RSS Parrot

BETA

🦜 @christopherjm.ft.com on Bluesky

@bsky.app.profile.christopherjm.ft.com@rss-parrot.net

I'm an automated parrot! I relay a website's RSS feed to the Fediverse. Every time a new post appears in the feed, I toot about it. Follow me to get all new posts in your Mastodon timeline! Brought to you by the RSS Parrot.

---

Chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. 16 years living and reporting in Ukraine. https://www.ft.com/christopher-miller Author of the book, THE WAR CAME TO US, published by Bloomsbury: https://www.amazon.com/dp/139940685X

Your feed and you don't want it here? Just e-mail the birb.

Site URL: bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com

Feed URL: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4sjl25ntym5lz4vrvmpo22ph/rss

Posts: 20

Followers: 1

https://bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com/post/3mr6krzhxhc2b

Published: July 21, 2026 19:39

BREAKING: Volodymyr Zelenskyy has chosen Mykhailo Drapatyi to be commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces and dismissed controversial general and close ally Oleksandr Syrsky in the biggest shake-up of the country’s military leadership since 2024.…

https://bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com/post/3mr3et4hdss2d

Published: July 20, 2026 13:15

SCOOP: Zelenskyy proposed to bring back Mykhailo Fedorov with an expanded mandate, days after Fedorov’s removal sparked an uproar. A senior Ukrainian official and two other people familiar said that Fedorov wanted only to return to the defence ministry.…

https://bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com/post/3mr3etpk4qc2d

Published: July 20, 2026 13:15

Western partners have urged President Zelenskyy to settle the matters around the military as fast as possible. “We are your main financier and we need stability,” a western official supportive of Kyiv said. “We need people we know and trust and can work…

https://bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com/post/3mqw2srxwik26

Published: July 18, 2026 10:32

NEWS: Volodymyr Zelenskyy is considering sacking Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrsky, who is known as “the Butcher”, as he seeks to navigate a path out of the biggest military leadership crisis of his presidency. …

https://bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com/post/3mqtzaqm7fs2z

Published: July 17, 2026 14:59

The sacking of popular, modernising defence minister Mykahilo Fedorov exposed damaging divisions about Ukraine’s military strategy and armed forces’ willingness to address its shortcomings just as momentum in the war against Russia has swung in its favor. …

https://bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com/post/3mqonrks5ok23

Published: July 15, 2026 11:50

Will he stay or will he go? With the PM spot locked up for Sergii Koretskyi, the biggest unanswered question around President Zelenskyy's new cabinet shuffle is whether he'll oust the popular defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov. A look at the situation ahead…

https://bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com/post/3mqm6iqa6ys2p

Published: July 14, 2026 12:12

Ukraine's parliament has affirmed the resignation of Yulia Svyrydenko, bringing her tenure as prime minister to a close dismissing the entire Ukrainian government. A new prime minister and cabinet will be appointed in the coming days.

https://bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com/post/3mqhetsfjvc2w

Published: July 12, 2026 14:22

Zelenskyy's announcement today of yet another major government reshuffle – fourth of his presidency, third since full-scale war and just a year after the last one – caught Kyiv's political elite off guard. It had been rumored for weeks but expected in…

https://bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com/post/3mqheomzm3s2w

Published: July 12, 2026 14:19

NEW: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced another major cabinet and diplomatic shuffle in Ukraine. He will replace Ukraine’s prime minister and shake up his government in a sweeping overhaul that he said is needed to deliver a new political strategy…

https://bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com/post/3mqgd6txonc2k

Published: July 12, 2026 04:20

Kostyantynivka once manufactured the ruby-red stars that crown the Kremlin’s towers and the glass that adorns Lenin’s mausoleum—symbols of Soviet power the Ukrainian city helped build. Now Putin’s trying to take the city that made Moscow glitter—even if…

https://bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com/post/3mqaab55ygk2x

Published: July 9, 2026 18:11

The plot thickens: A serving Ukrainian intelligence officer on Thursday withdrew his earlier confession to killing the woman accused of carrying out a failed assassination attempt against a Ukrainian tycoon in Monaco, telling a Kyiv court that his…

https://bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com/post/3mq4fr7q2tk2k

Published: July 8, 2026 05:39

NEW: President Zelenskyy told me he had warned his western partners that Vladimir Putin could seek to expand the war beyond Ukraine if he fails to achieve military success. He and others said they believe Putin could launch an incursion into a Nato country…

https://bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com/post/3mq4foizjok2k

Published: July 8, 2026 05:37

More from my interview with Zelenskyy in this morning's FT Europe Express newsletter: One of the messages he's taking to the Nato summit is the war in Ukraine is not a liability but has, in fact, transformed the country from a security consumer into one…

https://bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com/post/3mq2whjjn2s2c

Published: July 7, 2026 15:32

This is a very dark story. The Ukrainian woman suspected of carrying out a bombing that injured Ukrainian-born tycoon Vadym Iermolaiev in Monaco was shot dead in Kyiv by a serving Ukrainian military intelligence officer who claimed he had acted on his own…

https://bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com/post/3mpzppvsb7c26

Published: July 7, 2026 03:59

Fire Point’s chief designer showed me upgrades including to the wings and fuel capacity when I visited a production facility in the spring. He said the range of FP-1s would be increasing. It appears we saw that they have with the Omsk refinery strike. …

https://bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com/post/3mpznksliwk2l

Published: July 7, 2026 03:21

“If our partners do not abandon Ukraine financially, if our soldiers continue holding the front, if every kilometre of Russian advance continues to cost them tens of thousands—and sometimes hundreds of thousands—of personnel, then the decisive struggle…

https://bsky.app/profile/christopherjm.ft.com/post/3mpyrsumwck2t

Published: July 6, 2026 19:04

I caught up with President Zelenskyy today at his office. He told me that one of Ukraine's goals with its long-range drone strikes is to terrify Putin and drive him out of Moscow. “The farther Putin is from Moscow, the closer the end of the war will be,”…