Maxim Tucker

Over three days I embedded for @thetimes with a Ukrainian female fighting force shooting Russian drones over Kyiv and training to meet Putin's summer offensive head on. 1/6

😮🇭🇺🗳️ THIS IS MASSIVE. Hungary’s parliamentary election turnout hit 74.23% by 5pm (62.92% at this point in 2022; final: 70.21%). Opposition stronghold Budapest is at 77.18%, big cities 75.55%. Final turnout is set to exceed 80% – unprecedented. Polls close at 7pm CET.

💥Polls closed in Hungary. No exit poll, but 21 Research Institute’s Apr 8–11 exclusive survey for @Telexhu shows Tisza leading Fidesz 55–38, with Our Homeland around the 5% threshold. Tisza is on the verge of a parliamentary supermajority.

The @FBI has identified cyber actors associated with Russian Intelligence Services targeting users of commercial messaging applications, including Signal. The campaign targets individuals of high intelligence value, including current and former U.S. government officials, military personnel, political figures, and journalists.   Globally, this effort has resulted in unauthorized access to thousands of individual accounts. After gaining access, the actors can view messages and contact lists, send messages as the victim, and conduct additional phishing from a trusted identity. It's important for you to be aware and take action - this vulnerability is not with the application - but you as the end user.   The FBI and CISA have released a joint PSA to help you identify this activity and protect your accounts: ic3.gov/PSA/2026/PSA26…

great @MaxRTucker reporting as always thetimes.com/world/russia-u…

Get the frontline perspective #UkraineRussianWar from @MaxRTucker for @thetimes and @TimesRadio Not to be overlooked. Kremlin scrambles to censor internet as paranoia over Russian war failur... youtu.be/aUo_mvoFW38?si… via @YouTube

@JD_Cashless @realchuckcj thank you!

🚨SCOOP: I can identify the FBI informant who made this allegation: Charles Johnson @realchuckcj I know this b/c I have an unreacted Johnson CHS report w/ the same source ID: 00099701. Johnson is the one who outed Peter Thiel as an informant. He just got out of jail today.

@GoodPyre Good spot. Do you have the Epstein file reference for this FBI intel report or a link?

So Johnson’s claim to have taken notes during the Dershowitz-Epstein calls is plausible. And his claim that he talks to Dershowitz “occasionally” is proven by media reports. Johnson also made a highly specific claim about Maria Drokova, which is only now proven via latest emails.

The Confidential Human Source (Chuck Johnson) that ties Epstein to Mossad has been dismissed due to his notoriety, but there are reasons to take it seriously. Dershowitz has confirmed that Johnson was his summer legal assistant during the period he acted as Epstein’s lawyer. […]

Absolutely glorious video of a Ukrainian F16 taking out a Russian Shahed drone. Too often when we hear the sound of these, it means another family is about to be torn apart.

Russia made a gesture of good will to Trump, and halted its attacks on Ukrainian power and heating stations for a few days — until today, one of the coldest days in decades. It is -6 Fahrenheit in Kyiv now, and millions of people have no electricity, no water and no heating in frozen apartment blocks.

@AaronBMacLean Thank you Aaron

Remarkable thread (and reporting!) 👇

@WarintheFuture Thank you Mick!

Brilliant reporting on the Ukrainian advances to destroy Russian forces in the vicinity of #Kupiansk. @MaxRTucker

You can read the full story here: thetimes.com/world/russia-u… Photos by @shtukaanton 25.

On October 29, Putin had mockingly invited western journalists to visit Kupiansk to see how his troops had surrounded Ukrainian forces in the city. As late as November 20, the Russian command did not appear to realise the extent to which their lines had been compromised. 24/

I spent the week with Ukraine's "Search and Destroy" group as they pulled off an incredible victory against the odds at Kupiansk, embarrassing President Putin. Below are extracts from my dispatch, which you can read in full in @thetimes. 1/

On his next mission, on January 15, Afghano and his team crawled through the gas pipeline the Russians had been using to get in behind Ukrainian positions. Inside they discovered several Russian bodies, frozen solid. 23/