Lydia Tomkiw
@lydiatomkiw.bsky.social
Senior reporter at Pensions & Investments covering hedge funds, private credit. Freelance reporting on Ukraine.
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Tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in the U.S. will begin losing legal protections Friday without action from the Trump administration.
Ukrainians Who Fled War Are Losing Their Legal Status to Stay in the U.S.
The Trump administration is letting a makeshift Biden-era program lapse.
on.wsj.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in the U.S. will begin losing legal protections Friday without action from the Trump administration.
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RIA Novosti’s opinion desk regularly publishes the most outrageous shit, but this one still stands out.
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Russian state media runs op-ed titled ‘No One Should Remain Alive in Ukraine’ — Meduza
Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti published an inflammatory column Wednesday titled There’s No Other Option: No One Should Remain Alive in Ukraine by columnist Kirill Strelnikov. The piece argues...
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July 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
RIA Novosti’s opinion desk regularly publishes the most outrageous shit, but this one still stands out.
meduza.io/en/news/2025...
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16 killed, record number of children injured in Russia’s massive attack on Kyiv; Trump sets Aug. 8 deadline for Ukraine peace deal, US diplomat tells UN; and more.
Ukraine war latest: 16 killed, record number of children injured in Russia’s massive attack on Kyiv
Key developments on July 31:
* 16 killed, record number of children injured in Russia’s massive attack on Kyiv
* Trump sets Aug. 8 deadline for Ukraine peace deal, US diplomat tells UN
* Russia 'l...
kyivindependent.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
16 killed, record number of children injured in Russia’s massive attack on Kyiv; Trump sets Aug. 8 deadline for Ukraine peace deal, US diplomat tells UN; and more.
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Unelected. Unapologetic. Uncompromising.
Andriy Yermak is not Ukraine’s president. But he often acts like one. He handpicks government officials—and dismisses them. The prime minister and military brass frequently defer to him.
My FT Mag profile of Ukraine's Green Cardinal
www.ft.com/content/4d61...
Andriy Yermak is not Ukraine’s president. But he often acts like one. He handpicks government officials—and dismisses them. The prime minister and military brass frequently defer to him.
My FT Mag profile of Ukraine's Green Cardinal
www.ft.com/content/4d61...
The polarising power of Andriy Yermak, Ukraine’s other wartime leader
President Zelenskyy’s right-hand man is fuelling concerns over creeping authoritarianism
www.ft.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Unelected. Unapologetic. Uncompromising.
Andriy Yermak is not Ukraine’s president. But he often acts like one. He handpicks government officials—and dismisses them. The prime minister and military brass frequently defer to him.
My FT Mag profile of Ukraine's Green Cardinal
www.ft.com/content/4d61...
Andriy Yermak is not Ukraine’s president. But he often acts like one. He handpicks government officials—and dismisses them. The prime minister and military brass frequently defer to him.
My FT Mag profile of Ukraine's Green Cardinal
www.ft.com/content/4d61...
2,000 Meters to Andriivka is another extraordinary documentary from @mstyslavchernov and team. The helmet footage immerses you into a strip of forest making you feel like you’re there with the Ukrainian soldiers. Highly recommend- playing at Film Forum in NYC now.
July 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
2,000 Meters to Andriivka is another extraordinary documentary from @mstyslavchernov and team. The helmet footage immerses you into a strip of forest making you feel like you’re there with the Ukrainian soldiers. Highly recommend- playing at Film Forum in NYC now.
Messages from family in #Ukraine this morning: Kyiv - it was another loud night, but we are good, well as good as you can be in war. Lviv - the flooding is close to us plus air raids and Shahed drones.
July 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Messages from family in #Ukraine this morning: Kyiv - it was another loud night, but we are good, well as good as you can be in war. Lviv - the flooding is close to us plus air raids and Shahed drones.
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⚡️ Kyiv under attack as Russia launches waves of drones on Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground reported hearing explosions in the capital.
The Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground reported hearing explosions in the capital.
Kyiv under attack as Russia launches waves of drones on Ukraine
The Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground reported hearing explosions in the capital.
kyivindependent.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
⚡️ Kyiv under attack as Russia launches waves of drones on Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground reported hearing explosions in the capital.
The Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground reported hearing explosions in the capital.
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For the first time in this war, I wrote in the first person.
Here is what it's like to experience an air raid in Kyiv, to negotiate between bombs and normality, and to come out of shelter into the smoky aftermath.
Free to read: www.wsj.com/world/gaming...
Here is what it's like to experience an air raid in Kyiv, to negotiate between bombs and normality, and to come out of shelter into the smoky aftermath.
Free to read: www.wsj.com/world/gaming...
Gaming the Air Raids in Kyiv: A Night in a Capital at War
People in the Ukrainian capital spend their evenings clinging to the normal things of life—for as long as the air-raid sirens allow.
www.wsj.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
For the first time in this war, I wrote in the first person.
