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On Assignment with Richard Engel
@OARichardEngel
Award-winning @MSNBC special series - reported from around the world by @NBCNews’ Chief Foreign Correspondent @RichardEngel
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Jul 2, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
After four months of war with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sat down for a wide-ranging interview with @RichardEngel.

You can now watch the interview here:
Jun 28, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
The rescue crews are searching for remains in this destroyed shopping mall. It was hit by a Russian strike yesterday, where more than 1,000 people were inside, President Zelenskyy said. @RichardEngel is on the ground with the latest. A thread. The attack hit a shopping center in Kremenchuk, a city in the center of Ukraine, far from the frontlines of the conflict. The shopping mall was open and full of people.
Jun 27, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
“The war will end for sure,” Ukraine's President Zelenskyy told @RichardEngel. “I'm sure it will end with Ukraine winning, whatever happens, no matter how difficult it is for us.”

Richard has more on the @TODAYShow. 1/4 🧵 President Zelenskyy said that President Putin is trying to drive a wedge between Ukraine and the west. 2/4 This is part of a wide-ranging interview with President Zele
Apr 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Katherina finally took her first steps this week. She was shot by the Russians last month. “The bullets went through her back, the ribs, the lungs, the thighs” the mother said. “She suffered the most as she was covering her little brother.” She saved his life. He is 8yo. ImageImage Katherina is 16. While trying to escape her home with her family on the outskirts of Kyiv, they were gunned down by Russian forces. She remembered her father shouting, “Don’t shoot, there are children here.” But the Russians fired anyways. Image
Apr 5, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Every day, more bodies are being uncovered in Bucha and other suburbs of Kyiv, recently liberated from Russian occupation. Ukraine has blamed Russian troops for atrocities that many are now call evidence of war crimes. @RichardEngel reports from Bucha.
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 Pres. Zelenskyy went to Bucha and described what he saw as a war crime and genocide: Ukrainians shot in the head at close range, bodies bearing signs of torture, and rape, some lined up in basements.
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Apr 4, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Ukraine has now accused Russia of war crimes in Bucha, a suburban town outside the capital. @RichardEngel has the latest. What follows in this thread may be disturbing.
1/6 In Bucha, bodies of civilians lined the streets. Ukraine’s presidential office says some women showed signs of rape. 270 civilians, according to the mayor, were buried in 2 mass graves.
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Mar 31, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Here are today's top stories: British intelligence officials say that Russian generals are too afraid to tell Putin that his military is losing ground and taking heavy losses.

Mar 31, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This 88-year-old woman was sitting by herself, disoriented & frightened. “I’m so afraid, my whole body is shaking,” Praskovya told @RichardEngel. She’s lived through WWII and said she doesn’t have the strength to go through another war.
Mar 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“I heard a whistle and then I lost consciousness,” Andriy told @RichardEngel. A Russian bomb had hit his home. He woke up but was injured and he got into their car with his wife & daughter. Her last words before the car got hit “I’ll be with you forever”. Andriy’s daughter was injured and taken in by relatives. His wife was killed in the bombing, her body still remains in the car because it is too dangerous extract her, he says. “We weren't bothering Russia,” he said. “We are the same people. But they just seem to want to kill us”
Mar 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Attacks on the southern city of Mariupol have been brutal and unrelenting. This morning, Ukrainian officials, citing witnesses, claimed 300 people were killed in an airstrike on a theater nine days ago, making it the worst single atrocity since the war began.
1/3 These are the first images from inside the theater after the attack. The civilians who were sheltering there were mostly women, children and the elderly.
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Mar 14, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Russian attacks continue to grow more brutal in Ukraine. It seems nothing is now off limits, says Richard Engel. Early this morning, an apartment building near the capital city was targeted, hit by a Russian strike.

@RichardEngel has the latest on the @TODAYshow 🧵 “I woke up for a cigarette right before,” one of the victims told @RichardEngel. He heard the incoming round, then the explosion. “It blew out my window and doors. If I'd been near them, I'd be dead.” 2/7
Mar 11, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Overnight, Russian forces attacked two new Ukrainian cities, Dnipro and Lutsk. President Vladimir Putin seems unfazed, signalling he has no intention of backing down. @RichardEngel has the latest. 1/6 Russian forces are accelerating their advance on Kyiv, now actively trying to encircle the capital, but Ukrainian forces are fighting back. US officials predict it could take one to two weeks for Russia to surround the city, and another month to occupy it. 2/6
Mar 4, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Overnight, Russian forces took control of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.

@RichardEngel joins @Morning_Joe from Kyiv’s main train station with the latest: Ukraine’s Foreign Minister tweeted, “If it blows up, it will be 10 times larger than Chornobyl!”
Mar 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Russia is continuing its offensive against Ukraine. Overnight, Russian forces claimed to have seized the first major Ukrainian city, only a few 100 miles away from Kyiv. 🧵

@RichardEngel has the latest from Kyiv:

Russian troops were told they be would be greeted as liberators. But Ukrainians are resisting them. 2/4
Mar 2, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@RichardEngel went to the Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv. The basement is now an underground bunker, where mothers and babies are sheltering and receiving care. 🧵

@RichardEngel spoke to Oksana. Her 1 year-old daughter, Nikol, has complex medical needs, requiring daily attention. Nikol was getting blood transfusions when the war broke out. 2/5
Sep 23, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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Mar 11, 2020 • 7 tweets • 8 min read
THREAD: @RichardEngel goes inside the fight to contain the #Coronavirus—from Hong Kong to Washington, DC— and breaks down what you need to know. Watch the full @OARichardEngel show online via @MSNBC #Outbreak #OnAssignmentMSNBC msnbc.com/onassignment WATCH: Outbreak - On the frontlines via @OARichardEngel #Outbreak #Coronavirus #OnAssignmentMSNBC msnbc.com/on-assignment/…
Jul 14, 2018 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
Next up, we’re taking a look at what went down at the #NATOSummit this week and what it all means. #OnAssignment .@realDonaldTrump promised an “interesting time” and he certainly delivered. Check out this exclusive report by our @NBCNews colleagues nbcnews.to/2zCAOe2
Jul 14, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Neil Hobday says @realDonaldTrump paid all of the expenses for the Aberdeen course in cash and that even Trump associates found that “very unusual.” .@AlanShipnuck  says that one of the biggest questions in the golf and political world is “where did the money come from” for the Trump Scottish and Irish courses #OnAssignment
Jul 14, 2018 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Tonight @realDonaldTrump is sleeping at #TrumpTurnberry. We’ve been investigating the finances of his golf courses in Scotland and Ireland. They were purchased - and renovated at a cost of tens of millions of dollars– all in cash. #OnAssignment .@Rob_Weissman, president of @PublicCitizen, a watchdog group which has often criticized the president, says “it’s reasonable to say President Trump is getting a publicity value 100 times over what the cost of him visiting is.”
Jul 14, 2018 • 8 tweets • 7 min read
Now we’ve got a report about the big #TrumpProtest today in London to mark the #TrumpUKvisit. @realDonaldTrump stayed away, complaining the British public had made him feel “unwelcome.” .@POTUS managed to insult his host @theresa_may within hours of arriving, after @TheSun published this interview bit.ly/2NeCOeC. He slammed her #Brexit strategy, said he would kill a trade deal, and praised her arch rival @BorisJohnson #awkward