Oliver Carroll
@olliecarroll.bsky.social
Foreign Correspondent at The Economist
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Full results and write-up by @olliecarroll.bsky.social here: www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
March 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Full results and write-up by @olliecarroll.bsky.social here: www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
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Our poll of Ukraine is now in (N=1000). Mr Zelensky approval at >70%, very few want elections before peace. But also suggests 58% will not want Ukraine to concede territory, and that many also expect the war to end within the year ->
www.economist.com/europe/2025/... by @olliecarroll.bsky.social
www.economist.com/europe/2025/... by @olliecarroll.bsky.social
Is Zelensky a disliked dictator or a popular hero?
Our poll of Ukrainians shows a surprising shift in the president’s ratings
www.economist.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Our poll of Ukraine is now in (N=1000). Mr Zelensky approval at >70%, very few want elections before peace. But also suggests 58% will not want Ukraine to concede territory, and that many also expect the war to end within the year ->
www.economist.com/europe/2025/... by @olliecarroll.bsky.social
www.economist.com/europe/2025/... by @olliecarroll.bsky.social
“Putin offers ceasefire” says one paper. “Putin rejects it” another. Welcome to dizzying tricksphere of a KGB officer. Real Q is not what the old manipulator says, but how the apprentice in a hurry interprets it. Putin gave Trump a pic-n-mix of narratives. Which 1 will he choose?
March 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“Putin offers ceasefire” says one paper. “Putin rejects it” another. Welcome to dizzying tricksphere of a KGB officer. Real Q is not what the old manipulator says, but how the apprentice in a hurry interprets it. Putin gave Trump a pic-n-mix of narratives. Which 1 will he choose?
The Americans called it a “transaction of love.” The Ukrainian officials I spoke to called it differently: “not negotiation, but extortion”.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
Donald Trump makes Ukraine an offer it can’t refuse
A proposed economic deal would be punitive. Saying “no” could be worse
www.economist.com
February 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The Americans called it a “transaction of love.” The Ukrainian officials I spoke to called it differently: “not negotiation, but extortion”.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
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I’d like to think I’m the first person to get into a flame war with VPOTUS from the swimming pool of Woburn Center Parcs at half-term.
The VP is posting through it. (Good for @shashj.bsky.social for hitting a nerve.)
February 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I’d like to think I’m the first person to get into a flame war with VPOTUS from the swimming pool of Woburn Center Parcs at half-term.
This is footage of a Russian drone hitting the protective shield at Chernobyl power plant. I don't know where to begin.
February 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This is footage of a Russian drone hitting the protective shield at Chernobyl power plant. I don't know where to begin.
If Trump has a peace plan, Zelensky doesn't know about it. He is undeterred. "I won't let Putin win. This is what I live by"
New interview in this week's Economist.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
New interview in this week's Economist.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
Ukraine’s president fears Donald Trump is keeping him out of the loop
“We haven’t heard any proposals,” he tells The Economist as peace talks loom
www.economist.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If Trump has a peace plan, Zelensky doesn't know about it. He is undeterred. "I won't let Putin win. This is what I live by"
New interview in this week's Economist.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
New interview in this week's Economist.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
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Why North Korea Is Planning a Second Korean War and How to Stop It
My deep-dive with @andreilankov and @DrRadchenko into North Korean regime, foreign policy, daily life, surveillance state, hackers and much more!
youtu.be/hqTbLkdysBo
My deep-dive with @andreilankov and @DrRadchenko into North Korean regime, foreign policy, daily life, surveillance state, hackers and much more!
youtu.be/hqTbLkdysBo
Why North Korea Is Planning a Second Korean War and How to Stop It
YouTube video by Dmitri Alperovitch
youtu.be
January 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Why North Korea Is Planning a Second Korean War and How to Stop It
My deep-dive with @andreilankov and @DrRadchenko into North Korean regime, foreign policy, daily life, surveillance state, hackers and much more!
youtu.be/hqTbLkdysBo
My deep-dive with @andreilankov and @DrRadchenko into North Korean regime, foreign policy, daily life, surveillance state, hackers and much more!
youtu.be/hqTbLkdysBo
My update on the frontline: Ukraine’s crumbling wall, and what might - more likely might not - push Putin to compromise.
https://buff.ly/40AfRcV
https://buff.ly/40AfRcV
Amid talk of a ceasefire, Ukraine’s front line is crumbling
An ominous defeat in the eastern town of Velyka Novosilka
buff.ly
January 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
My update on the frontline: Ukraine’s crumbling wall, and what might - more likely might not - push Putin to compromise.
https://buff.ly/40AfRcV
https://buff.ly/40AfRcV
Reports Gulag historian Yury Dmitriev, 68, has been sent to solitary confinement in Russia's Mordovia colony for "unsatisfactory stretching." The most evil kind of evil. Descendants of the KGB officers he implicated first jailed him. Now they appear after after his life.
