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“‘We decided to go bright,’ he recalls. Going bright meant documenting events in real time – not just the epic fighting, but the emotions and anxieties of Ukrainians caught up in what he calls the ‘biggest European bloodbath since 1945’. Ponomarenko’s posts were heartfelt, illuminating and brutally mocking of Moscow. They lit up X, and in the space of five days, he went from 10,000 followers to more than a million. He is arguably the most famous Ukrainian abroad after Volodymyr Zelenskiy.” —AD
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Illia Ponomarenko,
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The Guardian,
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