David Patrikarakos

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Author: 'Nuclear Iran" & ‘War in 140 Characters’, ‘Nuclear Iran’. Special Correspondent @DailyMail | Foreign Correspondent @UnHerd

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1	Oct 11, '23	Confirmed now by the US President. BIDEN: "I never really thought that I would see...have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children"	897×	12.7M	14k	4.2k	1.1k
2	Oct 23, '23	I’m in #Israel 🇮🇱 for @unherd as war with #Hamas intensifies. Follow me for updates from the ground. This am I attended a session where Israel is releasing “raw footage” of the 7	273×	3.9M	8.8k	4.6k	2.8k
3	Jun 11, '24	I've got a Tottenham shirt with Ndombele on it.	248×	3.5M	41k	1.8k	482
4	Oct 23, '23	The footage starts: A truck with Hamas terrorists on board. They whoop and cheer. They fan into the street. Shooting at cars. They drag blood soaked corpses out of vehicles onto th	135×	1.9M	3.2k	912	257
5	Oct 23, '23	Audio is put up on screen: A Hamas terrorist calls his father: "Father, I killed 10 Jews! Check your WhatsApp! I sent you the photos! Father, I killed 10 Jews! I killed 10 Jews wit	118×	1.7M	3.9k	1.7k	332
6	Apr 30, '23	Has one man ever been so wrong about everything, all the time, for decades?	99.6×	1.4M	9.4k	873	166
7	Oct 23, '23	Footage: A man in his underpants & his two children, also in underpants run screaming. Hamas enter, they throw a grenade & kill the father. The take the 2 kids - covered wi	64.7×	914k	2.4k	774	110
8	Oct 23, '23	Edelstein: *important* “We have evidence of #Iran involvement. I cannot elaborate too much, but there are trained cells within #Gaza.”	63.3×	895k	2.6k	682	54
9	Jul 29, '22	Wow. This is how #Russia 🇷🇺 is trying to attract people to go and live there. And no. It’s not satire.	56.2×	0	53k	11k	5.5k
10	Oct 9, '22	Incredible scenes. Riot police uniting with protestors against the regime. #IranRevolution	50×	0	66k	13k	713
11	Oct 23, '23	Images are put up of the burned babies - so small you could cradle them in the crook of your arm. A journalist who is also a parent tells me the blanket it was swaddled in is given	43.7×	618k	2.1k	640	38
12	Feb 3, '23	THREAD: I spent last week in #Bakhmut, reporting for @unherd. This video was shot in the centre of the city, 200m from the Russian🇷🇺 positions. Listen with sound UP. I was fortun	41.3×	583k	3.2k	661	187
13	Oct 23, '23	Footage: (Cont) "I wish I was dead, I wish i was dead." screams the child. Footage moves: a man in a football shirt lies on the ground covered in blood. He moans in pain. A Hamas t	38.7×	547k	2.1k	655	45
14	Oct 23, '23	The footage moves to a rave. Partygoers run screaming. Men & women are dragged screaming out of cars. Bloodied corpses are thrown into the dirt & surrounded by Hamas cheeri	37.7×	533k	2k	549	43
15	Feb 6, '23	I embedded with UA Special Forces fighting in Bakhmut. This is the story of life & death on the frontlines of the war's most intense battle. In it, you see both the determinati	34.1×	482k	3.1k	779	271
16	Oct 23, '23	Conclusion: There are many broader issues around occupation & the need for humanitarian assistance & proportionality. #Israel MUST do everything to protect the civilians of	32.9×	465k	5.2k	1.2k	136
17	Oct 23, '23	Footage: Hamas steak into streets & across a roundabout. [security failures here are monumental]. Hamas enter a kibbutz. A car pulls up and the driver leave left to speak to th	29.3×	414k	1.8k	364	22
18	Oct 23, '23	IDF now sending through footage. Take a look for yourself:	28.5×	402k	1.5k	410	444
19	Oct 23, '23	Footage: GoPro footage from a Hamas fighter. His gin sticks pit in front of him like in a video game. He runs through a kibbutz. He sees a dog run eagerly toward him. He lowers the	28.4×	401k	1.8k	376	17
