Kim Barker

NYT reporter, Pulitzer winner. Former campaign $$ diva, ProPublica, & AfPak hack, Chicago Tribune. Wrote Taliban Shuffle. Tips? kim(dot)[email protected]

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@Megtweet Only the zloty can help. 🙄 thanks for kind note.

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11/Anyone who thinks being a foreign correspondent is a glamorous job, here is your glamour. 🫤 please ping if nearby and have zloty. I will now only travel with zloty.

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10/I realize that you are not the Polish border guards @BorderPolish. The Polish border guards are most definitely not on Twitter, or on X. They are too busy holding cars that have a full tank of gas and collecting zloty. Going on 6 hours now.

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9/Here is my story about a man waiting for his great grandmother to be pulled out. https://t.co/hLaLTiwDq3

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8/Meanwhile, I was in the rain and cold for five hours yesterday in the wet and cold to help bring you this story about Ternopil. And yeah, I know. I look like I’ve been through it. And that was before today. The video: https://t.co/LeseFlVqHL

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7/Truly—I have been at a lot of border crossings. But never have I ever met border guards like the Poles. I feel like I should be in Prague because it’s getting pretty Kafka here.

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6/I will point out that the toilets at most of the toilets along the border are pay toilets. That take only zloty. No, there are no cash machines.

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5/Jk. But if I disappear, I’m with the Polish border guards. And I’m more than aware that this is the kind of thing that happens to Ukrainians all the time. For a tank of petrol.

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4/I have missed not just one flight, but two flights. Have no idea if and when they’ll let us through. Send help!

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3/They want us to pay 158 Polish zloty. But only zloty. They will not take Euros or dollars or (obviously) Ukrainian hryvnias. No credit cards. We have not enough zloty. So we are now begging anyone near to try to get 8 zloty. That is about 2 bucks.

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2/They tried to make me walk. In the snow. We tried begging other drivers for a lift to Krakow. They finally agreed to let us pay a fine of 158 zloty.

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1/I am at the Ukrainian Polish border and have been held for five hours because the Ukrainian driver had a full take of petrol. This is what the Polish border guards are worried about. This. Petrol.

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My latest take on the corruption scandal roiling Ukraine. https://t.co/30Qd36wuy5

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I loved going to this children’s camp in Ukraine, hanging out with the Turbo Kids and meeting Artem as he looked for friends. https://t.co/pZ0TZUzRQl

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@EmmetRolle @somepumpkins123 spelled wept wrong.

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📌 Read Fred Grandy's story by @Kim_Barker here:
https://t.co/UEap5A4tWn

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.@HeathrowAirport hi. We just landed from Warsaw and there are no buses to get us off the plane. It’s been almost 50 minutes. Could you send buses? Or let us walk? Or give us an ETA of buses?

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.@HeathrowAirport hi. We just landed from Warsaw and there are no buses to get us off the plane. It’s been almost 45 minutes. Could you send buses? Or let us walk? Or give us an ETA of buses?

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@nyttypos lol, fair

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Thank you. I have been working some long hours, and the only thing that keeps me going is @nyttypos

[Typos of the New York Times @nyttypos]

Typo 14 of the day, possibly: fiancé is an error for fiancée if Mr. Dobriev’s affianced is a woman. @Kim_Barker