Matthew Luxmoore

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@WSJ reporter covering Russia and Ukraine. Alum @DCRES_Harvard. Messages/tips/stories to: matthew.luxmoore@wsj.com

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1Feb 24, '22People marching through central Moscow this evening chanting “No to War!”267×0473k95k4.2k
2Jun 24, '23“Now, commercials. And then… commercials.” Russian state TV is in chaos as anchors wait for info on producers who themselves need instructions from the Kremlin on how to cover this231×2.1M4.9k1k239
3Mar 1, '24Incredible scenes in Moscow today, surreal even. Hundreds chanting Navalny’s name as his body is brought to the church - honouring a man the Kremlin branded an extremist, and kille223×2M25k4.5k512
4Jun 5, '23A deep fake Putin announcing mass mobilisation in Russia may be one part of what seems to be a hacking attack coinciding with Ukrainian counter-offensives in the east & south t131×1.2M3.1k467165
5Feb 16, '24People in Moscow today lining up to lay flowers for Navalny, the only form of silent protest the state will tolerate today. You can see how shell-shocked they are98.4×891k5.9k1.4k119
6Mar 1, '24Russia has instituted a climate of fear and jailed hundreds since it started its war in Ukraine. And still the line of people for Navalny’s funeral in Moscow keeps growing.69.8×632k5.5k96476
7Mar 2, '22Video shared on Ukrainian channels of a captured Russian soldier apparently being fed by locals. The post says he burst into tears when he was allowed to video-call his mother. So 64.2×098k24k3.9k
8Sep 21, '22Protests in Moscow and St Petersburg today have grown pretty large. People chanting “No to War!” Dozens of arrests reported49.5×081k19k757
9Dec 30, '22Sunrise in Kyiv48.6×440k9.9k57136
10Mar 1, '24People throwing flowers at the hearse carrying Navalny’s body. After so many waves of repression it’s amazing that so many of his supporters have turned out.45.8×415k7.8k1.2k107
11Mar 6, '22Protesters are marching past St Isaac’s Cathedral in St Petersburg chanting “No to War!”40.3×068k16k439
12Mar 4, '22Massive pro-Ukraine rally tonight in Tbilisi, Georgia - a country invaded by Russia in 200835.6×064k13k321
13Mar 1, '24This is the biggest pro-opposition gathering in Moscow since the war’s first days. Navalny used to lead such protests columns in a freer Russia - now his dead body is lying in an o34.7×314k8.5k1.5k148
14Mar 1, '22Amazing footage from Melitopol of Ukrainians stopping the onward advance of a Russian convoy and chanting “Occupants!” and “Murderers!” The jittery Russians are firing into the air32.9×049k13k1.1k
15May 29, '23Ukrainians always find a way to put a good face on things30.2×273k2.9k41337
16Feb 24, '22A view of the protest in central Moscow this evening. Thousands across the country are risking serious repercussions to protest Putin’s attack on Ukraine. More than 850 people deta29.7×049k12k504
17Jun 28, '22A Ukrainian childhood. Photo published by UNIAN news agency.28×047k11k714
18Jul 8, '24Kyiv residents surging supplies to the children’s hospital hit by Russia this morning. An amazing Ukrainian solidarity we’ve seen so many times since this invasion began.25.9×234k7.8k1.6k80
19May 2, '227-year-old Angelina, just arrived from Russian-occupied territory25.7×058k3.5k178
20Aug 1, '24New display at the @WSJ newsroom25.1×227k9.3k77438
21Mar 4, '22Looks like the whole of Novopskov in eastern Ukraine has come out to tell the bedraggled Russian soldiers occupying the town what its residents think: “War and death follows you wh24.2×038k10k572
22Mar 1, '24Emotional scenes in Moscow as Navalny’s mother is hugged by mourners at her son’s funeral. “Forgive us,” they tell her, and “Your son is a martyr.”23.4×212k6.9k99399
23Apr 17, '23“I blame myself for only one thing,” Kara-Murza said in court. “I have not managed to convince enough of my compatriots and enough politicians in democratic countries of the danger23×209k1.4k48232
24Mar 1, '24Navalny in an open casket at the Moscow church, his parents in the bottom left. An image for the history books today, and one you will see many times in the future.21.2×192k3k782121
25Oct 9, '22Lviv tonight12.4×024k2.7k425
27Sep 9, '22Video appearing to show emotional residents of Balakliya greeting Ukrainian troops who liberated the town after enduring 7 months under Russian occupation. “The flag of Ukraine in 10.4×019k3.2k305
28Mar 16, '22Ominous words from Putin about a “natural and necessary cleansing of the nation” to “spit out like flies” all representatives of a fifth column and “traitors” who do not back the K8.2×07.9k3.3k444
29Mar 7, '22Ruble has hit 140. Absolute madness8.1×016k1.4k103
30Mar 6, '22Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill unsurprisingly endorsing Putin’s narrative on Ukraine in a sermon today. According to him the West essentially organises genocide campaigns agains8.0×05.5k2.6k522
