Sabine Freizer Gunes
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Sabine Freizer Gunes
@sabinefreizer.bsky.social
Kyiv 22:30 on 2nd day of protests against removal of Minister of Defense Fedorov: so many young women protesting
July 17, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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Iryna Hedzyk abducted, likely tortured and sentenced to 10 years for opposing Russia’s occupation of Kakhovka
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Abducted, likely tortured and sentenced to 10 years for opposing Russian occupation of Kakhovka
Iryna Hedzyk had been held incommunicado for almost 18 months when Russia announced 'spying charges' and then, two weeks later, a 10-year sentence
khpg.org
February 8, 2026 at 2:38 AM
3rd Congress of Women of Donetsk happening today in Kyiv 🇺🇦
Representatives from Donetsk Region Administration, women rights organizations, private sector, international partners sharing how every day they support Donetsk women & girls: incredibly inspiring
October 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Honored & impressed to meet Oleksii Sobolev Minister of Economy, Environment & Agriculture of Ukraine 48hrs after 🇺🇦 Cabinet of Ministers damaged by Russian attack
Government resilience at work: including for women’s economic empowerment & employment
September 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Its has been another long night in Ukraine
From Mayor Klitschko: “In the Pechersk district, a fire broke out in a government building as a result of a probable UAV strike.
Firefighters are working on the scene.
In the Sviatoshynskyi district, warehouse premises are burning again.”
From my window:
September 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless.

Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.
Editorial: That meeting was sickening. Putin loved it
Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless. Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold. On our screens, a blood-soaked dictator and war criminal received a roy...
kyivindependent.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:32 AM
It’s 12:40 in Kyiv 🇺🇦
Rather than doom scrolling
Getting 1000 times angry & depressed
Im going to sleep, a long deep sleep, confident that all that red carpet stuff was bought with a promise not to send missiles against Kyiv tonight
Good night 💤
August 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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in terms of concrete steps, there seems to be only one. The agreement to abolish OSCE's Minsk Group that had anyway failed it's mission.

I wish this puts pressure on Baku to agree on some additional steps re. Turkey-Armenia normalisation, while Americans can try to sort out the tripp.
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Armenia, Azerbaijan Sign Deal Aimed At Ending Decades Of Conflict
The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a US-brokered peace deal aimed at ending decades of conflict between the two countries at a ceremony hosted by US President Donald Trump at the White House...
www.rferl.org
August 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Hard to get excited about the carefree camp of #eurovision2025 this year with such a mess around all of us
May 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Wishing all who celebrate a peaceful & happy Easter from Kyiv!
April 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Kyiv 17:25: Easter eve supermarket shopping interrupted by a drone overhead. Literally above me according to Telegram channel Eи, Киiв!
April 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Where am I?
Tashkent? Nope: Kyiv (Podil)
And a group of Hasidic jews just walked by…
Beautiful Easter weekend in 🇺🇦
April 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Forged in occupation, Bucha's women turned from war victim into drone hunters, protecting the very ground where they once ran for cover.

euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/19/b...
Bucha’s women take down the drones that once hunted them
Forged in occupation, Bucha's women turned from war victim into drone hunters, protecting the very ground where they once ran for cover.
euromaidanpress.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Russian drones attacked a bread bakery in Sumy today.

A 61 year old driver who was loading Easter cakes into the vehicle was killed.
April 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Friends,

For Christians, today is Good Friday.

I guess it is a symbol of the words "it is always darkest before dawn".

We in Ukraine are waiting for our dawn to come - we are exhausted and fragile, we continue fighting and living, but over three years of full-scale war are taking their toll.
April 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
In Sumy where Russia killed at least 34 civilians on Sunday & continued to attack w/drones & missiles on Monday, women’s right organizations & activists persevere. In their words, there’s no alternative:

ukraine.unwomen.org/en/stories/o...
Russia's attack on Sumy on April 13: UN Women calls for unwavering support for Ukrainian women’s rights organizations
Every day, millions of Ukrainians in cities and villages across the country live under the persistent threat of indiscriminate attacks by the Russian armed forces. Human and women’s rights organisati...
ukraine.unwomen.org
April 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Dream and Achieve in Ukraine
Love hearing women pitching their new businesses after 3 months of mentorship & skills development with UN Women & Impact Force
April 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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#Turkey’s two prominent investigative journalists Murat Ağırel and Timur Soykan have been detained this morning
#Journalismisnotacrime
April 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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❗️If implemented, this could amount to a death sentence for millions of people facing extreme hunger and starvation.” @wfp.org
April 8, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Can you imagine starting your Monday morning with an air alert saying ballistic missiles target where you live?

That’s the reality for many this morning in Ukraine
April 7, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Kyiv 5:20: after an overnight drone attack, Russia launched several ballistics on the city. V loud. Now we wait to hear if cruise missiles are also coming our way
April 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Something remarkable is happening on 5th Ave right now.

100s of 1000s of people, a spontaneous outpouring of anger, demanding Trump/Musk keep their hands off our healthcare, our schools, our democracy.

This is a turning point in the fight back against the Trump presidency.
April 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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This is just gutting. I spent four years at Wilson. It made my 1st book, HOW TO LOSE THE INFORMATION WAR, possible, and funded important work on free speech and online harms. It was never a place concerned with splashy headlines, just quality, nonpartisan work.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u... 1/
Workers at Wilson Center Put on Leave as Trump Seeks Shutdown
About 130 employees of the Wilson Center were told they were being put on leave, just four days after workers for Elon Musk’s team entered the center.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Russia is clearly not grateful
Though the US imposed no new tariffs
Tonight massive Russian drone attack on Ukraine including on Dnipro, Kyiv and Kharkiv where 2 reported killed so far
April 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM