In which Donbassamong the horrors of conflict, the many dead, the ongoing and fierce fighting, there is one YouTuber Englishmen who could now be blamed war crimes. A camera and channel with 246,000 subscribers, about a decade after it was broadcast Ukraine, Graham Phillips He landed in the storm after an interview with his compatriot Aiden Aslin, one of the British volunteers captured by Putin’s army while defending the city of Mariupol. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was concerned about Phillips’ “propaganda messages”, while MP Robert Jenrick went further and said Aslin was “handcuffed, injured and interrogated under duress” in the YouTuber’s 45-minute footage may be. According to the British politician, this is a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions and risks being prosecuted for “war crimes”.
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Graham Phillips who he is
His rise from a remote part of Britain to a figure of national political interest has been downright bizarre. According to a 2014 interview with BuzzFeed News, Phillips first traveled to Ukraine during an away game for a soccer game. At the age of 30, he left his job at the UK government’s now defunct Central Information Office and moved permanently to Ukraine, where he reinvented himself as a journalist. When Russia invaded Crimea in 2014, Phillips sympathized with pro-Moscow separatist groups in the east of the country.
His live videos on YouTube were new at the time and his work was appreciated by Cemlino, who employed him as a freelancer for a short time. Phillips then boasted that he was the only Western journalist to have taken a tour of the “legendary Russian Black Sea Fleet” and witnessed “the power of the flagship Moskva,” recently sunk by Ukrainian missiles. He returned to the UK during the pandemic and again traveled to the Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine after the conflict broke out. It’s unclear how he ended up in this room to interview Aslin, although it may have gotten him the notoriety he’s always sought. But maybe not only that.
As someone who followed Graham Phillips’, er, early work back in 2014, I can safely say that I had not imagined that this would eventually blossom into a national political scandal in the UKhttps://t.co/o7izFrfVMO
-max seddon (@maxseddon) April 21, 2022
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