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Eliot Higgins
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Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
In front of a laptop.bellingcat.comJoined April 2011

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The paperback edition of We Are Bellingcat is out in the UK now, including how we investigated Russia's involvement in Ukraine back in 2014, and the role open source evidence played in establishing their involvement in the conflict and the downing of MH17 amzn.to/3slz5C6
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A dramatic Sky News report from sieged town of Chernihiv in Northern Ukraine: shelling and escape of the filming crew, short interview with a wounded driver. And his final phrase before he leaves for hospital. Worth watching. But graphic.
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It's like these people have never heard of smartphones.
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Michael Flynn said yesterday that Bill Gates, George Soros and Klaus Schwab are “part of a conspiracy” to use a device to “track every single one of us, and they use it under the skin,” because “they have an intent to have a New World Order.”
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This video, I suspect it's a few days old, is from Moschun, Kyiv and shows that Russian troops made it considerably further into Moschun than I'd previously thought, though by all reports the attack has been repelled.
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Drone video of Russian VDV in Kyiv Oblast, looks like wounded evac.. VDV in Kyiv so far suffered major losses in equipmentand in manpower.
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Will tweet more later about the long-term implications if Russia is going for an Eastern Strategy. Its extremely complicated and holds out the possibility of a disastrous long-war for Russia. In the short term, though, its still no sure thing.
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⚡️ Military Intelligence: Russia wants to split Ukraine into two. According to Kyrylo Budanov, head of Defense Ministry’s Intelligence Directorate, Russia will try a “Korean scenario” by creating a separate political entity in the Russian-occupied regions.
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I'm sure will correct me if I'm wrong, but Russia claims to have destroyed 289 Ukrainian drones, which is more than Ukraine operates.
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ВС Ро�?�?ии �? начала �?пецоперации �?ничтожили 289 бе�?пилотников и 1 656 танков, �?ообщил официальный пред�?тавитель Минобороны РФ �?горь Кона�?енков: go.tass.ru/jp4YR Видео: Минобороны Ро�?�?ии
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I'd really recommend bringing people who aren't aware of the Navalny poisoning investigation Bellingcat did, the people I spoke to after the screening who hadn't heard of it before had their minds blown.
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WARSAW — "For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power," said Biden, referring to Putin, as he closes out his big speech in Poland. Worth noting that the Biden administration so far has been at pains to NOT even hint at anything approximately regime change.
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Seems that indeed the fuel depot northeast of the city in #Lviv was hit by a Russian cruisemissile, geolocation based on image from quoted tweet aligns TV tower/hills in background
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BREAKING: Communication tower near the city center of Lviv appears to have been bombed. Smoke can be seen rising just outside of downtown. #lviv #ukraine #UkraineWar
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March 26th satellite imagery from showing the port of Berdyansk, and the Russian ship destroyed in a Ukrainian attack. It appears part of the deck is underwater, so it's unlikely to be going anywhere for a long time.
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I have a more basic concern. How on God’s green earth can you do financial journalism if you aren’t allowed to say anything negative about any company on any media? That and then this: just how bad is Turkey’s economy? Is it about to collapse? Because this law would be nuts.
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The first news about this law has been about the section which says you can go to jail even if you don’t use the company’s name. The first thought has been that this outlaws people saying “Gang of Five” about the AKP’s crony billionaires who siphon all state funds.
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Absolutely insane new law proposed in Turkey: Three years in jail for anyone who undermines trust in companies or otherwise impacts their reputation or concerns in any form of media. The fact they need to do this implies A LOT of companies are close to going under.
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