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Simon Ostrovsky

New York

Special Correspondent at PBS NewsHour

PBS @NewsHour Special Correspondent, 2025 Religion News Association award-winner, 2023 duPont-Columbia Award-winner.

Articles

  • Jan 22, 2024 | theins.ru | Simon Ostrovsky

    Simon Ostrovsky: Christo Grozev, head of investigations at The Insider, Thank you for sitting down with us today. We're going to be talking about the unit that you've never heard of, but you should know more about — Unit 29155 of the Russian Military Intelligence Service [the GRU]. What’s the difference between the FSB and the GRU, the agency that this unit belongs to? Christo Grozev: The main difference, nominally at least, is that the GRU should only work abroad.

  • Jan 19, 2024 | rss.com | Simon Ostrovsky

    Inside The Investigation with Simon OstrovskySimon Ostrovsky sits down with investigative journalist Christo Grozev to talk about Russia's infamous Unit 21955 - GRU's most prolific assassination and sabotage squad that has been terrorizing Europe and the world for decades. What are their biggest hits? And what don't their wives know about their lives - but Christo and his team know? Set aside half an hour to find out...

  • Oct 20, 2023 | pbs.org | Fatmeh Mahamid |Isabel Debre |Simon Ostrovsky |Dan Sagalyn

    World Oct 20, 2023 06:50 PM EDT Transcript Air strikes continued to pound Gaza Friday as the Israeli invasion force sat ready near the Gaza border. On the Egyptian side of that border, aid shipments still await entry to Gaza as the U.N. secretary-general visited the site and pushed for a resolution. Leila Molana-Allen reports. Read the Full TranscriptNotice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors.

  • Oct 3, 2023 | pbs.org | Simon Ostrovsky

    PBS NewsHour After Russia invaded Ukraine last year, the U.S. and Europe imposed strict sanctions against the Russian government. But as Russian manufacturers work to replace tanks destroyed on the battlefield, they are doing it with the help of a machine part made by a company based in New York. Simon Ostrovsky traveled to Kyiv and Albany to get to the bottom of the NSH USA's role.

  • Aug 4, 2023 | pbs.org | Simon Ostrovsky

    PBS NewsHour American machine tools giant Haas Automation faced allegations in March it sold technology to the Russian arms industry via a former distributor. Haas denied the story and said it halted sales when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. But research shows Haas may still be supplying the Russian arms industry indirectly. Special correspondent Simon Ostrovsky reports with support from the Pulitzer Center.

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Simon Ostrovsky
Simon Ostrovsky @SimonOstrovsky
2 Jun 25

This is Mossad-level exploding pagers stuff. Apparently this operation took 18 months to plan and was coordinated from an office in Russia next door to a regional FSB HQ.

Yaroslav Trofimov
Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof

Five Russian strategic bombers visually confirmed as taken out just in this portion of the Belaya base, one of two attacked on Sunday.

Simon Ostrovsky
Simon Ostrovsky @SimonOstrovsky
2 Jun 25

RT @DarthPutinKGB: Aircraft carriers of the world USA UK France Ukraine https://t.co/yN0eEuDinE

Simon Ostrovsky
Simon Ostrovsky @SimonOstrovsky
23 May 25

RT @SimonOstrovsky: Check out this new sample scene we've put together from footage we've already shot. Russia accused Ukrainian Baptists o…