James Kilner
Correspondent at The Telegraph
Editor at thebulletin.news
Editor of The Central Asia & S.Caucasus Bulletin (and soon The Daily Russia Dispatch). Ex Russia corro for Telegraph/Reuters. Never knowingly won a journo prize
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1 week ago |
thememo.news | James Kilner
By James Kilner — 17 Jun 2025 EVACUATIONS FROM IRAN: The Kremlin continued to evacuate its citizens from Iran through Azerbaijan. On Monday it said that 225 Russians had fled from Iran, including families of Russian diplomats and the touring Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra. This followed a group of 88 Russians who fled Iran on Saturday. Russian media reported that the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra played an unscheduled concert in Baku as a thank you for its evacuation.
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3 weeks ago |
thememo.news | James Kilner
By James Kilner — 04 Jun 2025 KERCH BRIDGE ATTACK: Ukraine's SBU intelligence service on Tuesday blew up a bomb on a support structure of the Kerch Bridge connecting occupied Crimea to mainland Russia. The bomb was set off at 4.44am. Nobody was hurt in the attack. According to Russian media, traffic was closed on the bridge from 6am to 9am. (COMMENT: Ukraine's SBU said that the attack took several months to prepare and had caused "severe" damage but traffic was only halted for a few hours.
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3 weeks ago |
thememo.news | James Kilner
By James Kilner — 03 Jun 2025 (NOTE: Please allow images to download so that you can see our 'News Matrix' at the bottom of this memo.)WAR NEGOTIATIONS: Round two of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul ended after an hour on Monday without any substantive progress. (COMMENT: This is not unsurprising. Peace talks to end long grinding European wars are a slow process. The main deal cut on Monday in Istanbul was the exchange of more prisoners.
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3 weeks ago |
thememo.news | James Kilner
By James Kilner — 02 Jun 2025 (NOTE: Please allow images to download so that you can see our new 'News Matrix' at the bottom of this memo.)UKRAINIAN DRONE AMBUSH: Ukrainian drones popped out of containers on trucks across Russia on Sunday and destroyed several of the Kremlin's long-range strategic bombers.
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4 weeks ago |
thememo.news | James Kilner
"WAR HERO" ASSASSINATED: A suicide bomber killed the deputy head of Stavropol, the former commander of bomber units that pounded the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in 2022. Zaur Gurtsiev was killed outside his home on Wednesday evening by a man who approached him with a homemade bomb hidden in a bag. (NOTE: Gurtsiev was something of a poster boy for the Kremlin. It promoted him through the ranks and then made him the deputy head of Stavropol as a reward.
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