Ruaidhrí Giblin

Barrister at Law. Former Journalist

[Ruaidhrí Giblin @RuGiblin]

A Yazidi boy (10) taken and trained to become a Jihadi by Isis was saved by a number his mother gave him moments before they were separated. He recited it every day for three years not knowing whose number it was. You can read this incredible story in tomorrow's @IrishTimes

[Secunder Kermani @SecKermani]

"They have jet fighters, tanks, we only have our spirit"

Young rebels battling Myanmar's ruthless military dictatorship are massively outgunned, but are forcing the regime into retreat

We spent a week with them:

https://t.co/2Q49isWQzj

W @Kate_Arno @yan_naing_aung

[Sarah Rainsford @sarahrainsford]

On pain, endurance - and the healing power of flowers

A despatch from Bucha https://t.co/BcJIFL5ILM

[Ruaidhrí Giblin @RuGiblin]

He too was rejected at art school, makes sense now

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🇷🇺 President Putin has been seen drawing bizarre cartoons on an electric whiteboard

[Paul Adams @BBCPaulAdams]

And if you still think the Ukrainians did it, you haven’t been paying attention to the mountain of evidence that, since last year, had been pointing the other way.

[Olga Khudetska @OKhudetska]

93 y.o civilian is wounded by russian artillery shelling while evacuating on the boat from the flooded house.

His house in Kherson is flooded after russians blew up the Kakhovska Dam, which is under russian occupants’ effective control.

This video is from volunteer on the scene

[Neil Hauer @NeilPHauer]

Heavy Russian artillery fire on a flooded city in the middle of a mass humanitarian evacuation. Pure Russian terror on display in Kherson today.

[Kateryna Stepanenko @KatStepanenko]

Shoigu & Gerasimov are taking their long-awaited revenge on Prigozhin against the backdrop of the Battle of Bakhmut.

A 🧵on how this conflict between Prigozhin and Russian MoD came to be & what it looks like now.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Ukrainian Warrior talks about losing his comrades-in-arms. Please listen.

This war takes our best people.

Unforgivable. Unforgettable. We owe them Victory and a beautiful prosperous Ukraine.

RIP, Heroes.

📹: kodvody_smile/TikTok

[Mousa Zidane @Zidane084]

Tents as far as the eye can see..
Aerial photograph of IDP camp in northern #Syria. Under each tent, there are countless stories of persecution and tragedy as a result of #Assad and #Russia's war on #Syrians.

[Ruaidhrí Giblin @RuGiblin]

He's boasting about committing war crimes while holding a glass of sparkling wine

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

Drunk putin explains why strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure will continue because "they started first by attacking the Crimean bridge"

[Mary Carolan @MaryCarolanIT]

There ‘cannot be one law for the rich and one law for others’, says retiring Supreme Court judge. Tributes paid to Mr Justice John MacMenamin on his retirement after 47 year legal career. https://t.co/elaA9uVsRs

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Timothy Morales, an American teacher, hid from the Russian military through the entire eight-month occupation of Kherson in Ukraine. He rarely ventured out, switched apartments and pretended to be Irish, afraid that his nationality had made him a target. https://t.co/pGn28yO7u1

[Ruaidhrí Giblin @RuGiblin]

@AonghusKel Good luck

[Victoria Amelina 🇺🇦 @vamelina]

A Nuremburg-style trial exposing the crimes of the Soviet era could have helped facilitate the post-Soviet transition to democracy and prevented Russia’s return to authoritarianism under Putin.   https://t.co/kFnN5vQe5b

[Liz Sly @LizSly]

Bucha officials are as close as they're ever likely to be to a final reckoning of the toll of Russia’s murderous rampage in Bucha: 458 bodies - 366 men. 86 women. 5 in too bad condition to determine. 9 children.
Our story:
https://t.co/PbpcgJBgQx

[Dmytro Kuleba @DmytroKuleba]

I urge @UN which facilitated the evacuation of Ukrainian servicemen from Azovstal to strongly condemn Russia for shelling the Olenivka detention facility and visit the site to establish all facts of this heinous crime. I also call on @ICRC to check all Ukrainian prisoners of war.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

15,000 Russians sitting in this circle with no easy way out. The bridges are now structurally insifficient to hold Russian gear, even trucks.

Some soldiers might escape but that gear now belongs to Ukraine, in toasted form or hopefully, working order.

Ukraine playing smart war

[andrew harding @AndrewWJHarding]

Our film on Ukraine's frontline farmers (near Slovyansk). With @joecsphua @8td @artem_bilov

[Gulliver Cragg @gullivercragg]

We can’t be 100% sure there hadn’t been any Ukrainian military equipment in the fields we saw that burned, but we saw no evidence of it. And the frequency of missiles landing in fields in #Ukraine, along with the weapons used, suggests that they really are doing it on purpose

[Sarah Rainsford @sarahrainsford]

This is Liza's story

She was killed by the Russian attack on #Vinnytsia

The little girl's speech therapist told me the 4-year-old was her Mum's whole world

"I don't know how it's possible to give someone such news...It's a terrible tragedy"

https://t.co/8b5qexqEhi