Isobel Koshiw (@IKoshiw) / X

Isobel Koshiw

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Isobel Koshiw

@IKoshiw

Ukraine

Joined February 2014

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Isobel Koshiw
@IKoshiw
May 16, 2025
How Ukraine lost hundreds of millions in arms deals gone wrong, w/ the brilliant @MilesMJohnson Russia's invasion sparked the biggest weapons procurement rush since WWII & foreign arms dealers, almost exclusively US and European, were eager to get involved on.ft.com/3Hdfsa8
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Isobel Koshiw
@IKoshiw
Mar 13, 2022
I'm only just starting to understand the scale and extent of Russian atrocities in Kyiv region over the past 2 weeks. It's unbelievable. It's not just Irpin, Bucha, Hostomel, Borodyanka etc. Dozens of smaller villages were completely terrorized, cut off, people were executed.
Isobel Koshiw
@IKoshiw
Apr 3, 2022
1/ The pictures from Bucha, Kyiv oblast confirm reams of eyewitness reports. Unfortunately, we're hearing almost identical descriptions from dozens of places under Russian occupation or seige.
Isobel Koshiw
@IKoshiw
Jun 1, 2022
50,000 have died in Mariupol, acc to one man coordinating the burials. Loved ones are rushing to find their dead before they're buried, unidentified in mass graves.
Makeshift graves and notes on doors: the struggle to find and bury Mariupol’s dead
From theguardian.com
Isobel Koshiw
@IKoshiw
Apr 3, 2022
Replying to @IKoshiw
5/They then sit terrified in cellars or basements or in their corridors and hope they aren't hit. When I met people coming out of Irpin, they'd be essentially locked up, in the dark, for over two weeks. They saw my press vest and cried out to me to tell them the news.
Isobel Koshiw
@IKoshiw
Mar 13, 2022
Replying to @IKoshiw
Here's the article
Tanks, bombs, shootings: Ukrainians describe Russian takeover of villages
From theguardian.com
Isobel Koshiw
@IKoshiw
Apr 3, 2022
Replying to @IKoshiw
2/ It's the same pattern, or rather tactic, (some of which they used in Syria). First comes the civilian infrastructure - cut off gas, water electricity
Isobel Koshiw
@IKoshiw
Apr 3, 2022
Replying to @IKoshiw
3/ Then even those who find ways to charge their phones don't have signal - the Ukrainians are convinced they are using jamming devices and targeting telecoms masts. I heard reports that in Mariupol they targeted Kyiv Star's infrastructure
Isobel Koshiw
@IKoshiw
Apr 3, 2022
Replying to @IKoshiw
4/ These people then try to survive on whatever supplies they have and if they are lucky, in a village, they have access to a well for water. If they are unlucky, like in Mariupol, they drink water from their radiators.
Isobel Koshiw
@IKoshiw
Sep 14, 2022
Our trip to Balakiia, formerly on the frontline of occupied Kharkiv region 1/ One of the most striking things was the ‘information vacuum’ and differences in perception of the last 7 months. Most people had no internet or TV for most of the period bc of power and internet cuts.
Isobel Koshiw
@IKoshiw
Mar 13, 2022
I interviewed people from 3 villages in Kyiv region. Russian forces behaved +/- similarly in each case. In Andriivka, they executed at least 2 civilians, shelled houses on the main street, then they went house to house confiscating phones and laptops.
Tanks, bombs, shootings: Ukrainians describe Russian takeover of villages
From theguardian.com
Isobel Koshiw
@IKoshiw
Jan 2, 2023
1/ On Feb 24, there was only a platoon of paratroopers in Sumy city, they destroyed one column but then were ordered to move out, leaving Sumy residents to defend the city. The armed civilians managed for 6 weeks. Pictures @sia_vlasova
How Sumy’s residents kept Russian forces out of their city
From theguardian.com
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Isobel Koshiw
@IKoshiw
Mar 6, 2022
Train tracks were destroyed by Russians yesterday so these buses are the only way out. Pictures of people waiting with their belongings
Isobel Koshiw
@IKoshiw
Mar 16, 2022
Video of Russian forces shooting a civilian in Kyiv region who raised his hands above his head - German public broadcaster ZDF releases drone footage @guardian heard a report of two civilians being murdered with their hands in the air & other unarmed civilians being shot.