@dansabbagh.bsky.social
Journalist @guardian - defence and security editor. Based in London, travel to Ukraine and anywhere else when I can....
Why did the CPS think it was reasonable to charge Cash and Berry with spying in April 2024 but said it had to drop them in Sep 2025 b/c of a ruling in another spy case
On any reasonable reading that judgment is lowering or widening the definition of enemy...
Manchester synagogue terrorist was bail for alleged rape at time of the attack
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK has deployed counter drone systems to Denmark ahead of this week's EU and EPC summits in Copenhagen, defence sec John Healey says at a Labour conference fringe
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Do you have information of interest to MI6? Now they are advertising that you can contact them securely online (what used to happen before?)
Instructions at the end + let's hope they have a good spam filter...
youtu.be/xkOUH8d8UQY?...
Met police operating live facial recognition outside Brixton tube. Three people picked up since 11.30 a sergeant tells me
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You'd have thought this would have happened earlier...
11.09.2025 13:36 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0If nato’s interception ratio is 4 out of 19, can you imagine how they would handle an average night in Ukraine with 700 air targets in the span of 5 hours
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Nineteen Russian drones cross the border into Poland says PM Donald Tusk as Warsaw asks for consultation with Nato allies. Meanwhile a Russian diplomat tells the RIA accusations of an incursion "groundless". No doubt Donald Trump will know who to believe...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
War is not abstract. There are killers and victims. They all have names. They all have lives. This story cites two IDF snipers and the four Palestinians shot dead on one day, some trying to retrieve the bodies of other victims. Not easy reading --->
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
This is correct. UK, Qatar and US Marine core + most of EU use probe. USAF (mostly) and IDF use flying broom.
It’s physically impossible for the UK to refuel an Israeli Aircraft
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_...
No RAF involvement in refuelling Israeli jets that bombed Qatar. The RAF Voyager nearby was engaged in exercises with the Qataris. Brit sources say that UK refueling method (probe and drogue) is incompatible with Israeli fighters
09.09.2025 14:56 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1Obviously that's £5.1m....
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Boris Johnson earned £5.1 in speech fees after leaving govt yet claimed £182k of taxpayer cash for staff, leaked files suggest. Nice work if you can get it. Extraordinary from Guardian Investigations --->
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Why is Instagram constantly showing me this....?
06.09.2025 15:47 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0As a veteran of charting these things, that felt pretty swift and drama-free as Cabinet reshuffles go
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Deadline day latest: changes to Starmer's squad into tonight
05.09.2025 16:25 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 5Rescue workers searching for survivors after a Russian strike on a residential block in eastern Kyiv where at least 12 were killed overnight
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'It would be a terrible loss’: Ukrainian frontline troops sceptical of ceding land --->
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
that went well
15.08.2025 23:47 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
More pre-Alaska build up - aka world domination, then and now
Tilsit 1807
Napoleon - Alexander I
Arguing over another country's city. Something things never change
Source - The Great Game, Peter Hopkirk
The pianist and the air raid alarm. Kyiv.
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Kyiv. Now
14.08.2025 16:59 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Now Trump promises there will be "very serious consequences" if Putin does not agree to a ceasefire, without spelling them out - most likely secondary sanctions on oil exports to China etc.
13.08.2025 16:22 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trump suggests there could be a second, tri-lateral meeting with himself Putin and Zelenskyy "almost immediately" if Alaska goes well - though he concedes "there may be no second meeting" if "I didn't get the answers that we have to have". Would be stunned if Putin agrees to that...
13.08.2025 16:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Trump is astonishingly blasé about reports of Russian hacking of the US federal court system. Says he might bring it up with Putin on Friday in Alaska, but he he sounds entirely unconcerned.
"They hack in, they're good at it, we're good at it, we're better at it actually".
Ever since the summit was announced, Russian media has been replete with stories about special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Dmitriev sharing fried dumplings at a restaurant in the Russian capital, and about the site of a future Moscow hotel, described as a possible Trump Tower Moscow, that the two men visited last week.
The stuff that, 15 years ago, would have been a screaming 72-point all-caps headline — and now appears in the sixth paragraph, almost as an aside
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Russian raiders on the loose in Donbas?
Or the beginnings of a breakthrough?
Kremlin efforts to convince the US that Ukraine is losing?
"We see that the Russian army is not preparing to end the war" - Zelenskyy
Maps compare Friday to Monday
Source: Deepstate Ukraine war maps
Where do you go with this?
Maybe when the US gets invaded the people have to have a referendum to decide whether to defend themselves, perhaps it's in the constitution somewhere...
Also the Finnish president, left him out...
Full text: Joint leaders’ statement on Peace for Ukraine - GOV.UK share.google/eM1Cu36XMkyI...
