Lindsey Hilsum
@lindseyhilsum
Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News International Editor. Author of ‘I Brought The War with Me; Stories and Poems from the Front Line’ and ‘In Extremis’.
In #Lviv Ukrainians are protesting again: #Zelensky says he’ll reverse the bill to curtail the independence of anti-corruption bodies but they say they don’t trust him to follow through.
Looks like President Zelensky has backed down from his plan to curtail the independence of anti-corruption institutions after widespread protests - more @Channel4News tonight
When people start dying from starvation it comes as a flood, not a trickle. And it looks like it's already starting. crisisgroup.org/middle-east-no…
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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…
60,000 Ukrainians registered missing in Russia’s war - I’m with the families of the missing, Ukrainian and Russian. @Channel4News with @hodgerob @reflextv channel4.com/news/60000-ukr…
‘Shame! Shame!’ chant young Ukrainians protesting a new law which brings the previously independent anti-corruption bureau and special prosecutor under the executive. ‘This is not what we’re fighting for. This is like Russia,’ one woman told me.
"Shame!" shouted many Ukrainian lawmakers as a majority formed from Zelensky's ruling party, pro-Russian oppo bloc & Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna voted to, in effect, dismantle Ukraine's independent anticorruption institutions. My story on a grim day: ft.com/content/21cf3d…
🚨"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die", reports AFP. "Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip... We refuse to watch them die", it continues.
Imagine being nominated as the next Head of the Russian Supreme Court....
BREAKING: Irina Podnosova, head of the Russian Supreme Court, has died suddenly in Moscow She was appointed to this position just over a year ago following the equally sudden death of the former head of the Supreme Court. She was personally nominated for the position by Putin.
Walking to work - past walls hit by shrapnel after last night’s Russian drone strike which hit a metro entrance #Kyiv #Ukraine
So ordinary: people coming out of the #Kyiv metro on a Monday morning. Except a Russian drone hit the entrance overnight, while people were sheltering underground. #Ukraine
“Kurchatov, Korolyov and Stalin live in your DNA.” Russian military TV showcases the giant Shahed drone production plant in Tatarstan, boasting that children after 9th grade are working there to help kill Ukrainians.
Why have Kenyan police arrested @bonifacemwangi ? He is a well known activist and opposition figure - not a terrorist. And he is recovering from torture that he endured in Tanzania.
I’ve been on Ukraine’s front line near #Kupyansk where Putin is trying to seize what land he can @Channel4News with @hodgerob @reflextv channel4.com/news/on-ukrain…
This morning Olga Hrechannikova was evacuated from the #Ukrainian town of #Kupyansk which is under heavy Russian bombardment. Tears and laughter as she reached safety… more @channel4news tonight. With @hodgerob @reflextv
This podcast was brilliant - and rather alarming!
If you enjoyed The Wargame podcast, please join me and some of the other people involved in the series in a behind-the-scenes live event next Tuesday evening. There are still places to be part of the online audience!
"Despite the war and everything happening around us, we keep dancing." Our International Editor @lindseyhilsum reports from Kharkiv in Ukraine, where the show goes on, despite the unrelenting Russian bombardment. channel4.com/news/life-in-k…