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Oz Katerji
@OzKaterji
Ukraine Correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker based in Kyiv. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Co-host of @DrillPod. RTs ≠ endorsement.
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May 7 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I’ve survived a lot in my life, so it’s rare these days that I get too emotional over things, but receiving an email from one of my favourite musicians telling me how profoundly moved they were by my documentary has hit me right in the feels today. It’s still hard to believe I’m now a director to be honest! I spent so much of my career producing content for other people I had almost given up the ambition to create things of my own.

Somehow I managed to climb that mountain, and I can’t wait to share it with you all.
Apr 18 • 23 tweets • 8 min read
Who is ready for @OwenJones84/@Guardian to be forced into a humiliating retraction over his latest piece? One that exposes how lazy he is as a "journalist", who is so committed to his own ideological bubble that he has published an egregious error.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Image This is not a small mistake, but first I want to point out that this truly does reveal how little research he does, he badly read he is on foreign policy, national security and defence, and why he has no business writing on any of these topics. This is why he is bad at his job.
Feb 22 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The hysteria over this motion, or rather the precise wording of it, despite it having no impact on policy and no way of affecting the situation at all, shows not just how clueless most people are on foreign policy, but also exposes their own narcissism. As someone who was very vocal on the last opposition party’s foreign policy positions, what I cared about were binding votes that had an impact on policy, like retaliatory air strikes in Syria in 2013, not empty motions that achieve nothing.
Jan 29 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
People are very emotional and they react emotionally to hearing news they don’t like and sometimes that leads them to accusing reporters - who are simply doing their jobs correctly - of lying or conspiring to spread disinformation A lot of journalism is based on sources, particularly political squabbles taking place behind closed doors. We cannot verify all of those stories using OSINT.
Jan 24 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Branko Marcetic here, refusing to amend his fantasy interpretation of the Istanbul talks, despite the fact that the only source he has to corroborate them says that his interpretation is incorrect, and no withdrawal was ever offered by Russia.
No such deal by the Russians was ever offered. In fact, the Russians specifically cited the campaign in Donbass as a reason for withdrawing from Kyiv.

Even though Branko has no sources corroborating his lie, he still refuses to concede.
Jan 22 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I think people dismissing the idea that Russia would attack a NATO state are woefully clueless. If Russia wins in Ukraine, and gets in Trump a President willing to abandon NATO, Putin will strike NATO. This isn’t a low-probability event, it’s Russia’s explicit goal in Europe. Every question about the future of European security and the prospect of a world war needs to be understood in this context. This is Russia’s plan, to destroy the West’s collective defence policy and then to conquer territory to rebuild the Russian empire.
Jan 2 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
My family come from a middle class Sunni district of Beirut that borders Dahiyeh. Our neighbourhood has been effectively under armed Hezbollah control since 2008. They have thugs positioned there with barely concealed weapons, used to threaten, intimidate & suppress local dissent Even though our neighbourhood is effectively controlled & occupied by Hezbollah (and the SSNP), it is not under their direct control like Dahiyeh is. The state still exists in my family’s neighbourhood. The state does not exist in Dahiyeh. Police cannot even enter the suburb.
Jan 2 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has reportedly cancelled his scheduled speech tomorrow on the 3rd anniversary of the Soleimani assassination due to the Israeli assassination of Saleh Al-Arouri in Dahiyeh today. His last two speeches since October 7th have been heavy on threats and rhetoric while Hezbollah's armed response has been very quiet considering their known capabilities in southern Lebanon.
Dec 19, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
It’s been particularly depressing watching certain Arab American influencers cheer this on, knowing full well that they are going to feign shock at the catastrophe they are flirting with when it finally dawns upon them. And everyone knows I’m one of @mehdirhasan’s loudest critics, but he’s at least out here sounding the alarm while so many are willing Biden to lose in 2024. If Mehdi and I are agreeing on issues, you know things are serious.
Nov 10, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is definitively not the remains of an R9X: Lots of people falsely claiming an R9X “fires” blades, which it does not do. If you were trying to cause maximum damage, the R9X is the last missile on Earth you would use. In either case, this shell fragment definitely does not belong to an R9X
Nov 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
There was no peace deal on offer last year Mehdi, and there’s no peace deal on offer this year. Why are you spouting something that is demonstrably bollocks? I'm sorry but this stuff is beyond irresponsible. If you're going to talk about imaginary peace deals the very least you should do is state clearly what the terms are, who proposed them and when. Mehdi can't do that, because no such peace deal was ever even proposed.
Nov 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I can tell you all one place in Europe that definitely has not seen an uptick in antisemitic violence in the last few weeks - Ukraine.

