The Russian Embassy, London this evening.
One feels so proud.
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Reporter: old school, Kyiv
The Eastern Front - film out now
15th book: Putin's Prisoner - Aiden Aslin
14th Killer In The Kremlin
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There are rumours about a mutiny in the Russian army. Things are not going well for the master of the Kremlin.
Tough old day. I got arrested by the Ukrainian army for filming them: "Are you a Russian spy?" No etc. They were nicer than Putin. I got a cup of tea. Spent time at Ukraine Int HQ as they checked me out. Never mind. #Putin's war is not going well.
Vladimir Putin is in trouble.
#KyivDiary Day 29
Russia is fighting for the past
Ukraine for the future
And the future is winning
Full Ukrainian.
Milk Bar, Shota Rustaveli Street, Kyiv.
30th Day of Vladimir Putin's war
#KyivDiary Day 25
The war is going badly in the South.
Brexit was a Kremlin project.
If Boris Johnson comes to Kyiv, I'll ask him: "PM, why did you celebrate your election victory with Russian (ex?) spy Alexander Lebedev who has a photo of his friend Vladimir Putin on his book?"
At the BBC I was taken aside by a senior manager and told off for the tone of my tweets critical of .
Too many powerful people in Britain appeased this monster.
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100% this. These cheerleaders cannot simply dust their hands and walk away. twitter.com/mrjamesob/stat…
The best of Russia...
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St Petersburg, Russia, tonight
They’re chanting "No to War!" "Shame!" & "Ukraine is not our enemy!"
Please note, this attack appears to have come from Russia.
Boris Johnson and the Russian Mountain: a two minute film which sets out why MI6 was worried about a security risk.
Watch this:
youtu.be/023nN-tvADs
When people ask what me the spirit is like in Kyiv, this pretty much is it, bottled up, in one video.
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War Diary Day 365
Lots of tomatoes in Kyiv
Brexit was a rare Russian victory
I voted Remain.
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Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed Ursula von der Leyen and Josep Borrell in Kyiv 
#KyivDiary Day 17
The war is going badly for Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainians are standing firm. His army is a bit rubbish, frankly.
It's beginning to be possible to imagine a world without Putin. In the Kremlin whisperers gather in the gloom.
Stalin died in March. And Caesar.
Kharkiv railway station right now. Meanwhile the British government has permitter only 50 new visas for Ukrainians and Russian oligarchs have months to move their ill-gotten gold out of Londongrad.
Shame on you .
A simple message to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin
In a (extremely rare open) cafe in Kyiv I ask for tea with cold milk. Eugene and Vlad are horrified: "there are other ways of proving you are not a Russian spy."
#TherewillalwaysbeanEngland
Vladimir Putin has made a miscalculation. His war is not going well, not at all. I try to explain the anomaly of quiet in central Kyiv with the bangs and flashes you're seeing on the telly.
If you bung me a bob or two via Patreon, luvvly jubbly.
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So twists the knife. got UK advice on care homes wrong and here's Keir's letter proving Boris wrong.
Competent Opposition, eh? Who'd have thought it was possible?
That is not true.
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There is no Russian money funding the Conservative Party in this campaign says Security Minister Brandon Lewis
#Marr bbc.in/2OY4SGy
Tommy Robinson makes out that he's a Great British patriot. But look at what he said in Bavaria.
Here's a one minute film entitled "Tommy Robinson and the Adolf Hitler Appreciation Society".
Watch it.
youtu.be/Wd5rUWvCL5E
#KyivDiary Day 8 of Vladimir Putin's war. Kyiv is still standing, electricity, Internet still on, no Russian tanks on my street and I'm still wearing my lucky orange hat.
is calling for Russia to rise against Putin. Good on him.
❤️ from Kyiv.
The Russian state is saying it is not killing civilians. That is a lie. This morning in Kyiv I saw it with my own eyes.
I love my country so I wanted to do better but his appointment of as Home Sec shows that he, too, is prisoner of the Tory far right.
Enough already. We need Proportional Representation so that the centre - not the extremes - holds power.
The BBC is a noble thing. It educates, informs, entertains the whole nation. It is Britain. Has it got faults? Don't get me started. But sending in the wrecking ball would be an act of spiteful madness.
#SavetheBBC
Just on with on . He asked me: "How long are you staying?" I replied: "I voted Remain in 2016. Here in Kyiv, in 2022, I'm voting Remain."
