Charlotte Hobson

Author of Black Earth City and The Vanishing Futurist

[Yarema Dukh 🇺🇦 @yarko]

Russia: Don’t attack the Moscow parade, or we’ll attack Kyiv.

Ukraine: Ok, no attack, have your parade.

Russia, a few days later: attacks residential buildings in Kyiv while people are sleeping, killing 1, injuring 23.

[Andrew Fisher @merman1974]

Boris Johnson failed vetting, yet Theresa May appointed him Foreign Secretary.

Dominic Cummings was never vetted, yet had free access to Government and Number 10.

Quit trying to bring down Starmer.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Right now Kherson is under massive bombardment. FPV attacks have doubled to 600 EVERY DAY. Glide bombs are constant. Entire neighbourhoods are turning to rubble.

Russians are hunting innocent civilians on the streets. Women, children, war crimes in plain sight. They are trying to completely destroy the city. International coverage is almost zero & the situation is catastrophic.

In this report, I embed with a drone patrol that are the city’s first line of defence. What I witnessed was brutality on an industrial scale.

If Russia isn’t stopped, this will spread and Kherson will be a blueprint for cities across Europe in the future. Europe stopped violence like this before in WW2 and it can do it again.

Please watch and share my latest:

[Charlotte Hobson @ardevor]

@angelshalagina Still supporting Ukraine ❤️

[Charlotte Hobson @ardevor]

@WarMonitor3 Er no ! It’s saying it will hold a summit to discuss it…😆slightly different

[Mykola Kuleba @MykolaKuleba]

Reading the news about the teenagers from Melitopol, I cannot shake the feeling that this isn't a "trial", but a demonstrative punishment of children.

Three boys were sentenced to between 7 and 8.5 years in a penal colony. Two others did not live to see their verdict; they were tortured to death in a Russian prison. When looking at the bigger picture, it becomes clear that this is not an isolated incident, but the result of a deliberate policy.

Russia has systematically built a mechanism for dealing with Ukrainian children under occupation. It begins in schools and through "prevention" programs. For instance, the occupiers developed a manual specifically instructing "educators" on how to identify so-called "disloyal" youth. Children are effectively categorized, and any pro-Ukrainian stance is automatically labeled as "extremism."

The next step was changing the legislation to allow criminal prosecution from the age of 14 — specifically under these "extremist" statutes.

And here is the result of that system. Ukrainian teenagers who ended up under Russian occupation and were not rescued in time have received actual prison sentences. These are more lives effectively shattered.

In reality, children in the temporarily occupied territories are left with only two scenarios: either you are militarized and sent to fight against your own country, or, if you disagree, you are thrown into prison.

I want us all to realize this clearly: this is not about fighting terrorism. This is about the systematic breaking of an entire generation — a generation that should be living, developing, and building Ukraine.

Instead, these children are abducted, isolated, tortured, and deprived of basic rights, with all of it "legalized" through court verdicts. Most cynically, they are tried as Russian citizens to erase the very fact of the war crime.

As someone who has worked in child protection for over 20 years, I see several clear truths here:
🔹First: This is a direct attack on Ukrainian identity through its children.
🔹Second: It is a tool of intimidation intended to silence others.
🔹Third: This is a war crime with specific perpetrators and no statute of limitations.

That is why silence is dangerous. Every such verdict is a signal: if the world does not react, this will happen again and again.

We must speak about these children, tell their stories, and pressure international institutions. We must demand their inclusion in exchange lists and ensure accountability for those responsible.

Otherwise, other Ukrainian children will be in their place tomorrow. And then, it won't just be about individual tragedies — it will be about the loss of an entire country’s future.

Source: https://t.co/UYJn0OlIWj

[Charlotte Hobson @ardevor]

@Mikiashvili_M Wonderful news, much needed amongst all of horror. Persistence will bring victory in the end! Georgians are extraordinary people ❤️

[Charlotte Hobson @ardevor]

@IAPonomarenko @olex_scherba Can’t bear that supposedly knowing, world-weary ‘I hate to say it.’

[Charlotte Hobson @ardevor]

@blue_eyedKeti We will never forget Ukraine 🇺🇦 still supporting you as much as ever.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Nigel Farage has kindly asked we stop sharing this video of him talking about why we should privatise the NHS 💙

You know what to do!

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

This 2022 appeal to Russia from a Russian-speaking Donbas native who lost everything always leaves me speechless.

#StandWithUkraine

[Justin Biggs 🌹 @jjbiggsy]

Who the bloody hell do Starmer, Reeves & Streeting think they are?

Raising Wages
Lowering Inflation
Lowering Immigration
Raising Budget Surplus
Raising Retail Sales
Lowering Waiting Lists
Reducing Child Poverty
Raising Far Right Blood Pressure

I'm appalled

#VoteLabour

[Anita 💙 @Neets21]

Rachel Reeves, or as the misogynists like to call her ‘Rachel from Accounts’ shows past male chancellors how it’s done.

Biggest EVER borrowing surplus since records began 👏👏👏

#RachelReeves
#Labour 🌹

[misra budhoo @misrab]

@DOPreston And this

[Duke of Preston @DOPreston]

Not even the top story on the BBC. Yet had this been a deficit, it would’ve been wall to wall coverage.

UK government records £30billion surplus, in January, the best since 1993. https://t.co/zC3jdFhnf6

[Charlotte Hobson @ardevor]

@Cathy_A_J Have they been peeking at our answers?!

[John Lewis @johnlew40540571]

@BylineTimes @PrfChrisPainter https://t.co/sRLpN9kotj

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

Share this to save his life.
If you make him famous, the Iranian regime might not execute him tomorrow.
#ErfanSoltani

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

A teenager from Iran sent me these videos with this message:
“I was terrified while filming them. Please share them and show the world that we, the people of Iran, do not want this regime.”

The protests in Iran began in Tehran and are now spreading to cities across the country.

Iran, Hamedan, Dec 29, 2025

#Iran

[Charlotte Hobson @ardevor]

Please sign!

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Thank you - Petitions https://t.co/n8Y8MnC4WT