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Special Correspondent, The Guardian. cover: E Europe, Ukraine war, intel latest book: The Illegals, on Russian deep-cover spies shaun.walker@theguardian.com

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1Feb 25, '22Driving on the road towards Kyiv and the radio announcer is giving out instructions on how to make Molotov cocktails.23.8×080k11k1k
2Feb 27, '22Two presidents meet with their respective defence ministers.22.2×074k10k799
3May 23, '22Moscow 1991 / Moscow 202219.9×065k10k813
4Mar 7, '22Zelenskiy with another video from his office in the heart of Kyiv. Not many presidents would still be there and not in a bunker, on the 12th day of an invasion, with multiple intel17.5×055k8.7k699
5Mar 6, '22Written down like this Zelenskiy’s address tonight reads like a powerful poem.17×047k12k1.3k
6Apr 9, '22Poster at Kyiv main railway station…16.4×049k10k597
7Mar 1, '22Unbearable scenes at Kyiv central station. Old people, kids, disabled people, pets, this train is already packed full. People fear it could be the last chance to flee.10.4×025k7.9k750
8Mar 6, '22Odessa mayor Gennady Trukhanov, generally known as pro-Russian, has come down firmly on the side of Kyiv in recent days. “I don’t know what kind of bastard you have to be to press 9.8×030k6k256
9Apr 4, '22Left behind by a fleeing Russian convoy in a Ukrainian village: 50 Syrian Pounds8.9×028k5k388
10Feb 15, '22The best Putin massive table memes spotted on Twitter, a short thread:8.9×024k5.5k1.3k
11Mar 9, '22Watching this video of saluting youths in a shopping mall in Kazan wearing the Z Russian army logo side and then looking at the photographs coming out of Mariupol and it’s hard not8.6×018k5.2k736
12May 19, '25“If you don’t engage in good faith we’ll have to abandon our support for your adversary” is quite a negotiating position.8.6×581k5.5k924218
13Mar 7, '22Road sign in Odessa Straight on: fuck off Left: fuck off again Right: fuck off to Russia8.5×025k5.4k517
14Apr 4, '22A story in two parts: 1. Today I met a woman who ran a beauty salon. The Russians occupied her town, shot at her brother, stole friend's car. Seven soldiers broke into her salon an7.8×022k5k547
15Apr 29, '25Together with several Guardian colleagues, as part of a large journalistic consortium, we investigated the torture and death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna in Russian 6.9×469k3.3k1.3k227
16Mar 30, '22I won’t share the images/names here but there are numerous reports and pics of young Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine with documents showing they were born in 2001 or 2002. Born 6.8×021k3.9k126
17Apr 8, '22In the Ukrainian village of Novyi Bykiv, the Russians set up their base in the local school. The whole place is totally wrecked now, just two years after it was renovated. But the 6.7×016k5.7k646
18Mar 25, '22Watching some guy complain in English to a friendly waitress that the food is bad and the bill is slow to come, in a Kyiv hotel restaurant on the 30th day of a war, has brought on 6.4×024k1.8k165
19Feb 12, '22KYIV - Despite US warnings of an imminent Russian invasion, the couple staying in the adjacent hotel room to mine continued to have incredibly loud sex while I tried to write my st5.8×019k1.5k258
21Mar 27, '22Spent the morning with this marvellous 99-year-old, who survived Holodomor, was sent to Austria by Nazis to work as forced labour, and still has razor sharp mind. Now living close 5.6×016k3.4k386
22Apr 2, '22Kharkiv kangaroo man has gone back for the tapirs!4.7×016k2.1k213
23Mar 9, '22Iasi airport in Romania absolutely packed with Ukrainian refugees taking flights to Bucharest, Dublin, Vienna, Warsaw. The only flight not full with Ukrainians is the one to London4.7×014k3.1k61
24Apr 3, '22Powerful address by Zelenskiy in Russian, to Russians. “This is how the Russian state will now be perceived. This is your image. Your culture and human appearance perished together4.5×012k3.4k265
25Mar 2, '22Lavrov: Russia has many friends, you can’t isolate it. Russia’s friends: Belarus, Eritrea, North Korea, Syria4.4×013k2.7k213
26Mar 8, '22Just left Ukraine to Romania. Huge queues of 6+ hours in snow and wind, caused by Ukraine border checks. On the Ro side: food, hot drinks, free buses, help, volunteers, arranging o4.4×013k2.5k91
27Jun 12, '221. Destroy the place 2. Terrorise the survivors 3. Paint everything in the russian flag 4. Send in Phillips4.1×013k1.6k148
28Feb 28, '22Volodymyr Kravets served in Murmansk in Soviet missile forces in 1959-60 and used to love Russia. Now he’s furious they’re invading and came to pick up Molotov cocktails. “I tried 4.0×012k2.3k221
29Feb 24, '22Reportedly audio from Snake Island in Black Sea: -This is a Russian military ship. I suggest you lay down your weapons and surrender to avoid bloodshed and unnecessary victims. Oth3.8×08.6k2.9k488
