The attack on 🇮🇱 tonight was of a magnitude that 🇺🇦 suffers on a fairly regular basis. Same drones. Similar missiles. Week after week. Month after month.

'Trump's Republican Party treats Ukraine as the enemy and Russia as a friend. Defining that stance as isolationist is lazy and wrong. It is actively pro-Russian.' My column on America's moment of truth in Ukraine. ft.com/content/98f37c…

Russians are trying to do to Kharkiv what they did to Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol

Essential thread

Good piece on Olaf Scholz’s refusal to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine. The chancellor - languishing in the polls - fails to recognise that Kyiv is fighting against Russian fascism. This means Germany has special obligations theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

On Tuesday Ukraine hit a Russian drone factory 800 miles away from the frontline. Next target, Ukrainian military intelligence says, is the Kerch bridge connecting occupied #Crimea with Russia. 'Its destruction is inevitable,' agency in Kyiv tells me theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

❗️ The Crimean bridge is scheduled to be destroyed in the first half of 2024. Its destruction is inevitable - The Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine official in an interview with The Guardian

He added that the head of the department, Budanov, already has 'most of the…

On Tuesday Ukraine hit a Russian drone factory 800 miles away from the frontline. Next target, Ukrainian military intelligence says, is the Kerch bridge connecting occupied #Crimea with Russia. 'Its destruction is inevitable,' agency in Kyiv tells me theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Amazing investigation that reveals what has long been suspected: a #GRU assassination unit is behind the mysterious acoustic attacks on US officials around the world, aka Havana Syndrome. Evidence that #Russia see itself - and *is* - at war with America theins.ru/en/politics/27…

My review of How to Win an Information War. A compelling account by peter pomerantsev of how a British journalist managed to beat the #Nazis at their own propaganda game. His answer: a grotesque radio show that praised #Hitler but mocked the party elite theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

My review of How to Win an Information War. A compelling account by peter pomerantsev of how a British journalist managed to beat the #Nazis at their own propaganda game. His answer: a grotesque radio show that praised #Hitler but mocked the party elite theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

Enjoyed The Red Hotel by ⁦Alan Philps⁩. It’s a brilliant account of foreign correspondents who lived in Moscow during the Second World War, and the women who worked for them as fixers and translators. Challenges included censorship, lying and a lack of access to the frontline

Watched this last night. A brilliant documentary of life and death on the frontline in Ukraine, shot with GoPro cameras in the Kupiansk forest. Available on BBC iPlayer

Kyiv right now. Kids running to shelters as Russia bombs again

.⁦Andrei Soldatov⁩ on the Moscow concert hall attack for The Guardian: “Brutal force and repression will only get you so far” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Ukraine certainly has nothing to do with the shooting/explosions in the Crocus City Hall (Moscow Region, Russia). It makes no sense whatsoever.

First of all, Ukraine has been fighting with the Russian army for more than two years. And everything in this war will be decided only…

Another night of massive Russian missile strikes in Ukraine, this time targeting the power infrastructure. DniproHES hydropower station in Zaporizhzhia among those hit. Russia is taking advantage of Republicans in the House cutting off the resupply of air defense interceptors.

An honour to be on Book of the Year list for 'Invasion', together with wonderful works by Anne Applebaum Serhiy Zhadan & Serhii Plokhy