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Freelance US journalist in Ukraine. Truth matters. ✍️ @Newsweek @ThisisInsider @ForeignPolicy @Militarydotcom 🙏 @MedillSchool 👋 klivingstone@proton.me
Aug 19 8 tweets 4 min read
🚨 SCOOP‼️: Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK, Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhny, is quietly preparing a run for president – in direct opposition to Zelensky.

A source close to the budding campaign tells me his HQ is already active in London, and recruitment is underway. This isn’t just speculation.

🧵Here's what we know: 1/Image 2/ Zaluzhny – Ukraine’s former top general, now ambassador to the UK – has “effectively begun” his campaign, the source says.

The timing is no accident: Trump’s peace summits are speeding up the negotiation process, with Zelensky confirming that elections may be coming soon.

His silence is strategic, but the message is clear.Image
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Aug 4 6 tweets 3 min read
Who fights for Ukraine?

A convicted criminal turned shock trooper. A chef drafted off the street. A former prisoner turned shock trooper. A former US Marine who’s “buried more brothers than he can count.”

Meet 🇺🇦Ukraine’s unexpected army, holding the line against incredible odds:

1/Image Brooks, 26, wanted to fight from day one – but in 2022, “women were not willingly taken into the army.”

She was finally given the opportunity to enlist two years later – with a new program allowing recruits from prison to finish out their sentences on the front line.

“I’m doing it, first of all, just for myself,” she told me. “In our unit, girls are treated with great loyalty.”

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