But other emoji were used to talk about what was going on, like the red circle 🔴 or the red phone ☎️ to indicate danger and information. Research from The Conversation (opens in a new tab) shows that after the November 2015 Paris attacks, the most common support emoji were flags from countries like the UK 🇬🇧 and the U.S.

The sunflower is Ukraine's national flower, and it's fairly common for national symbols like flowers, animals, and flags to become a signal of solidarity (opens in a new tab) and strength online during difficult times for nations. On one Reddit post (opens in a new tab) about a report that Russia’s Chechen general Magomed Tushayev was apparently killed in Ukraine, one of the top comments reads: 'May his corpse become the fertilizer for dozens of sunflowers.' Users responded with the sunflower emoji. Twitter users are adding the sunflower (opens in a new tab) emoji to the end of their names (opens in a new tab), but the use of the emoji as a sign of solidarity doesn't stop on that platform. 'How can it be further escalated?' she asked.

He once again said he didn't want to 'escalate' the situation. 'And from this moment, you are cursed,' the woman said. You came to my land? Do you understand? You are occupiers. Put the sunflower seeds in your pockets please. He responded by repeating that the discussion isn't going anywhere, and said he doesn't want to 'escalate this situation.' Russia's war on social media isn't going well, either

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