t tell the West. pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2024/…
- Ukrainian MP close to defense minister has told me that Ukrainian troops are once again fighting in Donetsk airport….
- I spoke to Ukrainian special operations officer and asked him why the Russians are fighting so badly in Kherson - “they are fighting badly everywhere” he tells me with a sardonic smile.
