@christopherjm.ft.com
Chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. 16 years living and reporting in Ukraine. https://www.ft.com/christopher-miller
Author of the book, THE WAR CAME TO US, published by Bloomsbury: https://www.amazon.com/dp/139940685X
@christopherjm.ft.com"The @financialtimes.com spoke with officials from five different European intelligence agencies who warned that chief executives and other senior employees at defence companies were being targeted by Kremlin operatives."
@christopherjm.ft.comUS officials stepped up pressure on Ukraine to stop striking Russian oil refineries and threatened to cut off vital intelligence sharing as Donald Trump announced a deal with Moscow to release diesel on to the world market.
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@christopherjm.ft.comDonald Trump said he had reached a deal with Vladimir Putin for Russia to release diesel to the world, sparking a backlash from Ukraine as Washington aims to quell fuel prices ahead of November’s midterm elections.
@christopherjm.ft.comThe combined death toll from Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities over the past day and a half rose to at least 64 people.
@christopherjm.ft.comA Russian glide bomb killed dozens of Ukrainians at a bus stop Kramatorsk on Thursday, in one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in recent months. Two buses were hit by the bomb during rush hour, killing at least 30 people and injuring 18, according to Ukraine’s state emergency service.
@christopherjm.ft.comReposted by @christopherjm.ft.comNEW: Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked Donald Trump to impose sanctions on Russian and Chinese companies involved in developing a rival satellite network to Starlink. He told me China was working with Russia on the tech and that Rassvet could become operational by “the end of the year, beginning next year”
@christopherjm.ft.comShortly after Merz began his visit to Ukraine's capital, a Russian air strike targeted the city’s North Bridge, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko. Air raid sirens wailed across the city, and black smoke could be seen rising from the scene.
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@christopherjm.ft.comChancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Kyiv with a German business delegation, making a show of support as Russia steps up attacks on Ukrainian cities. “Ukraine is facing decisive weeks. That is why I travelled to Kyiv today with the message: you can rely on us,” Merz said. w/ @chassnews.bsky.social
@christopherjm.ft.comNEW: Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked Donald Trump to impose sanctions on Russian and Chinese companies involved in developing a rival satellite network to Starlink. He told me China was working with Russia on the tech and that Rassvet could become operational by “the end of the year, beginning next year”
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@lauraphillips.bsky.socialReposted by @christopherjm.ft.com@christopherjm.ft.com: ‘More from my FT interview with President Zelenskyy and on the intelligence intercepted by Kyiv about Russia's winter attack plans. It's deeply disturbing.’ 1/
@christopherjm.ft.comMore from my interview with Zelenskyy and on the intel intercepted by Kyiv about Russia's winter attack plans. Attacks concentrated on Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv to isolate them, sow chaos, spark a new flood of refugees. Also: Russia wants to sever Ukraine's nuclear facilities from the energy grid.
@christopherjm.ft.comNEW: Yesterday I interviewed President Zelenskyy. Speaking at a school that had just been hit by a Russian jet drone, he said Ukrainian spy agencies had obtained intel that Putin told his military to remove all constraints that governed earlier air campaigns. “He said there are no rules now.”
@financialtimes.comReposted by @christopherjm.ft.comPutin has told military leaders to abandon rules of war, Zelenskyy says ft.trib.al/VFLqMHL
@henryjfoy.ft.comReposted by @christopherjm.ft.comThe whole sordid story was revealed by the FT nine days ago.
top work @maxseddon.bsky.social @christopherjm.ft.com & @paolatamma.bsky.social)
(at the time denied by Paris, Baku and Tashkent, of course)
@christopherjm.ft.comDonald Trump pressed his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a call on Sunday to halt Kyiv’s strikes on Russian refineries over concerns the attacks are exacerbating a global diesel shortage and pushing up prices. @financialtimes.com
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@christopherjm.ft.comTrump got ahead of himself. Kyiv was surprised, to say the least, by the US president's claim.
@financialtimes.comReposted by @christopherjm.ft.comDonald Trump said Ukraine and Russia had agreed to halt strikes on each other’s energy infrastructure, appearing to announce a deal that caught Ukrainian officials off guard in the absence of credible Russian guarantees. ft.trib.al/QtGzNlk
@financialtimes.comReposted by @christopherjm.ft.comZelenskyy imposes sanctions on former aide turned critic ft.trib.al/nHcpYFs
@financialtimes.comReposted by @christopherjm.ft.comFT Exclusive: France is lobbying EU countries to lift sanctions on Alisher Usmanov as part of a deal to release several French citizens held in Azerbaijan. ft.trib.al/6U4xsdu
