Emma Wells

BBC News producer based in London. Previously Security producer & before that was based in Moscow, any views are my own and not those of the BBC.

[Rushdi Abualouf @Rushdibbc]

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[Pjotr Sauer @PjotrSauer]

A Moscow court has extended the detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested on bogus espionage charges at the end of March. It has been 21 weeks since Evan was detained for doing his job. Evan should be released immediately! #IStandWithEvan

[BBC Press Office @bbcpress]

It is with deep sadness that the BBC is announcing the death of its much-loved journalist and presenter George Alagiah.

https://t.co/W5TPEKmTIP

[Valerie Hopkins @VALERIEinNYT]

“Any parent who loves their kid would travel to the end of the world to be with them for five minutes.”

https://t.co/8hjjGqEI5k

[Pjotr Sauer @PjotrSauer]

It has been one week since @WSJ’s @evangershkovich was detained in Russia. He was doing journalism, the thing he loves, when the FSB arrested him. #FreeEvan

[Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom]

Tweet your support of @evangershkovich, the American @WSJ journalist detained by Russian authorities: https://t.co/C1vwHYoJPD

He has not been allowed contact with his family or access to an attorney provided by his outlet.

#FreeThePress #IStandWithEvan #FreeEvanGershkovich

[Emma Tucker @emmatuckerWSJ]

Top news organizations from around the world are calling for the release of our WSJ colleague Evan Gershkovich, a trusted and experienced reporter arrested while doing his job. We are grateful for all the support as we seek his immediate release

https://t.co/dYu3dppCBS

[max seddon @maxseddon]

Shocked by the horrifying news of Russia's absurd espionage charges against @evangershkovich, an excellent reporter and friend.

Evan is accredited by Russia's MFA and was simply doing his job. Journalism is not a crime. Russia should release him at once.
https://t.co/VlX8am6ORi

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

A “trusted, dedicated reporter” from the Wall Street Journal could face up to twenty years in a Russian prison for spying. Our report from Moscow on the arrest of Evan Gershkovich on espionage charges. Producer @BBCWillVernon @BBCNews

[Abdujalil A @abdujalil]

"At war, you don't get accidentally killed. You accidentally survive." I went to #Avdiivka, a front line town in Eastern #Ukraine. As fighting there intensifies, authorities call on people to leave & warn that many will not survive the winter if they stay https://t.co/jPAHSRQFfk

[Shaun Walker @shaunwalker7]

There may be "Mariupol fatigue", but the stories are all different and all awful. I wrote up this story about a couple who lost their apartment, Svitlana lost her pregnancy, and then they had to go through the Russian "filtration" system.

Please read.

https://t.co/hNUOWF9N1V

[Sarah Rainsford @sarahrainsford]

How Russian soldiers killed two unarmed civilians in #Ukraine and didn’t realise that every terrible detail was caught on camera

Hard evidence, backed up by witness testimony

After the shooting, the soldiers drank whisky & looted the firm https://t.co/PMJul8HTt3

[Nataliya Vasilyeva @Nat_Vasilyeva]

Dozhd has been covering the war for 8 days before they had to shut down and leave Russia to avoid getting charged under a new censorship law.
Now @tikhondzyadko and @katyakotrikadze are back on their own YT stream.
Inspiring determination 💫
https://t.co/16ixUcbp1j

[Shaun Walker @shaunwalker7]

I spoke to people in Berdyansk who told me Russians are patrolling the streets, radio is playing Soviet songs and Putin speeches, food is running out.

The local council is resisting collaboration, but nervously noting arrest of mayor in neighbouring city https://t.co/758aAZWThc

[Emma Wells @Emmawells1]

@dmitryshishkin I’m so so sorry Dima, sending love xxx

[Shaun Walker @shaunwalker7]

On the plane met a British citizen of UKR origin who’s lived in UK for 29 years. He went to meet his 16 year old nephew at the Romania border. Has now flown to Budapest, will wait at own expense for 8 days for first UK visa appointment. Then wait more for decision. Outrageous.

[Dominic Casciani @BBCDomC]

Home Affairs Committee: Ukraine's UK ambassador Vadym Prystaiko tells MPs there have been no end of "bureaucratic hassles" for years for his fellow citizens coming to the UK. His own wife couldn't initially get a visa to join him, despite him being his nation's representative...

[Shaun Walker @shaunwalker7]

Iasi airport in Romania absolutely packed with Ukrainian refugees taking flights to Bucharest, Dublin, Vienna, Warsaw. The only flight not full with Ukrainians is the one to London Luton, because they wouldn’t be allowed on without visas. Feels quite shameful as a Brit.

[Sarah Rainsford @sarahrainsford]

It’s at least a 6-hour wait in the cold & snow to get on an evacuation train from #Dnipro. Many people here are from cities already under attack, like Kharkiv

Only women & children are allowed thru. Police are removing men of fighting age from the queue

[Emma Wells @Emmawells1]

@marklowen “What looked like boots” 🤣🤣