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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

3 years

If you want to know what bravery looks like, go to the maternity hospital in Mikolayev. Staff are performing C-sections as the city comes under bombardment, in operating theatres kept as dark as possible so they’re not targeted.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

In the woods outside Bucha today we met Maria, 80, who hadn't minded the Russian soldiers so much when they turned up at her house. It was only after they withdrew that she found out they had tied up and executed her neighbours.

Bodies of mutilated children among horrors the Russians left behind

Deep in the forest outside Kyiv, where the mushroom-pickers used to roam and rich city folk built their palatial dachas, Maria Dabizhe, 80, sat sifting through

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

We went to the first Ukrainian checkpoint after Russian-held territory in Zaporizhzhia. All the men we spoke to said they were fleeing mobilisation into the Russian army. A few things:

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

Reporting from @AFP and @Reuters inside Bucha shows bodies lying on the streets or in half-dug graves, some with their hands tied behind their backs. Mass graves. Executions. Soldiers and civilians we spoke to say they will never forgive this.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

De-mining experts going into Irpin told us it would take months, if not years, to clear all the regions the Russians had held around Kyiv. These areas might have been liberated, but not one soldier or civilian we met was celebrating. There was just sorrow, and anger.

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

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Nataliya, a young woman we met at the checkpoint, told us that the men in her village had decided that if the Russians were stupid enough to mobilise them and give them guns, they'd turn them against the occupiers.

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

2 years

Russian forces retreated from this area in the last few days. They left absolute horror behind. Soldiers told us they'd found mutilated bodies of men, women and teenagers inside a basement of a holiday home. Others that corpses left in the street had been mined.

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

2 years

Actually pro-Ukrainian. They were miners from Luhansk who had been called off their shift and sent to become soldiers. They told her that they planned to drop their weapons and run away as soon as they heard the Ukrainians were coming. And they did. 🤷‍♀️

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

Even neutral / pro-Russian people we spoke to by phone inside the occupied territories said they would try to escape mobilisation. Not pro-Russian enough to die, as one person put it.

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2 years

Last week I went to Transnistria and Chisinau to look at what might come next for Moldova. A few thoughts:

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

Almost everyone we spoke to estimated (this is obviously very vague) that around 60% of people still in occupied Zap/Kherson are pro-Ukrainian, 20% don't care, 20% are pro-Russian. But again: not pro-Russian enough to die.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

One Russian soldier, mad with grief after his Ukrainian mistress left him, shot himself in the head outside a greengrocer’s. “I walked by and thought: one down,” she told us.

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

2 years

In the forest, locals told us Russians had been breaking into holiday cottages. Their ration packs were strewn everywhere. Stray dogs were eating from them. Swathes of pine trees were felled by the shelling, homes destroyed.

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Louise Callaghan

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5 years

Historic win for Imamoğlu in re-do of Istanbul mayoral elections. Historic party outside Zara on Istiklal street.

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

2 years

Zaporizhzhia and Kherson have only been under occupation since this spring. The situation is different to Donetsk and Luhansk. People still have Ukrainian TV and, while internet connections are bad, they can get information from outside the Russian state media universe.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

As of Thursday, men between 18-35 are banned from leaving Russian-held Zaporizhzhia to Ukraine OR to Russia / Crimea. Some still managed to bribe their way out.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

Bravado or not, clearly these guys would not be a fighting asset for the Kremlin. You hear stories like this in the liberated territories. In Izyum, we met a psychologist who told us that the "Russian" soldiers at the checkpoint by her house were (cont)

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

All that news you're seeing about new weapons coming to Ukraine? They're significant. But they're not the whole story. In Donbas, soldiers described an extremely different picture, one where some units had suffered 50% losses and were constantly running out of ammunition.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

Full piece in @thetimes tomorrow with pictures by @azavallis and additional reporting by Viktoria Sybir and Oleksii Kulyuk

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

In occupied Zaporizhzhia now, Nataliya said, the Russian soldiers were violent, drunk and lecherous. She knew a couple of women who had left their husbands for them. But this did not always turn out well for the occupiers.

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Louise Callaghan

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4 years

I went to Baku last week. A few things: everyone I spoke to, even avowed members of the government opposition, supported Azerbaijan's role in the conflict wholeheartedly. There was a real martial ardour on the streets.

