
Mansur Mirovalev
Features Writer and Video Journalist at Freelance
Writer, video journalist. Worked with ABC News (both), Al Jazeera, AP, BBC, CNN, CSM, LAT, NatGeo, NBC, Novaya Gazeta, NYT, RFE/RL, WhoWhatWhy, Wired, Vice.
Articles
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2 days ago |
whowhatwhy.org | Mansur Mirovalev
Zhirinovsky boasted that Moscow should rule lands from “Kabul to Istanbul,” and Russian soldiers would one day “wash their boots in the Indian Ocean.” What unites the suspected killer of a turncoat intelligence officer, an arms trafficker who served 10 years in a US jail, and a lawmaker who snubbed accusations of sexual harassment?
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4 days ago |
aljazeera.com | Mansur Mirovalev
Kyiv, Ukraine - Any description of Ukraine's attacks on Russia's fleet of strategic bombers could leave one scrambling for superlatives. Forty-one planes - including supersonic Tu-22M long-range bombers, Tu-95 flying fortresses and A-50 early warning warplanes - were hit and damaged on Sunday on four airfields, including ones in the Arctic and Siberia, Ukrainian authorities and intelligence said.
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1 week ago |
whowhatwhy.org | Mansur Mirovalev
International With the world watching, Ukraine pays a heavy price for its misplaced trust in American guarantees. After President Donald Trump’s much-publicized 2 1/2-hour-long phone call with Vladimir Putin apparently produced little or nothing, Trump and Vice President JD Vance appear ready to walk away from any further involvement in Ukraine.
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2 weeks ago |
aljazeera.com | Mansur Mirovalev
Kyiv, Ukraine - United States President Donald Trump sounded jubilant on Monday when he announced the beginning of direct talks between Ukraine and Russia. "Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations towards a ceasefire, and, more importantly, bring an END to the war," Trump wrote on his Truth Social network.
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3 weeks ago |
whowhatwhy.org | Mansur Mirovalev
International Although there was no guarantee to defend Ukraine, the deal means that any future attack against Ukraine will also be an attack against American interests. Washington and Kyiv’s decision to ink a long-awaited deal that gives the US preferential rights to extract minerals, including rare earths and hydrocarbons, from Ukraine followed weeks of negotiations and ultimatums.
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“I’m here, in the heart of Russia – if it still has a heart,” #Zelenskyy joked in 2014 near the #Kremlin. “You can say, ‘hail #Ukraine’ in #Moscow, and nothing serious will happen to you. Nothing that can’t be handled by modern medicine.” https://t.co/GQpRszPR1t

“We have a [technological] leap. [#Russians] have a leap. And then they begin to scale it all up because over there, everything is on a government level. They have unreal budgets.” #Ukraine #drones https://t.co/72e1D8IHzx

“My mum is happy that I found myself. And I did find myself here. Found friends, colleagues, brothers and sisters,” a "#Bucha Witch" who trains to shoot down Russian drones told me. #Ukraine https://t.co/oQoOWnkMhA