30Feb 27, '22Extraordinary video (and soundtrack) reportedly from Bucha outside Kyiv, near the Hostomel airbase3.7×08.1k2.4k953
31Sep 11, '22Russian chat shows always had the “NATO shill guest” who said relatively sensible things and could then be torn down by the others. But Boris Nadezhdin here speaking some dangerous3.6×08.9k1.7k818
32Apr 28, '22Current status of Russian tv (via @ilya_shepelin)3.6×09.9k1.7k190
33Apr 12, '22German UPS, which lost four out five parcels I sent with them, could learn a thing or two from Ukrainian Post, which despite the war is still operating and delivered my suitcase fr3.5×013k1.3k65
34Dec 23, '23Spoke to new Polish foreign minister ⁦@sikorskiradek⁩, just back from Kyiv. “The Ukrainians are tired, but only they are entitled to be tired by this war. We in this west don’t hav3.5×235k2.9k69358
35Mar 28, '22Can’t quite imagine how, but one fancy Kyiv supermarket is restocked with oysters and lobsters3.5×013k86993
36Mar 28, '22A source with direct knowledge has just confirmed to me the WSJ/Bellingcat reports that Abramovich suffered symptoms of poisoning. "Roman lost his sight for several hours" and was 3.5×08.5k2.7k195
37Mar 26, '22Chilling footage from the drive out of Mariupol3.4×07.4k3k295
38May 18, '22Ukraine stands accused of the war crime of “not surrendering”3.4×010k1.7k110
39Apr 6, '22You come back to your home in a Ukrainian village after the Russians leave and find that not only have they lived in your house and stolen all your electronics, they’ve also painte3.3×09.7k1.9k136
40Feb 26, '22Road signs are being taken down by teams on the roads outside Kyiv - so as not to help any lost Russians3.1×011k1k49
41Feb 26, '22Governor of Kharkiv says whole city under Ukrainian control, announced curfew from 6pm - non-military vehicles on the street will be “liquidated” I interviewed him on Monday, he wa3.1×010k1.4k135
42Jan 7, '25I’m really excited that my book on the history of Russia’s “illegal” spies comes out soon. It’s taken me years of work and covers a century of Soviet/Russian history... Below, a sh2.9×193k643151159
43Apr 6, '22I’ve been into thousands of Russian homes - even in the poorest, most dilapidated places it’s almost sacred to keep the inside tidy, take off shoes etc. The disgusting mess left be2.8×09.5k1.3k108
44May 9, '22Thanks Urban Dictionary2.8×08.7k1.5k161
46Feb 21, '22Putin is running this Security Council meeting like a Netflix drama. Starts by saying basically we're all going to decide the fate of Ukraine today, then lots of plot filling from 2.6×05.2k1.8k373
47Feb 24, '22Through the horror I can’t stop thinking about the sheer idiocy. Putin is creating & reinforcing all the things he is most scared of that were once phantom. A Ukraine that’s al2.5×08.2k1.1k167
49Apr 12, '22The Russian official accounts calling Bucha fake news, a provocation etc., are still on Twitter, but one of the only Russian journalists to have reported (brilliantly) from Ukraine2.2×05.5k1.6k74
50Apr 6, '22One of very many sad encounters I had in a recently deoccupied town east of Kyiv today was with 72-year-old Ivan Komorny, wheeling food aid home to a barn, where he’s sleeping beca2.2×06.7k1.3k68
51May 21, '22Kyiv opera (re)opening of the season2.2×08k67123
53Mar 3, '22The videos from Chernihiv this evening seem an extreme escalation even by the standards of this hideous Russian campaign - suggest the Aleppo option for Ukrainian cities is very mu2.1×04k2.1k202
54Mar 31, '22I wrote a piece on the amazing effort of the Ukrainian railways over the last month, to take millions of people to safety and continue delivering aid to the east. 64 of their emplo2.0×04.8k1.7k190
55May 23, '22Vadim Shishimarin sentenced to life in prison in Kyiv just now. He looks like a child. Wonder if the people who ordered him into Ukraine will ever be standing in the dock…2.0×06.3k79559
56Mar 6, '22Good morning Odessa! Beautiful morning, welcome music playing at the train station. For a short moment, it’s hard to tell that this is a city about to face attack. Amazing service 2.0×07k79947
57Sep 26, '22War cheerleader Simonyan reports in shock that Russian border guards wouldn’t let one of her sports desk employees “who just wanted to go on holiday” out of the country as he may h2.0×06.4k73792
58Aug 10, '22Anna Bahatelya, a remarkable woman I interviewed in March who survived the Holodomor, Second World War, a covid bout aged 99 and now Putin’s invasion, turned 100 today. Her birthda1.9×05.9k93378
59Mar 30, '22Irpin mayor: about 50 people from army/territorial defence died liberating the town just outside Kyiv, 100 injured. Civilian casualties not counted yet. "I think abt 200-300 people1.9×05k1.4k40
60Jul 25, '22St Petersburg graffiti1.8×05.8k1k58
