Ilya Lozovsky

As Ukraine keeps striking Russian oil infrastructure, Russia continues to target Ukrainian civilians. Here is the apartment of our colleague Yanina Korniienko in Kyiv. Yesterday there was a strike nearby. Windows blown in, with glass shards all over her bed. The wall of the building cracked.

Fortunately, Yanina wasn't at home — her outlet arranges for journalists to stay at secure hotels during heavy nights of bombardment. She's a fierce investigative reporter, and also super pleasant to work with (this can be a rare combination). She's done tons of great work and will do more.

British intelligence says nearly 500k Russian soldiers have been killed. They don’t say how they arrived at this figure. Previous estimates have been lower — CSIS and Meduza estimated between 250-350K. But those methodologies are known to be undercounts. www.gchq.gov.uk/news/directo...

Whatever the true number is, and it’s rising by the hundreds every day, you have to go back to Josef Stalin to find a Russian leader who has massacred as many of his own people.

As Putin again rains death and destruction down on Kyiv, we’re publishing an investigation, based on newly leaked documents, into Russia’s influence operations in Europe. 👇 www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Described as “cognitive strikes” against the West, they include both “online disinformation” and real-world elements: anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish stunts in France and Germany, fake stories targeting Zelenskyy and the PM of Armenia, plans to blame Ukrainian extremists for public vandalism, and more.

Anyone familiar with Roman Anin, publisher of Russian investigative outlet Important Stories, knows that he's careful to a fault. He doesn't overdramatize or exaggerate. Still, he calls their latest scoop "one of the most important pieces of news about Russia in recent times." What's the news? 👇

And here’s Roman’s column on what he thinks these facts mean for modern Russia. “It appears that we are witnessing the transition of the Russian regime into a fundamentally different state,” he writes. istories.media/en/opinions/...

Anyone familiar with Roman Anin, publisher of Russian investigative outlet Important Stories, knows that he's careful to a fault. He doesn't overdramatize or exaggerate. Still, he calls their latest scoop "one of the most important pieces of news about Russia in recent times." What's the news? 👇

I’m seeing some criticism online of one claim in the report — that former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is going to overthrow Putin. “Ha ha, the widely despised Shoigu, really!?” Well, they should read more carefully, because that’s not what it says.

Anyone familiar with Roman Anin, publisher of Russian investigative outlet Important Stories, knows that he's careful to a fault. He doesn't overdramatize or exaggerate. Still, he calls their latest scoop "one of the most important pieces of news about Russia in recent times." What's the news? 👇

But maybe the most striking detail to me is the level of inside access the report attests to. It gives a detailed account of a top-level meeting, convened by Putin in December, in which top security officials blamed each other for their failure to protect senior military figures from assassination.

Anyone familiar with Roman Anin, publisher of Russian investigative outlet Important Stories, knows that he's careful to a fault. He doesn't overdramatize or exaggerate. Still, he calls their latest scoop "one of the most important pieces of news about Russia in recent times." What's the news? 👇

Here’s our writeup. Their reporters obtained a report by a European intelligence agency that describes severe new security measures in the Kremlin amid fears of a coup or assassination attempt on Putin. www.occrp.org/en/news/secu...

NEW: We’ve just published an investigation that shows how Russia recruits teenagers on occupied Ukrainian territory to become pro-Moscow infowarriors. The Young Correspondents program, ostensibly a journalism club, is part of Yunarmia, a militarized mass youth organization. 👇

Other participants appear to have been pro-Russian from the beginning. For them, the program offered a way to channel those sympathies into clubs, media work, and militarized patriotic activities.

NEW: We’ve just published an investigation that shows how Russia recruits teenagers on occupied Ukrainian territory to become pro-Moscow infowarriors. The Young Correspondents program, ostensibly a journalism club, is part of Yunarmia, a militarized mass youth organization. 👇

Since becoming a “Young Correspondent,” one girl from occupied Henichesk seems to have undergone a radical transformation. In this video, a year before the Russian invasion, she wears a traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirt and extols the virtues of the Ukrainian language.

NEW: We’ve just published an investigation that shows how Russia recruits teenagers on occupied Ukrainian territory to become pro-Moscow infowarriors. The Young Correspondents program, ostensibly a journalism club, is part of Yunarmia, a militarized mass youth organization. 👇

The “Young Correspondents” program and the larger Yunarmia movement have long been active in Russia, but they’ve quickly been established in newly conquered areas of Ukraine. Internal documents show many dozens of participants across occupied territory.

NEW: We’ve just published an investigation that shows how Russia recruits teenagers on occupied Ukrainian territory to become pro-Moscow infowarriors. The Young Correspondents program, ostensibly a journalism club, is part of Yunarmia, a militarized mass youth organization. 👇

This screenshot from the online training module shows Ksenia Barladyan, head of the Yunarmia press service, about to give a talk about “patriotic SSM strategies.” “Don't forget to cover events aimed at supporting the special military operation,” she says.

NEW: We’ve just published an investigation that shows how Russia recruits teenagers on occupied Ukrainian territory to become pro-Moscow infowarriors. The Young Correspondents program, ostensibly a journalism club, is part of Yunarmia, a militarized mass youth organization. 👇