Take care and good luck from Kyiv.
Here in Kyiv, soldiers are dying so that Ukraine can join the European Union, not leaving it.
We're all for Remain here.
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What do Ukrainians make of Boris Johnson’s Brexit comparison?
‘“The first thing when comparing our situation to yours,” Oleksandra points out, “is that Ukraine is fighting to join the EU.”’ eastangliabylines.co.uk/ukraine-is-fig
#KyivDiary Day 21
Russian offensive has stopped.
Losses, low morale and - H/T - corruption has made the Russians a Potemkin army. The hinge of battle is turning against the Kremlin.
This made me cry.
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The first wedding dance of Viktor and Oksana in the Lviv hospital ward. Oksana, a 23-year-old nurse from Lysychansk, lost her legs on 27 March. Then Oksana had turned to warn Viktor of the danger, and within a second a Russian mine exploded under her facebook.com/euromaidanpres
War Diary Day 362
Biden in Kyiv to Putin: Do Fuck Off!
#KyivDiary Day 23 Update
The Russian Army is begging for food.
#KyivDiary Day 26
Bad night in Kyiv but the Ukrainians are Time Lords
Kyiv: good to see @thesundaytimes
today catching up with my scoop from two years ago that Baron Siberia
was a security risk.
And then, magically, he wasn't.
has been compromised.
Just back from a very long journey back from the frontline. Had to walk across a Dnipro bridge. They have closed a bridge to cars causing traffic chaos.
Nice to be back safe and sound. Going to be taking it easier for a couple of days in Kyiv centre.
Cheers all around.
War Diary Day 198
Russia is losing the war faster than anyone expected
The reports of my death are over-exaggerated.
But saying R.I.P. is nasty. Very.
Do fuck off.
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R.I.P John Sweeney. He has been reporting from Kyiv.
This looks to be his last video as an explosion from the area seems to have taken place in close proximity.
Readers added context
He’s not dead twitter.com/johnsweeneyroa…
#KyivDiary Day 31
I am not a Russian spy
A message to Vladimir Putin
Love from Kyiv
Big bang just now in Kyiv. Sounded outgoing, like Ukrainian air defence system taking out incoming Russian missile.
Sleep well, love from Kyiv.
War Diary Jan 8 Amsterdam
As Putin mobilises half a million cannon fodder, we need to arm Ukraine with main battle tanks: now.
#KyivDiary Day 20
Reasons to be cheerful:
The Ides of March not a good day for Caesar.
The Russian army advance has stopped.
A Russian TV producer interrupted a live show to show a banner: "No War".
Vladimir Putin is in trouble.
As Putin's lullaby sounds over Kyiv, I ask and to provide shelter to Ukraine's refugees as our EU friends have done.
#KyivDiary
Horace the Elephant is 17. When Russian missiles hit Kyiv TV Tower near the Kyiv Zoo, they had to put him on sedatives. He's OK now. The Zoo staff sleep in his enclosure and that soothes him.
#KyivDiary Day 30
Vladimir Putin's war is going so badly we're about to have a full Ukrainian breakfast.
But down south the war is hellish. So keep the pressure on the monster in the Kremlin.
The Russians have just bombed a hospital full of babies in Mariupol. The evidence for this war crime is strong.
Time for the West to stand up to the evil that kills babies.
Do that now.
War Diary Day 485
Vladimir Putin is a fragile monster.
Prigozhin - the monster he created - is now eating him up.
#VPDFO!
#RussiaReport Thread
In 2000 I went to Chechnya undercover twice, once for the BBC, once for C4. I saw Putin's war crimes with my own eyes. Three Russians - Anna Politkovskaya, Natasha Estemirova and Boris Nemtsov - warned me over the years about Putin.
They were shot.
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Taking On Putin.
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Opposition activists in Russia accuse the Kremlin of using the security services and state-controlled TV to attack them. When #BBCPanorama went to investigate their claims, the same tactics were used. Find out more in Taking on Putin, 7.30pm tomorrow on @BBCOne.
#Kyiv TV Tower attack. Dead mother and child are taken away.
What Vladimir Putin is doing is monstrous.
Hiya: I now have 5 confirmations - the 5th from my pal fighter - this story is true, that Ukrainians have surrounded the Russian Army at Bucha, NW of Kyiv.
