Late last week, I went to a magistrates’ court to see how warrants are being processed which allow energy firms to forcibly enter people’s homes to fit a prepayment meter. What I found shocked me 🧵@theipaper 1/ I watched as the magistrates took just three minutes and 51 seconds to approve 496 warrants after a debt collection agent phoned in their request to the courtroom. No names were read out. There was no discussion with the bench about the individual cases 2/ inews.co.uk/news/inside-co…

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Here’s latest scoop in @cahalmilmo's and my @theipaper investigation into Vladimir Putin’s drone war in Ukraine – breaking details of Iran’s secret airlift to Russia ✈️🧵 inews.co.uk/news/secret-fl… We can reveal using flight tracking data and satellite photos that four Iranian cargo jets sanctioned by Washington have made 70 flights to Moscow since Russia invaded Ukraine, with a fifth aircraft from another sanctioned airline taking the total up to 100 🛰️📸

A Ukrainian woman has told me how she was subjected to a terrifying ordeal in a Russian filtration camp 11 miles east of Mariupol. This is Viktoriya's story. @theipaper 🧵 1/ inews.co.uk/news/ukrainian… When Russia attacked the city, Viktoriya was trapped in her second-floor apartment with her elderly mother, Valentina, who was bed-ridden with a chronic heart condition. For weeks, Valentina, aged 85, had no medication and they had no electricity or gas and little food. 2/

Just a few hours before the Azovstal defenders began evacuating their wounded as darkness fell in Ukraine last night, I interviewed Mariupol's mayor Vadym Boychenko for @theipaper. In a city that has gone through an unimaginable hell, what he told me is deeply troubling.🧵1/ Around 100,000 people are still trapped in Mariupol, Mr Boychenko said as he spoke to me from an undisclosed location, and up to 50,000 remain in the surrounding areas. As those areas are attacked, people are – inconceivably – trying to find sanctuary in the destroyed city. 2/

After reports emerged in March that Ukrainians including Mariupol survivors were being forcibly deported to Russia, I have been searching for Russian camps in the largest country on Earth. It started with a question from a news editor @theipaper: 'Can you find them?' A THREAD🧵1/ A week later I was able to reveal, using Russian-language social media posts and satellite imagery, the first evidence that Russia had built a tented 'filtration' camp for Ukrainians in the village of Bezimenne, 11 miles east of Mariupol. 2/ inews.co.uk/news/ukraine-r…📸@Maxar

Exclusive: A @theipaper investigation has uncovered 66 camps in remote parts of Russia where thousands of Ukrainians have been taken as regional officials follow orders from Moscow to disperse them across the country. 1/ inews.co.uk/news/putin-mar… For the past month, I have been analysing dozens of Russian-language local news reports from Belgorod to Vladivostok and using maps to show how officials are taking Mariupol survivors to a network of Soviet-era sanatoriums, children’s camps, hostels and orphanages. 2/

EXCLUSIVE: Survivors from the Mariupol bomb shelters have been taken to a former Russian military base 600 miles from Ukraine which was used for decades as a dump for Soviet chemical weapons, it can be revealed by @theipaper
#Mariupol #Ukraine inews.co.uk/news/mariupol-… This is the latest story in my investigation into claims that Ukrainians are being forcibly moved through filtration camps and then across the border of Russia.

Exclusive: Vladimir Putin is sending thousands of Ukrainians to remote corners of Russia according to Kremlin documents – as survivors from Mariupol report being interrogated before they are taken over the Russian border. #Mariupol #Ukraine @theipaper🧵 inews.co.uk/news/vladimir-… Moscow made an emergency order last month to move nearly 100,000 people to regions across Russia including Siberia, the North Caucasus and even the Arctic. Destinations listed include the heavily militarised republic of Chechnya, and Sakhalin and Magadan in the Far East.

🚨EXCLUSIVE: An @theipaper investigation using satellite imagery has revealed the location of a Russian tent camp for Ukrainians near Mariupol as claims grow of forced deportations to Russia of thousands of people from the besieged city. inews.co.uk/news/ukraine-r… #Україна
📸@Maxar The investigation by @theipaper has identified the camp in the coastal village of Bezimenne (Безіменне, Безыменное) on the shores of the Sea of Azov, which has been held by pro-Russian forces since 2014.
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