Kyiv based foreign policy/security analyst Currently focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine Special Correspondent @KyivIndependent - opinions mine alone
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NEW: Zelensky’s former chief-of-staff ran a “troubling” back channel with Trump’s former chief-of-staff Susie Wiles… that was “more harmful than helpful” multiple Ukrainian and American sources tell me and @TimZadorozhnyy.
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I assume Michael Tracey is frantically Googling David Walliams right now so he can figure out how best to defend him for dating 15-year-olds.
Typically meaningless gibberish from Kushner. Every combatant in every war since the dawn of time has been ready for peace "under suitable terms". I'm sure Putin would happily end the war if Ukraine decided to unconditionally surrender. This is not news.
Australian man travels to Russia, voluntarily joins military, (almost certainly) dies. A cautionary tale.
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It's the exact opposite; American displays of weakness - which is how Witkoff and Trump's obsequious submission is viewed by Moscow - makes Russia less likely to compromise and more likely to stick to maximalist positions.
Tell me you have no idea how Putin works without telling me:
"President Trump and his team hope Putin will be more willing to compromise after the U.S. lifted sanctions on Russian diesel sales and took other steps welcomed by Moscow"
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Pro-Russian propagandist and far-right conspiracy theorist Russell Brand sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison for rape and sexual assault.
He will serve at least two thirds of this sentence in jail.
53 people are now confirmed to have been killed in Russia's massacre at an aid distribution station in Komyshuvakha. This number is expected to continue to rise.
NEW: The push to reopen Lithuanian ports to Belarusian potash was John Coale "freelancing", multiple U.S. and European sources tell the Kyiv Independent, the latest example of the Trump administration's "schizophrenic" foreign policy.
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Another prominent pro-Russian propagandist convicted of serious sexual offences.
If you’re noticing a pattern, you’re not alone.
BREAKING: Russell Brand has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault.
Sky's Katie Spencer reads out all the verdicts.
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As many, including myself, predicted, Trump’s “diesel deal” has collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions.
No diesel from Russia will ultimately enter the US, and Trump made himself look amoral and weak just before a crucial set of elections. Good job, Jared.
So far, not a single shipment of Russian diesel has reached the US. Three tankers — AGIOI FANENDES, LERUO and PRIMORYE — carrying a combined 105,000 tonnes of Russian diesel have changed course, reportedly due to opposition from New Jersey authorities and reluctance among port operators to accept the cargo.
A clear example of how sanctions, combined with public scrutiny and media exposure, can be an extremely powerful tool.
You can never expect intellectual honesty or basic fact checking from culture war grifters like Paul, so allow me to be clear, the English national curriculum is not being modified in any way. Ukrainian is now an optional GCSE that anyone can take; like Chinese… or Russian.
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Since last night, @KyivIndependent has been under a hacker attack, most likely a Russian one.
Last night, hackers gained access to our website’s CMS (admin panel) and to one of the services we use to send our newsletters. They used this access to send an email to addresses in our subscriber database and to publish similar posts on our website.
The messages were in Russian, and their content resembled the message hackers placed in the Ukrainian state air raid alert app when they breached it three days ago. We can’t confirm that the attacks came from the same source, but they share some common features.
We removed the posts from the website immediately, sent our subscribers an email explaining what had happened, and identified and closed the vulnerability they used.
This afternoon, a second wave happened. This time, the hackers sent emails in both Russian and English.
Our team is now fully focused on dealing with this as quickly as possible and closing every possible vulnerability.
Importantly, payment and bank information of people who support us is NOT at risk — we don’t store it, they are stored by secure third-party systems.
So far, there is no reason to believe the hackers gained access to anything other than the admin panel and the email-sending service, but we are continuing to check.
This is the first breach of its kind in the almost five years the Kyiv Independent has been operating.
Thank you to everyone who wrote to us to let us know about the emails, and I’m sorry this happened.
We are receiving a lot of support from our readers and a lot of offers of help. Thank you for that as well.
The death toll from Russia's massacre in Komyshuvakha is now confirmed at 37 people, 48 are still listed as missing, 50 additional bodies might be trapped under the rubble.
Russia dropped multiple glide-bombs on civilians queuing for humanitarian aid.
Jimmy Rushton retweeted
The German government can easily address this and should now that the leader of AfD is pushing lies. The boy in the video Diesen posted was not being detained, nor was there any "torture chamber." The boy was throwing bricks at the police and fell and hurt himself. Here's a @KyivIndependent journalist confirming that, with evidence: xitter.twitterapi.xyz/francisjfarrell/status…
33 people have now been confirmed killed in the Russian massacre at the humanitarian aid distribution centre in Komyshuvakha. 50 are still missing.
There was no “Ukrainian torture center” - this was a fiction created by a fake medic who arrived driving a fake ambulance and who is linked to a well known Russian influence operation - and amplified by useful idiots and overt Russian assets… like yourself.
The fake medic that created this fiction and agitated the crowd at the scene has now been detained. Kyiv Independent journalists at the scene confirmed there was no “torture center” in operation at the house.