John Sweeney
@johnsweeneyroar
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Trouble At Post Office; Lib Dem; Under Deadly Skies: film; Killer In The Kremlin: Penguin;
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Under Deadly Skies: Ukraine's Eastern Front
Our film on Russia's evil war, now available on demand
If you watch it, the Kremlin won't like it
@JourneymanNews
@BylineTV
Directed by
@CaolanRob
with
@reflextv
,
@ZarinaZabrisky
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The Russian Embassy, London this evening.
One feels so proud.
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There are rumours about a mutiny in the Russian army. Things are not going well for the master of the Kremlin.
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Tough old day. I got arrested by the Ukrainian army for filming them: "Are you a Russian spy?" No etc. They were nicer than Putin. I got a cup of tea. Spent time at Ukraine Int HQ as they checked me out. Never mind.
#Putin
's war is not going well.
Vladimir Putin is in trouble.
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Britain is a bit rubbish a lot, frankly. And then it does something like this. And then I am proud to be British. And very proud to stand with Ukraine.
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#KyivDiary
Day 29
Russia is fighting for the past
Ukraine for the future
And the future is winning
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Full Ukrainian.
Milk Bar, Shota Rustaveli Street, Kyiv.
30th Day of Vladimir Putin's war
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Day 25
The war is going badly in the South.
Brexit was a Kremlin project.
If Boris Johnson comes to Kyiv, I'll ask him: "PM, why did you celebrate your election victory with Russian (ex?) spy Alexander Lebedev who has a photo of his friend Vladimir Putin on his book?"
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A baby girl has been born in the Kyiv Metro. God bless her.
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RIP Alexei Navalny. I met him three times. He was a great man, a true Russian - full of flaws - and a brave enemy of Vladimir Putin's Fascist regime. And now he's dead. I have no doubt that whatever the Kremlin says, they killed him.
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War Diary Day 723
After the murder of
@navalny
, let's send a message to the Kremlin: give Russia's $300 billion in western banks to Ukraine.
Do that now.
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The best of Russia...
St Petersburg, Russia, tonight
They’re chanting "No to War!" "Shame!" & "Ukraine is not our enemy!"
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At the BBC I was taken aside by a senior manager and told off for the tone of my tweets critical of
@realDonaldTrump
.
Too many powerful people in Britain appeased this monster.
100% this. These cheerleaders cannot simply dust their hands and walk away.
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Boris Johnson and the Russian Mountain: a two minute film which sets out why MI6 was worried about a security risk.
Watch this:
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War Diary Day 365
Lots of tomatoes in Kyiv
Brexit was a rare Russian victory
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Please note, this attack appears to have come from Russia.
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When people ask what me the spirit is like in Kyiv, this pretty much is it, bottled up, in one video.
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Kyiv Diary Day 22
The Russian Army is going backwards
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I voted Remain.
Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed Ursula von der Leyen and Josep Borrell in Kyiv 🇪🇺
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Day 17
The war is going badly for Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainians are standing firm. His army is a bit rubbish, frankly.
It's beginning to be possible to imagine a world without Putin. In the Kremlin whisperers gather in the gloom.
Stalin died in March. And Caesar.
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Kharkiv railway station right now. Meanwhile the British government has permitter only 50 new visas for Ukrainians and Russian oligarchs have months to move their ill-gotten gold out of Londongrad.
Shame on you
@BorisJohnson
.
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A simple message to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin
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In a (extremely rare open) cafe in Kyiv I ask for tea with cold milk. Eugene and Vlad are horrified: "there are other ways of proving you are not a Russian spy."
#TherewillalwaysbeanEngland
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Vladimir Putin has made a miscalculation. His war is not going well, not at all. I try to explain the anomaly of quiet in central Kyiv with the bangs and flashes you're seeing on the telly.
If you bung me a bob or two via Patreon, luvvly jubbly.
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So
@Keir_Starmer
twists the knife.
@BorisJohnson
got UK advice on care homes wrong and here's Keir's letter proving Boris wrong.
Competent Opposition, eh? Who'd have thought it was possible?
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Kyiv Diary Day 14 Update
Sirens go off in Kyiv centre
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Our
@BBCPanorama
Trouble At The Post Office in August 20I5 had a Fujitsu whistleblower who said Horizon computer generated errors. This was the first time outsiders knew for a fact the Post Office was lying. So it is unfair to criticise
@Keir_Starmer
and
@EdwardJDavey
who were…
Seema and I on
@gmb
talking about our 2015
@BBCPanorama
Trouble At The Post Office. The PO tried to kill it. But we stuck to our guns.
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That is not true.
