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Simon Ostrovsky
@SimonOstrovsky
PBS @NewsHour Special Correspondent. 2025 Emmy nominee, 2025 Religion News Association award-winner. Subscribe on YouTube ⬇️
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    Simon Ostrovsky
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    Feb 21, 2025
    I’m excited to announce a new feature-length documentary project I’m working on with my co-director @apoolos about Russia’s efforts to eradicate Evangelical Christians from the map of Ukraine to impose Russian Orthodoxy as the state religion. Please support this film by donating
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    Simon Ostrovsky
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    Mar 1, 2025
    I was out at a gaming get together in Kyiv last night when the Zelensky-Trump meeting was being livecast. It was all anyone was talking about obviously and each new shoe dropping was like a blow that rippled through the crowd. But then someone asked me, “doesn’t trump realize who
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    Simon Ostrovsky
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    May 27, 2019
    "This is fine"
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    Simon Ostrovsky
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    Mar 5, 2025
    Who is going to want to buy American when we are willing to disable arms we’ve provided mid battle?
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    How Trump Is Killing the U.S. Defense Industry
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    Simon Ostrovsky
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    Mar 19, 2022
    Kremlin crooner Oleg Gazmanov at the pro-war rally Putin went to yesterday singing “Ukraine and Crimea, Belarus and Moldova, that is my country.” This clip was sent to me by an acquaintance in Chișinău where it’s being shared with increasing alarm.
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    Simon Ostrovsky
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    Mar 13, 2022
    Gutting to hear of the death Brent Renaud in Irpin, Ukraine today. A filmmaker without parallel who was working on a global film project about refugees. My thoughts are with his brother and his friends and family.
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    Simon Ostrovsky
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    Feb 19, 2025
    I was in Crimea in 2014 when Russia sent troops to take over the peninsula. I meticulously documented the war they started in Ukraine in over 100 episodes & several documentaries for VICE News. Russia has been lying about its involvement from the start.
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    Russian Roulette in Ukraine
    VICE New brings you on-the-ground coverage of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine: Check out our latest Russia coverage here - http://bit.ly/2wdklJB
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    Simon Ostrovsky
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    Feb 24, 2022
    Ukraine is burning. Whatever measures the West brought to bear to stop Russia have failed. Ukrainians are fighting for their lives with barely any help. It’ll be a shameful day most of all in the pages of Russia’s history but also for the free world for failing to do more.
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    Simon Ostrovsky
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    Feb 25, 2022
    This video of a lone man trying to stop a Russian column in pretty remarkable
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    maksym eristavi.
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    Feb 25, 2022
    this is why russian invaders in ukraine are fucking doomed.
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    Simon Ostrovsky
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    Apr 13, 2022
    Hey @Twitter, you are doing a terrible job policing your platform when it comes to Ukraine. You are failing. Hundreds of sock puppet accounts attack every tweet that counters the Kremlin narrative, meanwhile you fall for coordinated campaigns to suspend genuine accounts.
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    Simon Ostrovsky
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    Oct 8, 2023
    Wasn’t Netanyahu supposed to be the strongman that would keep Israel safe? He’s been so busy dismantling democracy he completely missed the invasion plan. Turns out doing a coalition with extremists & making a fanatic your security minister isn’t great security policy.
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    Simon Ostrovsky
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    Oct 31, 2025
    “Ukraine barely has a navy and has taken out 35% of Russia’s Black Sea fleet. Ukraine’s strikes deep into Russia have destroyed as much as 27% of Russian refining capacity. Operation Spiderweb took out $7 billion in Russian aircraft at four air bases with $100,000 in Ukrainian
    Zelensky Is Winning Trump Voters Over
    Opinion | Zelensky Is Winning Trump Voters Over
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    Simon Ostrovsky
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    Feb 22, 2025
    If you're going to have an argument about Ukraine on here or on TV please read this ISW factsheet first. - Zelensky does not imminently risk losing all of Ukraine. At the current rate of advance, it would take Russian forces over 83 years to capture the whole of Ukraine. -
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    Ukraine Fact Sheet, February 21, 2025
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    Simon Ostrovsky
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    Apr 15, 2022
    The line for the recently issued ship stamp in Kyiv
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