Britta Ellwanger🇺🇦

Thanks @HURI_Harvard :) A love letter to indomitable Ukrainian social networks who won this war. huri.harvard.edu/aid-inside-out…

This week I published @FTMag a profile of Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian president’s immensely powerful and controversial chief of staff. It was based on interviews with Yermak himself inside his office and at various events where I tagged along with him and his team, as well as…

What I read this week or this weekend and found interesting. The new world leader in war crimes justice is probably Ukraine. Its general prosecutor is investigating 177,000 suspected war crimes. @avalaina herself has taken testimonies from hundreds of victims. It’s crucial and…

In our new investigation into Russia's use of children for their military drone program, crucial evidence came from @tashurkevich's undercover phone calls. Here are some of the most striking confessions she extracted.

Unelected. Unapologetic. Uncompromising. Andriy Yermak is not Ukraine’s president. But he often acts like one. He handpicks govt officials—and dismisses them. The PM and military brass frequently defer to him. My @FTMag profile of Ukraine's Green Cardinal ft.com/content/4d6114…

This did not just happen overnight, even if it feels that way. This is a shift months in the making. I wrote last week about it coming to a head – and got a lot of criticism from many of the same people now condemning Zelensky. Read this for context: ft.com/content/22f4d5…

To be clear: it was not the Rada, this was not good tsar, bad boyars – it was Zelensky and Yermak who organized this and pushed it through. Orders came from the office of the president last night and the law enforcement committee passed it early morning in such great haste that…

Ukraine's civil society shows yet again it is prepared to stand for clean government. It is possible 2both fight possible ru agents in anticorrpution agencies & protect agencies themselves. Current govt seems to forget what Yanukovych was overthrown for pravda.com.ua/news/2025/07/2…

Друзі, давайте збиратися на акцію та відстоювати те, що ми будували за останнє десятиліття. Збираємося о 20.00 на площі біля театру імені Івана Франка. Це найближче доступне місце до Офісу Президента. Тому сподіваюся, що нас буде видно з їхніх вікон. Мені, як ветерану важливо,…

I believe this is the first viral public call for an antigovernment protest in Kyiv since the start of Russia's full-scale war. And it's from a soldier: "Friends, let's gather for the action and defend what we've built over the last decade. We're meeting at 20:00 on the square…

Peak Ukrainian is cursing about something but saying that something in its endearing diminutive. The head of a liberated public utilities exasperatedly speaks about their exhaustive efforts to restore water, "ці Богом забуті свердловинки!" = "these God forsaken 😍wells😍!"

🧵A lengthy thread here on today's news of searches and arrests in Ukraine and what the various parties involved as well as civil society and Kyiv's Western backers see happening.