61Mar 4, '22Heading out of Kyiv, perhaps won’t be back for a little while. Worrying to think what the city might look like in a week or two.1.8×06.8k52925
62May 20, '22Totally normal way for a journalist covering a war to be dressed1.8×05.9k44376
63Mar 1, '22Road signs coming out of Kyiv: the air temperature is +1, the ground temperature is +2, Russians fuck off.1.7×05.1k1.2k91
64Mar 14, '22Aerial footage of the destruction of Mariupol, shared by Ukrainian officials1.6×03k1.7k127
65Mar 14, '22An image for the history books1.5×04.7k93783
66Feb 24, '22Can’t sleep, feel sick.1.5×05.7k35529
67Sep 25, '222014 marches for peace in central Moscow, tens of thousands of people came. In the first pic is one of the organisers, Boris Nemtsov, and the sign says "Hands off Ukraine". He was 1.5×04.4k1k67
68Aug 20, '22As Ukraine burns, the wife of Putin’s long-standing press secretary is apparently having a great holiday in Greece, smashing plates and doing Insta photoshoots #style #orange1.5×04.1k89437
69Sep 22, '22Oops1.5×03k969171
70May 8, '22Child abuse1.5×03.1k673157
71Mar 28, '22The few people who didn't leave Irpin were mostly those too old and to frail to walk. For them, the last month has been hell. Death, illness and frayed nerves, a few miles from Kyi1.5×03k1.4k130
72Mar 29, '22Can’t stop watching this TikTok1.5×03.7k686400
74Feb 20, '221968: four days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring, eight Soviet citizens protested in Red Square and held up banners denouncing the invasion. Th1.3×03.2k1.1k60
75Apr 3, '22The Malaysian plane was not shot down by Ukrainians, the collapsed opposition leader was not suffering from low blood sugar, they weren’t in Salisbury to see the cathedral, the bod1.3×03.8k87462
76Feb 26, '22Unforgiving and revealing interview with the Russian ambassador to Ireland “Why should our government entertain your presence here when you’re acting as an apologist for slaughter?1.3×03.1k824213
77Sep 22, '22Dutch TV launches campaign for a referendum to return Russia to its historical Dutch roots…1.3×03.8k738100
78Mar 24, '22Mostly, volunteers on the Polish-Ukraine border offer food, drink, transport - a v uplifting sight. But imagine you travel for days to safety, are stuck in a queue and have to list1.3×03.2k54790
80Jun 14, '22Among reasons @mfa_russia gives for banning me and other journos today is that we "contribute to fuelling Russophobia in British society". Novichok'ing people, shooting down MH17, 1.3×04.1k67122
81May 26, '22There may be "Mariupol fatigue", but the stories are all different and all awful. I wrote up this story about a couple who lost their apartment, Svitlana lost her pregnancy, and th1.3×02.7k1.2k147
83May 31, '22I have a compartment of my own heading west from Kyiv this evening to work and sleep in and feel like Kim Jong Un 🤴🏻 Love Ukrainian Railways1.3×04.9k19334
85Feb 21, '22A few hours ago: let's have a chat about whether we should recognise DNR, I'm genuinely unsure and keen to hear your opinions. Now: OK we will, and here's a wide-ranging 86,000 wor1.2×03.8k63562
86Mar 3, '22“I am Valentina Iosifovna Romanova. I was born in Ukraine. I met the war of 22 June 1941 under bombing in Kyiv. My relatives were killed in Babyn Yar. On 24 February 2022 I was aga1.2×03.1k94378
87Mar 1, '22Current status of Russia’s “denazification campaign”: bombing a Holocaust memorial1.2×02.7k1.1k45
88Sep 16, '22Awkwardly pretending to check your phone because your date’s late. But you don’t have a phone and your date’s Aliyev1.1×03.5k47680
91May 2, '22March 25: Putin cites JK Rowling as proof of West’s ‘cancel culture’. May 2: Russia's Bolshoi Theatre has announced it is canceling performances by directors who have spoken out ag1.0×03.4k53238
93Feb 21, '22When it comes to assessing the impact of Covid on the world, leaving Vladimir Putin isolated in a bunker with a library of books about Ukraine is probably going to be one of the ma1.0×03k56483
94Sep 10, '22Syrski, commander of Ukrainian ground forces, runs Ukrainian flag-raising ceremony in Balakliia (vid via Vertikal telegram channel). Amazing.1.0×03.2k50447
95Sep 20, '22I’m not a legal scholar but it feels like there may be some legality issues with organising a referendum in three days in the middle of a war on territory you only partially contro1.0×03.3k33616
98Sep 14, '22Zelenskiy in Izium is again a sharp contrast with Putin, who hasn't been anywhere near front, made brief visit to a military hospital once in May, and otherwise (as far as we know)1.0×03.1k46631
101Apr 9, '22Just finished probably the most harrowing week of reporting I’ve ever done, and couldn’t have done it without this guy, Svyatoslav. Driver, occasional photographer, reluctant inter0.8×03.1k16716

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