
Jimmy Rushton
@JimmySecUK
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Kyiv based foreign policy/security analyst Currently focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine Freelance journalist - opinions mine alone
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Joined December 2015
For New Lines Magazine: I spent a week and a half with Ukraine's elite Third Assault Brigade, the largest and one of the most effective fighting forces within the Ukrainian military, and not coincidently, one of the least 'Soviet'. With @MichaelDWeiss. https://t.co/3AejbpHqSr
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With Western security guarantees uncertain, Kyiv is turning to elite, battle-hardened units as the core of a remodeled military
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The aftermath of a Russian drone strike on a UN convoy carrying food aid into Kherson. There could be no mistaking these vehicles as anything other than civilian targets.
Russia struck a UN @OCHA_Ukraine humanitarian convoy in the Kherson region. Two @WFPUkraine trucks, within the convoy, delivering food and vital aid, were damaged by a deliberate drone attack. Luckily all staff are alive. Trucks carrying food for people in need, clearly marked
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The Ukrainian delegation has departed for the United States: Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko, Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov, and several representatives of the diplomatic sector. They will hold
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13.10.25 the 5th motorised brigade alongside with the infamous 155 marine brigade launched an attack near Pokrovsk. They used dozens of IFV. Due to my information from a friend of mine, they have lost 18 IFV including BMP-2/3 and MTLBs. Weeks ago I told that this gonna happen.
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Ukrainian attack drones just successfully struck the Feodosia fuel terminal in Russian-occupied Crimea, setting the massive storage facility ablaze for the second time in a little over a week. The fuel dump, one of the largest in Crimea, is fiercely burning.
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Kyiv: damage to an apartment block in Pechersk district which took a direct hit from a Russian drone.
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After massive Russian attack on Kyiv’s energy system, the city’s left bank is plunged into darkness. Water supply disrupted all over, metro short on power. People brace for blackouts.
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Note that “exploding a few meters away from the plane” (and showering the target in shrapnel) is exactly how these missiles are intended to operate.
⚡️ Putin admits Russian air defense opened fire at Azerbaijani airliner in 2024. Putin claimed that the missiles exploded a few meters away from the plane, which was then hit by fragments. https://t.co/iEh3U2Ojsb
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Next time you speak to one of your imaginary “sources” within British intelligence maybe get them to explain that MI6 - being the Britain’s foreign intelligence service - has nothing to do with fighting domestic terrorism: that would be MI5, Matt.
NEW: A source very close to the senior leadership of MI6 has got in contact. They wanted to make public the opposition within the intelligence agency to the proscription of Palestine Action. Senior figures are said to feel it is a distraction from the battle against real
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The problem with North Stream 2 is not that it was blown up. The problem is that it was built.
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If the Russian military is transferring operators from Rubicon (directly subordinate to the Russian Ministry of Defence and probably the most capable drone unit on either side) to assault infantry units the Russian manpower shortage is far worse than many thought.
1/ Russian UAV specialists are being treated as "slaves" and transferred to extremely high-risk assault squads despite their expertise as engineers and programmers, even in the Russian army's most effective UAV unit, according to a bitterly critical Russian commentary. ⬇️
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Not a "no", which is good, but still far from an unambiguous "yes". Trump seems to be doing one of his favourite things for now; kicking the can down the road.
Trump says he has made a decision on sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. Though he wants to first confirm how they will be used https://t.co/DAkqMs4wsq
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The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry will gather ambassadors from countries that can help. Help not only our resilience, but also in fact themselves – if certain countries cut off the blatantly reprehensible schemes of supplying Russia with critical components for the production of
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According to prominent Russian military blogger Vladimir Romanov the average life expectancy of a Russian assault trooper is 12 days after signing a military contract. The twelve days includes ten days "training", meaning he that most soldiers are killed on their first assault.
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FPV interceptors are the only sustainable way to defend against continuous large scale deployment of “Shahid” type kamikaze drones. Ukraine’s external partners should be supporting these efforts because it’s very possible they will need to employ this technology themselves soon.
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The situation tonight in the skies above Ukraine. Over 120 Russian-Iranian "Shahid" suicide drones heading towards their targets.
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Awful news; French journalist Antoni Lallican killed by a Russian FPV drone near Druzhkivka, Donetsk Oblast. His Ukrainian colleague Heorhii Ivanchenko was seriously wounded.
Près de Druzhkivka, le photographe 🇫🇷 Antoni Lallican a été tué dans une attaque de drone russe sur un groupe de journalistes. Le photographe 🇺🇦 Heorhii Ivanchenko a été grièvement blessé. Condoléances aux proches d’Antoni. La Russie continue de semer la mort et la destruction.
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