Aliide

Journalist, author @BloomsburyBooks. Currently @TRPForJustice, previously @thetimes. Use Mastodon more: own. RT/like≠endorsement

[Aliide @Aliide_N]

OUT TODAY! Thank you to all those who pre-ordered 🖤 it's now fully available via @BloomsburyAcad, Amazon, @Foyles, and possibly one or two other places 📚

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Thank you @peterpomeranzev and @EllenBarryNYT for such lovely blurbs, too

[Dr Bohdana Kurylo @BohdanaKurylo]

Last night, several of my family’s homes were hit in Russia's 11-hour bombardment of #Kyiv. These are the rooms I grew up in, the places where our lives happened. My family worked so hard for them. Now I am looking at them in shards.

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

Spending the night in a crowded shelter alongside hundreds of strangers and their pets is neither comfortable nor pleasant, to be honest. But as exhausting as it is, I'd rather listen to babies crying than see half-empty shelters while russia intensifies its ruthless attacks on residential neighbourhoods in Ukraine with 500+ drones and 50-70 missiles.

Last night, a record 52,5k people sought refuge in Kyiv's metro stations. Many others spent the night in underground parking garages and basements.

As rescue operations continue, the death toll in Kyiv has risen to 20, making this one of the deadliest attacks on the capital in the last years.

This is what letting russian evil go unpunished leads to. russia is a terrorist state.

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

Awful day. Death toll has risen to 21 in Kyiv after Russia’s missile attacks on apartment buildings, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

As Zelenskyy's sanctions czar points out below, thousands of western components are found inside the Russian missiles that devastate Ukrainian cities nightly. "What remains difficult to understand is why some manufacturers and governments still do not react decisively enough. We provide the evidence. When tens of thousands of your components are repeatedly found in Russian missiles and drones, that should be reason enough to strengthen export controls, distribution oversight, and compliance with high-risk customers."

See our previous @FT story on a deadly attack in May: https://t.co/3ervqpLNaZ

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

I’m currently witnessing dozens of huge explosions in Kyiv city centre. A hotel near my apartment is on fire. Residential buildings damaged. This is not war against soldiers, it’s Russia terrorising civilians in their homes. A sad and pathetic nation.

[Iuliia Mendel @IuliiaMendel]

Russian strikes hit Ukraine this morning, killing 5 and wounding 20 in Dnipro, 2 and wounding 6 in Zaporizhzhia after a drone struck a minibus, and 2 with 7 wounded in Sumy region. In Kherson, attacks targeted ambulances and civilian cars with casualties still unknown. Strikes continue across Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and Donetsk regions. And this is woithout massive attack.

[Aliide @Aliide_N]

@pepel_klaasa There are a few too many influential people in the "Russia watcher" crowd who remain more sympathetic to Russians than Ukrainians, and have absorbed and adopted a Russia-centric worldview (while still believing themselves experts on all of frontline Europe and Central Asia)

[Aliide @Aliide_N]

@SevaUT @DrLeoStrauss Ditto. Solid handful of men working on Russia have outed themselves as not particularly bright or well-informed these past few years

[Maria Popova 🇨🇦 @PopovaProf]

I wish the West were serious about trying to destabilize Russia politically! But the West has so thoroughly and consistently coddled russia that Putin expects that he can threaten, interfere, and attack the West however he wants and they shouldn’t ever respond.

[Aliide @Aliide_N]

@Nicole_Lee_Sch @glowofbrutality Of course they might still be a technically "good" student, but they can tip the scales in their favour

[Aliide @Aliide_N]

@Nicole_Lee_Sch @glowofbrutality I was about to say, advisers play a role too, they definitely have their "picks" of people who might be aligned with their own e.g. political beliefs and that can affect quality of references, or requests to senior colleagues to publish reviews etc.

[Paul Niland @PaulNiland]

You have to be incredibly stupid to think that a defeated russia can launch a world fucking war.

[Aliide @Aliide_N]

The story of five generations of the same Crimean Tatar family, forced from their homes because of Moscow. With @TRPforJustice, for Spanish daily @LaVanguardia

https://t.co/d38DbV6nss

[toomas hendrik ilves @IlvesToomas]

Everyone should read this about what is going on in occupied Crimea. What the Russians do to people, especially Ukrainian women, even little girls.

https://t.co/4ECE5rUSEa

[Aliide @Aliide_N]

The story of five generations of the same Crimean Tatar family, forced from their homes because of Moscow. With @TRPforJustice, for Spanish daily @LaVanguardia

https://t.co/d38DbV6nss

[Maria Popova 🇨🇦 @PopovaProf]

Mark my words: when the Putin regime finally collapses due to the FAILURE of its imperialist war against Ukraine, some Westerners will tell you it's evidence that russians always opposed this terrible war.

[Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @ChakhoyanAndrew]

The inhabitants of the Terrorist Federation were asked: “Do you personally support or oppose the actions of Russian armed forces in Ukraine?”

The Levada Center did the asking. The most reputable independent polling agency in russia, to the extent genuine independence is possible in a tyrannical state waging a criminal war of aggression.

For every person in supposedly “liberal-minded” moscow who found the question “difficult to answer,” there were eight who said yes, either definitely or probably.

Yes, the regime criminalizes opposition to the war while insisting there is no war at all. Fear matters. Repression matters. But after Bucha, after the photos of Ukrainian children murdered by russia enter the information space every other day, after the most heinous war crimes russian soldiers commit, after roughly 1.5 million russian casualties (killed and wounded), after economic decline, growing subordination to China, burning refineries, and international isolation, russian “society” still overwhelmingly supports the war.

The russian people do not find the question difficult because, for much of their country’s history, brutal colonial conquest was not treated as a moral dilemma. in the collective consciousness of the 100+ million people, moscow has a right, if not the duty, to invade neighbors. The current war did not emerge from nowhere. It follows a long imperial tradition that predates putin and the regimes before him.

This is the uncomfortable reality many in the West refuse to grasp: there is no such thing as putin’s russia, there is only russia’s putin

[Aliide @Aliide_N]

@LausKati Well-deserved for O2, was hoping it would get recognised this time around!

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

That's a rather generous reading: in Oct 2025, UK gov announced it would ban all imports of refined products made with Russian oil in third countries. Typically, London moved on oil sanctions in unison with Brussels. But EU went ahead with the ban in Jan 2026 and London procrastinated. Then, yesterday, to the surprise of every European ally, it introduced the restrictions, but watered down from its Oct announcement, allowing the importation of diesel and jet fuel (which are the two fuels that matter, so effectively, the new measure is completely toothless).

[Aliide @Aliide_N]

this is possible now. implement now.

[Ruth Deyermond @ruth_deyermond]

'Trade minister Chris Bryant [...] says the UK will implement sanctions on Russian oil product “as soon as possible”'. How soon is that? And what needs to happen for it to become "possible"?