Fabrice Deprez
@fabricedeprez.bsky.social
Journalist covering #Ukraine with the Financial Times / Also seen in La Croix, Les Jours, Foreign Policy & others
Ukrainian drone campaign chokes Moscow’s lifeline to Crimea-Russian pro-Kremlin and independent outlets describe the situation in Crimea, where petrol is available only by coupons, as a siege. www.ft.com/content/0ea7... @fabricedeprez.bsky.social Anastasia Stognei @financialtimes.com
Ukrainian drone campaign chokes Moscow’s lifeline to Crimea
Fuel shortages are plaguing Russian-occupied peninsula that is ‘very easy to capture and very hard to keep’
ft.com
J’avais prévu de consacrer cette édition de ma newsletter à deux mobilisations opposées en cours en Ukraine, le genre de mouvements qui poussent à l’ombre de la guerre, et puis la nuit de samedi à dimanche est arrivée. À lire ici:
La Déflagration #38: «La pire nuit depuis 2022»
Un récit de l'ellipse, sur trois millions.
ladeflagration.substack.com
The Long War #57 Special issue — Manslaughter, arson, collaboration, torture: inside Ukraine's wartime justice eastradar.substack.com/p/the-long-w...
A few months ago, Ukrainian Railways launched a webpage dedicated to train delays (there wasn't really a need for it before). At least 7 trains are currently delayed because of "combat actions", including one from Kyiv to Kovel (in the west of Ukraine) delayed more than 6 hours.
So, archive.today being apparently garbage, what are some other good resources to archive websites (saver for just downloading the page as PDF)? techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/w...
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack | TechCrunch
Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia.
techcrunch.com
The chalkboard that hangs behind the bar at Squat 17b does not list the drink specials — it keeps a countdown of how many more days Ukrainians must endure the harsh winter that has gripped the war-weary country. On Thursday, it read: “Days until spring: 24.” w/ @fabricedeprez.bsky.social
Kyiv’s great freeze
Russian strikes have plunged Ukrainians into their hardest winter yet, but they still want to fight on
ft.com
Ukrainian Railways writes this morning that the route from Lozova (in the Kharkiv region) to the Donbas fortress of Kramatorsk remains a zone "of increased risk", days after a Russian drone strike on a passenger train near Barvinkove killed 4 people.
The Long War #55: Dark Kyiv, Ukraine's regional shift, the Mariupol-Donetsk rivalry & more eastradar.substack.com/p/the-long-w...
The Long War #55
Dark Kyiv, Ukraine's regional shift, the Mariupol-Donetsk rivalry & more
eastradar.substack.com
Very interesting post (“Russia was sucked into the Donbas conflict” is quite an incredible Sakwa quote).
Jeremy Morris@jeremymorris.bsky.social · 7mo ago"a lot of what passes for scholarly work on the Russia-Ukraine conflict fails to meet scholarly standards, becoming a rehash of media sources and stuck in a kind of ‘presentist’ and elite-focussed, geopolitics doom-loop" postsocialism.org/2026/01/21/b...
Ukraine keeps trains running as end of line draws closer- Ukraine’s sprawling railway network has emerged as an indispensable means of transport and a symbol of resilience in the wake of Moscow’s full-scale invasion in 2022… www.ft.com/content/6c58... @fabricedeprez.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Ukraine keeps trains running as end of line draws closer
Railway company adapts to increasing Russian strikes on stations, depots and power lines
ft.com
Mon interview de l'intellectuel et historien ukrainien Yaroslav Hrytsak dans @grandcontinent.bsky.social legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/1...
La très longue guerre d'Ukraine : naissance d'une nation
« L'Ukraine est en train de quitter un monde dangereux : le monde russe. » Comment la longue durée peut-elle aider à comprendre la guerre ? Pour l’historien et intellectuel ukrainien Yaroslav Hrytsa...
legrandcontinent.eu
"Libres de résister" : excellent tour d'horizon par @fabricedeprez.bsky.social des enjeux liés à la mobilisation en Ukraine depuis 2022, avec plein d'exemples et d'anecdotes parlantes. A lire sur le @grandcontinent.bsky.social :
Libres de résister: enquête sur la mobilisation en Ukraine | Le Grand Continent
Se mobiliser sans cesser de vivre ; tenir sans passer par l’économie de guerre. L’Ukraine a une stratégie pour articuler résistance et liberté. Mais face au manque d’hommes — et dans des expériences ...
legrandcontinent.eu
Ten die in ‘massive’ Russian attack on Ukrainian capital on.ft.com/45TE5l7
Ten die in ‘massive’ Russian attack on Ukrainian capital
Zelenskyy calls for fresh sanctions on Moscow after worst attack on Kyiv in weeks
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Pourquoi l'Ukraine peine à mobiliser ? Une longue explication dans @grandcontinent.bsky.social : legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/08/2...
Libres de résister: enquête sur la mobilisation en Ukraine | Le Grand Continent
Se mobiliser sans cesser de vivre ; tenir sans passer par l’économie de guerre. L’Ukraine a une stratégie pour articuler résistance et liberté. Mais face au manque d’hommes — et dans des expériences ...
legrandcontinent.eu
Russia launched 352 drones as well as 16 missiles over Ukraine last night--with Kyiv being the main target for the fourth time in the past month, Ukraine's air force reports this morning t.me/kpszsu/36914
Повітряні Сили ЗС України / Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
⚡️ ЗНЕШКОДЖЕНО 354 ЦІЛІ ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ У ніч на 23 червня (із 20.00 22 червня) противник атакував 368 засобами повітряного нападу: - 352 ударними БпЛА типу Shahed і безпілотниками-імітаторами різних типі...