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Louise Callaghan

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3 years

Alexei, Elena’s husband, stood with her stroking her hair until the sirens stopped. Then he went down to meet Maria for the first time. “We’ll be together every day” he told her. Dispatch in @thesundaytimes 📷 by @JM_Beck

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

Men are afraid they'll be drafted to fight. Some have already left for other regions of Moldova. But there is very little obvious enmity with Chisinau. Every young person I spoke to said they wanted to join Moldova as part of a federation.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

If you want to see what the future of climate change looks like, go to Kuwait City and Basra in July. They cities are both oil rich, and 80 miles apart. But in one, there is 24/7 electricity and air conditioning. In the other, people live with constant power cuts.

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Louise Callaghan

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3 years

So on Thursday I met Irina Bryzhyk, a beautician from Kherson, to talk about life under occupation. Instead she told me the truly insane story of how she organised a huge convoy that got dozens of civilians out of the city, past Russian checkpoints through an active war zone.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

Remember the story about Yuri Kerpatenko, the conductor from Kherson who was killed by the Russians for refusing to take part in a concert put on by the occupiers?

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

People in Transnistria I spoke to are genuinely afraid that Ukraine is going to attack them. This is the line that is being pushed in the pro-Russian local media: scary ultranationalist Ukrainians, armed by the US, will pour over the border.

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Louise Callaghan

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3 years

In a corridor, we met Elena. She had given birth 8 hours before. There was shelling outside, and the air raid sirens were going off. But she was too weak to go to the shelter where her daughter, Maria, was.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

But it's that pro-Kremlin actors in Moldova (inc in the Transnistria region) will act to destabilise the country through mysterious explosions, gas price manipulation, disinfo and stoking social unrest in events like May 9 celebrations.

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

2 years

Full piece here, in @thesundaytimes

Inside Transnistria: is this next on Putin’s hit list?

Many in the impoverished breakaway Moldovan territory say they have no will to fight — but fear being dragged into the conflict anyway.

www.thetimes.com

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

As for the 1,500 Russian soldiers who are in Transnistria, these are not exactly scary elite troops. They're almost all locals with Russian passports. Many of the Transnistrian forces have Moldovan passports.

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

2 years

Moldovan PM @natgavrilita told me that Moldova's delicate balance is getting harder to maintain. They're neutral but have expressed their support for the Ukrainian people and taken in hundreds of thousands of refugees.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

They are toeing an extremely difficult path, and working relentlessly to keep their country stable. There is hope that they could manage for some time if Russian energy supplies were cut off. But fundamentally this is a deeply combustible situation.

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

2 years

In Chisinau the government is preparing for a range of scenarios. They believe the biggest risk currently is not a Russian invasion of Moldova (they would need to take Odesa to do that, and that seems unlikely at the moment).

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

2 years

Earlier this year, I was in Dubai talking to a businesswoman who told me something I had never heard before: some of the famous Instagram influencers who populate the city, she said, were selling sex, and making serious money. I decided to investigate. Things got weird:

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

2 years

While out reporting in Ukraine I’d say about three people a day tell me something along the lines of: “thanks to the British government for the weapons. When are we getting more?”

Boris Johnson

@BorisJohnson

2 years

Today I met my friend President @ZelenskyyUa in Kyiv as a show of our unwavering support for the people of Ukraine. We're setting out a new package of financial & military aid which is a testament of our commitment to his country's struggle against Russia’s barbaric campaign.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

On the Bosphorus, Russia's economic lifeblood is continuing to flow despite the strait's closure to military vessels. The indomitable @yorukisik showed me around

The Bosphorus ship-spotter hunting Russian sanction-busters

Squinting into the salt-tinged breeze, Yoruk Isik looked out over the Bosphorus from the passenger deck of an Istanbul ferry. Each day, the veteran ship-spotter

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

Many soldiers just back from the front told us they didn't have shells to fire back at the Russians units constantly bombarding them. They were just crouching in their trenches, taking heavy casualties.

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Louise Callaghan

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3 years

Our latest investigation: healthy young men who travelled to Qatar to work on World Cup-related projects are coming back with chronic kidney disease, which often kills them within a few years (thread)

Qatar 2022: Dying for the World Cup

Many migrant workers building stadiums in Qatar for next year’s tournament are returning home with chronic kidney disease

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

Morale is seriously low, particularly in units that had to retreat from positions they spilled blood to hold because they didn't have enough weapons to fight back.

