Journalist at foreign board of @NOS and @Nieuwsuur member of Ukraine desk. Often in Kyiv. Previous: Washington, Brussels, Budapest (and Mockba.)

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Joined March 2009
wessel de jong retweeted
Russia struck one of the main bridges linking the two sides of Kyiv overnight, and killed and injured students sleeping in a university dorm. But diesel.
😡 У Києві вночі росіяни влучили у Південний міст, на ньому також пошкоджена інфраструктура метрополітену. Рух тимчасово перекритий.
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Lees dit please @wierdduk
Hoe makkelijk is het toch voor Rusland om beïnvloedingsoperaties te doen in het Westen. Gewoon iemand uit de entourage van Poetin (in casu de pro-Kremlin ex-Stasi-agent en North-Stream bestuurder Matthias Warnig ) mondeling laten verklaren tegen Financial Times dat "Poetin in 2023 bereid was tot verregaande terugtrekking" en "Zelensky dat weigerde", en het wordt gepubliceerd als onthulling en overgenomen in talloze kranten. Waarna het legioen nuttige idioten op westerse sociale media weer los kan gaan en schreeuwen: "Zie je wel dat het Zelenski is die oorlog wil en Poetin die redelijk is en vrede voorstelt!". Terwijl geen enkele schriftelijke bron noch verklaring van Poetin die bewering kan staven, niemand in 2023 ooit van dat voorstel had gehoord (noch in de VS, noch in de Oekraïense regering), en Poetin op 30 september 2022 al de veroverde gebieden (en meer) grondwettelijk bij Rusland had aangehecht. Missie volbracht voor Rusland. Hoewel dit nooit gebeurd is in 2023, krijgt het pleidooi om hulp aan Oekraïne te stoppen om Zelenski tot "vrede" te dwingen weer zuurstof in de Westerse publieke opinie. Alleen bedoelt Poetin met vrede iets anders dan zijn Europese propagandisten dat tegenover obs voorstellen: capitulatie.
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This is interesting. Key Putin 🇷🇺 aide Ushakov admits that the Anchorage plan of having Trump 🇺🇸 force Zelensky 🇺🇦 into agreeing to their demands hasn’t worked because of the role of Europe. That’s it: if Europe stays the course, 🇷🇺 can’t win.
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Monday night and Russia has just launched a ballistic missile strike on the dormitories of Kyiv's State University of Trade and Economics. Students are dead.
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Pssst: Het is een vrouw
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Bye-bye Kremlin puppets 👋
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In 2022, Kremlin claimed US-backed Ukrainian labs were developing bioweapons targeting Russians, even invoking killer mosquitoes. In 2026, Putin says Russians and Ukrainians are genetically “one people.” So how were those mosquitoes supposed to tell them apart? Check passports?
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You go girl.. Listen to her, she's right! Please ♥️ and repost, as X is throttling accounts, which is against freedom of speech.
I believe this will be considered one of the most important videos in US history from this time.
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Zelenskyy: I wanted the US envoys in Kyiv to visit Bucha. To see the horrific aftermath of Russian occupation and compare it with what Bucha looks like today. I wanted them to see how Ukraine is fighting for life and rebuilding. They didn't find the time. 1/
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More than 95% of Ukrainian POWs are tortured in russian captivity. Wounds left to rot. Amputations without anesthesia. Teeth ripped out by drunken guards. Marks of hatred carved and burned into human bodies. This is not “mistreatment.” This is systematic torture.
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Two more giant screens handed out to command centers of army units. These screens are used to monitor troops and keep a precise overview of the battlefield. In these videos the soldiers express their deep gratitude. Slava Ukraini! 💙💛
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I am a perfectly ordinary person. I am simply a human being. Perhaps not as great a humanist as Putin—but, in any case, I try to do everything in my power. — Zelenskyy.
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Blijft interessante uitdrukking: appels en peren kun je uitstekend vergelijken. Ik zit net 12 Days van Sebestyen te lezen. De parallellen zijn verbluffend. Eisenhower verraadt, Chroesjtsjov is dom en bruut. What else is new?
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⚡ Ukraine received only 24 Patriot air defense missiles from the US over the last 90 days, President Zelenskyy revealed. He stressed that Washington is withholding authorization for missile shipments, despite the munitions being largely financed by European allies.
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