Maxim Tucker

We gained exclusive access to Ukrainian cyberwarfare specialists and front line intelligence officers for our new @thetimes documentary, The Starlink Hack That Fooled Russian Forces... 1/

Trump gives Ukraine Patriot licence as Kyiv's drones hammer Moscow youtu.be/0ZYGbREhZj4?is… via @YouTube And @MaxRTucker does it again @TimesRadio - a scoop to share with Frontline

Thanks again @MaxRTucker for the update @TimesRadio for Frontline - always brings new, first hand information youtu.be/zn2y4Z5Ut24?is… via @YouTube

EXCLUSIVE Nigel Farage failed to declare that a criminal and crypto gambler paid for his staff, security, drivers, social media output in year before election Reform leader has also received free accommodation in Westminster from George Cottrell as MP thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did. 250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur. A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before. An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of. The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock. A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor. A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support. Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him. $2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers. And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares. And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators? Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry. For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop? Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family? They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

You can read more about them in my full dispatch, here. These great images are by @ratynskki. 15/15 thetimes.com/world/russia-u…

Krykun’s team have become a close band of brothers who have stuck together through the heaviest of Ukraine’s battles, he says. They fought at Bakhmut, in the Serebriansky forest, during the 2023 counteroffensive and in defence of Toretsk, Kostyantynivka and Pokrovsk. 14/15

On assignment for @thetimes, I visited Ukraine's 20th Lubart Brigade, @LubartB, fighting at Rodynske. There is little left of the town. Shattered concrete and twists of charred metal mark the remains of buildings long since razed to the ground. The façades of those few still standing are pockmarked, battered by shrapnel and close to collapse. 1/ 15

British Royal Marine Commandos boarded Russian shadow fleet tanker the Smyrtos today in an early morning raid involving two warships, Chinook, Merlin and Wildcat helicopters, as well as a P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft. The intercept took place in the Channel, the busiest shipping lane in the world. The war in Ukraine just got a lot more costly for Putin.