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Roland Oliphant
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    Roland Oliphant
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    Sep 9, 2024
    There are not enough words to do justice to the great friend and colleague we have lost. Curious, imaginative, kind, a personification of journalistic rigour and integrity. Massive 40k fan. Many of us have achieved things we would not have even tried without him. RIP
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    Sep 9, 2024
    It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of our colleague, David Knowles. David was a talented journalist and a much-loved friend and a colleague. He will be greatly missed.
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    Roland Oliphant
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    Mar 1, 2022
    Message from a Ukrainian solider: If anything happens don’t let us be forgotten. We are surrounded in Mariupol no way out.
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    Roland Oliphant
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    May 9, 2022
    Zelensky stakes Ukraine’s own claim to Soviet victory day, with a characteristically powerful and well delivered speech. Reclaiming May 9 instead of viewing it as irrevocably contaminated. Quite bold
    MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦
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    Roland Oliphant
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    Feb 27, 2022
    Took a little drive round Kharkiv. Current situation: - streets deserted - some kind of fight/operation still going on around Shevchenko avenue/Hidropark. - city in Ukrainian hands
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    Roland Oliphant
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    Jun 26, 2022
    Firing missiles at apartment blocks in Kyiv just as the G7 and Nato meet seems pretty dumb if your goal is to break Western unanimity about arming Ukraine. But as I keep being reminded, the world looks different from the Kremlin.
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    Roland Oliphant
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    Jun 30, 2022
    Russia quits Snake island. - Russian mil telegram: trying to retain control of the island under Ukrainian fire from French Caesar shore artillery was a suicide mission - Russian MoD: withdrawal is a voluntary gesture of goodwill to allow grain exports
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    Roland Oliphant
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    Nov 10, 2022
    So I had this wild idea the Russian high command wd retreat from Kherson in good order, taking every effort to avoid a repetition of the Kharkiv disaster. Then I got home and opened Telegram and Christ on a bike it doesn’t look good does it.
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    Roland Oliphant
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    Apr 24, 2025
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    Roland Oliphant
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    Mar 1, 2022
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    Needless to say, they are speaking Russian. Because Kharkiv is a Russian speaking city, full of ethnic Russians, who must be killed by the Russian army to save them from not living in the Russian Federation. It is a cliche that war is madness, but this one really is psychotic
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    Roland Oliphant
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    Oct 10, 2022
    Bizarrely one place that doesn't seem to have been badly hit is...anywhere near the actual front. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to spell out why
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    Roland Oliphant
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    Feb 19, 2022
    Ukrainian source: "war in Donbas now looks almost inevitable. As for full scale invasion...objectively it still does not make sense, but I can't rule out that Putin has completely lost his mind."
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    Roland Oliphant
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    Feb 24, 2025
    Had an interesting (and quite long!) conversation with exiled Iran crown prince @PahlaviReza last week: He reckons Iran is on the brink of a revolution like the one that brought down his father - and that this time it might produce a democracy...
    Iran’s Crown Prince: My country is on the brink of a revolution like that of 1979
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    Roland Oliphant
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    Mar 1, 2022
    Aftermath of the strike on Kharkivs administration building on the central square. “That’s my car” says the man at the end.
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    Roland Oliphant
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    Jul 31, 2022
    Spoken to two people in Kosovo now. It does not sound like a Balkan war has broken out. It sounds like last year's number plate protests.