20	Oct 23, '23	Footage: In another scene Hamas terrorists break into an office. An Israeli cowers under a desk. The terrorists ask him questions (about the Quran I am told), the terrified man sho	28.4×	401k	2.3k	554	34
21	Oct 23, '23	IDF Spoke: “this is a crime against humanity. They killed babies, old people, sick people…we won’t allow the world to forget who we are fighting. Hamas wants dead Gazans. You don’t	28.2×	399k	2.9k	520	32
22	Oct 23, '23	Hamas terrorists move through a kibbutz. One lowers his rifle & shoots what seems to be an elderly lady - but I stress the footage is not totally clear - she moans in pain. Cam	27.3×	386k	1.8k	400	11
23	Oct 23, '23	IDF Spokesman: “we want people to understand what we are fighting for. This is something else. Something has happened to #israel 🇮🇱. This is a crime vs humanity. This is good v b	25×	353k	2.3k	421	47
24	Oct 23, '23	IDF Spokesman: “why did they strap GoPros to themselves? Why do they call the family of who they murdered? Bc they are proud of what they did? Rape - where is Islam? Burn - where i	23.7×	335k	2.4k	457	36
25	Oct 23, '23	There is a break. We come back to a briefing from Gen Edelstein from Gaza command. They came to kill & burn civilians. Not military personnel. Civilians. I’ve been fighting Ham	22.7×	321k	1.9k	372	21
26	Oct 23, '23	Edelstein: “we told civilians to evacuate northern Gaza. Yes. [we go in] and there are civilian casualties. But we are not looking for kids to kill. We are not looking to kill host	22.2×	313k	1.8k	332	22
27	Oct 23, '23	Edelstein: "We do not find kids and then force them to go and ask their neighbours to come out, and then they come out we kill them."	20.8×	294k	1.8k	324	19
28	Aug 17, '21	Taliban collapses with laughter as journalist asks if they would be willing to accept democratic governance that voted in female politicians - and then tells camera to stop filming	19.2×	0	16k	7.2k	975
29	Oct 17, '25	Keir Starmer must understand that this is no longer about football. The question facing him is simple: who runs Britain’s second city — the government, or sectarian Islamists? His	18.3×	258k	12k	2k	110
30	Oct 16, '25	Jewish football fans can now watch matches safely in Bahrain and Riyadh — but not in Birmingham. Because locals, whipped up by this man, can’t be trusted to behave like civilised p	14.8×	209k	11k	1.7k	129
31	Apr 18, '22	#Ukraine security expert tells me of a recent convo with an Italian journo. Italian: “So, to make peace with #Russia, what will you give them?” UA: “what do you mean?” Italian: “we	13.9×	0	21k	2.6k	161
32	Nov 18, '22	Astonishing scenes from #Iran. Protesters have burned down the house of Ruhollah Khomeini, the Islamic Republic’s founder. The house has been a museum for the past 30 years. This i	13.7×	0	17k	4k	286
33	Nov 6, '24	As Donald Trump looks set to win, Joe Biden must do one thing. expedite all military aid to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 & unchain the Ukrainians - allow them to use US weapons inside #Russia	13.5×	191k	3.8k	763	53
34	Nov 6, '24	With >95% of precincts reporting, Kamala polling at 67.8% of the vote in New York City. If that holds, that it's the worst performance for a Democratic Presidential candidate in	13.5×	191k	1.5k	122	47
35	May 27, '23	A Ukrainian grandmother searching for her abducted grandchildren died after being interrogated by the FSB for 14 hours.	13.4×	190k	2.2k	1k	80
36	Sep 11, '22	#Russia 🇷🇺 has just fired Lt. General Berdnikov, its commander of the western military district. He’s been in post for 15 days.	12.4×	0	18k	2.2k	151
37	Mar 20, '22	If you don't get how vital the battle for #Ukraine is, let Sergei Lavrov explain: "This is not about Ukraine at all, but the world order. The current crisis is a fateful, epoch-mak	12.4×	0	14k	4.1k	369
