На «Дне памяти» в Узбекистане военные не смогли определиться с тем, как выразить дань уважения гимну страны — отдать честь или приложить руку к сердцу. Выглядело это комично
1/Earlier this year,
@washingtonpost
reported that Egypt planned on secretly sending Russia 40,000 rockets. That deal was eventually scuppered by U.S. pressure.
What we didn't know was that weeks after the deal was thwarted, a Russian delegation landed in Cairo....
A fantastic interview with Fiona Hill on how the West has empowered Putin and the likelihood of nuclear attack.
We are already, she said, in the middle of a third World War, whether we’ve fully grasped it or not via
@politico
3/Deliveries are meant to start next month.
But that's not all, the Egypt story was just a part of a broad campaign by Russia to turn to its former arms customers for spare parts as it ramps up its own munitions production. Our story w/
@summer_said
2/They wanted to make sure ties with Egypt were still solid and asked Cairo to prove it by giving Moscow more than 100 helicopter engines for the Ukraine front line. At first there was silence from the Egyptian side.
But when Sisi met Putin in St Pete this past July he agreed.
A day after Russian government said it destroyed all its Novichok agents, a Foreign Ministry deputy says neither Russia nor USSR had any programs to develop it to begin with. So that should clear things up.
Last year, Russia quietly began to steal 100,000s of tons of Ukrainian grain from newly occupied regions, exporting it to Russian-allied countries in the Middle East.
Yesterday, our
@WSJ
video team won a
@LoebAwards
for their investigation
One detail didn’t make it into the story is Prigozhin’s love of shooting. He used to draw USA flags on mannequins and then shoot them to bits, people say.
After Russia’s demonstration of firepower in Kharkiv, this is what’s left of school 134. What’s happened to civilian targets there in the last days must surely be a message intended for Kyiv.
More than 300 foreign correspondents who reported from Russia, including yours truly, sign a letter to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, demanding Evan be freed.
#IStandWithEvan
Journalism is not a crime.
Shoigu’s acquiescence to the invasion demonstrated his loyalty to Mr. Putin’s political objectives in Europe. But if the operation fails, the Kremlin leader would likely look for a scapegoat.
“It all depends on how this all ends for Putin”
Remember when 100 Russian servicemen were sent to Venezuela in what everyone thought was a sign of Russia ramping up support for Maduro? It was because Russia’s state arms contractor was pulling out
The last 2 journalists in Mariupol documented its descent into chaos and destruction at the hands of Russian invaders. They were on a Russian hit list as Ukrainian police spirited them out. Please read, understand the dangers they went through to report
Pretty stunning account of Russian security service's tailing of Navalny while in Tomsk. Basically this: "We have this file containing everything he did, from the sushi he ordered to the juice he bought and we didn't see him get poisoned, we promise"
“The failures that we’re seeing now is them having to work with a larger force than they’ve ever employed in real combat conditions as opposed to an exercise”
If you want a read on Russia and Biden's Sec of State pick, Antony Blinken, this hour-long interview on everything from meeting Putin before his presidency to the Putin-Trump years, this is a very good place to start
“Evan doesn’t want to be the story, he wants to be telling the story from inside Russia.”
Evan has been in Russian custody for five days now. He’s no spy.
#IStandWithEvan
Putin's personal cameraman quit after Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- either because of constant quarantine to be with Putin or opposition to the war, we'll probably never know
Kherson was the first major city to fall in the Russian invasion, now it has become the center of Kyiv's counter attack strategy there to push the Russians back and land at Crimea's doorstep
U.S. has asked Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to temporarily take in Afghans who assisted with American military’s invasion and occupation of the country as part of a broader U.S. security deal with the central Asian countries
In an effort to weed out the disloyal, Russian authorities have started detaining and firing high-ranking officers, including Gen “Armageddon” Surovikin and “Butcher of Mariupol” Col. Gen. Mizintsev. My story on the shockwaves inside the defense ministry
In the midst of the Russian invasion, John Spor’s prominence in Mariupol as a designer for US weapons became a problem. Soon Chechens showed up at his house. “It’s not safe here anymore,” he told his sister.
Giuliani is escalating his push for investigations around Burisma, Joe Biden and Ukraine -- and Trump is still listening. Our story w/
@rebeccaballhaus
@bykowicz
Russia has based its Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean port of Sevastopol since 1783. Increasing Ukrainian attacks on the fleet however, have forced it to withdraw the bulk of its naval force to safer harbors W/
@jmalsin
Of all the responses to Putin's fast-track annexation of four Ukrainian regions, the best may be the head of Ukraine's postal service, Ukrposhta, declaring the Kremlin property of the mail service and that they're opening a Ukrainian post office inside
Fascinating reporting by
@BrianSpegele
on the Russia-China border, where promises of closer ties between Moscow and Beijing aren't panning out.
...a museum in Heihe is dedicated to what's depicted as centuries of aggression by Russia against the Chinese
For the last 11 years, I’ve had the incredible luck to report on Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia for
@WSJ
I’ve made friends, met kindred spirits and had enough adventures for a lifetime, but it’s time for a new chapter.
Putin built a power structure that shelters him from bad news and compounded his Ukraine miscalculations. “Vladimir Vladimirovich doesn’t need to be upset right now.” W/
@evangershkovich
@drewhinshaw
@JoeWSJ
Behind front lines, Russia is losing a less visible battle — for fuel, food and supplies. A very thorough readout on the logistics failure of the Russian army by
@StephenFidler1
and myself
On Vladimir Putin's birthday today, Pussy Riot has planted a rainbow flag on the main FSB building in Moscow and demands today be declared LBGTQ visibility day. I'm sure we'll see a thoughtful response.
