Winter mode, or be careful what you wish for ☃️

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“As if by some joke in the Ukrainian national character, unlike in the Russian one, there is no fatalism. Ukrainians almost never get depressed. They are programmed for victory, for happiness, for survival, for the love of life.” Andrey Kurkov, Diary of an Invasion.

⚠️ We're dealing with a daily shelling of railway infrastructure. With the line damaged, we find a way how to fix it and #KeepRunning. We'll share more info once we throw #russians out of #Ukraine.

6 Feb at Chatham House we'll screen fragment of #Occupied documentary & discuss the fate of Ukrainians under 🇷🇺 occupation, impact on children & humanitarian aid. Dmytro Bahnenko Alison Griffin (SavetheChildren News) Khinkulova (BBC World Service) Register here👇 chathamhouse.org/events/all/res…

Amazing discussion Chatham House with Ukraine Forum this evening, thanks to Orysia Lutsevych for hosting!

Moments of reflection from a year of war - BBC correspondents covering the conflict in Ukraine recall the people and the moments that have stayed with them bit.ly/41k2CwD via BBC News (UK)

Absolute must read by Jeremy Bowen - a story of two Ukrainian boys, barely more than kids determined to fight against the agression. Explains a lot about Ukraine, its past and future.

Honoured to have partnered with BBC World Service & Bertha DocHouse on the screening of Occupied. You can watch this powerful film about Russian occupation of Kherson online m.youtube.com/watch?v=BJSzVW…. Thank you to Albina Kovalyova, Khinkulova & Paul Adams for an excellent discussion.

As always with The Economist phenomenal writing and a gripping account of an entomologist’s life, his fixation on studying stinging insects and a philosophical train of thought on pain and toxicity. Amazing.

A huge honour to meet the film makers of Mariupolis 2 and talk about Mantas Kvedaravicius’ vision, the war in Ukraine and disinformation.

Sashko, ex-colleague, friend, talented, funny, good at whatever he wanted to do. We grieve and we will remember. Ukraine war: Ex-BBC journalist Bondarenko killed on front line bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Ex-BBC journalist Bondarenko killed on Ukraine front line bbc.in/3LiIwvx

Joining the concussed and head-injured brigade, spending the night in ambulance and A&E after a cyclist nearly killed me. This put many things in perspective, eg it could be so much worse. And I was lucky to have so many kind strangers around. And #NHS are heroes.

#Ukrainecast BBC Ukraine's Kateryna Khinkulova remembers a former colleague, journalist Oleksandr Bondarenko, who was killed on the front line in Ukraine BBC cyber correspondent Joe Tidy went to 🇺🇦 & met drone pilots in training & hackers bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

theguardian.com/environment/20… #Ukraine’s Tyligulska #windpower plant, the 1st to be built in a conflict zone, generates enough #CleanEnergy to power around 200k homes, 60 miles from #frontline in southern #Mykolaiv region, w 19 turbines providing an installed capacity of 114 MW.

GenZaluzhny, not in his own words, but in ours: Valery Zaluzhny, the man behind Ukraine's counter-offensive bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Must watch from VICE News on how Russia deports and brain washes Ukrainian children. A brave and crucially important piece of journalism: youtu.be/RNAAC1kX5kE

‘It’s difficult to know the state of mind of these children’ Vice correspondent Isobel Yeung tells #Ukrainecast what life is like inside the Russian camps where Ukrainian children have allegedly been forcibly taken…

This #IndependenceDayofUkraine, gear up to watch #Cossacks: The Fairy Tale That Never Was. The 12-part epic adventure arrives FREE September 1.