After everything that has been said about this country and her people, I feel like this should be more widely acknowledged. I’ve been to the masjid and the Islamic cultural centre a couple of times in Kyiv this week too. Not a single thing out of the ordinary to report. Everyone just going about their lives, interrupted only by air raid sirens and Russian drone attacks.
Oct 23, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
International news organisations and even national intelligence services have been relying on the work of OSINT journalists to corroborate their reporting for years now. It’s time they started paying us for it. It’s insane that the Oryx list failed to meet its funding targets & I’m sure it had a part to play in Oryx stepping down from maintaining it.

We all want to keep collaborating, but all of these professionals need paying, this isn’t a hobby, it’s a full time skilled profession.
Oct 11, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
CBS News now citing a secondary direct source for their reporting that children’s bodies were among those found beheaded at Kfar Aza: cbsnews.com/live-updates/i… Yossi Landau, head of operations of the southern region of Zaka told CBS reporters that he had personally seen the bodies of beheaded babies.

A direct eyewitness first responder.

People can now officially stop accusing good reporters on the scene of fabricating this story. Image
Oct 9, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It’s worth pointing out that many of the same people who have spent 18 months supporting the occupation & destruction of Ukraine because of the existence of the Azov Battalion have spent the last 48 hours cheering on wanton rape & child murder in the name of opposing occupation. Also the same people who claimed to oppose the fall of the Assad regime by smearing all his opponents as murderous Salafi Jihadists currently defending the most brutal Islamist massacre of civilians since the ISIS genocide of Iraqi Yazidis.
Oct 7, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I know I should just ignore it but it makes me very angry when I say that killing civilians is wrong and then idiots who don’t know the first thing about my career reply “these people don’t care when Israel does it”.

Yes I do. I cared long before you even heard of the conflict. I’m Lebanese. I was born into a pro-Palestine family. I have spent my entire life advocating for the creation of a Palestinian state and opposing the occupation. I am frequently attacked on here for being a pro-Palestinian Muslim.
Oct 7, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Strategically speaking, Gazans want the Israeli blockade of Gaza lifted, and Palestinians in general want statehood, an end to the occupation & an end to Israeli military & settler violence. Hard to see how today’s attacks advance these causes beyond revenge. The Israeli military response is going to be heavy, and will disproportionately affect civilians as any military action in densely populated urban centres always does. Furthermore it will be supported by a unified population & sympathetic international community.
Sep 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
People like Philip believe they deserve to be spoken to with respect while they spend their entire careers lobbying to make life easier for genocidal dictatorships. They don’t. They deserve to be spoken to like cunts, because that’s what they are. Guys, I’ve been a freelancer for the majority of my 15 year career. I don’t have a boss. I don’t have anyone to complain to. I’ve worked hard to be able to say what I want, when I want, to who I want, without fear. And that’s precisely what I’m going to do.
Sep 27, 2023 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
This article is even worse than Lynch’s, and is written by an outright apologist for the Bosnian genocide. Speaking as a frequent contributor, the insane pivot on foreign policy this magazine is going through is alarming. These articles are completely divorced from reality. There’s plenty of room for scepticism in media commentary, but publishing authors who clearly have no knowledge of the subject they are discussing purely because they have a profile and a contrarian opinion is propaganda that lowers the entire tone of the debate.
Sep 12, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Michael Walker is a ridiculous preening narcissist who knows nothing about foreign policy and has consistently got every prediction on the Russo-Ukrainian war catastrophically wrong, so you can immediately dismiss this as yet more ignorance on his part. Image You think a man with this track record would learn to shut the fuck up on Ukraine, but he has no shame, no dignity, and no clue.
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Sep 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Let me just say, I live in Ukraine, and the idea that the Ukrainian people are starting to tire of the war and are seeking to make concessions to end it is so laughable that I cannot understand how anything like that gets published. It’s totally spurious. Ukrainians are resolute. Every conversation I have with every person every single day revolves around Ukraine fighting this war to the end and liberating its territory, so Ukraine is then free to join the EU and NATO. There’s a reason Ukrainians get angry when people falsely claim the opposite is true.