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

4 years

Hatred towards the other side and disinformation about the conflict is widespread. It isn't possible to access social media without a VPN. The government narrative is the one that is widely believed. Everything else is dismissed as "fake news".

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

A commander told us that a month ago they were firing 150 shells a day at the Russians. Now they’re down to about ten a day, because resupplies are falling short. At times, they’ve had none.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

Horrifying news. Shireen Abu Akleh was an incredibly experienced journalist, wearing a blue flak jacket marked 'PRESS', covering a conflict she knew inside out. Journalism is not a crime.

Daniel Hilton

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2 years

MEE journalist Shatha Hanaysha was with Abu Akleh when she came under fire She said there was no exchange of fire between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters, but the journalists were attacked by Israeli snipers

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

Losses of 40-60%, going by conversations with these soldiers, is not uncommon. Half of the people in your unit, gone.

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

3 years

She really does. Full story in @thesundaytimes today

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

8 months

I wrote a goodbye piece after eight years living in Istanbul, including one of the few genuinely useful pieces of advice I’ve been told: if you’re in a bar fight, pick up a chair, hold it in front of you and stand in a corner

From Syria to Gaza: what I’ve learnt from eight years in war zones

Hamlet in Yemen. The missing friend in Gaza. Ukraine’s spring offensive. As she heads for pastures new, Louise Callaghan remembers the horror, hope and wisdom of the places she’s reported from

www.thetimes.com

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

6 years

I repeat: The UK foreign secretary had to tell the US president that Russia/regime propaganda about the White Helmets wasn’t real, because the president couldn’t make that judgement by himself. That is terrifying. Merry Christmas

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

6 years

#Istanbulpride today, despite the ban

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

2 years

“We were chased like rabbits by the Russian artillery,” he said.“We couldn’t do anything. For the last four days we were just hiding from Russian drones.”

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

2 years

Alex, who we met in Pokrovsk, said: “Our spirit was very high when we were recruited. We understood where we were going, and we were ready to be killed. But when we ran out of shells everyone became very depressed. It was terrible.”

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

2 years

Full piece, and many many more details, here - reported with my incredible colleagues Viktoria Sybir and Oleg Kozhedub

Martyred for his music? The outspoken Ukrainian conductor shot dead by the Russians

Everything unravelled for Yuriy Kerpatenko after the Russians and their collaborators threw him a birthday party.The invaders occupying his home city of Kherson

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

2 years

Many others from different units told us similar stories. One soldier said: “We felt forgotten somehow. Forgotten there in this land with this constant shelling, these fires and rockets.”

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

Still, like the others, he was going back to the front. Read the full report here in @thetimes - pictures by @JM_Beck and additional reporting by Viktoria Sybir

A young soldier lost two limbs — but he was just happy to be alive

In the back of the ambulance, the unconscious soldier’s chest rose and fell in quick, shallow breaths, pumped by the ventilator that was keeping him alive. He a

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Louise Callaghan

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4 years

SCOOP: Asma Al-Assad faces the prospect of prosecution in a UK court, and being stripped of her British citizenship, after the Metropolitan Police opened a preliminary investigation into allegations that she incited & encouraged terrorist acts. Our story:

Asma al-Assad: Syria’s first lady faces war crimes prosecution in UK

Asma al-Assad, the first lady of Syria who is also a former British investment banker, faces possible prosecution and the loss of her British citizenship after

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

There is a lot of variation depending on the location of the unit, the commanders and the weapons deliveries. Conditions are better in some areas. But the stories we found weren't one-off anomalies. Almost everyone we talked to said the same thing.

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Louise Callaghan

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3 years

But they just kept driving. Now she and her son are in Odesa. "In war you see people’s true colours. It gives you a chance to know yourself and others around you," she told me, adding that people should not underestimate beauticians.“I have balls of steel," she said.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

This December I went to Riyadh and Jeddah for @thetimes magazine and talked to dozens of Saudis, young and old. Here's what they told me:

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Louise Callaghan

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4 years

I went and spoke to a refugee family who lived in very basic conditions outside Baku. No sign of that oil wealth that keeps the centre of Baku so glitzy. They still had the keys to their house in N-K. They're very hopeful they'll be able to return.