31Apr 13, '22A Russian activist who replaced price tags in supermarkets with anti-war appeals and graphic images of atrocities in Ukraine has been jailed for 8 weeks pending her trial for “disc7.8×010k4k215
32Oct 26, '22Extraordinary moment as students at Russia’s oldest university in St Petersburg applaud and cheer a professor who has been fired for taking part in anti-war protests. Denis Skopin 7.0×012k2.5k213
33Sep 24, '22More protests against mobilisation happening across Russia today, with rallies planned in Moscow and St Petersburg tonight. Arrests already under way in Tomsk, Siberia6.3×010k2.4k86
34Sep 30, '22Pro-Kremlin blogger Vladlen Tatarsky in the Kremlin Grand Hall adds his commentary after Putin's speech: "We'll conquer everyone, we'll kill everyone, we'll loot whoever we need to6.2×06.9k2.7k420
35Mar 1, '24Huge lines for Navalny’s funeral in Moscow today. His body is being carried to the church6.2×56k2.5k34523
36Jan 23, '21Protests are taking place across Russia today, calling for Navalny’s release. This is Vladivostok, in the country’s Far East6.0×08.8k2.6k135
37May 24, '22Mariupol's Peace Avenue before the arrival of Russia's military, and after. Source:6.0×08.9k2.9k109
40Nov 10, '22Amazing videos surfacing today of Ukrainian troops being greeted by emotional residents of Kherson region towns and villages liberated since Russia announced its withdrawal yesterd5.1×09.7k1.5k124
41Jan 31, '21St Petersburg, Russia. The soundtrack of the #Navalny protests4.6×06.5k2k179
42May 29, '22Sun’s out and central Kyiv is absolutely packed tonight. Hard to believe the contrast to several weeks ago.4.5×09.5k78888
43Jan 31, '21Protesters in central Moscow chanting “Down with the Tsar!” Some have broken off and are heading to the Matrosskaya Tishina jail where opposition leader Navalny is being held.4.0×06.1k1.8k45
44Apr 21, '21Thousands are marching through the heart of Moscow after today’s protest chanting “Change!”3.8×05.9k1.5k37
45Aug 1, '21Looks like an international scandal is brewing in Tokyo: Belarusian athlete Kryscina Tsimanouskaya publicly appeals for help & says staff from her national Olympic committee ar3.7×04.5k2k124
47Oct 7, '22On Putin’s 70th birthday, Ukraine’s Defense Minister addresses Russian soldiers and highlights their leaders’ hypocrisy: “Our president is visiting the frontline… He is with his ar3.6×06.3k1.1k141
48Jan 23, '21A video from the massive protest in St Petersburg earlier today, via Telegram3.4×04.8k1.6k62
49Mar 18, '22Thousands of people are gathered at Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium wearing pro-war symbolism, to hear the father of a Russian soldier killed in Ukraine say “We must finish what we start3.4×02.9k1.2k147
51Nov 10, '22Amazing videos surfacing today of Ukrainian troops being greeted by emotional residents of Kherson region towns and villages liberated since Russia announced its withdrawal yesterd3.0×05.6k83956
52Jun 3, '21Really uncomfortable to watch this. A battered Roman Protasevich appears on Belarusian state TV to praise autocrat Aleksandr Lukashenko, 10 days after the dissident blogger was tak2.9×02.9k1.4k185
53Oct 16"The Defector" - a 5,500-word espionage tale in today's WSJ that I can guarantee is worth your time. I spent months speaking to one of the deadliest saboteurs in recent military hi2.9×26k32797193
54Feb 12, '22Surreally calm and quiet in Kyiv this morning. People going about their daily business. Just listened to a whole radio news bulletin in a taxi and Russia wasn’t mentioned once. Bar2.8×04.6k91270
55Sep 26, '22Spoke to a Russian reservist who fled to Kazakhstan this weekend. He spoke of enormous lines, and said the Russian train he took to the border was packed with young Russian men."I 2.7×04.4k82692
56Sep 16, '22In a single day at least 5 Russian-installed officials have been killed on occupied Ukrainian territory. Two in Luhansk, one in Kherson, & two more in Berdyansk. Ukraine has no2.7×05.2k67658
57Apr 25, '22Russia has lost thousands of weapons in Ukraine & faces Western sanctions designed to impede their replacement. Two years of tank production erased. “We don’t have the men, we 2.7×04.1k1k139
58Mar 7, '22“Rise up, Melitopol!” Huge march today in the Ukrainian city occupied by Russian forces, who are definitely not being greeted with flowers and cheers as their superiors had promise2.5×03.9k1.1k49
59Jan 31, '21Many Russian cities are like militarised fortresses today, as authorities try to thwart a second protest wave. Graphic designer Vladislav Ivanov captures the zeitgeist with this dy2.5×03.2k1.1k133
60Jun 6, '22Ukraine’s Azov Regiment has worked hard to combat its reputation as a far-right movement. As it trains new fighters for the war with Russia it’s seeking to clean up its image - and2.4×04.3k594127
61Oct 8, '22Russians are posting to Instagram in tears over the Crimea bridge attack, saying they’ve always loved vacationing on the peninsula seized from Ukraine in 2014. No sympathy in Kyiv 2.3×03.8k44787
