"Your mother would do it too"

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Link to tweet

[Haggard Celine]

1. Bless her heart.

That's one tough lady! Hope she inspires many more.

[Hekate]

2. KnR and Thanks to Richard Engel, who goes where most of us would not dare to go...

…. and sends us eye-witness accounts of the people there.

[BadgerMom]

3. While I look at the photo with the greatest respect and awe,

I am appalled that anyone of any age is facing the potential horrors this woman is. Why can she not enjoy the fruits of her labor? Her dotage? Damn Putin and all of his boosters and enablers. Looking directly at the former guy and his criminal cohorts.

[niyad]

15. Exactly.

But, "dotage"?

[BadgerMom]

17. You're right.

She’s older but not diminished.

[Cha]

4. Rt TY

[North Shore Chicago]

5. I find this photo

and her circumstance beyond sad.

[Celerity]

12. +1

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. She wouldn't get training from a neo-nazi national guard unit, I hope.

This is propaganda from the Azov Battalion.

[blue-wave]

9. So Richard Engel is now part of the Azov Battalion?

I wonder if he knows.

[Dorian Gray]

10. There was criticism

online for him sharing it because there were other pictures out there with people wearing Nazi patches "training" her.

If you read through the thread and search a bit on twitter you'll see some of the criticism. I don't know if he read those critiques or addressed it. But, it's out there.

[Celerity]

13. the Azov Battalion is hardcore white power neo Nazi in orientation, as are many of the other

Ukrainian nationalist militias like Svoboda (also a pollical party) and Right Sector
















Neo Nazi Aidar Battalion member Vita Zaverukha (multiple police killer)






Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok



Ukrainian opposition leaders Oleh Tyahnybok (L), Vitaly Klitschko (2nd R, back) and Arseny Yatsenyuk (R) pose for a picture with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland

[Dorian Gray]

14. Thanks for Sharing that

So easy to be susceptible to propaganda. Wish we had more media literacy courses around.

Be skeptical and ask questions.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. Lol no, but I definitely question his ability to be an effective foreign correspondent if he

was actually at that photo op and accepted everything he was told that uncritically.

[JudyM]

7. Stunning photo.

One small slice of life in Putin’s tangled web.

[peggysue2]

8. This is a great photo!

Says everything about the threatened invasion. Ukrainians will not go down easily.

Also an object lesson for us. How hard are we willing to fight for our own democracy?