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Dan Sabbagh

@dansabbagh.bsky.social
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Journalist @guardian - defence and security editor. Based in London, travel to Ukraine and anywhere else when I can.... signal: londoncalling.77

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People trying to escape from second floor windows in central Kyiv a few minutes ago after a hit on the National Academy of Sciences
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Feedback...
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Ukrainian protesters in Kyiv want the defence minister back...
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
How to lobby Donald Trump. From the WSJ
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
he very much wanted to stay
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
predecessor Dan Jarvis lasted 39 days in post
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
An unelected monarch appoints an unelected prime minister. This is how we do it... 🇬🇧
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Really I prefer snooker
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Nato summit final declaration just out 1 - Trump signs up to Art 5 (sorry Vlad) 6 - No reference to next meeting (once less chance for a Trump row)
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
this is the kind of conference I go to
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Railway station arrivals, than and now
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Britain will have to "dial back" on military operations (against Russia, in Middle East) in future if No10, Treasury do not provide more money to MoD - UK chief of defence staff tells a Lords ctte
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Solidarity
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Starmer loyalist John Healey quits ahead of G7 and Nato summits in defence spending row. Said PM only offers minimal increase in defence spending this parliament of about £2bn despite growing global commitments, threat from Russia. Key passage from resignation letter:
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
where's the podium? will it even come out today?? forget polymarket, you can tell me
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Further clarification from Romania in fresh statement
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Anybody out there know Amman. I'm here for 24h + in the market for food and other recommendations...
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
An hour or so later and another 40% or so counted. Back home it'd be two seats in Sunderland and a long wait before a marginal declares
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Why do UK elections take so long to count...
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Even Russia hasn't tried this in Ukraine. At least, not yet...
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Discuss: has social media has improved public discourse, decision making? Example below....
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I'm back in Jerusalem, reporting for the Guardian over Passover, Easter and a little thereafter. From the Old City this morning...
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Bombing into the stone age? Originally advocated by retired US air force Gen Curtis LeMay in his 1965 memoir as a way to deal with North Vietnam. And how did that turn out?
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Catching up with the Trump speech, some extraordinary comments from a war crimes-human rights-diplomatic strategy perspective...
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Unusual Downing St statement - confirming that ministers have agreed collectively to an expansion of US bombing from UK to include targeting Iranian "capabilities" targeting ships in the Straits. Mission creep....
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Khamenei should surrender, if dead... - Trump
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Here's another one... targeting of ballistic missile industrial sites...
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Experimenting with AI infographic generation - let me know if you spot any errors...
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Espionage arrests - relating to China - Met statement
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"I never tried to kill a leader of another country, ever..."
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Israel Channel 12 reports that Israeli officials believe Khamenei is most likely killed...
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Looks like the ISC's calls for the govt to justify every proposed redaction of documents will take time. A lot of Mandelson documents will meet the 'prejudicial to international relations test' never mind national security
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Letter to the prime minister from parliament's intelligence & security committee - when will you send us the withheld Mandelson documents so we can decide whether to release them?
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Spy stories - Letter to the Guardian today from a particularly important reader...
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Has the Labour govt become an amoral sea of vagueness? Exhibit A, last par
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
coalition of the willing - vague on ground forces
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Not sure this is exactly a Nato Art 5 equivalent "may include armed force" but would it in practice?
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Europe peace plan for Ukraine supported by leaders of Germany, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, UK plus EU
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Watching F1 finale in a bar in Kyiv. A snap power cut adds to the excitement, system now rebooting
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
...murder or war crime?
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Not subtle + legally questionable...
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
On another platform this user is apparently the leading poster on the Huntingdon train stabbings...
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Stephen Parkinson, DPP, had decided Sept 3 to drop the case. Only senior civil servants could be informed (incl Powell). Not clear when Starmer + Cooper were told (and doesn't look like they could intervene) - case was publicly dropped Sept 15. Future questions best directed at Parkinson...
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Tory spy case accusations backfiring... Rishi Sunak was sent a copy of first witness statement in the spy case says Jonathan Powell + Matthew Collins. Powell says he 'played no role' in subsequent evidence when in govt
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
An Iranian designed Shahed 136 drone is unveiled at the Speakers House in parliament. It has been decommissioned, guests are assured...
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Why did the CPS think it was reasonable to charge Cash and Berry with spying in April 2024 but said it had to drop them in Sep 2025 b/c of a ruling in another spy case On any reasonable reading that judgment is lowering or widening the definition of enemy...
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Met police operating live facial recognition outside Brixton tube. Three people picked up since 11.30 a sergeant tells me
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
You'd have thought this would have happened earlier...
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Why is Instagram constantly showing me this....?
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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Deadline day latest: changes to Starmer's squad into tonight
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