38	Jul 6, '23	And the memes have started. "Click on the images that show Prigozhin". Via ⁦⁦@TheAdamUre⁩	12.3×	174k	1.3k	238	36
39	Aug 13, '21	Biggest winner in Afghanistan? Pakistan's ISI. It helped build a nuclear arsenal in defiance of the international non-proliferation regime, supported & armed the Taliban, under	10.7×	0	13k	3k	116
40	Apr 27, '22	THREAD: I’ve arrived in Dnipro to begin covering the battle for eastern #Ukraine. Dima has been fighting since early March. “It’s like WWII but with modern technology. 2014 was a p	10.7×	0	12k	2.9k	699
41	Apr 27, '22	"I want to say one thing: @elonmusk's Starlink is what changed the war in #Ukraine's favour. #Russia went out of its way to blow up all our comms. Now they can't. Starlink works un	10.2×	0	12k	2.6k	282
42	Nov 30, '24	Meanwhile in Damascus.	9.7×	137k	3.2k	304	66
43	Mar 11, '22	Of all the conflicts I have engaged with or covered in my life, Ukraine is where I most clearly see the unambiguous resurgence of violent, expansionist fascism. Ukrainians are figh	9.7×	0	12k	2.9k	125
44	Sep 10, '22	Ukrainian soldiers singing the national anthem on liberated territory.	8.8×	0	13k	1.8k	141
45	Mar 15, '22	Today #Ukraine held an emergency session of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament). Despite Putin’s brutal attacks over 350 out of 425 MPs were present. They sang the national anthem. The	8.5×	0	11k	2.2k	99
46	Feb 21, '22	We could have stopped him in Georgia. We could have stopped him in Syria We could have stopped him in Crimea We could have stopped him in Eastern Ukraine. But we did nothing. And h	8.3×	0	10k	2.3k	107
47	Jul 30, '25	150,000 dead in Sudan. 12 million displaced. Nobody cares. Excellent reporting from BHL about the world's forgotten genocide.	8.2×	116k	2.6k	1k	131
48	Dec 15, '23	Time to kick Hungary out of the EU.	7.6×	107k	3.5k	425	16
49	Aug 18, '21	Afghan girls beg American soldiers at the airport to save them from what they know is coming.	7.3×	0	4.9k	2.7k	277
50	Jun 17, '25	Reports that John Mearsheimer has fled Tehran.	7.0×	99k	1.6k	138	38
51	Sep 10, '22	Ukrainian soldiers 🇺🇦have been writing tributes to the Queen onto shells and rockets before firing them at Russian 🇷🇺forces.	6.8×	0	9.9k	1.2k	159
52	Sep 30, '22	Look at those delighted crowds in the Luhansk 🇺🇦 oblast out celebrating their annexation to Russia 🇷🇺.	6.4×	0	8.1k	1.6k	145
53	May 1, '22	Odesa security expert tells me: “Security is really tight atm as there's a real fear of infiltration by saboteurs. Last week the security services caught someone skulking around po	5.9×	0	8.6k	1.1k	136
54	Nov 1, '25	Extraordinary events in Serbia.	5.1×	72k	3.2k	284	31
55	May 7, '22	I was fortunate enough to go to a hidden Ukrainian 🇺🇦 base on the very frontlines of the war in the Donbas. Here, with the soldiers & their commander Yuriy Bereza, I learned	5.1×	0	5.6k	1.4k	373
56	Sep 25, '22	In Tehran tonight. “Down with the dictator" "We don't want the Islamic Republic.” #MahsaAmini #Mahsa_Amini #IranProtests #IranProtests2022 #مهسا_امینی	4.6×	0	5k	1.7k	23
57	Aug 6, '22	In today's @DailyMailUK I go inside occupied Kherson. This is what #Russia 🇷🇺 does in all the places it occupies. Never forget. Never turn your back on #Ukraine 🇺🇦.	4.5×	0	4k	1.7k	159
58	Aug 16, '21	This footage will still be played in 100 years. It now joins images of the retreat from Saigon and the naked Vietnamese girl as one of the west’s most shameful moments in modern hi	4.0×	0	3.8k	1.4k	160
59	Sep 20, '22	More women in #Iran🇮🇷 set fire to their headscarves tonight during the fifth night of protests in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, following her arrest by morality police	3.7×	0	4k	1.3k	54
