Jonathan Beale
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Jonathan Beale
@bealejonathan
Journalist. This is my personal twitter account

Russia fired its Oreshnik hypersonic missile at Ukraine last night - the third time ever. Each one costs an estimated $30–50 million. The stockpile: a few dozen at most. Target? A market and an opera house in Kyiv. Putin is spending irreplaceable, strategic weapons on civilian terror. That's the act of a man losing this war.






Ukrainians refuse to let Russia rule their lives in so many ways. Just yesterday, this man opened a small café in Kyiv. This morning, after one of the most brutal Russian all-night attacks, he's serving clients through a broken window. 📷 by Yaroslav Yemelianenko.

Zelenskyy has been named a democratic leader with expectations that he would not sacrifice his people for insane ideas like Putin does. Does it work though?


A Russian military truck destroyed near the border with Russia on the Mariupol-Rostov highway, 150 km from the front.

First F-35B flight test complete for SPEAR. 🇬🇧⚡ Earlier this year a SPEAR missile from @MBDAGroup successfully completed its first test flight aboard the F-35B, marking a critical step toward sovereign weapon capability for the UK’s F-35 fleet.


UK specialist paratroopers and military clinicians have carried out a daring parachute operation to deliver critical medical support to Tristan da Cunha – Britain’s most remote inhabited Overseas Territory – after a suspected case of Hantavirus was identified on the island.


Poor value for money for 5th largest defence budget. Even taking into account some creative accounting.








