🇬🇧 Senior Expert at NATO @stratcomcoe in 🇱🇻 currently supporting 🇺🇦 Views own.
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Ben Heap retweeted
Feb 24
Ukraine’s resistance becomes a mirror for western identity; to stand with Ukraine and fly its flag is an expression of personal belief in freedom and justice. @theblueposts
⬇️ Read our whole series of briefs on Russia's war in Ukraine.
icds.ee/en/russias-war-in-uk…
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Ben Heap retweeted
4 Jul 2025
Morning in Kyiv. No sleep. Air quality is extremely bad. City is covered in thick smoke.
This is Russian terror, aimed at people who chose to stay, resist and fight.
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Ben Heap retweeted
19 Jul 2024
An honour to welcome you to Downing Street, President @ZelenskyyUa 🇬🇧🇺🇦
ALT Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Zelenskyy shake hands outside 10 Downing Street.
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9 Jun 2024
Amidst the current trend to prioritise responses to the threat of disinformation and 'FIMI', Rory identifies the issue that matters most. Govt comms (words *and* deeds) are fundamentally about making an argument that democracy is better than authoritarianism.
6 Jun 2024
"We need to champion democracy👆, we need to get our house in order. We need to ensure that people have that hope, have that reason to believe in democracy⚔️"
- @RoryCormac, professor at @UniofNottingham
#RigaStratComDialogue
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Ben Heap retweeted
1 Feb 2024
Unpacking the “hack” part of hack-forge-dump attacks: how Russia’s FSB impersonates friends and colleagues to try to snare our passwords, and how I got lucky this time and spotted the trap. Useful lessons here for anyone who might be a target (i.e. basically everybody we know).
Hackers working for #Russia’s intelligence services are impersonating researchers and academics in an ongoing campaign to gain access to their colleagues’ email accounts. therecord.media/russian-camp…
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Ben Heap retweeted
20 Dec 2023
Our study shows: shift from an authenticity-based verification to paid subscription on #X has dramatically boosted visibility of pro-Kremlin content: 117 pro-Kremlin accounts generate an estimated $127,500 in ad revenue, fueled by 15 Billion impressions. shorturl.at/suwW1
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Ben Heap retweeted
21 Sep 2023
Join us for an exclusive on-site interview with two leading experts on Ukraine's digital development offering valuable insights into country's approach to digital environment and its importance during war.
👉12 October 2023, Emerging Trends in Social Media
socmediatrends.org
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23 Sep 2023
“It's not only the message - it's the quality of the message, which speaks to people” bbc.com/news/world-asia-6688…
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Ben Heap retweeted
Happy Ukraine’s Independence Day!
The day of the free, the strong, and the dignified. The day of equals. Ukrainian men and women. In our entire country.
In this fight, everyone counts. Because the fight is for something that is important to everyone.
An independent Ukraine.
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Ben Heap retweeted
6 Jun 2023
6 Jun 2023
Tuesday is Russian Language Day.
Follow @UnitedNationsRU for updates on the UN's work in Russian.
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2 Jun 2023
"...you can’t resist reality forever: it has its way of making itself known, often in the least expected ways" theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Ben Heap retweeted
1 Jun 2023
The man mourns his 9 year-old granddaughter who was killed after the night Russian missile attack on Kyiv.
📷 Serhii Okuniev
#RussiaisATerroistState
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Ben Heap retweeted
3 Apr 2023
EXCL Manchester Arena bomb survivors have filed landmark legal action against a conspiracy theorist who claims the attack was faked. The case is the first of its kind in the UK.
Bonus ep of Disaster Trolls pod on Radio 4 & BBC Sounds. Across BBC today. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65136825
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17 Mar 2023
"there are reasonable grounds to believe that President Putin and Ms Lvova-Belova bear criminal responsibility for the unlawful deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.." icc-cpi.int/news/statement-p…
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17 Mar 2023
“Russian authorities have committed a wide range of violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law in various regions of Ukraine, many of which amount to war crimes” ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
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11 Mar 2023
"If we really want to win then we need to look at ‘justice’ not only in courts of law, but also in courts of public opinion, and of sanctions, culture, technology, diplomacy." app.spectator.co.uk/2023/03/…
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3 Mar 2023
In Kyiv for the StratCom forum, hosted by our partners at the 🇺🇦 @StratcomCentre
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26 Feb 2023
I endorse this approach.
25 Feb 2023
Bogged down with pointless drivel and needless, endless updates?
Have no fear, Duke of Wellington got ya back.
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26 Feb 2023
"Ukraine must be supported hard now to get it to the best position to set the terms for the long-term, even though there is no agreed view on what the long-term looks like" samf.substack.com/p/one-step…
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