Участники Pussy Riot потребовали объявить 7 октября - день рождения Владимира Путина - государственным праздником - "Днем видимости ЛГБТК".
С днём видимости, Владимир Владимирович.
The most sensitive and beautiful profile of one of the best reporters I've ever worked with by
@yaffaesque
To make clear that journalism, not spying, is Evan’s métier feels a clarification so obvious as to be offensive to have to put in writing.
The surrounding roads are mined and the port blocked. Food is running out, and the Russians have stopped humanitarian attempts to bring it in. Electricity is mostly gone and water is sparse, with residents melting snow to drink.
You expose Russian officials building mansions on wildlife preserves, you get beaten with a fractured skull and broken nose. By
@NatVasilyevaAP
2017 was supposedly the Year of Ecology in Russia
The surrounding roads are mined and the port blocked. Food is running out, and the Russians have stopped humanitarian attempts to bring it in. Electricity is mostly gone and water is sparse, with residents melting snow to drink.
Amazing story from Korotkov about why bad things happen to those who cross Evgeny Prigozhin, of IRA and and Wagner fame. So good Korotkov even got a severed goat's head and numerous threats as signs of appreciation days before it was published
Fast Western military vehicles gave Ukrainian forces the upper hand to pierce RU defensive lines, quickly expand control and create fear among its troops
“Without high mobility, we wouldn’t have been able to outplay Russians,”
@MBielieskov
Dozens of Ukrainian civilians were killed on a 4-mile stretch of road outside Kyiv in March. Our WSJ analysis of videos, photos and social media posts reveals how Russian forces positioned themselves around the road to fire on and kidnap fleeing civilians
Starting next week I’ll be the new
@WSJ
correspondent for Israel and Palestinian Territories. Looking forward to the stories ahead, new friends and working with the team of complete pros we have across the Middle East. Stay tuned!
In the first days of the war, Ramzan Kadyrov threw his troops into battle. As trouble for Russia mounts, he is straining to prove his utility -- and keep crucial funds from the Kremlin pouring in. W/
@evangershkovich
This getting interviewed by your next of kin thing could really gain some traction here in the post-Soviet space. Off the top of my head, Belarus, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan. Any others?
Putin should have read
@evangershkovich
reporting on Russia to understand his Kremlin’s failures, not thrown him in jail.
A wonderful tribute to our colleague, now in a Russian jail.
Bring him home.
#istandwithevan
Russia's defense ministry says it's starting military drills on the Caspian Sea, that is just over 200 miles away from continued shelling and fighting around Nagorno-Karabakh. They also say it's fine and don't worry about it.
Great profile of the men who stayed behind. Guilt and inner conflict wrack the lives of Ukrainians who didn't join throngs of compatriots to fight Russia. By
@AnaMalenko
Russian troops came within minutes of finding Zelensky and his family in the first hours of the war, their gunfire once audible inside his office walls
Fantastic interview from
@shustry
Head of Russian lab that produced Sputnik V Coronavirus vaccine says ready to help Donald Trump fight Covid, "If he appeals officially to the Russian authorities."
When Russians hate Americans, it's a mundane hatred like hating burnt toast. When they hate the British there's an extravagance and passion to it that can't be matched.
RIA’s Kremlin pool making it very clear Putin’s entourage is carrying the nuclear briefcase while he’s in Beijing for the Belt and Road Summit. Stay to the end for the briefcase close up!
For generations, Crimea anchored Russian military power in the Black Sea. A spate of blasts and drone incursions has shown the extent of its vulnerability. W/ important thoughts by
@SpencerGuard
and
@vtchakarova
In 2019, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency ran war games on how the US should respond if Russia invades Ukraine and uses a nuclear weapon. The results of the war games are classified, one of the participants told me, “There were no happy outcomes.”
As Navalny supporters try to chip away at passive support for President Putin, they’re running up against the pillars on which he’s built his rule: Putin’s political base, apathy and those who fear change in the country
Russia's announced its withdrawal from Kherson, the only regional capital it seized during its invasion
"Kherson and surrounding areas can't be fully supplied under the current conditions"
At 2:32 p.m., Russian ground control can be heard in an Air Force transmission providing a pilot with a longitude and latitude that correspond to Nabad al Hayat hospital’s exact location. A look into Russia’s systematic bombing of Syrian hospitals.
I’m amazed this needs repeating, but it apparently does. It’s like we learned nothing from 2016. The need to wonder whether Russia wants this or that candidate just shows how susceptible the US is to these campaigns.
3/ The report in the Washington Post, which broke the story, stated not that the Russians want Sanders to get election president, but rather that "Russia is attempting to help his presidential campaign as part of an effort to interfere with the Democratic contest."
Russia's protests aren't all about Navalny, and didn't come out of nowhere.
@georgikantchev
and I look what fueled the protest and how more demonstrations could snowball into a bigger movement.
Eight months into Ukraine’s war with Russia, its emerging strategy combines classic military ops with battlefield opportunism to exploit incompetence of Russian forces—and is changing the course of the fight W/
@StephenFidler1
@marson_jr
Looks like the Duma is calling an extraordinary session next week to discuss interference in Russia's internal affairs, i.e. find a way to pin blame for ongoing Moscow protests on the U.S. - if experience is anything to go by.