"El Paso Party Balloon" is the name of my next band gizmodo.com/one-mexican-...

Report about the brilliant Anetta Barsivna in freezing Troyeschchyna, Kyiv m.youtube.com/watch?v=_dNZ...

Wow that was quick!

My latest report for #France24 is about Ukraine’s long-range drone strikes on targets in Russia. I saw them taking off. It was cold! m.youtube.com/watch?si=kzk... Please note that some drones are big, like unmanned aeroplanes, and others are small like toys, but also deadly. These are big ones

www.economist.com/culture/2026... Dark

In Canada more people voted for the Liberal centre in reaction to Trump. Might Trump put enough of the French and other Europeans off the populist right too?

If you’re American maybe you should watch France 24 we’re on the case

I’ve been saying for a while that I sometimes feel more angry with Americans for not protesting than I do with Russians, cos Russians (in Russia) risk their lives if they do… Terrifying how quickly that’s got less true

Our kids nymag.com/intelligence...

www.ms.now/opinion/trum... Totally. Ukraine has a higher-than-average proportion of sanewashers. Maybe cos when they read it in translation it’s gone through some kind of preliminary rinse.

People cannot seriously watch this and continue to say the guy can't sing www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWZe...

SO glad to see my colleagues at France 24 are finding ways to cover the important issue of resistance to Russia in the occupied territories of Ukraine, and grateful to Jade McGlynn for taking part www.youtube.com/watch?v=103y...

Fiery speech from Zelensky at Davos lashing out against Europe. I wonder if it’s calculated to please Trump

I think most Ukrainians didn’t know his name until he died. But they sure as hell knew his work. What a tragedy kyivindependent.com/top-ukrainia...

biz.liga.net/en/all/tek/n... Brekht was the genius behind Ukraine’s astonishingly swift repairs to its damaged power grid, according to Volodymyr Kudrytsky, former head of Ukrenergo. Things may not go so well now, without him. Despite being a top manager he was a hands-on guy and it killed him.

People who didn’t listen to Trump’s speech will open the New York Times or whatever & see headlines like ‘Trump “Won’t use Force” but Demands Greenland’. While that does sound crazy, it does NOT convey the terrifying unhinged reality. Terrifying above all because people clapped. Some even stood up

I bet Emmanuel Macron will still be in office when Donald Trump is not

My take this morning from chilly but sunny Kyiv. They're saying last night's attack was not The Big One that everyone's expecting. 300 drones is now not considered such a lot www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhpG...

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Couldn’t agree more

This is the worst-case scenario, he says. Not the only one or even the most likely one. (IMHO also not actually the *worst*, though…)

In 2013 she was jailed on politically-motivated charges and became a cause célèbre in the West, despite so many Ukrainians’ insistence that she really deserved to be in prison, just not for that reason. I’m wondering now whether it is possible to say she achieved anything for Ukraine, or even tried

A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:

Finally got to the bottom of the mystery of how the radiators in my flat are heated… and made a report Thanks to guys like the ones you see in this piece I’ve got about +15c at home in Kyiv; hundreds of thousands here and in other Ukrainian cities aren’t so lucky youtu.be/T7YyO9_ls7U?...

And Americans who moved to Vancouver don’t criticise Trump? I’ve never been to Canada but I find that hard to believe

When will it be enough for you all to get out into the streets and stop this madness? Or for Republicans who think they’re really the party of John McCain (or whoever the last vaguely decent famous Republican was) to vote to impeach him?

Not sure whether this is a reflection of Ukraine’s optimistic spirit or just of how cold it is inside anyway

Holy shit

Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency NABU wins the award for most redundant face blur of all time with this post from today’s raid on Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko’s office that clearly shows Tymoshenko’s immediately recognisable hairstyle

- Viktor Parkhomenko, 37 years old; - Taras Vovk, 34 years old; - Yevhenii Yermakov, 39 years old; - Dmytro Zakharov, 23 years old. Russia killed them yesterday during the attack on the Nova Poshta terminal near Kharkiv.

Like several other Dylan albums, Blonde on Blonde starts with a track that seems deliberately designed to mislead people into thinking it’s gonna be a shit album. See also Love and Theft, Oh Mercy… do any other artists do this?

I guess this is how Putin thought it would go down with Zelensky

There’s a powerful phrase about NATO where he means countries will find themselves saying “what are we to do without Ukraine in NATO” [ie now that we are under attack]. I don’t think they translated it quite right. But overall a very good speech I thought

❗️Nearly 500 drones and 40 missiles, including "Kinzhals", were launched by the Russians at Ukraine overnight, – Zelenskyy. The main targets are Kyiv, energy infrastructure, and civilian facilities.

It’s hard to believe that one man can cause so much stress, so much fear, so much pain and suffering…a man who took an oath to preserve and protect our Constitution. This man, who is inciting terror across our land, must be removed from office. In a sane world, it would happen immediately.

Donald Trump will blame Ukraine for Russia refusing his peace plan by saying the Russians changed their minds because the Ukrainians ‘took too long’. The scariest thing is that he may actually believe that to be the case. The Russians did NOT change their minds.

www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar... Holy shit. This is real

Unbelievable horror in Sudan

theukrainianreview.info/presidential... Surely they couldn’t stay in the EU if he did that?

www.rescue.org/press-releas... Russian strikes on Dnipro over the weekend destroyed nearly $200,000 worth of medical supplies, putting 30,000 patients at risk, the International Rescue Committee days.

Kyiv tomorrow: rolling power outages – 7 hours without electricity, 3.5 hours with it. Then repeat. Just a reminder for the world of what russia does.

Live hit this morning on France 24 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xiu5...

On this day in 1991 Ukrainians voted overwhelmingly for independence. In Donbas, 83% supported independence. In Crimea, the lowest score, 54% supported independence. In Odesa, 85%. In Kharkiv, 86%. Everywhere else, more than 90%. I will continue to remind you of this every year.

Drones are not only in the sky. My latest report, with Catalina Gomez for #Ukraine #france24 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMXf...

www.instagram.com/reel/DRhsuqQ... Moldova put a Shahed drone on the steps of the foreign ministry and invited the Russian ambassador 🤭

“Be acceptable to both Russia and Ukraine” Can we see this as more backpedaling or is that wishful thinking?

❗️RETWEET if you stand with President 🇺🇦Zelensky!

open.substack.com/pub/macspaun... All makes sense. I’d add this: Zelensky’s decision to treat this farcical turn of events with grave seriousness may have less to do with diplomatic prudence than with seeing an opportunity to dampen the fuss about corruption & the clamouring for him to sack Yermak

We're so fucked.

Well noticed!