Историка Юрия Дмитриева отправили в ШИЗО за «неправильное выполнение зарядки» в мордовской колонии — Новая газета
17 января 68-летнего экс-главу карельского «Мемориала» Юрия Дмитриева поместили в штрафной изолятор на 6 суток. Официальной причиной наказания стало «неправильное выполнение утренней зарядки»,…
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January 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Reports Gulag historian Yury Dmitriev, 68, has been sent to solitary confinement in Russia's Mordovia colony for "unsatisfactory stretching." The most evil kind of evil. Descendants of the KGB officers he implicated first jailed him. Now they appear after after his life.
A heavy night in Kyiv with at least four dead following combined drone and ballistic missile attacks early in the morning. One of the targets appears to have been a defence facility. But much more - water pipes, McDonalds etc - hit besides.
January 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM
A heavy night in Kyiv with at least four dead following combined drone and ballistic missile attacks early in the morning. One of the targets appears to have been a defence facility. But much more - water pipes, McDonalds etc - hit besides.
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Here I try to describe changes in the British character, and to explain them. Brits seem to be growing both more civil and less honest, with the same people (the young) driving both trends.
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Britain is becoming a well-mannered but deceitful society
Technology and sloppy government are to blame
www.economist.com
January 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Here I try to describe changes in the British character, and to explain them. Brits seem to be growing both more civil and less honest, with the same people (the young) driving both trends.
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Russian sources reporting that a record number of drones (150-200) employed in this combined Ukrainian missile-drone attack.
Ukrainian drones attacked at least 4 Russian regions in a massive attack this morning — oil and gas facilities in the main appear to have been the targets. Video from Tatarstan, (c) Astra
January 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Russian sources reporting that a record number of drones (150-200) employed in this combined Ukrainian missile-drone attack.
Ukrainian drones attacked at least 4 Russian regions in a massive attack this morning — oil and gas facilities in the main appear to have been the targets. Video from Tatarstan, (c) Astra
January 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Ukrainian drones attacked at least 4 Russian regions in a massive attack this morning — oil and gas facilities in the main appear to have been the targets. Video from Tatarstan, (c) Astra
There is a pretty strong likelihood that Russian commanders don’t really care about the survival of Russians either
There is a pretty strong likelihood that Russian commanders don't care about the survival of North Koreans
"The agency assessed that the North Koreans are struggling to adapt to drones and other elements of modern warfare. They are further disadvantaged by the crude tactics of their Russian commanders" apnews.com/article/nort...
January 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
There is a pretty strong likelihood that Russian commanders don’t really care about the survival of Russians either
I wrote on the wave of unusual arson attacks across Russia. Unlike at start of invasion, when these were mostly driven by anti-war/mobilisation sentiment, Ukrainian psyops appear to be at work.
Russia is being set aflame by hundreds of arson attacks
The Kremlin blames a campaign of subversion and psychological warfare
www.economist.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I wrote on the wave of unusual arson attacks across Russia. Unlike at start of invasion, when these were mostly driven by anti-war/mobilisation sentiment, Ukrainian psyops appear to be at work.
This, on Russian torture of Ukr POWs is very important reading. "My eyes, hands, feet were taped. I was hung upside down, wires wrapped around fingers, and electric current applied. Then vacuum bag was placed over head, while punched in stomach + ribs." https://en.zona.media/article/2025/01/10/hell
«Ад со всеми его демонами». Как СИЗО для подростков в Таганроге превратили в пыточный лагерь для украинских пленных
Больше двух с половиной лет СИЗО-2 в Таганроге, где до войны под арестом находились подростки и женщины с детьми, остается местом заключения взятых в плен украинцев. Побывавшие там...
zona.media
January 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This, on Russian torture of Ukr POWs is very important reading. "My eyes, hands, feet were taped. I was hung upside down, wires wrapped around fingers, and electric current applied. Then vacuum bag was placed over head, while punched in stomach + ribs." https://en.zona.media/article/2025/01/10/hell
This fm Polish def minister caused my eyebrows to smile: “Fatigue in society is understandable when [u] see young Ukrainians driving the latest cars." Poles + Ukrainians—who often put all cash into a car—more different than u think.
www.ft.com
January 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
This fm Polish def minister caused my eyebrows to smile: “Fatigue in society is understandable when [u] see young Ukrainians driving the latest cars." Poles + Ukrainians—who often put all cash into a car—more different than u think.