60	Feb 21, '22	Can you imagine if Jeremy Corbyn was Prime Minister now…?	3.5×	0	3k	320	13
61	May 22, '24	Only been in NATO five minutes and already stepping up. Bravo Sweden! 🇸🇪	3.5×	49k	3k	265	4
62	Jan 24, '22	Amazing photo. Remember these people - & don't dare turn your eyes from them. Many of them may die fighting the kind of tyranny that threatens us all.	3.5×	0	4.4k	969	69
63	Oct 18, '25	First it’s football. Tomorrow it will be schools and courts. Birmingham is the front line — and Britain is at stake. Unless we act now to stop sectarian bigots dictating national l	3.2×	46k	3.6k	515	27
64	Jul 11, '22	Doing the rounds on Ukrainian 🇺🇦 Twitter rn.	3.2×	0	4.2k	788	48
65	May 9, '22	I came to Kharkiv (& the villages beyond) to report for @unhered. On the northeastern front Russian guns were firing from 2 sides, while Russia itself is just over 20km away. O	2.9×	0	3.6k	821	104
66	Jun 27, '22	Now #Russia 🇷🇺has struck a shopping mall in Kremenchuk. Reports of many people stuck inside - screams heard coming from the smoke. Mayor says there are multiple casualties. Yet a	2.9×	0	2.9k	1k	32
67	Sep 21, '22	Huge crowds in #Iran 🇮🇷 chanting: "Khamenei is a murderer. His rule is illegitimate" #IranProtests #ایران	2.9×	0	3.5k	893	31
68	Apr 27, '22	"Chechen soldiers? Ha We call them TikTok soldiers. They're always filming. We found one who was wounded and trying not to fight but take a selfie." "Their job is not to fight but	2.8×	0	3.7k	672	53
69	Jun 5, '22	Several #Ukraine🇺🇦 sources have now confirmed to me that while #Russia🇷🇺 troops did force their way into Sieverodonetsk, the city's defenders deliberately allowed them to overe	2.7×	0	4.2k	401	20
70	Apr 27, '22	“Our greatest ally in this war is #Russia corruption & the nature of its army. The soldier in the field briefs his officer: ‘it’s not good but we’re holding’; next guy reports	2.7×	0	3.7k	558	45
71	Mar 27, '22	Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad, calls Putin’s war on #Ukraine, “One of the most extraordinary military disasters of the modern era.”	2.6×	0	3.5k	666	63
72	Apr 20, '22	Mayor of #Mykolayiv: “In the beginning I’d get messages from Russians telling me to surrender or face the fate of #Mariupol. I told them: either go home and live or come here and d	2.5×	0	3k	682	70
73	Apr 27, '22	Their tactics are insane. Chernobaivka has a small military airport. 17 times they've tried to take it. 17 times we've smashed them. Still they come. Our soldiers ask: "Are they du	2.4×	0	3.4k	501	47
74	Apr 27, '22	“What has shocked me is the callousness of #Russia soldiers to their own men.” He shows me a photo taken from a drone of soldiers eating lunch in a ruined house near several bodies	2.4×	0	3.1k	634	68
75	Apr 17, '22	As reports come in that #Russia has moved troops to the 🇫🇮Finnish border, the Finns post a video of them moving tractors there in response. Top trolling!	2.3×	0	3.1k	543	32
76	May 1, '22	I'm reporting from #Ukraine (& so detailing Russia behaviour). I assume Russia trolls trying to take down my account as I've received a DM saying it's been reported multiple ti	2.2×	0	3.1k	472	15
77	Oct 27, '25	“Zelenskyy isn't a friend of the working class either." This woman is a moron.	2.1×	30k	1.5k	76	18
78	Apr 27, '22	"The NLAWs are the best: easy to use, lock, load and move; without them we wouldn’t be taking out so many Russian tanks. On the subject of tanks: We’ve captured more than 100 enemy	2.1×	0	3.1k	328	38
79	Aug 18, '22	This is the exact moment a Russian rocket hits a Children’s playground in Kharkiv. Russia claims Ukrainian soldiers were hiding there. You can clearly see that is a lie.	2.0×	0	2k	770	61
80	Apr 27, '22	“I didn’t believe the war would happen bc an invasion needs at least 2-1 numerical superiority. I looked on the borders at the army there & it was clear they didn’t have it. Th	2.0×	0	3.1k	337	15