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My look at the drone-focused technological arms race between Ukraine and Russia: interceptors, fiber optics drones, and the prospect of AI-powered autonomous UAVs looming over the battlefield www.ft.com/content/ccd8...
How AI guided Ukraine’s drones to hit Russian airfields
Artificial intelligence took over the steering of unmanned quadcopters after losing signal
ft.com
Mon reportage sur l'impossible vie à Kherson, alors que des experts de l'ONU viennent de qualifier de "crime contre l'humanité" les attaques constantes de drones russes contre les habitants de cette ville du sud de l'Ukraine www.la-croix.com/internationa...
Guerre en Ukraine : à Kherson, la vie au rythme des attaques de drones
L’armée russe multiplie depuis plusieurs semaines les frappes de drones sur Kherson, localité du sud de l’Ukraine envahie par les Russes au cours de la première année de la guerre, puis libérée fin 20...
la-croix.com
Mon reportage sur l'impossible vie à Kherson, alors que des experts de l'ONU viennent de qualifier de "crime contre l'humanité" les attaques constantes de drones russes contre les habitants de cette ville du sud de l'Ukraine www.la-croix.com/internationa...
Guerre en Ukraine : à Kherson, la vie au rythme des attaques de drones
L’armée russe multiplie depuis plusieurs semaines les frappes de drones sur Kherson, localité du sud de l’Ukraine envahie par les Russes au cours de la première année de la guerre, puis libérée fin 20...
la-croix.com
Really good piece on the way Russia is methodically dispossessing Ukrainians of their homes. It's of course not happening only in Mariupol. And, in the past months, it has pushed an unclear number of Ukrainians to make the dangerous trip to the occupied territories...
Russia-Ukraine Daily News@rvps2001.bsky.social · last yr.🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian authorities are systematically seizing thousands of homes from Ukrainian residents of Mariupol, a BBC Verify investigation has found as the city marks three years of occupation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc... #Ukraine #Russia #RussianWarCrimes
Moscow claims the strike in Kryvhyy Rih that killed 9 children targeted a restaurant where soldiers and "foreign mercenaries" had gathered. Footage found by @gullivercragg.bsky.social shows a near-empty restaurant, and no soldiers anywhere www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
In Zelensky’s home town Kryvy Rih, residents fear more Russian strikes
Two Russian strikes on Friday killed 20 in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s home town Kryvy Rih, in central Ukraine. While Russia said the attack was a "precision strike" on a meeting of Ukrainian and…
france24.com
I'm still very skeptical that Moscow has any intention to go for a ceasefire in the short term. But the one thing that could encourage Putin to agree to a ceasefire is the prospect of Ukrainian elections that would be fertile ground for destabilization.
Fabrice Deprez@fabricedeprez.bsky.social · last yr."According to two Russian diplomats and a source close to the Kremlin, Moscow is now focusing on a third option: discrediting Zelensky in the eyes of Trump so that Washington will pressure Kyiv to hold presidential elections" www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/30/k...
"According to two Russian diplomats and a source close to the Kremlin, Moscow is now focusing on a third option: discrediting Zelensky in the eyes of Trump so that Washington will pressure Kyiv to hold presidential elections" www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/30/k...
Kremlin Doubles Down on Demand to Replace Zelensky, Risking Trump’s Ire - The Moscow Times
The Kremlin is increasingly set on subjugating Ukraine by forcing a change in the country’s leadership as Moscow’s military efforts falter, five sources familiar with its thinking as well as independe...
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The paradoxes of the language discussion: a linguist hopes that Russian will in the future be spoken only by "marginalized people" in Ukraine, saying this in an interview ran by NV, which publishes all its stories in Ukrainian... and Russian nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/...
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NEW: Ukrainian forces lose ground in Kursk region as they fight on without US support. Read @fabricedeprez.bsky.social and Anastasia Stognei's report www.ft.com/content/0513... #datviz
Une très belle lettre, avec des choses qu'il est souvent assez compliqué de placer dans nos articles. Pas d'actu, mais de l'Ukraine et des Ukrainiens :
Pierre Alonso@pierrealonso.com · last yr.Après une pause un peu longue, une nouvelle édition de ma newsletter vient de paraître ! A lire ici : ladeflagration.substack.com/p/la-deflagr... Pour vous inscrire et recevoir les prochains numéros directement dans votre boîte mail : ladeflagration.substack.com
En Ukraine, sidération et ralliement autour de Zelensky après la rencontre avec Trump
Rencontre Trump-Zelensky : en Ukraine, sidération et ralliement autour de Zelensky
La violence de l’échange entre les présidents américain et ukrainien, vendredi 28 février à la Maison-Blanche, semble sonner le glas de l’alliance entre les deux pays. En Ukraine, figures politiques et médiatiques se sont ralliées autour de Volodymyr Zelensky.
la-croix.com
As Trump makes increasingly hostile statements toward Kyiv, @fabricedeprez.bsky.social checked in with Ukrainian troops on the front lines in Kramatorsk and Lyman. The vibes? Not great.
The Mood on the Front Line, Three Years On
Ukrainian troops watch with anxiety as the United States moves closer to talks with Russia over the war.
foreignpolicy.com
A lot of things can happen on this road, but I think there is where we're headed, yeah.
Kevin Rothrock@kevinrothrock.me · last yr.Finishing this thought: Trump will reach some deal with Putin, giving him what he wants (most of which Russia already has territorially, plus political reforms in what’s left of Ukraine that would spell Zelensky’s end). Zelensky will refuse, and Trump will say, oh well, I tried. Peace out.
