Jerome Starkey
@jeromestarkey
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Lost my heart (& mind) in Kabul, lost my right to abode in Kenya. Banned from Putin’s Russia (& now on a wanted list). Cover defence & #Ukraine for @TheSun.
UK, Ukraine
Joined January 2009
🚨 A 64 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of “unlawful use of military uniforms” Police recovered a Royal Navy uniform and medals from his home https://t.co/RL127Q3yvy
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A SUSPECTED “Walter Mitty” has been arrested after being accused of posing as a Royal Navy admiral with a chest full of medals on Remembrance Sunday. The man sparked fury at the weekend after he wa…
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@noelle_nole1 Under the 1894 Uniform act it is technically illegal to impersonate the armed forces unless you are acting on stage
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🚨 A SUSPECTED “Walter Mitty” has been arrested after allegedly posing as an admiral with bogus medals on Remembrance Sunday https://t.co/ISRR80Grpr
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A SUSPECTED “Walter Mitty” has been arrested after being accused of posing as a Royal Navy admiral with a chest full of medals on Remembrance Sunday. The man sparked fury at the weekend after he wa…
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If you're going to fake it, you may as well go big. "The imposter was dressed in a Rear Admiral’s uniform with a dozen gongs pinned to his chest."
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A SUSPECTED “Walter Mitty” has sparked uproar among veterans after posing as an admiral with a chest full of bogus medals on Remembrance Sunday. He blagged his way into a wreath laying ceremony bef…
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🚨 The suspected "Walter Mitty" who posed as an admiral at a Remembrance Sunday is a retired history teacher. He reached the rank of 2nd Lt (on Probation) in the Combined Cadet Forces (CCF) of both Cheltenham and Shiplake Colleges between 1991-95. https://t.co/ePVdMDtGxg
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A WALTER Mitty who posed as an admiral on Remembrance Sunday can today be unmasked as a retired teacher who blagged his way into two other memorials. Imposter Jonathan David Carley, 64, claimed to …
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🚨 The suspected "Walter Mitty" who posed as an admiral at a Remembrance Sunday is a retired history teacher. He reached the rank of 2nd Lt (on Probation) in the Combined Cadet Forces (CCF) of both Cheltenham and Shiplake Colleges between 1991-95. https://t.co/ePVdMDtGxg
thesun.co.uk
A WALTER Mitty who posed as an admiral on Remembrance Sunday can today be unmasked as a retired teacher who blagged his way into two other memorials. Imposter Jonathan David Carley, 64, claimed to …
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From today’s Russian papers: “Nearly 7,000 transport companies in Russia on the verge of bankruptcy”, “A record one in four companies have overdue loans”, “Decline in civilian sectors of industry.” #ReadingRussia
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🚨 Identified by the Walter Mitty Hunters Club as a serial “walt”Jonathan David Carley, 64. Once involved with cadets. https://t.co/1uRd6PsNh7
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🚨 ‘Phoney’ admiral with fake medals sparks veterans’ fury after blagging his way into Remembrance event https://t.co/iVVNX3yFZr
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A SUSPECTED “Walter Mitty” has sparked uproar among veterans after posing as an admiral with a chest full of bogus medals on Remembrance Sunday. He blagged his way into a wreath laying ceremony bef…
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SCOOP: The United States gathered intelligence last year that Israel’s military lawyers warned there was evidence that could support war crimes charges against Israel for its military campaign in Gaza, five former U.S. officials told @ErinBanco @JonathanLanday and me 1/x
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"Ajax tanks...."
🚨 MINISTRY OF DEAF-ENCE Army’s new £5.5bn Ajax tanks are still making soldiers sick & deaf – despite government promises the problems are fixed https://t.co/QitQqZPt0Y
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@Zaphod2042 I stand 💯 by my use of the word tank. ✅ Tracks ✅ Armour ✅ Gun 🟰 TANK If there is *any* doubt, reflect on the Mk1 Tank was a code word Mk1 was neither MBT nor tank killer, it was infantry support. It weighed a mere 28t (Ajax 40t) Mk1 main gun 57mm (Ajax 40mm) TANK!
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🚨 MINISTRY OF DEAF-ENCE Army’s new £5.5bn Ajax tanks are still making soldiers sick & deaf – despite government promises the problems are fixed https://t.co/QitQqZPt0Y
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THE Army’s new £5.5bn tank is still making soldiers sick and deaf – despite government promises its problems have been fixed. Troops who trained in new Ajax vehicles were left needing hospital trea…
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🚨 In late October I was stopped at a checkpoint in Ukraine. My 🇺🇦 colleague was press-ganged. We were ordered at gunpoint to a recruitment centre. He was rubber-stamped fit to fight Then spirited out of the basement & packed off to boot camp. https://t.co/VUZZ8TvsoL
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A DULL-eyed soldier at a roadblock stopped our car and demanded papers. This is not unusual in Ukraine. Almost four years after Russia’s invasion, checkpoints are a fact of life, like bomb shelters…
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🚨 In late October I was stopped at a checkpoint in Ukraine. My 🇺🇦 colleague was press-ganged. We were ordered at gunpoint to a recruitment centre. He was rubber-stamped fit to fight Then spirited out of the basement & packed off to boot camp. https://t.co/VUZZ8TvsoL
thesun.co.uk
A DULL-eyed soldier at a roadblock stopped our car and demanded papers. This is not unusual in Ukraine. Almost four years after Russia’s invasion, checkpoints are a fact of life, like bomb shelters…
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“If Ukraine is eventually forced [to] leave large swathes of territory under Russian control, the precedent will send a message…to autocracies everywhere that force works and that the West lacks the will to defend the principles it proclaims.”
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Europe has spent too long fearing the consequences of Russian instability. It is time to fear the consequences of the stability of Putin's regime.
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"Your friend has gone to war. Bang, bang!” - a must read by @jeromestarkey
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A DULL-eyed soldier at a roadblock stopped our car and demanded papers. This is not unusual in Ukraine. Almost four years after Russia’s invasion, checkpoints are a fact of life, like bomb shelters…
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The reality of Ukraine’s urgent need for more soldiers to fight: @jeromestarkey reports how his Ukrainian colleague, a fellow journalist, was press ganged into the military when they were stopped at a checkpoint while on a reporting trip. Please read ⬇️ https://t.co/ksoiHxhqV9
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A DULL-eyed soldier at a roadblock stopped our car and demanded papers. This is not unusual in Ukraine. Almost four years after Russia’s invasion, checkpoints are a fact of life, like bomb shelters…
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“Back in the time of the czars, or Stalin, Russia’s great strength was that it was so big that it could always just absorb invading armies,” said retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, a former commander of U.S. Army Europe. “Now that Ukraine has the ability to reach so deep into Russia
“The Ukrainian strategy, as funny as it may seem, is the mirror image of Russia’s strategy: to do everything possible that Russia’s economy collapses before the Ukrainian economy, and at the same time to hope to achieve through diplomatic negotiations what it can’t achieve on the
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