Bec Johnson

Vice Chair of Prevail 501c3. Providing EOD, Trauma Care and Humanitarian Aid in Ukraine 🇺🇦🇬🇧 RIP Swampy & Nick 🤍

[Bec Johnson @BecPrevail]

2025 was the worst year...on Jan 03 all the breath left my body. On May 06 the ground fell out under my feet. Swamp 💔 You were a backbone and bestie to so many, always my cherished friend. Sending Prevail love to all who knew him today
#loveandlaughs
#irreplacable
#tilvalhalla

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Buried in the BBC writeup of the Russian-sponsored arson attack on Keir Starmer's home is the following nugget. The attackers' handler, Evgeny Lyukshin, the son of a Russian diplomat, studied at Moscow State University's diplomatic academy, which has a Rybar-run media school. Ryber is a sanctioned organization which seeks "to sow discord, promote social division, stoke partisan and racial discord, and encourage hate and violence," according to the U.S. government.

Tutors at the media school's program on "information warfare" include SVR illegal Colonel Andrey Berzukov, or "Donald Heathfield," as he was known in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before the FBI arrested him as part of Operation Ghost Stories.

Another tutor is Sergey Nalobin, formerly the first secretary in the political section of the Russian Embassy in the UK, but so much more than that, too. Nalobin's father's was a general in the KGB who then went on to serve as Alexander Litvinenko's boss in the economic crimes division of the FSB. Nalobin's brother was also FSB. So, well... yeah.

When he was stationed in London, Nalobin (seen at right with Boris Johnson) helped found a pro-Russian front group called Conservative Friends of Russia, to which @lukeharding1968 and I devoted some attention fifteen years ago. Sir Malcolm Rifkind was the honorary president at one point before he cottoned onto what he'd signed up for and quit.

Nalobin's diplomatic credentials expired and he was subsequently posted to Tallinn. (My informed guess is the Estonians let him in to keep an eye on him.)

Looks like Sergey's time in the West wasn't wasted, however.

He's now helping to instruct a bright young generation of Russian operatives how to foment race war and remotely recruit gig saboteurs from an elite institution of higher learning in Moscow. A whole gaggle of Tories can say they knew him when...
https://t.co/spYguiw4QC

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

Now this, this is a man who is a good speaker. Relaxed. Shoulders down. Funny. A good turn of phrase. Well-paced. And he commands the room. Note how few MPs are on their phones. Keep your eye on this fella. Not many backbenchers (and almost none on the front bench) can do this.

[Bec Johnson @BecPrevail]

@JohnHealey_MP The embodiment of noble sacrifice. It’s so hard to see you both go but we were blessed to have you. Thankyou John for making this imperative stand, who knows how many lives you will saved by doing so in the long term 🙏

[JamesFennell MBE @FennellJW]

Allegations that the frigate opened fire on a yacht. If anyone remains under the illusion that we are not under threat or close to war, this should end that fantasy.

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

So Ukraine 🇺🇦 has taken the place of Russia at the G7

Already so much better.

[Bec Johnson @BecPrevail]

🇬🇧 Every Brit needs to hear this too👇

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

Zelensky was moved to tears when answering a question about his children

— When your children were little, what did you say to them most often? What did you repeat to them the most when they were children? — a journalist asked the President of Ukraine.

— “I love you.”

— And what do you say to them now, when they are grown up?

— “I miss you…”

Volodymyr and Olena Zelensky have two children — a daughter, Oleksandra, who is now 21, and a 13-year-old son, Kyrylo. For the past four years, they have hardly seen their father.

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

These reports are extremely concerning - Russia is quite literally on our doorstep.

Aggression and intimidation from Putin in the English Channel cannot be tolerated.

This is a clear reminder that the Government cannot afford any further delays to the Defence Investment Plan.

[NSTRIKE @NSTRIKE1231]

🇩🇪 “In the event of a war with Russia, NATO will strike Kaliningrad, the Kola Peninsula, St. Petersburg, and the waters of the Black Sea,” — states the Commander of the German Air Force, Lieutenant General Holger Neumann.
In his first interview with a British newspaper, the head of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) noted that in the event of an attack on the Western Alliance, its forces will carry out devastating air strikes on Russia.

In another warning directed at Moscow, he emphasized that in NATO “there are no different security zones — this means that an attack on Estonia will trigger exactly the same response as an air strike on London.”
Lieutenant General Neumann added that if NATO is forced to defend itself, the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia, Kaliningrad, and the Black Sea will feel the full wrath of the Alliance — “Germany is ready to fight against Russia already today and will defend every centimeter of NATO territory,” — states the Luftwaffe commander.

This is a strong and unambiguous deterrent statement from one of NATO’s key military leaders. It clearly signals that any aggression against a member state will be met with overwhelming force across multiple strategic Russian regions. The emphasis on unified response and the absence of “different security zones” reinforces Article 5 and aims to dissuade Russia from testing NATO’s resolve, particularly in the Baltic region.

[Tom Tugendhat @TomTugendhat]

The @BBCNews has now confirmed what some of us warned for years.

