Chief Ukraine Correspondent @FT. 16+ years living and reporting in Ukraine. 📖 Author of THE WAR CAME TO US: LIFE AND DEATH IN UKRAINE, @BloomsburyBooks 📖
Kyiv via Bakhmut; also NYC
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It’s here! U.S. publication day for THE WAR CAME TO US: LIFE AND DEATH IN UKRAINE! Huge gratitude to @BloomsburyBooks @BloomsburyPub for believing in it from the start, and to the many Ukrainians who shared their stories over the years. Get your copy in bookstores across America!
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Power cut schedule in my street today in Kyiv, as Russian missiles and drones keep pummeling Ukrainian energy infrastructure. 15 hours without light--and it's still October.
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US greenlights $2.1bn sale of Patriot interceptors to Ukraine ft.trib.al/dm35rZZ
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Any American company providing aid and comfort to Russia will be written about by the press and made known to Congress.
Many of us in Congress will make it a point to highlight any company that buys the potentially illegal blood diesel from Russia.
Proceed at your own risk.
NEWS w/ @anna_c_kramer: Trump aides are privately pressing US firms to take shipments Russian diesel currently crossing the Atlantic, sources say
Firms do not want to say yes, seeing major legal & reputational risks
Ukrainians warn against accepting “blood money”
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Video showing the result of Ukraine’s latest long-range drone strikes on a Russian oil refinery in Novokuybyshevsk, Samara oblast. 🎥 from various local telegram channels.
The Ukrainians have been quite clear also that they would not completely halt strikes on Russian refineries until Russia stopped its attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Kyiv has taken a more cautious approach to refinery strikes since Trump's threats and his unilateral ceasefire, but it has not been a policy to halt them through the elections. The position is to strike in retaliation for Russia's energy strikes and particularly heinous attacks on civilians, such as those yesterday in Dnipro and Chernihiv.
“They killed us . . . The newspaper no longer exists. The Russian authorities and the Russian security services have forced our editorial team to cease its operations,” Sergei Sokolov, Novaya Gazeta’s editor, said in a video posted on its website. “We have been stripped of all our resources. Entirely. This is a co-ordinated campaign.”
Russia’s last major independent newspaper shuts under government pressure ft.trib.al/c0uGR4j
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Russia observes rare Ukraine ceasefire to allow evacuations - ft.com/content/a6e29400-95bb… via @FT
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Extraordinary scenes right now in Russian-held Oleshky, Ukraine's human rights ombudsman is chatting with local residents. Evacuation from the frontline city should begin very soon, Ukrainian MP said this morning 527 people have asked to go back to Ukrainian-controlled territory.
We are in Oleshky! The Ukrainian delegation has safely reached the city.
The ceasefire has been in effect for 80 hours and remains in place. I am currently on the ground, speaking with local residents to hear about their needs and understand what kind of assistance they need most.
I will share more details later.
This work is being carried out in accordance with the agreements reached with Russia’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Yana Lantratova, with the support and coordination of U.S. First Lady Melania Trump @FLOTUS
The Ukrainians have been quite clear also that they would not completely halt strikes on Russian refineries until Russia stopped its attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Kyiv has taken a more cautious approach to refinery strikes since Trump's threats and his unilateral ceasefire, but it has not been a policy to halt them through the elections. The position is to strike in retaliation for Russia's energy strikes and particularly heinous attacks on civilians, such as those yesterday in Dnipro and Chernihiv.
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“We need a chair at the table,” said a senior European diplomat. “Putin doesn’t want to include us, he wants to talk to Trump and so to put Zelensky in a corner. In the meantime, Putin does want to see us beg for a role.”
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New Jersey governor threatens to block delivery of Russian diesel cargoes
Mikie Sherrill told @FT’s @JamieSmythF and @alicemhancock that Trump’s deal with Putin would line the pockets of the Russian president at the “expense of American consumers and our democratic ally Ukraine”.
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Three Russian diesel tankers steam for US — including two under sanctions — raising legal risks for firms bringing the fuel into Americas @alicemhancock ft.com/content/d847744f-cfa5… via @ft
The clones have invaded US politics.
In Ukraine we call these same-named office-seekers “clone candidates.” It’s been a tactic deployed by political parties for decades: recruiting people with exact or similar names to run against established candidates, or going so far as to pay people to change their names to those of incumbents, to peel off votes. Often there are multiples on a single ballot.
An example from Ukraine’s last parliamentary elections in 2019:
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SCOOP: Democrats have insisted they have nothing to do with the other Dan Sullivan on Alaska's Senate ballot.
But aides with the Mary Peltola campaign and DSCC were part of a monthslong secret plan to recruit him to run -- as well as other candidates.
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North Korean labourers are being sent to work in factories across Russia’s agricultural and manufacturing heartlands, according to an investigation that sheds light on the deepening economic partnership between Moscow and Pyongyang.
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Video shows Donald Trump Jr. on a hunting expedition in the Mongolian wilderness. But the video doesn't show one of his more unusual hunting companions: Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev. ft.trib.al/t9WymL8
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Zelenskyy opens door to security guarantees for Russia ft.trib.al/QP7TeT0
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A European diplomat expressed deep scepticism that economic deals were sufficient to persuade Putin to end the war in Ukraine. “It’s not about money,” they said. “It’s about humiliation and control.” 🎯
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The Trump sons’ global network: money, influence and the family business ft.trib.al/GXbuq7d
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Just published: front page of the Financial Times, international edition, Wednesday October 28 ft.trib.al/R8jkyGD
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The combined shipments of about 140,000 tonnes are the first licensed by US authorities under Donald Trump’s recent deal with Vladimir Putin to exempt Russian diesel from sanctions ft.trib.al/tegLzOw
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The remote rendezvous in August highlights the remarkable relationship between a son of the US president and a businessman with ties to the Kremlin. ft.trib.al/rlJWSqz