There is no Russian money funding the Conservative Party in this campaign says Security Minister Brandon Lewis
#Marr
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Tommy Robinson makes out that he's a Great British patriot. But look at what he said in Bavaria.
Here's a one minute film entitled "Tommy Robinson and the Adolf Hitler Appreciation Society".
Watch it.
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The Russian state is saying it is not killing civilians. That is a lie. This morning in Kyiv I saw it with my own eyes.
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I love my country so I wanted
@RishiSunak
to do better but his appointment of
@SuellaBraverman
as Home Sec shows that he, too, is prisoner of the Tory far right.
Enough already. We need Proportional Representation so that the centre - not the extremes - holds power.
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Just on with
@toryboypierce
on
@LBC
. He asked me: "How long are you staying?" I replied: "I voted Remain in 2016. Here in Kyiv, in 2022, I'm voting Remain."
Take care and good luck from Kyiv.
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War Diary Day 722
@navalny
is dead. He was a true Russian - full of flaws - a great enemy of the Kremlin and I have no doubt that Vladimir Putin had him killed.
RIP My fond and foolish friend.
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The BBC is a noble thing. It educates, informs, entertains the whole nation. It is Britain. Has it got faults? Don't get me started. But sending in the wrecking ball would be an act of spiteful madness.
#SavetheBBC
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Here in Kyiv, soldiers are dying so that Ukraine can join the European Union, not leaving it.
We're all for Remain here.
What do Ukrainians make of Boris Johnson’s Brexit comparison?
‘“The first thing when comparing our situation to yours,” Oleksandra points out, “is that Ukraine is fighting to join the EU.”’
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Day 21
Russian offensive has stopped.
Losses, low morale and - H/T
@michaeldweiss
- corruption has made the Russians a Potemkin army. The hinge of battle is turning against the Kremlin.
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This made me cry.
The first wedding dance of Viktor and Oksana in the Lviv hospital ward. Oksana, a 23-year-old nurse from Lysychansk, lost her legs on 27 March. Then Oksana had turned to warn Viktor of the danger, and within a second a Russian mine exploded under her
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War Diary Day 362
Biden in Kyiv to Putin: Do Fuck Off!
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War Diary Day 198
Russia is losing the war faster than anyone expected
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Kyiv: good to see
@thesundaytimes
today catching up with my scoop from two years ago that Baron Siberia
@mrevgenylebedev
was a security risk.
And then, magically, he wasn't.
@BorisJohnson
has been compromised.
@BylineTimes
@carolecadwalla
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Just back from a very long journey back from the frontline. Had to walk across a Dnipro bridge. They have closed a bridge to cars causing traffic chaos.
Nice to be back safe and sound. Going to be taking it easier for a couple of days in Kyiv centre.
Cheers all around.
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War Diary Jan 8 Amsterdam
As Putin mobilises half a million cannon fodder, we need to arm Ukraine with main battle tanks: now.
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The reports of my death are over-exaggerated.
But saying R.I.P. is nasty. Very.
Do fuck off.
R.I.P John Sweeney. He has been reporting from Kyiv.
This looks to be his last video as an explosion from the area seems to have taken place in close proximity.
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Big bang just now in Kyiv. Sounded outgoing, like Ukrainian air defence system taking out incoming Russian missile.
Sleep well, love from Kyiv.
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Day 20
Reasons to be cheerful:
The Ides of March not a good day for Caesar.
The Russian army advance has stopped.
A Russian TV producer interrupted a live show to show a banner: "No War".
Vladimir Putin is in trouble.
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As Putin's lullaby sounds over Kyiv, I ask
@BorisJohnson
and
@pritipatel
to provide shelter to Ukraine's refugees as our EU friends have done.
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War Diary Day 485
Vladimir Putin is a fragile monster.
Prigozhin - the monster he created - is now eating him up.
#VPDFO
!
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The COVID inquiry faces a big test. Are they going to let this pass? Or pursue the truth? It looks like Boris Johnson lied about his WhatsApp messages. They weren't, it seems, accidentally deleted. They were actively deleted.
If so, Boris Johnson faces criminal sanction.…
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#KyivDiary
Day 30
Vladimir Putin's war is going so badly we're about to have a full Ukrainian breakfast.
But down south the war is hellish. So keep the pressure on the monster in the Kremlin.
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The Russians have just bombed a hospital full of babies in Mariupol. The evidence for this war crime is strong.
Time for the West to stand up to the evil that kills babies.
Do that now.
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Today I have resigned from my freelance gig for the
@JewishChron
in Kyiv. Here is the key bit from my resignation letter:
"The Douglas Murray piece is wrong. The Nazis liked killing Jews.
