Reuters staff photographer based in Kyiv. Pulitzer Prize 2020. Views expressed are my own.

Ukraine
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Investigators are racing to document Russian war crimes in Ukraine, but as Reuters’ Anthony Deutsch reports, the Trump administration's cuts to foreign aid are leaving them with fewer resources and less hope for accountability reut.rs/436EKyB
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Love is in the air. Ukrainian serviceman meets his beloved at the Kramatorsk railway station, Donetsk region. 📸: Thomas Peter / @Reuters
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This is Babi Yar, where the Nazis massacred 200,000 Ukrainian Jews, POWs, and others who stood against evil I prayed here today that the tragedy of the Ukrainian people & this terrible war will end soon 🇺🇦 deserves peace & justice. We have waited long enough
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This rather unScholz-like speech was given last night in Brandenburg. The video omits perhaps the spiciest line: "Dear screamers, Putin is the warmonger you'd be shouting at here if you had any sense in your brains".
Scholz’s indignation is absolutely righteous. What a difference a year makes. xitter.cf/KadirHama/status/16649…
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"That guy, you see that guy?" "No." "There's a guy who's running in front of the tank. He's standing right in front of it." ... CNN raw video, Chang'an Avenue, June 5 1989. #六四34 #Tiananmen #天安門事件
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@berlin_bridge26 Apr 2023
Interviewer: “Is it a myth that the West deceived you with regard to the NATO eastward expansion?” Gorbachev: “Yes, that’s actually a myth.”
ZDF’s interview with Gorbachev back in 2014. He is asked about the NATO expansion promise.
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Here is the link to Evan Gershkovich's excellent article "Russia's economy is starting to come undone". Presumably this insightful article is the reason why he was arrested. The current Russian authorities are so predictable, just like the USSR. wsj.com/articles/russias-eco…
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In Deutschland werden an diesem Samstag Menschen auf die Straße gehen, um Verhandlungen mit Russland zu fordern. Vor einiger Zeit habe ich die ukrainische Friedensnobelpreisträgerin Oleksandra Matwijtschuk gefragt, was sie von solchen Forderungen hält. Das ist ihre Antwort:
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Yes....press freedom is a wonderful thing. It's good that Mr. Liu has much access on the scene in Ohio. Meanwhile, foreign journalists in Mainland China that have attempted to cover the peaceful "white paper" protests are harassed or get dragged off and detained by the PSB.
A young Chinese reporter for CCTV, Liu Xiaoqian, is in Ohio. His live reporting was praised on the Chinese internet.
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After nearly three years being told that trying to coexist with COVID-19 would be catastrophic, many people in China think there's a big risk in opening up, despite the growing lockdown frustrations. reut.rs/3EWvgcH
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This was such a brilliant video I subtitled it so more people can watch it. Beijing students' response last night to accusations that there are 'foreign forces' at play in this weekend's protests 'The foreign forces you are talking about – are they Marx and Engels?'
北京亮马桥 有学生指出,在我们的周围有境外反华势力,导致群众群情激愤;有学生回应称“你说的境外势力,是马克思和恩格斯吗!” 学生继续询问道:“请问新疆的火是境外势力放的吗?请问贵州的大巴是境外势力推翻的吗?” 我们连网都上不到国外的!我们哪来的境外势力!我们只有境内势力不让我们聚集!
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A thread here for those who don't understand why the China protests over the weekend protests are so shockingly rare. Surveillance. In. China. Is. Extreme. Think you could evade Chinese police? Let's walk through it:
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"There's tons of people protesting, they'll never catch me," nope - Chinese police stations use huge networks of facial recognition cameras that can retroactively trace people for days or even months.
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Was geht wohl in den Köpfen dieser beiden Menschen vor? 🇨🇳 #ZeroCovidChina
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A common Twitter exchange: Tankie: Stop arming Ukraine! Reasonable person: What exactly do you suggest instead? Tankie: Pressure Ukraine to implement the Minsk accords! So what are the Minsk accords, and why is the tankie line on Minsk ridiculous? A thread.
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Ukrainian soldiers in the trenches singing the Ukrainian version of the WWII anti-fascist Italian resistance anthem Bella Ciao xitter.cf/CharaCamgirl/status/15…
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Persian version of the 19th century Italian protest folk song, Bella Ciao. #MahsaAmini #IranProtests
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"Это историческое преступление. Это вовлечение сотен тысяч людей в преступления, которые делает Путин. Он просто, как мафия, кровью связывает сотни тысяч людей" Навальный из колонии высказался против мобилизации и войны
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Wer sich fragt, wer dieser #Dugin ist, dessen Tochter gerade in Moskau offenbar bei einem Autobomben-Anschlag gestorben ist, dem empfehle ich sehr dieses lesenswerte Streitgespräch mit @christian_neef magazin.spiegel.de/EpubDeliv…
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