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Jun 1 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
On #swedengate, when I was about seven I had lunch at my friend's house and my grandma called her parents and tried to pay for it
This was probably a bowl of macaroni with ketchup on it we're talking about here. Not filet mignon.
Maybe the take is: we don't share our food because we know it's so bad that we don't want to inflict it on our guests?

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Last week I went to Transnistria and Chisinau to look at what might come next for Moldova. A few thoughts:
People in Transnistria I spoke to are genuinely afraid that Ukraine is going to attack them. This is the line that is being pushed in the pro-Russian local media: scary ultranationalist Ukrainians, armed by the US, will pour over the border.
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Thousands of civilians are pouring out of eastern Ukraine, fearing a Russian assault and atrocities like the ones committed in Bucha. In Bakhmut last week one young woman told me: “I’m not so scared of dying. But I don’t want to be raped.”
She and her mum were fleeing to western Ukraine after having held out throughout this war, and for the last eight years. Their windows were blown out by shelling on the other side of the road. But it was the fear of what occupying Russian soldiers would do that made them leave.
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Yesterday night, at a morgue in Kramatorsk, we watched volunteers carry out bodies of civilians killed in the Russian missile strike on the station. Among them was a 12 year old girl in a purple hoodie and white trainers.
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In the woods outside Bucha today we met Maria, 80, who hadn't minded the Russian soldiers so much when they turned up at her house. It was only after they withdrew that she found out they had tied up and executed her neighbours. thetimes.co.uk/article/bodies…
Russian forces retreated from this area in the last few days. They left absolute horror behind. Soldiers told us they'd found mutilated bodies of men, women and teenagers inside a basement of a holiday home. Others that corpses left in the street had been mined.
In the forest, locals told us Russians had been breaking into holiday cottages. Their ration packs were strewn everywhere. Stray dogs were eating from them. Swathes of pine trees were felled by the shelling, homes destroyed.
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So on Thursday I met Irina Bryzhyk, a beautician from Kherson, to talk about life under occupation. Instead she told me the truly insane story of how she organised a huge convoy that got dozens of civilians out of the city, past Russian checkpoints through an active war zone.
I can't overstate how mad this story is. She planned the whole thing with military precision, through a Telegram group she started with other beauticians, her friends and clients. Got up to date intel from people in villages along the road out. Made everyone carry burner phones.
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Our latest investigation: healthy young men who travelled to Qatar to work on World Cup-related projects are coming back with chronic kidney disease, which often kills them within a few years (thread) thetimes.co.uk/article/qatar-…
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Magar is one of a rising number of young men who have gone to work in Gulf countries healthy, and come back with kidney damage so severe they need lifelong dialysis or a transplant.
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