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And The Economist article about developments in drone warfare by @shashj.bsky.social and @olliecarroll.bsky.social here:
www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
How Ukraine uses cheap AI-guided drones to deadly effect against Russia
Ukraine is making tens of thousands of them
www.economist.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:38 AM
And The Economist article about developments in drone warfare by @shashj.bsky.social and @olliecarroll.bsky.social here:
www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
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This week @olliecarroll.bsky.social & I look at how Ukraine’s drone war is evolving. Ukr observing 1,000 Russian drones in each 24 hour period. Drones carrying more & flying further per dollar. More types, from bombers to interceptors. AI guidance advancing rapidly www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
How Ukraine uses cheap AI-guided drones to deadly effect against Russia
Ukraine is making tens of thousands of them
www.economist.com
December 2, 2024 at 10:35 AM
This week @olliecarroll.bsky.social & I look at how Ukraine’s drone war is evolving. Ukr observing 1,000 Russian drones in each 24 hour period. Drones carrying more & flying further per dollar. More types, from bombers to interceptors. AI guidance advancing rapidly www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
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Musk has now threatened the leaders of Canada,Brazil, Germany. X helped create a riot in the UK. Now it seems he doesn't want the UK to make its own legal decisions. Time to act?
"He asked why British far-right figurehead Tommy Robinson had been imprisoned at all. Musk also approvingly shared Robinson’s documentary to his more than 200 million followers"
Musk's interventions should be taken seriously. The ideological leanings of oligarchical media barons can affect us all.
Musk's interventions should be taken seriously. The ideological leanings of oligarchical media barons can affect us all.
Elon Musk brands UK a ‘tyrannical police state’
X owner shares a petition demanding a UK general election and boosts a far-right activist.
www.politico.eu
November 26, 2024 at 6:47 AM
Musk has now threatened the leaders of Canada,Brazil, Germany. X helped create a riot in the UK. Now it seems he doesn't want the UK to make its own legal decisions. Time to act?
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‘At times it feels like I’m managing a day-care centre rather than a combat unit.’ Quote from Ukrainian frontline commander on manpower shortages as they brace for possible Kremlin surge in the south www.economist.com/europe/2024/... by @olliecarroll.bsky.social
Ukraine’s warriors brace for a Kremlin surge in the south
Vladimir Putin’s war machine is pushing harder and crushing Ukrainian morale
www.economist.com
November 25, 2024 at 4:11 PM
‘At times it feels like I’m managing a day-care centre rather than a combat unit.’ Quote from Ukrainian frontline commander on manpower shortages as they brace for possible Kremlin surge in the south www.economist.com/europe/2024/... by @olliecarroll.bsky.social
Just a question for a Bluesky newbie: is there a way of cross-posting content here automatically to the eugh-ther place. One that doesn’t involve posting on a third party app, just scraping content and reposting automatically?
November 26, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Just a question for a Bluesky newbie: is there a way of cross-posting content here automatically to the eugh-ther place. One that doesn’t involve posting on a third party app, just scraping content and reposting automatically?
An interrupted night for most in Ukraine. Russia actually launched a record 188 drones. Oh, and 4 Iskander-Ms tactical ballistic missiles into the mix too. Which, just to remind all the tabloid writers out there are ***NUCLEAR-CAPABLE***. www.pravda.com.ua/news/2024/11...
Росія оновила рекорд запущених дронів: атакувала Україну 188 безпілотниками
В ніч на вівторок 26 листопада Росія випусила рекордну кількість дронів – 188, протиповітряна оборона збила 76 безпілотників, 95 БпЛА —локаційно втрачені через дію РЕБ.
www.pravda.com.ua
November 26, 2024 at 7:41 AM
An interrupted night for most in Ukraine. Russia actually launched a record 188 drones. Oh, and 4 Iskander-Ms tactical ballistic missiles into the mix too. Which, just to remind all the tabloid writers out there are ***NUCLEAR-CAPABLE***. www.pravda.com.ua/news/2024/11...
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"Belaruski Gayun" reports that at least 38 "Shaheds" violated the airspace of Belarus over the past day.
It is claimed that only 9 Russian UAVs have been confirmed to have returned to Ukrainian airspace.
It is claimed that only 9 Russian UAVs have been confirmed to have returned to Ukrainian airspace.
November 25, 2024 at 7:19 PM
"Belaruski Gayun" reports that at least 38 "Shaheds" violated the airspace of Belarus over the past day.
It is claimed that only 9 Russian UAVs have been confirmed to have returned to Ukrainian airspace.
It is claimed that only 9 Russian UAVs have been confirmed to have returned to Ukrainian airspace.