Alisa, age 4, arrived in Zaporizhia, #Ukraine alone on an evacuation bus from Mariupol.
She and her mother Viktoria Obidina, a military medic, were evacuated from Azovstal. But #Russia-backed militants detained Viktoria along the way. She's now likely in a "filtration camp."
In April, a video of Alisa saying she wanted to be evacuated made the rounds on social media. Then journalist Nataliya Nagorna encountered her on the evacuation bus and was shocked to find she was alone.
4-year-old Alisa is now with her grandfather. But her mother is still in the custody of #Russia-backed militants.
A horrifying statistic: Alisa is the 36th case of a child under 14 arriving in Zaporizhia from Mariupol without parents. #Ukrainepravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/…
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"#Kazakhstan respects the territorial integrity of #Ukraine. We did not recognise and will not recognise the Crimea situation and neither the Donbas situation because the UN does not recognise them." euractiv.com/section/centra…
First, it's clear that #Kazakhstan is playing defense here, concerned about the possibility that it could face sanctions. The fact this message is directed at Europe (in Euractiv) drives that point home.
Timur Suleimenov's main message is that #Kazakhstan won't help #Russia evade sanctions. His second message is explanatory: Yes, we will continue trading with and investing with Russia. There's only so much we can distance ourselves from Moscow.
My latest with @adalatseeker and @boshikh for @OCCRP: We tracked down the secretive relative of #Turkmenistan's longtime dictator who controls the country's monopoly mobile phone operator.
How secretive is Shyhmyrat Shaharliyev, the director of #Turkmenistan's monopoly mobile operator Altyn Asyr (TMCell)? He has never made a public appearance as director!
During most of the investigation, we only had an image of his torso (the man at the center) from social media.
Only later did we manage to identify him in 3 seconds of footage from #Turkmenistan state TV. Three seconds are his only public appearance!!!
Why so secretive? Likely because he doesn't want the public to realize he's related to longtime president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov...
🧵 Assuming this audio is real, there's an interesting detail here: The girlfriend is very concerned by her boyfriend drinking heavily in #Ukraine. Later, the soldier mentions he "met another Tuvan." What's the connection?
2) Lawmaker Leonid Slutsky, a member of #Russia's delegation, echoed these statements, saying the progress could grow into a "unified position" in the coming days.
3) Wang Huiyao, president of the Center for #China and Globalization and an advisor to the Chinese government, suggested in a @nytimes op-ed that Beijing could broker a ceasefire and argued this would be in Chinese national interests.
🧵🧵🧵Did #Israel PM Naftali Bennett push the Ukrainian government to capitulate to #Russia? Zelensky's administration now denies this. I wanted to give a few reasons why I — a person who spent 4 years covering #Ukraine — was a bit skeptical.
For background: #Ukraine is a place where many of #Russia's current and previous demands — for example, neutrality, bilingualism — are unacceptable for reasons not always apparent to outsiders. Additionally, the vast majority of Ukrainians believe their country will win this war.
This places enormous constraints on what compromises Zelensky can accept. #Russia's demands also remain maximalist — neutrality (no NATO), renouncing Crimea, recognizing LDNR, potentially demilitarization. This is politically impossible in #Ukraine. reuters.com/world/kremlin-…
🧵Краткое объсянение очередного, позорного фейка об #Украина — в этот раз, от посольства России в Великобритании.
Вчера посольство опубликовало твит о том, что девушка, пережившая авиаудар по роддому в Мариуполе, якобы была так называемой "кризисной актрисой". Это ложь.
Опровергну твит по пунктам.
1) "Марианна Подгурская – бьюти-блогер":
Оказывается, Марианна Подгурская действительно вела бьюти-блог. Но по Инстаграму мы видим, что она живет в Мариуполе и она беременна.
2) "Она играла роль беременной женщины":
Как я уже говорил, очевидно, что она беременна. Еще доказательства: 24 января этого года (за месяц до начала войны) муж Марианны опубликовал фотографию, где видно, что она беременна.