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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPlease, retweet these terrifying messages from Mariupol... my heart is pounding just reading them
If anyone here has a big Twitter following, please retweet. It's so hard to imagine real people facing death as we sit safely in our homes, but this is what's happening: https://twitter.com/Michellio45
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Please, retweet these terrifying messages from Mariupol... my heart is pounding just reading them (Original Post)
renate
Apr 2022
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Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)1. will do
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,303 posts)2. Done
Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)3. Done.
renate
(13,776 posts)4. at this very moment these people could be alive, dead, or actively in the process of being killed
Raine
(30,540 posts)5. Heartbreaking 💔 😪 please be safe 🙏 nt
onecaliberal
(32,863 posts)6. :
jfz9580m
(14,529 posts)7. God that is too nightmarish to process
I hope that OP and their friends and family make it..
renate
(13,776 posts)8. no update and it's been 2 hours
I am so heartsick that after all these eons, humans are still so cruel to each other. And it's so POINTLESS. If everybody were kind to each other, we would all be so happy.
renate
(13,776 posts)9. still no update, and she had previously tweeted through some really rough stuff
She must be captured (and her phone taken) or dead now. I can't imagine there's any likely alternative scenario.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)10. After all that destruction there was probably no electricity.
And the battery on her device is no longer strong enough to carry a signal. I hope.