A former British army explosives expert says “this is a masterpiece of clandestine sabotage.” Importance of this is hard to exaggerate. #KerchBridge
Paul Adams
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Paul Adams
@BBCPaulAdams
BBC Diplomatic Correspondent. Previously in Washington, Middle East and Balkans. Now a lot of Ukraine.
London
Joined January 2010
- It's not the best time to be isolating in my Kyiv hotel room with Covid, to be honest.
- A woman in Enerhodar explains how the referendum is being conducted in her mum’s street. "Three soldiers knock on your door, armed with machine guns. One is holding a referendum paper asking if you want to leave Ukraine and join Russia." 1/2
- BREAKING: Zelensky, after talks with Lukashenko: Ukrainian delegation to meet Russian delegation without preconditions on Ukrainian-Belarusian border, near Pripyat River. 1/2
- Replying to @eapaia and @JuliaDavisNewsApologies. This: "You have to answer verbally and the soldier marks the answer on the sheet and keeps it." Similar reports from Kherson. Annecdotal, but guns and ballots usually don't sit well together.
- The IDF is publishing a significant amount of evidence to back up its claims about the way Hamas used al-Shifa hospital. The denials will doubtless continue, but honest people should take this seriously. To do so does not mean taking sides.
- The scenes inside the wrecked "filtration camp" at #Olenivka are truly awful. A mass of charred bodies and bunk beds. Some died where they lay. Other bodies outside look terribly emaciated. It's a scene of absolute horror.
- Kyiv after a long anxious night. Silent but for the sound of crows. Everyone knows it could change in an instant. #ukraine
- How long is it since the British monarch was so strategically (one might almost say ruthlessly) deployed, twice, in the space of a couple of days?
- Hunkering down for the Kyiv curfew that will last till Monday morning while authorities hunt down "sabotage and reconnaissance groups." A whole city of 3m people takes cover and waits. Goodnight
- On a dark, ominous morning, I can hear the sound of Ukraine's national anthem echoing across the rooftops. A country under attack, showing what defiance it can. #UkraineCrisis
- Ukraine’s state energy company #Ukrenergo says there is currently no electricity shortage in the grid. Comes with caveats but it’s a remarkable achievement.
