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Patrick Reevell
@Reevellp
International news reporter for @ABC News. Write me at reevellpabc@gmail.com
Jan 17 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
This is the story of how the CIA and Ukrainian intelligence secretly forged a deep partnership, beginning from 2014.
Told to us by former US and Ukrainian officials involved.
Watch full piece here:
A 🧵 The secret CIA partnership became crucial to Ukraine's defense against Russia. It also gave the US remarkable intelligence on Moscow.
"Here was the best friend of the Russians for many, many years. They knew things frankly we had no idea of", an ex-official told us. Image
Mar 16, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Significant. Russia’s foreign minister Lavrov says that, at their ongoing peace negotiations Ukraine and Russia are now discussing “concrete formulations, that are close to agreement.” Russia's lead negotiator says Ukraine is proposing to adopt neutral status on the model of Austria or Sweden- i.e. a country that is not part of NATO but has its own army and still able to pursue close ties with the West, including EU membership.
Oct 13, 2021 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
1/ What’s happening on the border between Belarus and Poland is nightmarish.
Belarus is pushing migrants over the border and Poland is blocking them. The result is dozens, likely hundreds are trapped in the forests for weeks, without food.
Our @ABC piece 2/ We found Rami and two friends shivering and terrified in the woods in eastern Poland. They had been there for 2 weeks. They had no food. One had no shoes. All were from Yemen and seeking asylum. They had been pushed back to Belarus four times.
Jul 19, 2021 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
1/ This is one of the grimmest stories I've done in #Russia. Since 2017, Russia has run a campaign of terror against Jehovah's Witnesses. It's one of the worst examples of oppression in the country, and maybe the most mysterious.
Our new @ABC short film: abcn.ws/3ku5nZ4 2/ If you ask people what is the most persecuted group in #Russia, few would think of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
But they are now one of the most.
Hundreds of arrests. People jailed for up to 8 years.
A trailer for our new @ABC short doc.
Full film here: abcn.ws/3ku5nZ4
Jun 26, 2019 • 19 tweets • 12 min read
1. When we started this story we could never have imagined it would end like this. For months we filmed the trial of Gaylen Grandstaff, an American put in jail in #Russia over a cleaning product. Our new @ABC short film takes you inside what it was like. abcn.ws/2XteCxK Image 2. When I first met Gaylen Grandstaff he was in a cage in a court in #Russia. The American from Texas had already spent a year and a half in a Moscow jail while on trial. He'd been attacked and denied medical care. It seemed hopeless.
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