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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 13d

My latest episode of @thisisnotadrillpod.bsky.social featuring security analyst @jimmyrushton.bsky.social discussing the latest developments from Zelenskyy's trip to the United Nations is out now on the link below or wherever you listen to your podcasts:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · 23d

For New Lines Magazine: I spent a week and a half with Ukraine's elite Third Assault Brigade, the largest and one of the most effective fighting forces within the Ukrainian military, and not coincidently, one of the least 'Soviet'.

With @michaeldweiss.bsky.social.
newlinesmag.com/spotlight/in...

Inside Ukraine’s Plan To Build a Self-Sufficient Defense Force

With Western security guarantees uncertain, Kyiv is turning to elite, battle-hardened units as the core of a remodeled military

newlinesmag.com

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Jul 16

Systematic use of chemical weaponry by Russia in Ukraine continues. My interview/report from the front line for Times Radio.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDWk...

Putin uses ‘lethal’ WW1 gas to attack Ukrainian troops on the Frontline

YouTube video by Times Radio

www.youtube.com

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · Jul 2

NEW: For the Ukrainian volunteers evacuating their fellow civilians, the sudden end of U.S. funding means more will die under Russian fire, reports @jimmyrushton.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social.

newlinesmag.com/spotlight/cu...

Cutting US Aid Jeopardizes the Lives of Ukrainian Civilians

For the volunteers evacuating their fellow citizens, the sudden end of funding means more will die under Russian fire

newlinesmag.com

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Jun 18

Kyiv.

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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social · Jun 2

Latest with @jimmyrushton.bsky.social: Ukraine didn’t just humiliate Vladimir Putin with its stunning FPV drone assault on Russia’s strategic bombers—it also embarrassed Donald Trump, who repeatedly dismissed Kyiv’s ability to fight without U.S. help t.co/9SqbwxSa35

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/06/02/ukraine-drone-attack-russia-proof-kyiv-does-not-need-trump/

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Jun 3

"Ukraine strikes Putin’s prized spy planes - Operation Spider’s Web successfully damages A-50 surveillance aircraft, key to coordinating Russia’s fighter jets and missiles."

www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Ukraine strikes Putin’s prized spy planes

Operation Spider’s Web successfully damages A-50 surveillance aircraft, key to co-ordinating Russia’s fighter jets and missiles

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Jun 3

I’ve been shown unreleased footage of Sunday’s SBU drone attack. I can confirm at least two A-50 AWACS aircraft were struck by drones; the FPV drones landing directly on the radar domes before detonating.

Multiple Tu-22M3s can also be seen struck in the footage.

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · May 2

NEW: Russia is using social media to recruit unsuspecting Ukrainian civilians - including children - and turning them into unwitting suicide bombers.

A deep dive into Moscow's disturbing new tactic with
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social for New Lines Magazine.

newlinesmag.com/reportage/ru...

Russia’s New Weapon: Child Suicide Bombers

Moscow’s intelligence services are recruiting unsuspecting civilians, including the young and vulnerable, for suicide missions

newlinesmag.com

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Apr 5

"Ignore the moral panic; there's nothing inherently unethical about drone warfare..."

I wrote about the debate surrounding the use of small drones in Ukraine, why such drones could actually be considered more 'moral' and why violent combat footage isn't new
jamesrushton.substack.com/p/ignore-the...

Ignore the moral panic; there's nothing inherently unethical about drone warfare

And in fact drones might enable combatants to more closely follow the laws of armed conflict

jamesrushton.substack.com

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Apr 2

Americans really got bored of living in the richest and most powerful country on the planet and decided to just set everything on fire, huh?

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Mar 31

Every week, hundreds of Ukrainians take part in noisy protests, demanding the release of Ukrainian prisoners of war held in inhumane conditions in Russian jails.

I attended one such protest yesterday:
jamesrushton.substack.com/p/we-will-no...

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Mar 3

NEW: Can Europe Back Ukraine’s Fight Alone?

In the wake of a possible breakdown of the transatlantic alliance me and Michael Weiss argue that it both can, and must.

newlinesmag.com/argument/can...

Can Europe Back Ukraine's Fight Alone?

For the first time in decades, European leaders face a US commander-in-chief who doesn’t care for Cold War-era pieties

newlinesmag.com

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Nov 30

Back in the U.K. for a couple of weeks off after another year in Ukraine; will be back in Kyiv just before New Year.

Coming back to what used to be “normality” feels very strange!

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Nov 30

A defeat for the Assad regime is a defeat for Russia; and Moscow will undoubtably be facing some difficult decisions in the next few hours/days over what resources to commit to shoring up it's crumbling Syrian client state.

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Nov 26

One of the largest Russian drone attacks on Ukraine last night of the war.

188 drones were launched against Ukrainian targets.

95 were disabled by electronic warfare - 76 were shot down by air defence.

5 more "flew in the direction of Belarus" according to the airforce.

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Nov 25

Another midnight air-raid in Kyiv. Drones incoming, explosions and flashes of anti-aircraft fire in the distance.

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Nov 24

Tonight in Kyiv we have Russian drones flying directly over our apartment block and anti-aircraft fire and explosions in the distance...

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Nov 23

Good afternoon from this very good boy (and suspected Ukrainian nationalist).

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Nov 20

Remember when Argentina used French Exocet anti-ship missiles to sink British warships during the Falklands War which inevitably led to the great Anglo-French war of 1983?

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Nov 20

A knowledgable source confirms to me the target of today's Storm Shadow cruise missile strikes in Mar'ino, Kursk Oblast, was a Russian command centre.

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Nov 20

Anyone I'm following that's tweeting about Ukraine!

Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Nov 20

The released footage also confirms the target location; this small group of buildings due east of the main estate.

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Nov 20

Footage was released showing today's Ukrainian "Storm Shadow" cruise missile strikes on a Russian target in the settlement of Mar'ino, Kursk Oblast, Russia.

Notable that the Ukrainians were able to operate an ISR drone deep in the Russian rear, with no Russian air defence response.

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Jimmy Rushton @jimmyrushton.bsky.social · Nov 20

A lot of speculation about target; clearly it was of extremely high perceived value for the Ukrainians to expend this number of missiles.

A high possibility is a Russian military headquarters, potentially struck during a meeting (this would also explain the daytime strike).

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