A Russian diplomat ran a sabotage campaign on British soil: arson against the Prime Minister’s own home, and fake far-right and Islamist groups built to turn us against each other. This is not crime. It is how war is fought by powers who don’t want to expose their hand. https://t.co/G7cp3xaZQK

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Sailors on a Russian warship have fired a warning shot at a yacht that came near it in the English Channel today, the MOD has confirmed.

Security and defence analyst Michael Clarke explains what we know so far

🔗https://t.co/YRjgs9sFrT

[RUSI @RUSI_org]

Sabotage is an integral part of Russia's hybrid warfare strategy. Our research has examined the threat from multiple perspectives:

Russian Sabotage of NATO Infrastructure: Identifying Alliance Vulnerabilities explores how sabotage campaigns target civilian infrastructure and logistics to expose weaknesses in NATO's preparedness and resilience.
Read: https://t.co/6wnYjVeleW

Responding to Russian Sabotage Financing examines how social media, cryptocurrency and proxy actors enable sabotage operations, and what governments and the private sector can do to disrupt them.
Read: https://t.co/e18r29ty2i

The Gender and Identity Analysis Framework for Hybrid Threats provides practical tools for integrating gender and identity analysis into the assessment of and response to hybrid threats, helping NATO allies and partners better understand how adversaries exploit societal dynamics to undermine resilience.
Read: https://t.co/l14mvPMExn

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Let's just reflect on this for a moment. For the past few months a group of people who style themselves "patriots" have been peddling propaganda on behalf of a foreign state after it sponsored a firebomb attack on our Prime Minister.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

It’s war.

[Bec Johnson @BecPrevail]

Every British person needs to read this article in its entirety...but few will. Even less will believe it. Even fewer will question why they don’t believe it. Dark days are looming.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals https://t.co/gNgD9uSfQ5

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

It looks as though Vladimir Putin may have ordered an arson attack against the British Prime Minister last year.

That is an incredibly serious escalation and shows why we must redouble our efforts with Ukraine and the rest of Europe to resist and deter Putin’s aggression.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Keir Starmer and I disagree on many things, but good people across the political spectrum will welcome today’s verdicts, condemn these appalling attacks which seem to have been sponsored by Russia, and wish the PM and his family well.

Whatever our political differences, no one should face intimidation, threats or attacks because they hold public office.

Democracy is settled at the ballot box, not through fear or violence and definitely not through foreign interference from hostile countries.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

And it all began nearly 1,000 years ago, when a monk named Anthony returned to ancient Kyiv from a monastery on Mount Athos in Greece.

He was seeking solitude and the life of a hermit, and so he secluded himself in small caves among the green hills on the banks of the Dnipro, where centuries earlier Vikings sought shelter while traveling far to the south along the great river had stopped and sought shelter.

People learned of the piety of the hermit Anthony, and disciples began coming to him in the caves. Over many years, they dug entire labyrinths in those caves, where they prayed and labored in the half-darkness -- and reverently noticed that after death the bodies of the monks remained incorrupt (of course, this was due to the unique microclimate deep inside the caves).

Thus was born the famous Kyiv Pechersk Monastery (that is, the “Cave Monastery”), which would later become the magnificent Lavra -- the foremost and greatest holy site of Christian Rus'.

A real city within a city, with magnificent ancient churches built by rulers of different eras, monastic caves, gigantic crowds of pilgrims, and, in later times, the famous 97-meter bell tower, one of Kyiv's calling cards, visible for many dozens of kilometers along the banks of the Dnipro.

Over its 1,000 years, the Lavra survived the internecine wars of the princes of Rus', the Mongol invasion, long years of decline and rebirth. It was the foremost center of learning and printing, and it was in its caves that the legendary monk Nestor wrote the famous Primary Chronicle -- the principal book of historical memory of the East Slavic peoples.

It survived the barbarity of the Bolsheviks. It survived destruction during World War II. It survived centuries during which Moscow priests, having seized it, lorded over it.

It will survive Putin and his fascist Russia as well -- no matter how the monster pukes blood in powerless rage because it cannot defeat Ukraine, and no matter how hard it tries to wipe from the face of the earth everything it cannot seize.

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

Should we expect any posts from you, @RealCandaceO , condemning the Kremlin’s attack on Christianity — or do you only talk about God when you’re paid to?

The Lavra has been attacked twice — and both times by Russians.

The previous time it was damaged was during World War II, on November 3, 1941. The cathedral was mined and blown up by retreating Soviet NKVD saboteurs after German forces occupied the city.

And today — on Sunday (the Lord’s Day), June 14, 2026 — it was struck again by direct Russian missile attacks.

The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) is 975 years old. It is one of the oldest and most sacred monastic complexes in Eastern Europe, with its history officially dating back to 1051 AD during the era of Kyivan Rus’.

[Bec Johnson @BecPrevail]

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[Yulia Svyrydenko @Svyrydenko_Y]

Right now, as Russians continue to strike #Kyiv with over a dozen of ballistic missiles, the Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv‑Pechersk Lavra — a UNESCO World Heritage site and priceless cultural landmark — has been struck and is burning.
A brutal assault on our people and our heritage. This is the true face of Russia’s Orthodox values.