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Louise Callaghan

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6 years

If you wanted any further proof that Russia/regime propaganda influences the US President’s decision-making (from my story in @thesundaytimes this weekend):

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

Yesterday night, at a morgue in Kramatorsk, we watched volunteers carry out bodies of civilians killed in the Russian missile strike on the station. Among them was a 12 year old girl in a purple hoodie and white trainers.

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Louise Callaghan

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4 years

It's still very unclear what would actually happen with ethnic Armenians in N-K if Azerbaijan did re-take it. Aliyev says that they could live there if they disarmed. But with the hatred on both sides, analysts told me, that seems unrealistic.

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Louise Callaghan

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4 years

There's mass support and nigh-on adoration for Turkey. Plenty of people told me that Russia's power is waning in the Caucasus and that Turkey has stepped in. Many referenced historical pan-Turkic links and claimed that Russia had tried to keep them apart in the past.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

We went to Kherson and found out what really happened. The truth was far murkier, darker and in some ways more tragic than the original story.

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

4 years

Here's the piece. I worked independently, without a government minder

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

2 years

This is the future of climate change: a dystopia where the rich survive, stepping between their islands of air conditioning, and the poor suffer in the heat, or are forced to flee.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

In Kuwait, I asked a lawyer sitting in a mall what it would be like to live without AC. He laughed, and said it would be impossible. But for so many in Basra, that's the reality. Full piece here in @thetimes today

Under a burning sun, Kuwait keeps cool as Iraq reaches boiling point

In her tin-roofed home in Basra, a few hundred feet from the great churn of the Shatt al-Arab river, Shamaa Mustafa blinked as a bead of sweat ran into her eye.

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

2 years

I wrote about my friend Max, and his friends, and what they did when war came to the city they loved so fiercely

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

1 year

They have nowhere to go

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

1 year

BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian civilians in Gaza to “leave now” because the Israeli military is going to “turn all Hamas hiding places into rubble”

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Louise Callaghan

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4 years

Among them was a woman in her late 70s. She said that Armenians didn't used to be their enemies, and that they used to trade with them. She said she could imagine living among them again, but she also said that they had become Azerbaijan's enemies.

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

5 years

I wrote about my friend James Le Mesurier, who did good things and was bloody good fun

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

5 months

Genuinely just overwhelmingly happy and amazed to have won among so many incredible colleagues - huge thanks to the judges, my editors and my colleagues on the ground

The Press Awards

@PressAwardsuk

5 months

Congratulations to The #PressAwards Foreign Reporter of the Year category winner Louise Callaghan / Sunday @thetimes

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Louise Callaghan

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9 months

Some news: I am starting a new job this week as senior US correspondent for The Sunday Times, based in New York but travelling the length and breadth of the country to write about politics, society and everything in between.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

Instead they believe that Kerpatenko’s public pro-Ukrainian and anti-Russian position, his anger at the occupiers and his belligerence, along with his refusal to perform, led to the raid on his house and to his death.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

The below is based on a week of in-person reporting in Kherson and interviews with his neighbours, friends colleagues and officials.

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Louise Callaghan

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4 years

One vitally important factor from the Azerbaijani side is the return of people displaced during the 90s to N-K. There are hundreds of thousands of them and their plight exerts powerful domestic pressure on the government.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

One thing that is striking (to me) about the Sweden/Finland Nato debacle is: why did Sweden not see this coming / stop it coming? It's pretty clear that Turkey's problem is with Sweden, rather than Finland.

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Louise Callaghan

@louiseelisabet

6 years

Marie Colvin was a badass and an incredible reporter. I’m beyond grateful for her work, and for this award - given in her memory.

Press Gazette

@pressgazette

6 years

This year’s Marie Colvin Prize is awarded to @louiseelisabet of @thesundaytimes who has travelled to Syria several times this year to reveal the human impact of a global war #BJA2018

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I can't overstate how mad this story is. She planned the whole thing with military precision, through a Telegram group she started with other beauticians, her friends and clients. Got up to date intel from people in villages along the road out. Made everyone carry burner phones.

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2 years

Here's the thing everyone agrees on: Kerpatenko was a genius. But he was also highly emotional, belligerent and prone to lashing out at those around him.

