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
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
thesun.co.uk
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
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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🚨 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
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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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
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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“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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For no other reason than that it makes me happy, here is my favourite story of the decade, by @jeromestarkey. It's about a major who "did the double". His fiancee was Country Life "Girls in pearls", his spaniel was Shooting Times "Dog of the Week".
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Trump said he was “sick” of seeing the map of the frontline of Ukraine again and again. “This red line, I don’t even know where this is. I’ve never been there,” Trump said... 👇
NEW: Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Putin had said he would “destroy” Ukraine if it did not agree. w/ @FT comrades @maxseddon @HenryJFoy @ak_mack
https://t.co/fUANzCML3v
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↪️ “Trump appeared to have adopted many of Putin’s talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own recent statements about Russia’s weaknesses”
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This is agonising (for anyone with a brain cell) “The US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin… via @ChristopherJM & @FT
ft.com
US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine front line in volatile White House meeting
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“Putin made a new offer to Trump on Thursday under which Ukraine would surrender the parts of the eastern Donbas region under its control in exchange for some small areas of the two southern frontline regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhi
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@jeromestarkey Is it because - as usual - he only remembers what the last person told him?
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↪️ “Trump appeared to have adopted many of Putin’s talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own recent statements about Russia’s weaknesses”
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This is agonising (for anyone with a brain cell) “The US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin… via @ChristopherJM & @FT
ft.com
US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine front line in volatile White House meeting
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Trump takeaways: 1. 🇺🇦 is offering drones for TLAMS 2. Q: are you being played (by Putin)? A: (Trump). “I’ve been played my whole life, but I’ve done ok. He wants a deal.”
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Update on Ukraine gas situation and Russian attacks: Last night, Russia launched its sixth massive attack on gas infrastructure since the beginning of October, according to @NaftogazUkraine CEO @KoretskyiUA. Four workers injured. Direct missile and drones strikes "and
Latest after overnight attacks: “Over the past seven days, Russia has carried out three massive attacks on Ukraine’s gas production infrastructure. Last night, one of Naftogaz Group’s combined heat and power plants (CHP) was hit,” says @KoretskyiUA, CEO of @NaftogazUkraine. 📸:
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