This is Anastasiia Yalanskaya 🇺🇦
She was killed yesterday, just outside Kyiv, delivering supplies to a dog shelter that was without food for 3 days
The car she was in was targeted at close range
Yalanskaya stayed behind in Kyiv to volunteer as everyone fled around her
When talking about my service95 podcast with @stephenathome last night he flipped the script and made himself the interviewee - I was blown away by his profound and moving response to my question @colbertlateshow
THE REAL MVPS OF #Expo2020
These guys. The staff and volunteers working outside for 8 hours a day, in 38C+ heat, and still smiling as they do it. The staff here are some of the friendliest & most genuinely caring I’ve ever encountered at an event on this scale and deserve kudos
A picture is worth a thousand words. You don’t have to zoom in to see how the Taliban’s head of the ministry for the propagation of virtue and prevention of vice in Ghazni feels about sitting down with me. Our story here. https://t.co/Wh7jMkbXjx
2. ...guarding sleeping women and children, helping them find the right transportation to the US air strip for their flights, pulling their own food out of their pockets and handing it to refugees in need, sleeping out on the cement, little supplies, parched in the sun...
1. The #BritishMilitary here at #KabulAirport have shown breathtaking levels of toughness, professionalism and - rare in war times I must say - compassion. I've been moved to tears by their actions, diving into dangerous crowds to pull visa-holders into the base....