Mark Odell

@FinancialTimes commissioning editor, FT project publishing, previously aerospace, defence, telecoms and transport correspondent. Views my own.

[Mark Odell @North2East]

A must read: Russia uses civilians as ‘target practice’ for killer drones https://t.co/WbdigJo2hB via @ft

[Mark Odell @North2East]

@TBrit90 Point well made @TBrit90 . . . "how far the silent service has come in a century" . . . not sure having no attack subs available is worth boasting about @SDA_mod

[Mark Odell @North2East]

@PickardJE Cheers man, the sun did most of the hard work

[Mark Odell @North2East]

Germany, France and how not to do deterrence https://t.co/5WsJPtDMXa via @ft

[Mark Odell @North2East]

Great piece of analysis of the IDF's air campaign by my colleague @JP_Rathbone
Military briefing: the Israeli bombs raining on Gaza https://t.co/YxdU7DdUxQ via @ft

[Mark Odell @North2East]

A cracking scoop from my colleague @dimi - US thwarted plot to kill Sikh separatist on American soil https://t.co/zRp5lNYSjx via @ft

[Mark Odell @North2East]

@maxseddon @polinaivanovva @ChristopherJM Well deserved all 3 of you. Good luck

[Thord Are Iversen @The_Lookout_N]

Norwegian independent seismic monitoring foundation NORSAR:

"NORSAR have detected a probable explosion along the Finnish coast of the Baltic Sea at 01:20 (local time in Finland) on 8th October 2023. This explosion was detected using stations in Finland."

[Mark Odell @North2East]

One of the few

Ukrainian pilot who led push for F-16s dies in training exercise https://t.co/Sb8GGogwbB

[Mark Odell @North2East]

I put my colleague @RKWinvisibleman on a road to nowhere in Wales. This is what he found https://t.co/pEBz3gOdh4

[Mark Odell @North2East]

What is going on with one of the UK government's key "levelling up" projects? Painstaking investigative work by my colleague @JenWilliams_FT
https://t.co/XGTtG6Ve4y https://t.co/XGTtG6Ve4y

[Mari Saito @saitomri]

NEW: We've spent several months investigating pro-Putin activists across Germany who are agitating for Berlin to cut aid to Ukraine and pursue peace with Russia. Here are some of our findings...

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

During Russia's New Year special on state TV, they openly addressed the West to say, "Like it or not, Russia is enlarging!" The rest of the clip should give you a general idea as to the mood in the studio.

[max seddon @maxseddon]

An excellent story on the fate of an elite Russian military unit https://t.co/hGIJ1J1oRm

[Tadeusz Giczan @TadeuszGiczan]

Let me try to explain what's wrong with the new wave of deployment of Russian troops in Belarus and why the threat of a new attack on Kyiv from the north is a bluff.

A🧵 1/

[Mark Odell @North2East]

@BlickyIan Debatable, even without a prop

[Hans Kristensen (also on Bluesky) @nukestrat]

For people in the Kremlin or elsewhere who imagine Putin could pop a nuke or two over Ukrainian forces to turn the tide of the war in his favor, read this from Colin Powell’s memoirs about whether to use nukes the 1991 Gulf War.
#RussiaUkraineWar #nuclearweapons

[Mark Odell @North2East]

@Justin_Br0nk Congratulations Justin

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Russia’s main road and rail link to Crimea and southern Ukraine was just severed.

This is a massive issue for the Russian logistics effort, as supplies now have to pass by some very excited Ukrainian HIMARS and drone operators.