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@ChristopherJM
Apr 22 • 7 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Stories from the Battle of Bakhmut are something else. "We were shelled by mortars, tanks & planes. Drones dropped bombs on us. I had to evacuate a severely wounded guy & a dead body from the trenches." Of a 21-man platoon, 18 WIA/KIA in 24 hours.
ft.com/content/2f9663…
'Senior Lieutenant Kuzin took his position at the machine gun... Everyone else in his troop lay dead or injured. Suffering from shell-shock and with one arm bandaged, [he] fired at the waves of Russian soldiers trying to storm his position.' via @abdujalil bbc.com/news/world-eur…
"The Russian infantry charg[ed] in a WWI-style attack across a no man’s land of shredded trees & artillery craters. The Ukrainians popped up & mowed down many of them with machine guns & grenade launchers. Moments later, the scenes were repeated..." ft.com/content/dcdd09…
"In a recent episode recounted by Colonel Palisa, the Russians used a tank to shoot a hole in a wall of one apartment block held by the Ukrainians. Russian soldiers then climbed through the hole to fight room by room." via @AndrewKramerNYT
nytimes.com/2023/04/12/wor…
Then there's this incredible and heart-pounding helmet cam video from a recent battle for the "road of life" to/from Bakhmut.
Another intense video from Bakhmut, by my former @RFERL colleague @Levko_Stek, who is now in Ukraine's Armed Forces.
And one more from Bakhmut, by @StankoNastya.

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Mar 30
Terrible news. @evangershkovich of the Wall Street journal has been detained on bogus spying charges in Russia. Journalism is not a crime.

@FT live blog. More tk: ft.com/content/9232fa…
@evangershkovich @FT “It looks like they took a hostage,” said Tatiana @Stanovaya, a senior fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She said the Kremlin had a list of Russians held in the west who it would like to see released. ft.com/content/b774ca…
Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova claims Gershkovich's reporting "has nothing to do with journalism." She's very wrong, of course. ft.com/content/b774ca…
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Mar 17
⚡️New: International Criminal Court judges issue arrest warrants against Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights.
“…there are reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect bears responsibility for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population and that of unlawful transfer of population from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation, in prejudice of Ukrainian children.”
Full ICC statement on arrest warrants against Putin and Lvova-Belova: icc-cpi.int/news/situation…
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Mar 5
Mariinka was once a quiet bedroom community of 10,000 residents and tree-lined streets just west of Donetsk. We’ll now have to refer to it in past tense because the Russian army has wiped it off the face of the earth. These images show an apocalyptic scene incompatible with life.
I was there with @Kiehart on February 18, 2022, less than a week before Putin’s full-scale invasion. The fighting was heating up but the city remained intact.
We met my friend who ran the Mariinka youth center and watched children sing and make arts and crafts.
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Mar 2
This whole Bryansk incident is truly bizarre. It's definitely far-right Russian Denis Nikitin and his Russian Volunteer Corps involved and in the video. I've covered him for years. Here's out story with what we know so far: ft.com/content/55a701…
Denis Nikitin's group in Ukraine, which was founded in August, said that it “came to Bryansk region to show their compatriots that there is hope, that free Russian people with weapons in their hands can fight the regime”. ft.com/content/55a701…
“This shows that there are citizens of the Russian Federation that are willing to fight to liberate their own country from dictatorship,” Andriy Yusov, a spox at Ukraine’s military intelligence, told @FT.ft.com/content/55a701…
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Feb 24
At press conference in Kyiv, Zelensky doesn't dismiss China's plan, says involvement is welcomed. But the plan will depend on details and implementation.

"China talking about Ukraine I think is a good thing. But it begs the question, what will these words be followed with?"
Zelensky asked, who has disappointed him most: "All those who left on February 24, all those who left Kyiv, all those who left cities and towns and were meant to fight and secure them." Clear he means Kherson officials among others.
What's his biggest mistake? He doesn't know but admits he makes them. "I'm only human" He says he works early and goes to bed late. He's tired. I don’t know. "What’s important is to not make fatal mistakes." He says he hasn't.
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Feb 23
“He has three advisers. Ivan the Terrible. Peter the Great. And Catherine the Great.”

How Vladimir Putin blundered into Ukraine — then doubled down.

Our @FT story, with @maxseddon and @felschwartz.
ft.com/content/800025…
One part of Putin's invasion plan involved the ex-president Viktor Yanukovych, in Russian exile since the 2014 revolution. He was to deliver a video message conferring legitimacy on Viktor Medvedchuk—and anointing him to rule Ukraine with Russia’s backing.
ft.com/content/800025…
Putin authorized payments thru Medvedchuk’s party to pay off local collaborators. Some worked as spotters for advancing Russian forces, painting markings on buildings & highways to direct troops to key locations. Others joined in attack Kyiv's govt quarter ft.com/content/800025…
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