the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

My head tells me he’s wrong, but my heart, my heart just can’t help but agree. bsky.app/profile/ozka...

This is what happens when you recklessly extend BRICS right up to America’s borders and ignore America’s legitimate security concerns.

Giving a war criminal a Guardian Opinion byline is a fucking disgrace.

Hope we can all find something in life we love as much as Brigitte Bardot loved getting convicted and fined for inciting racial hatred by a French court.

BREAKING: The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces confirm they hit a Russian oil refinery in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov using British/French Storm Shadow cruise missiles.

I am very pleased to announce that I have just signed my first book contract, and as I nervously embark on this new challenge, a big thank you to Hurst Publishers for the opportunity. Watch this space for more news in the new year!

One year ago today in Bashar al-Assad’s former palace. The day the promise I made to myself in 2011 came true.

POLITICO exclusive: What the US wants from Ukraine: Leave Donbas, one way or another. An official familiar with the negotiation process tells us. www.politico.eu/article/us-w...

This time last year, I was on a coach ride out of Ukraine to Warsaw, to board a flight to Istanbul, to drive down to newly liberated Aleppo through Idlib. I fell asleep as rebels were pushing on past Homs towards Damascus. When I woke up, 53 years of Ba'athist rule was over.

Happy Liberation Day Glory to the Syrian Revolution Glory to her martyrs

I’m basically becoming an even bigger Goth as the years go on.

Mine and George Llewelyn’s report on life under constant energy black outs in Chernihiv for @tvpworld.bsky.social youtu.be/6RginnzbYPs?...

Exactly one year ago today, Syrian rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham began an offensive against the Assad regime named “Operation Deterrence of Aggression”. Less than 2 weeks later, 5 decades of Ba’athist fascism was over.

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.” It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

This is Zelenskyy's "if necessary for years, if necessary alone" moment. A chapter in history that will be remembered both for the shame of Washington's betrayal, and for the dignity, bravery, defiance and resolve of the Ukrainian people in the face of it all.

There is a small subset of pro-Starmer ultras on here who either genuinely don’t understand that budget stories *are directly briefed out by the Treasury, with permission* or pretend not to know that. And so they claim the plans never existed, haven’t changed, etc. It is maddening, and dumb as fuck.

Kyiv, 14th November 2025. 4 dead in a Russian attack on a Ukrainian residential building.

Last night was the worst bombing I have experienced in Kyiv since the war began. 7 hours of non stop aerial attacks across the city.

My latest episode of This Is Not A Drill is out now, featuring RUSI's Justin Bronk on Europe's plans for a "drone wall" to protect it from Russian aerial incursions. Available at the link below and wherever else you get your podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

🚨ICYMI🚨 @ozkaterji.bsky.social & @justin-br0nk.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow, Airpower & Technology at RUSI discuss Europe's drone wall 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod #politics #podcast #Russia

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

After a much needed vacation, I am back in Ukraine, back to work, and back on the airwaves with TVP World today ready to bring you the latest breaking news from the frontlines of Europe. It feels good to be back home.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Europe's drone wall – Could it hold back Russia? In today’s episode, @ozkaterji.bsky.social talks to @justin-br0nk.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow, Airpower & Technology at RUSI. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/DrillPod #politics #podcast #Russia

As another weekend of Barclay’s Premier League football gets underway, and a massacre is still unfolding in El Fasher, we cannot lose sight of the fact that the same people who are funding the slaughter in Sudan also own Manchester City Football Club. It is a national disgrace.

Arne Slot and Geert Wilders tonight:

Lord, have mercy.

"Are we the baddies?"

Russian fascism is engaged in an existential civilisational battle against liberal democracy, with the Ukrainian working class acting as the first line of defence for Europe. Material support for the Ukrainian armed forces is class solidarity. Arming Kyiv is anti-fascist praxis.

Sultana’s comments are so offensive on so many levels. You can’t “both sides” Putin & Zelenskiy. You can’t speak over the voices of Ukrainian workers who are on the frontlines fighting for democracy & workers rights. It is Putin and his acolytes who benefit from this war.

We really should, and I can’t stress this enough, abolish the home office and replace it with separate ministries for security and immigration. Instead we’re just going to keep flogging this unreformable dead horse until the heat death of the universe bsky.app/profile/theg...

For many Brits who have made lives abroad, the mere possibility of this becoming UK government policy makes moving back a hugely risky prospect. Who’d want to invest time and effort settling back in Britain while threats of expulsion are dangled over the heads of non-British family members?

The 📷 shows an apartment building in #Kyiv hit by a Russian Shahed last night.It captures the overall atmosphere in the city with painful accuracy A hellish night of Russian strikes...We cherish every moment of life,because any moment,any day could be our last.That's why we live a bit desperately⤵️

Kyiv will certainly be watching the Gaza ceasefire developments closely, as there will be few countries outside of the Middle East that will benefit more from the renewed global attention a ceasefire will bring than Ukraine.

I'm as desperate to see the moral abominations in Gaza end as the rest of you, and I understand why there is so much anticipation that this might finally be a ceasefire, but given how this has played out over 2 years, some caution and skepticism should probably be advised.

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

"Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth brought the entire top brass of the US armed forces to a meeting so he could call them fat.

While today he presents himself as the defender of Palestinians under Israeli bombardment, the Russian intervention in Syria was supported by Labour’s former leader Jeremy Corbyn, and his director of communications Seamus Milne. This is why Syrians continue to despise him. bsky.app/profile/ozka...

On this day 10 years ago, Russia entered the Syrian civil war on behalf of the Assad regime, devastating infrastructure, displacing millions and murdering thousands of Syrian civilians. Despite all of these widespread crimes, Moscow and Assad would go on to lose.

We're taking a hiatus over at The Oz Katerji Show while I'm away in London for the month, will let you all know when I'm back in early November and normal service will resume!

Back in Blighty for one month from Friday onwards for some much needed R&R. Hit me up!

Ultimately it doesn’t matter whether Britain thinks we are at war with Russia if Moscow already considers itself at war with us, which it does. We either acknowledge the reality of it or bury our heads in the sand, in either scenario, the war for Europe has already begun.

*record scratch* *freeze frame* “Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here.”

After a bit of a bureaucratic nightmare for a couple months, my documentary The Battle For Kyiv has finally been made available on Amazon Prime UK for those of you who still haven't seen it yet, UK audiences can now watch it on the link below: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det...

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.