Sad to say I've been laid off by openDemocracy, along with several of my incredible colleagues in the UK. It's one dark day of many for British journalism, but I'm immensely proud of everything we achieved together. Here's some of the best. 🧵

Russian missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian cities intensify, with casualties every day and Kyiv’s largest power station knocked down last night. Republicans in the House have blocked the supply of military aid, especially air-defense missiles, with which Ukraine could have…

Kyiv region today. Russians completely destroyed power plant.

Thank you mr Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III for your deeply concerning about strikes on russian oil factories.

In WWII the Allies bombed Nazi Germany's oil depots as a high priority military target. That's the tweet.

I'm sitting in my bathroom as explosions are rocking my city.

There are no windows here, making it safer than other rooms, at least that's what I try to believe.

Between explosions, I'm reading monitoring channels to know if more missiles are coming. And indeed, there is more.…

Russia destroyed an entire thermal power plant in Kyiv Oblast last night.

kyivindependent.com/centerenergo-r…

NEW: Russian troops are carrying out “systematic” chemical weapons attacks on Ukrainian troops across the frontline, according to multiple Ukrainian soldiers I spoke to.

My piece for The Telegraph:👇
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

⚡️ The Kyiv Independent's investigative documentary 'Uprooted' on Russia's abduction of Ukrainian children has won the 2023 Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) award for the Video – Divison I category.

kyivindependent.com/kyiv-independe…

They did this in Syria too.

They’ll keep on killing for as long as they’re allowed.

The Russian embassy in South Africa is falsely claiming that President Zelensky's bought Highgrove House from King Charles III for £20m, citing 'British media' outlet the London Crier.

But British media has reported no such thing. The London Crier is a Russian disinformation…

“We have moved from a post-war to a pre-war world,” writes the UK Defence Secretary.

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/0…

A young Ukrainian firefighter cries at the site of a Russian 'double tap' drone strike that killed his 52-year-old father, who was also a firefighter.

The 'double tap' tactic is deliberately designed to kill civilian first responders.

“liberal NGO award dinner complex” has absolutely broken me.

And yet the Biden administration opposes Ukrainian drone strikes against Russian military industries, including the assembly facility for these drones that was hit two days ago in Tatarstan.

Shocking footage from drone attack on Kharkiv overnight. At least 4 dead. Russia has updated its Iranian munitions so that they now fly faster (up to 300km/h), higher, and with new wing coating that makes shooting them down much more difficult.

Went on TVP World to explain how the killing of Polish World Central Kitchen aid worker Damian Sobol is part of a pattern of Israel Defense Forces killing aid workers + not accidental as Israeli ambassador Amb. Yacov Livne 🇮🇱 claimed. I also discussed Israeli AI which “identifies any adult male as a terrorist.”

Here is George Galloway claiming the Bucha massacre was a false flag operation. Never forgive. Never forget. Keep on reminding the British people of what Galloway really is - a stinking fascist supporter of Putin's genocidal Nazi regime.

Feels like a lot of Republican politicians reflexively defend Russia… for some incredibly strange reason.

A Ukrainian soldier writes 'For Idlib' on an artillery shell before launching it towards the Russian invaders.

Thank you for this beautiful message, Free Syria, glory to the defenders of Ukraine.

Putting our money where our mouth is.