81	Apr 27, '22	"They just drop the bodies of their friends into trenches. Sometimes they don’t even bother to cover them We found a grave of 15 bodies a while back. They’d thrown bit of dirt on t	1.8×	0	2.7k	309	14
82	Jun 23, '22	One of the most extraordinary things I’ve seen in public diplomacy. #Ukraine🇺🇦 Ministry of Defence produces a video (that could also be a music video) thanking its “friend right	1.7×	0	1.8k	484	135
83	Apr 27, '22	“They use Soviet military tactics, which were out of date 30 years ago. But we study Afghanistan, & Israel. Things have changed! #Russia tries to press with Mass. Our strategy	1.7×	0	2.8k	247	9
84	Oct 16, '25	Five years ago a Jihadist savage beheaded Samuel Paty with a cleaver. His “crime”? Showing his students cartoons of the prophet Muhammad during a class on freedom of expression. Re	1.6×	23k	1.5k	317	34
85	Sep 10, '22	“Give them the tools and they will finish the job.”	1.6×	0	2.6k	220	6
86	Sep 25, '22	This is Hadith Najafi, she came out to protest her right to be free. The regime shot and killed her. She was 23-years-old. #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی	1.6×	0	1.6k	610	24
87	Jun 25, '22	Delighted to write the Saturday Essay in today's @DailyMailUK. My message is simple: as news cycles move on, don't forget about Ukraine 🇺🇦. It's what Russia 🇷🇺 is counting on.	1.6×	0	1.9k	517	16
88	Apr 28, '22	THREAD: I’ve come to the #Donbas & onto the frontlines of eastern #Ukraine for @unherd. I was lucky enough to spend time in a - covert - Ukrainian base right near the front. I	1.6×	0	1.8k	408	143
89	Jul 9, '22	I delve deep inside occupied Kherson to find out how the #Ukrainian 🇺🇦 resistance is hunting Russians🇷🇺 across the region. The enemy continues to torture & steal & kill	1.6×	0	1.7k	513	77
90	Apr 27, '22	"I know you British have a complicated relationship with your prime minister but here @BorisJohnson has become something of a national hero. We knew from the beginning that Britain	1.5×	0	2.3k	240	19
91	Apr 27, '22	“Look, you can always tell the difference between a partisan strike against a #Russia target & a Russian false flag. The former targets important infrastructure. They just bomb	1.5×	0	2.3k	240	16
92	Sep 11, '22	There is chatter on #Ukraine 🇺🇦 channels that I stress is unconfirmed: 1. #Russia 🇷🇺 units in Kherson began negotiations to surrender. 2. Fighting has broken out RU & Kadyr	1.4×	0	1.9k	252	40
93	Oct 5, '22	Russian soldiers drive up to #Ukraine🇺🇦positions with a white flag tied to their tank and get out and surrender.	1.4×	0	1.7k	296	48
94	Apr 20, '22	I’m reporting from on-the-ground in #Mykolaiv, which is now suffering more shelling than at any point in the war as #Russia ramps up attacks. Here a row of offices has been struck.	1.4×	0	1.2k	565	49
95	Feb 26, '22	Wow.	1.4×	0	1.8k	346	13
96	Mar 5, '22	A new mural on the side of a bombed-out home in the Syrian city of Binnish	1.2×	0	1.4k	397	19
97	Oct 21, '21	Unbeatable.	1.1×	0	1.6k	231	45
98	Aug 19, '21	Taliban is actively hunting down Afghans who worked with coalition forces. They’re also setting up networks of informers and spies on the ground. This is a nightmare. US/UK etc nee	1.1×	0	1.4k	307	5
99	Apr 15, '22	Getting ready for 🇺🇦. Follow me for as I report for @unherd from on-the-ground. The first phase of the war is over. The second phase is about to begin, and #Russia will do everyt	0.9×	0	1.3k	165	5
100	Apr 28, '22	“Before the war I wasn’t a big fan of Zelensky. I thought he was a great guy but not right for politics. Now I support him 1000%. The most important thing he did was stay in #Ukrai	0.9×	0	1.3k	138	19

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