Jillian Kay Melchior

London-based member of The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board.

[Samuel Bickett @SamuelBickett]

Big thanks to @JillianKayM and @WSJopinion for this piece, which pulls together my new @CSR_Institute briefing on Venezuela's shadow fleet ties to Hong Kong with the report I published earlier this month with @TheCFHK on Iran's ties to Hong Kong.

The two reports tell similar and overlapping stories. In Venezuela, Hong Kong shell companies and corporate secretaries are the legal scaffolding behind sanctioned oil tankers. In Iran, that same machinery operates at full scale: shipping companies brokering oil sales, banks laundering the proceeds, exporters sending drone and missile parts that turn up on battlefields in Ukraine and the Middle East, and capital markets financing the surveillance tech being used against Iranian protesters.

In both cases, Western sanctions keep chasing the disposable shell companies at the top of this architecture, while the established firms beneath them — corporate secretaries, banks, logistics providers, tech exporters — keep operating untouched.

https://t.co/lW3GkO5d4i

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

From @WSJopinion: In Estonia, NATO practices for a drone war. The multinational battle group showed progress, but also raised questions about the allies’ readiness, writes @JillianKayM.
https://t.co/UNs8fYYaGH

[Anna Kwok 郭鳳儀 @AnnaKwokFY]

Hong Kong offices around the world enable transnational repression and espionage activities. @WSJopinion

"Anna Kwok, another bountied dissident, has warned that Beijing can use these diplomatic outposts to carry out transnational repression in the U.S."

https://t.co/uWTeUPEgV7

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

Many Ukrainians feel that they are fighting for the moral future of their children. Ceding land is one thing, but a peace agreement would also mean sacrificing family and friends, writes @JillianKayM
https://t.co/648jmS6kVS

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

The West contemplates a path to peace mainly in political and pragmatic terms. But Ukrainians see the war in moral and existential terms. That’s how they can maintain their will, writes @JillianKayM
https://t.co/o6EBLCkwW1

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

On the latest episode of the Potomac Watch podcast, @JillianKayM describes what it's like to live under the threat of air attacks in Ukraine. https://t.co/TRqUN9tRtC

[Margus Tsahkna @Tsahkna]

In Estonia, memories of Soviet-era killings & deportations remain vivid.

Such atrocities must never happen again—whatever the cost. That's why our defense spending will exceed 5% of GDP as early as next year.

My conversation with @WSJ’s @JillianKayM.
https://t.co/Bes7n2pLFo

[Jillian Kay Melchior @JillianKayM]

Steve Witkoff suggested residents of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk had voted to be under Russian rule. But that 2022 referendum was a farce conducted at gunpoint, and here's what Kherson residents told me.
https://t.co/gXI87h8Giu

[Jillian Kay Melchior @JillianKayM]

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[Jillian Kay Melchior @JillianKayM]

@AllisonPearson Jillian Melchior from WSJ Editorial Board trying to reach you on deadline. Email me? jillian.melchior@ https://t.co/BlrQAZXSNq

[Jillian Kay Melchior @JillianKayM]

My latest dispatch, from Kharkiv

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region has further strained Moscow’s war resources and forced the Kremlin to make tough choices about how to use them. The U.S. can build on this momentum, writes @JillianKayM
https://t.co/BH71qHMDsb

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region has further strained Moscow’s war resources and forced the Kremlin to make tough choices about how to use them. The U.S. can build on this momentum, writes @JillianKayM
https://t.co/BH71qHMDsb

[Jillian Kay Melchior @JillianKayM]

@karol @bethanyshondark @elishamaldonado @KatTimpf @TianaTheFirst Wild how much has changed in those 7 years! Good thing we got that @KatTimpf cut-out laminated.

[Jillian Kay Melchior @JillianKayM]

@DParakian Jillian Melchior here from WSJ, trying to reach you. Email me? Jillian.melchior @ https://t.co/BlrQAZXSNq

[Jillian Kay Melchior @JillianKayM]

@phlode Jillian Melchior at WSJ here, hoping to chat briefly. Email me? Jillian.melchior @ https://t.co/BlrQAZXSNq

[Jillian Kay Melchior @JillianKayM]

@MelkiMuriel Jillian here from The Wall Street Journal, trying to reach you. Can you email me? Jillian.melchior @ https://t.co/BlrQAZXSNq

[Shelby Holliday @shelbyholliday]

63 LONG WEEKS in a Russian prison. Evan Gershkovich needs to come home.

Please think about him the next time you make a burger, go for a run, watch soccer or enjoy the simple things in life, for he remains locked in a Moscow cell for doing his job. #freeevan #istandwithevan

[Jillian Kay Melchior @JillianKayM]

@kamaufranklin Jillian here from WSJ. I saw your recent comments at Coopersim at Columbia law and was interested in talking for an article. Email me? jillian.melchior @ https://t.co/BlrQAZYqCY

[Jillian Kay Melchior @JillianKayM]

Just awful. Ukraine is losing so many brave, kind people.

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

Awful news and another painful loss for Ukraine. Iryna Tsybukh died near the front in Kharkiv region just days before her birthday. A prominent volunteer medic and member of the Hospitallers medical battalion, she saved and touched countless lives throughout Russia's horrific war.

Her last post here, on May 23, read: "I have a birthday soon and I am very proud that I lived to be 26 🤗"

RIP Iryna, forever 25.

Her battalion announced her passing here: https://t.co/qf8rEDu0E1

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

Awful news and another painful loss for Ukraine. Iryna Tsybukh died near the front in Kharkiv region just days before her birthday. A prominent volunteer medic and member of the Hospitallers medical battalion, she saved and touched countless lives throughout Russia's horrific war.

Her last post here, on May 23, read: "I have a birthday soon and I am very proud that I lived to be 26 🤗"

RIP Iryna, forever 25.

Her battalion announced her passing here: https://t.co/qf8rEDu0E1