When one of your colleagues asked me to string for the Jewish Chronicle from Kyiv in…
The picture on the left is an excerpt from a Jewish Chronicle article describing those who carried out the Holocaust.
The picture on the right is my response to that description.
I have no idea how the
@JewishChron
could feel comfortable publishing it.
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The Pope is not infallible. You show Vladimir Putin the white flag and he will murder everyone. The Pope is wrong.
Pope Francis in new interview: “Ukraine must have the courage to raise the white flag and to negotiate.”
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Hiya: I now have 5 confirmations - the 5th from my pal fighter
@brokenpixelua
- this story is true, that Ukrainians have surrounded the Russian Army at Bucha, NW of Kyiv.
(Warning: I am in Kyiv centre so I can't verify this myself.)
That Vladimir Putin's war is in trouble.
#KyivDiary
Day 27 Update
Reports that Ukrainians have cut off a pocket of Russian soldiers to NW of Kyiv.
If true, it's good news.
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#Kyiv
TV Tower attack. Dead mother and child are taken away.
What Vladimir Putin is doing is monstrous.
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In Rochdale, vote
@LibDems
.
Whatever you do, don't vote for
@georgegalloway
. He backed a dictator in 1990 when we first met.
He has been Team Scumbag ever since.
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Taking On Putin.
Opposition activists in Russia accuse the Kremlin of using the security services and state-controlled TV to attack them. When
#BBCPanorama
went to investigate their claims, the same tactics were used. Find out more in Taking on Putin, 7.30pm tomorrow on
@BBCOne
.
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#RussiaReport
Thread
In 2000 I went to Chechnya undercover twice, once for the BBC, once for C4. I saw Putin's war crimes with my own eyes. Three Russians - Anna Politkovskaya, Natasha Estemirova and Boris Nemtsov - warned me over the years about Putin.
They were shot.
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Day 11, Putin's war
Kyiv quiet, Mariupol grim.
@BorisJohnson
made
@mrevgenylebedev
Baron Siberia a lord by brushing aside security concerns. But his dad Alexander Lebedev was a KGB spy in London. He still may be.
@BorisJohnson
is compromised.
@BylineTimes
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Kyiv Diary Day 13: Update
BOYCOTT
@McDonalds
until Vladimir Putin's war stops or they stop making money in Russia.
(Rude message to Putin at end. No kids should watch this film.)
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Kyiv Diary Day 14
22 years ago I tried to warn the world about Vladimir Putin.
No-one listened.
Listen now.
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Yesterday I saw Chou-Chou the clown cheer up the kids in the basement of the dialysis unit at Kyiv's Children's Hospital. Today we tracked her - real name Anastasia Kalyuha - to thank her. She's a refugee herself, originally from Donetsk.
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Ian Hislop rocks.
🔥
@PrivateEyeNews
' Ian Hislop vs Sir Jake Berry.🔥
IH: "Why didn't you act sooner? You kept saying 'this is too difficult'. Suddenly you can do it all in one day."
JB: That is manifestly nonsense.
IH: Why did you give [Vennells] a CBE in 2019?
JB: You keep talking over me. ~AA
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Mood change at
@FoxNews
. They are challenging
@realDonaldTrump
as never before. This must come from the top, from Lachlan Murdoch. This is very interesting.
Breathtaking to watch Fox News' Bret Baier repeatedly fact check deranged and befuddled grandpa trump as he tries to spin his election lies and conspiracy theories.
"You lost the 2020 election."
WOW.
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There is another Russia.
And it is brave and good.
Anti-war protester detained outside of the Russian Defense Minsitry building in Moscow.
Her sign reads: “Right now, Russian soldiers are raping and killing Ukrainian women. Stop this war!”
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Sign the petition to have a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics.
Love from Kyiv.
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Just when you're about to give up on America, you see something like this and go, heh, there's still hope for the USA...
An American in the USA speaks pure Ukrainian with Ukrainian refugees.
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#DontvoteforGeorgeGalloway
#BatleyAndSpen
I first met George Galloway in Bucharest in 1990 sticking up for Team Stalin. Don't vote for the tyrant's friend.
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War Diary Day 533
The news from the front is bad.
The Ukrainians are losing too many people for too little gain, the Chinese are selling the Russians drones and night sights, the West promises not enough and delivers it too slowly. Putin is starting to win this phase of the war.
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There is another Russia
People saying goodbye to Alexey Navalny at his grave at the Borisovsky cemetery in Moscow.
Police officers present at the site are screaming at people, urging them to move quicker.
📹: Novaya Europe
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