Alex Wickham
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Delighted to become new @BloombergUK political editor, following the legendary @kitty_donaldson . As always please get in touch with any stories / tips / if you fancy lunch — even if you’re not free for six weeks….
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RT @RChoongWilkins: After six years of reporting in Hong Kong, and at eight months pregnant, I’m very sad to be leaving my colleagues, frie….
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The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong is deeply concerned by the confirmation that Bloomberg journalist Rebecca Choong Wilkins has had her visa renewal application denied. Choong Wilki...
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Lavrov again stalls on Trump’s ask for a Putin-Zelensky meeting. “There is no meeting planned”. “Putin is ready to meet with Zelenskyy when the agenda would be ready for a summit. And this agenda is not ready at all” via @MeetThePress.
New with @nat_droz:. European officials say Russia has effectively fractured Ukraine peace talks with the US. They expect Moscow to try to persuade Trump to abandon Article 5 style guarantees and downgrade a trilat with Zelensky to one with officials .
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New with @nat_droz:. European officials say Russia has effectively fractured Ukraine peace talks with the US. They expect Moscow to try to persuade Trump to abandon Article 5 style guarantees and downgrade a trilat with Zelensky to one with officials .
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Negotiations on Ukraine’s post-war security guarantees encounter difficulties.
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This statement from Lavrov rejects Witkoff’s claim that Putin had agreed to Article 5 style US-European security guarantees for Ukraine, throwing the entire Trump policy on the war into total disarray once again. So it’s back to square one but with Putin evading more US sanctions.
After Trump and Witkoff trumpeted the alleged achievement of Russia agreeing to security guarantees for Ukraine, Lavrov says that Russia only agrees to guarantees in which Russia (and China) have a veto, as per the Russian proposal in Istanbul in 2022. That is, nobody is allowed
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RT @yarotrof: After Trump and Witkoff trumpeted the alleged achievement of Russia agreeing to security guarantees for Ukraine, Lavrov says….
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RT @donaldtusk: Budapest? Not everyone may remember this, but in 1994 Ukraine already got assurances of territorial integrity from the US,….
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Tesla Full Self-Driving is not safer than a human driving manually. - FSD failed a DMV driver's test.- HW3 has 20/60 vision (illegal).- HW4 has 20/40 vision (bare legal minimum).- FSD hallucinates like all AIs. It's no surprise Tesla can only defend FSD with fake safety stats.
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UK inflation climbed to 3.8% in July likely due to tax and minimum wage rises. Hot print sees traders trim bets on Bank of England interest-rate cuts later this year. The probability of another reduction by December is now at around 42%, compared to about 50% as of yesterday.
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New: After Trump phoned Putin yesterday, he made another call: to Orban, sources tell Bloomberg. Trump wanted to discuss why he was blocking Ukraine’s accession talks with the EU, after European leaders pressed him on the matter. With @catherine_lucey >>>
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US President Donald Trump called Viktor Orban on Monday following talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and European leaders to discuss why the Hungarian prime minister was blocking...
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Latest on Bloomberg with @AlbertoNardelli >>> . US and Europe to Work Immediately on Ukraine Security Guarantees.
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US and European officials will immediately work on providing Ukraine with robust security guarantees to open a path for a landmark meeting between presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskiy,...
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View from sources overnight:. - The good news is it didn’t blow up like the last Trump-Zelensky meeting. Europeans demonstrated unity with Trump. Focused on security guarantees and the Putin bilateral / trilateral, both areas Putin will be uncomfortable about. Putin will have.
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Keir Starmer makes a point of welcoming US security guarantees for Ukraine (tho we don’t know what they are). He also backs Trump’s proposal for a trilateral with Putin and Zelensky. Europeans gambling that Putin won’t agree and he can therefore be cast as the blocker on peace.
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DAILY RIP LIVE PRESENTED BY SURF AIR MOBILITY $SRFM - WITH HOWARD LINDZON & GUEST SUDHIN SHAHANI
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Zelensky gets through his meeting with Trump. Trump did appear to offer US security guarantees for Ukraine — but no clarity on what they are. And he declined to repeat Witkoff’s Article 5 comment. Getting some details will be the European leaders’ key focus in the coming hours.
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The best insight you’ll read on what’s happening via @AlbertoNardelli here >>>.
The question that European leaders have been hiding from and have been too afraid to answer is whether they can trust Trump, even as he continues to gaslight them. My take on today’s DC meetings:
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RT @AlbertoNardelli: The question that European leaders have been hiding from and have been too afraid to answer is whether they can trust….
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Keir Starmer position ahead of Trump meeting. Focus is on getting Trump to commit clearly to Article 5 equivalent security guarantees as Witkoff has claimed Putin is ok with. There is a lot of scepticism about Witkoff’s comments and there will now be a high bar to clear on this.
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RT @DefenceHQ: Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 15 August 2025. Find out more about Defence Intelligence'….
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Keir Starmer will travel to DC tomorrow - he’ll be there with other European leaders for Trump’s meeting with Zelensky.
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RT @LordRickettsP: I’m cautious about going ‘straight to a full peace deal’. Surely that plays to Putin’s agenda: tackling the ‘root causes….
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RT @EllenAMilligan: Starmer, Macron and Merz will co-chair a video call of the Coalition of the Willing tomorrow to co-ordinate their posit….
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New: Trump says best way to end the war is with a full peace deal, not a ceasefire first. European leaders have taken their call for an immediate unconditional ceasefire out of their public statements today. That’s the main takeaway from the Putin meeting so far - a win for Putin.
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