Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
Joined January 2013
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Apr 30
This thread is only a fraction of what I've seen & what people told me in Sagaing, Myanmar.
If any editors would be interested in any stories about Sagaing, the people, fighters, refugees, war crimes, drone units etc, or if anyone know of any editors who might, my DMs are open!
Apr 30
I have just come back Myanmar 🇲🇲 where I spent two weeks traveling around the resistance-held territories of the Sagaing region. Its a remote region which no other foreign press has managed to visit since the start of the war five years ago.
I'll share some impressions below 🧵
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Ukraine 🇺🇦: UA drones take out a Russian tank and artillery cannon, hidden between the foliage somewhere along the frontlines.
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Ukraine 🇺🇦: a Russian fuel truck took a direct hit from a Ukrainian drone and completely burned down.
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Myanmar 🇲🇲: riverside homes in Kyauktaw have been set ablaze by junta airstrikes which killed over a dozen people in this town in Rakhine state.
Myanmar 🇲🇲: junta warplanes bombed the town of Kyauktaw in Rakhine state today, killing 12 people including a small child.
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Sudan 🇸🇩: footage of the moment the Egyptian bombs started hitting the Sudanese miners in the border area, killing several of them.
In a quite unprecedented development the Egyptian Air Force bombed a mining site in Sudan 🇸🇩, close to the border yesterday.
Several miners were killed in the attack.
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Myanmar 🇲🇲: junta warplanes bombed the town of Kyauktaw in Rakhine state today, killing 12 people including a small child.
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Myanmar 🇲🇲: PDF resistance fighters, under cover of fog, ambushed a vehicle carrying junta soldiers, as it was making its way through the countryside.
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In a quite unprecedented development the Egyptian Air Force bombed a mining site in Sudan 🇸🇩, close to the border yesterday.
Several miners were killed in the attack.
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Ukraine 🇺🇦: Ukrainian forces launched a raid behind enemy lines in order to capture a Russian position, take prisoners and pull back.
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Jun 16
So let me paint you a picture of the coming weeks:
-Trump will call Putin, tell media a peace deal is very close
-terms of peace deal turn out to be unacceptable for Ukraine
-everybody panics, meanwhile Trump moves military forces to the Caribbean, nobody notices.
-Zelensky rushes to European allies for crisis meeting
-Americans push through on deal, Vance will make backhand comment about Ukraine for being "non-cooperative" or "ungrateful"
-Television studios will broadcast back-to-back coverage of potential peace deal, round table discussions, live White House correspondents.
-American troop build-up in Caribbean remains unnoticed, media prefers to cover comments from the Oval Office over massive troop movements.
Until at last sometime by the end of summer:
-Trump bombs Cuba, everyone surprised
-Talking heads on TV: 'nobody saw this coming'
-peace deal with Russia never mentioned again
-repeat again sometime in the fall.
It is always important to coordinate positions.
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Завжди важливо координувати позиції.
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Jun 16
This has happened like four or five times already. You'd think after Venezuela and Iran our media would have figured out by now but clearly they haven't.
Say about Trump what you will but sometimes he does know how to play everyone on here and in the media like a fucking fiddle
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Jun 16
Sudan 🇸🇩: reports of a unprecended build-up of RSF military forces outside of the city El Obeid (North Kordofan) these past days.
This build-up follows several days of relentless drone strikes by the RSF on the city in which several fuel storage sites were set ablaze.
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Jun 16
'We will not turn our backs to these future EU citizens'
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EU countries have agreed to open the first accession negotiations cluster with Ukraine and Moldova.
Today we launch talks on the backbone of the process: including justice and fundamental rights.
Enlargement is our best investment in a future of peace, security and prosperity.
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Jun 16
Myanmar 🇲🇲: PDF resistance fighters clashed with junta forces in the countryside of the Myingyan township in rural Mandalay over the weekend.
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Thomas van Linge retweeted
Jun 15
Eye-popping events in Uganda today, where President Museveni's son and head of the defence forces has been gleefully boasting about torturing the former mayor of Kampala and opposition lawyer on X.
Ugandan forces arrest lawyer of opposition figure facing treason charges, party says reut.rs/4ecEDYE reut.rs/4ecEDYE
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Jun 15
Russia 🇷🇺: A Russian Tupolev Tu-22M strategic bomber plane crashed in the far eastern oblast of Irkutsk today.
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Jun 15
It did turn out to be in our lifetime.
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Hopefully it will be in our lifetime that the same flag is raised over the presidential palace in Damascus.
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Jun 15
Moving around the frontlines of Myanmar 🇲🇲 during the rainy season is definitely a challenge.
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Jun 15
Moving around the frontlines of Myanmar 🇲🇲 during the rainy season is definitely a challenge.
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