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Head of News @KyivPost. Formerly senior editor and reporter @HuffPostUK. Contact - chrisdavidyork@gmail.com
Sep 19 5 tweets 2 min read
Your top 5 stories from @KyivIndependent today:

First up, yet another incredible field report from @francisjfarrell – this time he's with Ukrainian soldiers defending Pokrovsk.

kyivindependent.com/russias-pokrov… We asked 5 prominent Ukrainians to respond to Trump Jr's 'Negotiate with Russia' op-ed.

Feat: @Mylovanov, @DmitryOpines, @Nataliia_Shapo, @DLubkivsky, and @o_haran

kyivindependent.com/we-asked-3-pro…
Aug 8, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
CBS News has deleted and rewritten it's controversial piece on aid to Ukraine. cbsn.ws/3Q6jRLW

Unfortunately it's a bit late given Kremlin media has already pounced on the inaccurate claims of the original. On a related note, Amnesty have issued a statement about their ongoing shambles
Aug 4, 2022 11 tweets 3 min read
Instead of actually listening to the people in this article, Corbyn supporters have spent the last 24 hours coming up with a range of excuses to carry on ignoring them.

Here are some 'highlights'. "You didn't interview 36,960,000 people so you're bad at your job."
Aug 4, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
I am about to sample Boris Johnson’s role. Will report back. Also available:
May 8, 2022 11 tweets 3 min read
A little 🧵 on what we know about human trafficking on the Ukrainian border since the Russian invasion began.

Trafficking is nothing new but the current situation on Ukraine's borders is a "sweet shop" for criminal gangs, one person told me.

bit.ly/3yiN5Rr 5.5 million Ukrainians have fled abroad, the vast majority women and children.

Journeys are arduous, often spanning thousands of miles and several days, and often from places under Russian bombardment and occupation.

People arrive in countries like Poland utterly exhausted.
Mar 14, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
One of the things I don’t feel is being emphasised enough about Ukrainian refugees is that almost every child has left behind their dad, and almost every woman a husband or boyfriend.

This is Tatyana 37, Marusia, 3 and Danilo 8. They arrived from Pavlograd and had to leave the rest of their family behind.

Tatyana said: “It’s been quiet but then rockets hit the chemical plant. My parents are still there and I’m really worried about them.

“We want to go back home, we really want to go back home.”
Jul 19, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
There's an anti-mask protest going on in Hyde Park right now and this is the calibre of galaxy-brained thinking on display... Here's a guy protesting the wearing of masks by wearing an even bigger mask
Jun 24, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
Holy shit, Robbie Williams is a PizzaGate truther He's genuinely full-blown QAnon, remarkable