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When the Russians came, they were all asked to continue working under the occupying authorities. Some said yes. Kerpatenko and many others refused.

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Louise Callaghan

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2 years

Living at 52 degrees, with no AC, is hell. Your eyes hurt, you can't sleep. Your kids are exhausted and cranky. It's too hot for them to go to school. You can't really go out and work. Your health is at risk.

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Louise Callaghan

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Kerpatenko wasn’t a fervent Ukrainian patriot. He was nostalgic for imperial Russia, and longed to work at the Mariinsky theatre. He hated modern Russia and the USSR, and saw Ukraine as the best available option.

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He posted anti-Russian and pro-Ukrainian content on Facebook. The internet was blocked, and he sank into a deep and violent depression. His drinking and his temper had got worse.

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None of the others we spoke to were threatened because of this. But Kerpatenko’s hatred of the Russians was becoming more evident all the time.

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Since the death of his wife in 2011, he had also drunk a lot. Though he often fell out with his colleagues at the Kherson philharmonic, everyone respected his work.

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In eastern DRC, an insurgent group backed by a close UK ally is committing unspeakable acts of violence against civilians. When we visited last month, we heard countless stories of rape, mutilation, forced displacement and murder at the hands of the M23 group.

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2 years

But whatever the risks, some influencers are going to keep selling sex. One told me: “it’s normal, no? You want something, you pay for it.” Full piece, and many more details, here:

The dark side of Dubai: Instagram stars sell sex to fund lavish lifestyle

Bloggers paid to sell a rosy image of emirate are also selling their bodies — some for £7,000 a night — to fund their lavish lifestyles

www.thetimes.com

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His former colleagues and neighbours don’t think that he was killed directly because he told the Russian occupiers that he would not perform with the orchestra. Nobody else we spoke to who made the same decision had faced issues.

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3 years

Batted her eyelashes and joked with soldiers to get through checkpoints (though "I wanted to tell them to go and fuck themselves"). At one point they drove through an ongoing Russian offensive. A tank with a Z on it was barrelling towards them after the first Ukr checkpoint.

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Louise Callaghan

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5 years

In a hospital in northeast Syria, children are dying of malnutrition. Their parents are Isis members, and they let them starve. My report in @thesundaytimes pics by @andreadicenzo

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During the sham referendum in September, he and his girlfriend went out drunk and yelled at the people voting, hitting the ballot boxes.

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Neighbours heard two shots, then a burst of automatic gunfire. They opened their doors and saw Kerpatenko sprawled on the floor outside his flat. There was blood everywhere.

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Three of them saw something in his hand that looked like a gun. All believe it was planted there by the Russians after they shot him.

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The next day at 7am the Russians came. A team of six FSB agents banged on the door of his flat, shouting for him to open.

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“I knew that this was the kind of work that he loved, and he was good at, and that brought him life. You can’t tell someone ‘no’ if they really want to do something that makes them shine, you know?” - @alexkpotter on her husband Pete

American killed in Ukraine was working as humanitarian medic

Pete Reed, 33, served as a Marine Corps infantryman in Afghanistan, and then went to work saving lives in Iraq and Ukraine.

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Nearly a year after the Russians took Snake Island, the David and Goliath tale of the Ukrainian guards resisting the Russian navy is a founding myth of the war. What really happened? I had a stab at finding out.

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Everyone we spoke to in Kuwait and Basra said it didn't used to be like this. The summer heat used to be survivable. By October people were putting on jumpers. But average temperatures have risen by 1.8C in 60 years, and extreme temps even more so.

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"A lot of places in Russia are feeling schadenfreude or even pleasure when Moscow gets hit. People aren't just sick of the war, but about rising poverty and inequality between the capital and the regions" -

Into the bunker: drone attacks bring war home to Russia

A series of assaults has highlighted Moscow’s vulnerability to blowback from the Ukraine conflict

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All this and more in my story below - huge thanks to Iman al-Dabbagh for the beautiful photos, and to my editors.

The price of freedom in MBS’s Saudi Arabia

Just before midnight in the desert outside Riyadh, an aircraft engineer offers me a swig of vodka while his gay friend poses for pictures in leather leggings. A

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This is a spokesman for the Israeli government. He knows the video he's tweeted isn't really of Palestinians. It's from a Lebanese short film. But he still hasn't taken it down.

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