(Warning: I am in Kyiv centre so I can't verify this myself.)
That Vladimir Putin's war is in trouble.
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#KyivDiary Day 27 Update
Reports that Ukrainians have cut off a pocket of Russian soldiers to NW of Kyiv.
If true, it's good news.
#KyivDiary Day 11, Putin's war
Kyiv quiet, Mariupol grim.
made Baron Siberia a lord by brushing aside security concerns. But his dad Alexander Lebedev was a KGB spy in London. He still may be. is compromised.
Kyiv Diary Day 13: Update
BOYCOTT until Vladimir Putin's war stops or they stop making money in Russia.
(Rude message to Putin at end. No kids should watch this film.)
Kyiv Diary Day 14
22 years ago I tried to warn the world about Vladimir Putin.
No-one listened.
Listen now.
theguardian.com/world/2000/mar
Yesterday I saw Chou-Chou the clown cheer up the kids in the basement of the dialysis unit at Kyiv's Children's Hospital. Today we tracked her - real name Anastasia Kalyuha - to thank her. She's a refugee herself, originally from Donetsk.
There is another Russia.
And it is brave and good.
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Anti-war protester detained outside of the Russian Defense Minsitry building in Moscow.
Her sign reads: “Right now, Russian soldiers are raping and killing Ukrainian women. Stop this war!”
t.me/meduzalive/569
Sign the petition to have a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics.
Love from Kyiv.
#KyivDiary Day 28 Update
The Russian Army is going backwards, east of Kyiv.
Verified.
#KyivDiary Day 10 of Vladimir Putin's War
RIP Shane Warne.
Ukraine is not losing, Russian armoured column immobilised, a Russian Major-General reportedly killed. The longer Ukraine holds out, the worse it gets for Putin.
The weakling has managed to get the bully on the floor.
I am extremely proud to shop at Waitrose. During WW2 Hugh Alexander of John Lewis - which owns Waitrose - used the store's pneumatic system to boost #BletchleyPark.
Here is my Waitrose Bag in the fight against fascism in the Battle of Kyiv.
Shop at Waitrose. Fight fascism.
#BrexitDisaster Bought a bike online for £300. Bill to import into UK? £122.35. Pal and I bought £380 worth of wine from Italy. Bill to import it into UK? £160.82.
Trade is shrinking, goods pricier by the day. Brexit is foolishness.
A free people versus fascism.
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Amazing footage. twitter.com/AlexandruC4/st
Vladimir Putin - a blanket on his knees, his cheeks full, a hamster stuffed with steroids - cuts a weak and enfeebled figure as Russian Army rolls past the Kremlin. No declaration of big war; no call-up; no General Gerasimov.
Listen: you can hear the knives being sharpened.
#DontvoteforGeorgeGalloway
#BatleyAndSpen
I first met George Galloway in Bucharest in 1990 sticking up for Team Stalin. Don't vote for the tyrant's friend.
For context, can Brexiteers supply pictures of our European friends queuing up for petrol?
#askingforanation
#KyivDiary Day 17 Update
The Russian army is seeking to besiege Kyiv, to cut it off. Scary.
But they are not looking after their dead. And, as an old British Army friend of mine said, an army that does that will not win.
#KyivDiary Day 27 Update
Reports that Ukrainians have cut off a pocket of Russian soldiers to NW of Kyiv.
If true, it's good news.
Russian chopper stung by a Stinger. The war, so far, is not going as well as perhaps the Kremlin had hoped. The Ukrainian army are not Syrian farmers. They have good western kit. And lo: war is never easy. #Putin pleas note.
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#KyivDiary Day 25 Night
Biggest bangs so far heard in Kyiv Centre. Maybe Russia's new tactics: not take the city but smash it to pieces.
I conclude with simple message to Vladimir Putin.
#KyivDiary Day 22 Update
Kyiv is still standing. Russian forces on the east bank are going backwards. In the North West, it's hand to hand fighting. But the Russians are not advancing.
In Russia, the ice is cracking.
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#WindofChange is picking up in Russia. We need to support & inspire these brave Russian women. The tide 
will reach a breaking point, and we must help precipitate that, for the sake of the entire free world.
will reach a breaking point, and we must help precipitate that, for the sake of the entire free world.
If I didn't love Ireland enough...
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Replying to @johnsweeneyroar
No oil company in Ireland will deliver to Russian embassy.
