Richard Galpin

BBC World Affairs Correspondent based in London. Previous postings in Moscow, Athens, Jakarta, Islamabad and Dhaka.

[Richard Galpin @RgalpinBBC]

#Kremlin backed #WagnerGroup apparently recruiting prisoners for the front lines as #Ukraine forces make significant advances in the ongoing war

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

PMC Wagner Group Evgeny Prigozhin is at a penal colony looking for new assault infantry to join his company. Refers to some of those who served 30 years in prison and died in battle as "heroes".

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Kharkiv Offensive: Russian Forces Flee as Ukraine Makes Rapid Eastern Push - Bloomberg https://t.co/0C5VstG8GT

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@NormanIvison Hi Norman thanks for reminding me about this, it was corrected as quickly as possible. I think too many 5am starts had scrambled my brain!

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@martinwebber2 @bbcworldservice You have had a great innings!

[Richard Galpin @RgalpinBBC]

The Russians were hunting us down: the war on journalism in Mariupol - This is an incredible piece of journalism - extremely brave and revealing the reality of this awful war Of choice started by Vladimir #Putin. #Ukraine #Russia war #Kremlin — https://t.co/GjNW1oVdrA

[The Guardian @guardian]

‘I offer you a chance to survive’: Zelenskiy urges Russian troops to surrender – video https://t.co/AUUjn11AOI

[Richard Galpin @RgalpinBBC]

@BBCSteveR Congratulations Steve, there couldn’t be a better person for this role,particularly in the current circumstances

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

Alexei Navalny:
He was poisoned.
He was jailed.
His organisation was banned.
Now he’s been added to a list of ‘terrorists & extremists’ (along with several of his allies).

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

A year ago today Alexei Navalny boarded a plane in Germany, returned to Russia and was arrested. What followed was a demolition of the Opposition by the authorities: a year of ‘foreign agents’, 'extremist groups', ‘undesirable organisations’ & Kremlin critics driven into exile.

[Richard Galpin @RgalpinBBC]

#Russia,s #Covid nightmare driven by vaccine rejection - our piece from #Vologda in north west Russia where just 26% of the population has chosen to get vaccinated in the midst of a devastating epidemic #anti-vaxx https://t.co/7kDGULUPBF

[Hugh Sykes @HughSykes]

#ConservativePartyConference

I've tried & failed to understand what #LevellingUp actually means.

I know what levelling means. It can only be done down.
Building up, yes.
Redressing the balance, yes.
If you have to wonder what Levelling Up means, it doesn't work as a slogan.

[Hugh Sykes @HughSykes]

15.40 hrs, October 1st 2021:
Just got a package from @amazon delivered by a cheerful but exhausted @DPDgroup_news driver. It was his 132nd delivery of the day, fifteen to go. He started at 6 am and had to load his van himself. I didn't ask him what he is paid. #gigeconomy

[Caroline Hawley @carolinehawley]

2,000 days since she was arrested - a family separated for well over 5 YEARS. Nazanin's husband, Richard, and daughter Gabriella will mark the day with the family of Anoosheh Ashoori calling for government action. Last night, Iran again demanded the UK repay its £400 million debt

[Richard Galpin @RgalpinBBC]

via @NYTimes - #NYT has evidence indicating the #US drone strike in #Kabul which killed 10 people, hit an aid worker and other civilians not members of ISIS who were supposed to have been the target https://t.co/5lYj6qkeWb

[NBC News @NBCNews]

President Biden to unvaccinated Americans: “What more is there to wait for? What more do you need to see? We’ve made vaccinations free, safe and convenient.”

[BILAL SARWARY @bsarwary]

#AFG Water- boarding Taliban style. Hands and feet chained and tied. There are genuine concerns about revenge and grievances at a village&district level- especially when the families of government officials and soldiers living inside Afghanistan.

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#MI5 boss warns of morale boost' for extremists due to #Afghanistan situation +says risk terrorists will reconstitute with more sophisticated attack plots - in last 4 years 31 terrorist attack plots in #UK disrupted, mostly Islamist + Rightwing terrorists https://t.co/9YLh2uuyp7

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#Russia TV reporting that the Emergencies minister Yevgeny Zinichev has died after rushing to try to save a cameraman who fell off a cliff during an interview. The cameraman who also died had slipped and fallen into water

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#SavetheChildren reporting that 6 children were killed in the US air strike targeting suspected ISIS-K suicide bomber

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Afghanistan: UK pressure over Taliban safe passage pledge https://t.co/4EGIhkc0DQ