62Sep 9, '22Unbelievable screed from a pro-Kremlin military blogger telling Russian occupation officials to stop denying Ukrainian advances when there's literally photos of their soldiers in l2.3×04.3k53490
64Jan 28, '21While Navalny supporters are arrested en masse for “violating coronavirus restrictions,” Kremlin-friendly channels are sharing this pro-Putin performance posted online today, showi2.2×01.9k75498
65Sep 11, '22“We brought you a hot breakfast!” More videos of residents of de-occupied territories greeting Ukrainian soldiers.2.2×04.1k62457
67Oct 16, '22Belgorod in Russia today, which is gradually turning into a frontline city in this war. Reports that the airport has been heavily damaged in strikes this morning.2.1×03.7k59586
68Jan 31, '21It’s the 2nd weekend of protests across Russia, a crucial test for the opposition & its standoff with the Kremlin. In Vladivostok in the Far East, protesters gather on the ice 2.1×03.3k82445
69Mar 8, '22A typical street scene in Russia’s major cities since the invasion of Ukraine began. One minute people are walking peacefully in a silent protest in St Petersburg, as police tell t2.0×02.8k1k72
72Feb 24, '22Multiple arrests in central Moscow this afternoon as people come out with posters reading “No to War!” The central Pushkin Square has now been blocked off by police.1.9×02.3k1k53
73Feb 2, '21Crowds marching through central Moscow tonight chanting “Russia without Putin!” Putin’s main critic in Russia ⁦@navalny⁩ has been sentenced to 2 years and 8 months in prison.1.8×02.6k88218
74Jan 23, '21Massive crowds in central Moscow right now, chanting “All for one and one for all!”1.8×02.8k78328
75Jul 7, '22Posters like this in Russia are promoting army service (right) while portraying higher education as a sure-fire route to alcoholism and depression, h/t @ilya_shepelin1.7×02k553190
76Sep 24, '20The most amazing video from Minsk yesterday is of this taxi driver saving a protester being chased by riot police. Solidarity in action #Belarus1.6×02.5k63934
77Sep 25, '22Worrying scenes in Dagestan where parents of children mobilised for Russia’s war in Ukraine have blocked the main road to the regional capital. Police are firing in the air to rest1.6×02.4k65435
78Sep 1, '22Exclusive: We spoke to soldiers wounded in Ukraine’s counter-offensive at a hospital behind the frontlines, where they spoke of significant advances but an extremely brutal fight. 1.6×02.6k477131
79Aug 9, '22Footage of the massive strike on Saki airfield in Crimea, more than 200km from the front line. Beach-goers panicking as war returns to the peninsula annexed from Ukraine in 2014.1.4×02.1k44984
80Oct 10, '22Horrific images emerging from the blast right in the heart of Kyiv, which drives home that no place in Ukraine is yet safe. Looks like there are fatalities.1.4×02.2k54327
81Aug 28, '22Russians living near a training base for the 3rd Army Corps heading to Ukraine say the Russian recruits are roaming the town drunk and harassing its women. “They say they’re going 1.3×02.2k44860
82Aug 18, '22A literal dogfight in the skies over Donbas tonight. Ukrainian SU-27 shooting flares toward a guided missile fired by a Russian fighter jet, not caught in this footage. The few res1.3×02k423177
84Apr 21, '21Another clip from central Moscow tonight, people now chanting “Get a doctor to Navalny!” Police say 6,000 people came out in Russia’s capital today. Navalny’s team says it was at l1.3×01.9k59110
85Mar 13, '22They may be out of the headlines but Russia-wide protests against the war haven’t stopped. Neither have the arrests. This is Yekaterinburg today - peaceful rallies already happenin1.3×01.5k70527
86Mar 9, '22Haunting image of the battered bust of Ukraine's national poet Taras Shevchenko with the smouldering remains of residential buildings in Borodyanka, northwest of Kyiv, in the backg1.1×01.5k57751
88Oct 10, '22Zelensky from the scene of today’s attacks on Kyiv: “The occupiers can’t match us on the battlefield, and that’s why they resort to such terrorism. Well, we’ll make the battlefield1.1×01.7k36423
89Apr 21, '21Touching moment as the crowd in central Moscow chants “Yulia!”, the name of Navalny’s wife who has joined their protest in his support.1.0×01.8k36411
91Oct 10, '22Visited a friend at home in Lviv. Russia’s attacks today left half the city without water, electricity or internet. As we parted he calmly picked up a 5-liter bottle and without a 1.0×01.8k27811
93Oct 4, '22Ukraine's rapid advance into Russian-held areas is outpacing Russia’s efforts to expedite training for newly mobilized troops to reinforce its campaign, say Ukrainian & Western0.9×01.6k29539
97Jun 9, '22Poster in central Kharkiv: “Our army fights so well that NATO should be applying to join Ukraine.”0.8×01.6k18511

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