Here is what it's like to experience an air raid in Kyiv, to negotiate between bombs and normality, and to come out of shelter into the smoky aftermath.
Free to read: www.wsj.com/world/gaming...
Here is what it's like to experience an air raid in Kyiv, to negotiate between bombs and normality, and to come out of shelter into the smoky aftermath.
Free to read: www.wsj.com/world/gaming...
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His indictment reads whatnow?!
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June 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
His indictment reads whatnow?!
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Sat down with AQR's Clifford Asness to get an update on the firm's machine learning efforts, managing through volatility, what is on the research agenda, plus his views on the push to get more private markets products into the retail market. www.pionline.com/alternatives...
AQR’s Cliff Asness weighs in on machine learning, quant credit, problems with private markets for retail investors
Cliff Asness, co-founder, managing principal and chief investment officer of $136 billion AQR Capital Management is giving more leeway to machine learning these days and looking to again restart quant...
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June 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Sat down with AQR's Clifford Asness to get an update on the firm's machine learning efforts, managing through volatility, what is on the research agenda, plus his views on the push to get more private markets products into the retail market. www.pionline.com/alternatives...
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⚡️Russian drone and missile attacks kill at least 13, injure 57 across Ukraine over past day.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia deployed 368 aerial weapons, including 352 attack drones, 11 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, and 5 Iskander-K cruise missiles, striking primarily Kyiv.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia deployed 368 aerial weapons, including 352 attack drones, 11 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, and 5 Iskander-K cruise missiles, striking primarily Kyiv.
Russian drone and missile attacks kill at least 13, injure 57 across Ukraine over past day
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia deployed 368 aerial weapons, including 352 attack drones, 11 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, and 5 Iskander-K cruise missiles, striking primarily Kyiv...
kyivindependent.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
⚡️Russian drone and missile attacks kill at least 13, injure 57 across Ukraine over past day.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia deployed 368 aerial weapons, including 352 attack drones, 11 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, and 5 Iskander-K cruise missiles, striking primarily Kyiv.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia deployed 368 aerial weapons, including 352 attack drones, 11 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, and 5 Iskander-K cruise missiles, striking primarily Kyiv.
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Rescuers have recovered another body from the rubble in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district.
This brings the death toll from the Russian missile strike on the nine-story building to 23 people. Search and rescue operations are still ongoing.
This brings the death toll from the Russian missile strike on the nine-story building to 23 people. Search and rescue operations are still ongoing.
June 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Rescuers have recovered another body from the rubble in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district.
This brings the death toll from the Russian missile strike on the nine-story building to 23 people. Search and rescue operations are still ongoing.
This brings the death toll from the Russian missile strike on the nine-story building to 23 people. Search and rescue operations are still ongoing.
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BREAKING: SENATOR PADILLA HANDCUFFED AND THROWN TO THE GROUND AFTER BEING FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM PRESS CONFERENCE.
June 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
BREAKING: SENATOR PADILLA HANDCUFFED AND THROWN TO THE GROUND AFTER BEING FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM PRESS CONFERENCE.
Another day, another #privatecredit bank partnership: Citi and Carlyle have teamed up on asset-backed finance focused on fintech. Anyone out there have a full list of all the partnerships of the last several years? www.pionline.com/alternatives...
Citi, Carlyle team up on asset-backed lending to fintech companies
Citigroup and Carlyle Group announced that they are teaming up on financing opportunities to financial technology firms amid growing interest in the asset-backed finance segment of private credit.
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June 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Another day, another #privatecredit bank partnership: Citi and Carlyle have teamed up on asset-backed finance focused on fintech. Anyone out there have a full list of all the partnerships of the last several years? www.pionline.com/alternatives...
ICYMI last week: Took a look at what happened a year after institutional investors led by the $207.3 billion Teacher Retirement System of Texas and a handful of consultants threw down the gauntlet with an open letter to #hedgefunds on cash hurdles www.pionline.com/alternatives...
How Texas Teachers pushed back on hedge fund fees — and won
Almost a year ago, institutional investors, led by the $207.3 billion Teacher Retirement System of Texas, and a handful of consultants threw down the gauntlet with an open letter to the hedge fund ind...
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June 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
ICYMI last week: Took a look at what happened a year after institutional investors led by the $207.3 billion Teacher Retirement System of Texas and a handful of consultants threw down the gauntlet with an open letter to #hedgefunds on cash hurdles www.pionline.com/alternatives...
Nice to see our piece on Ukrainian scouts re-air on DW's Inside Europe podcast. You can hear it here starting at 40:40 pod.link/insideeurope...
Inside Europe
The original European current affairs podcast from Germany’s international broadcaster. Bringing you expert analysis and on-the ground reporting from the European capitals and beyond. Join host Kate L...
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May 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Nice to see our piece on Ukrainian scouts re-air on DW's Inside Europe podcast. You can hear it here starting at 40:40 pod.link/insideeurope...
Happy #VyshyvankaDay from an ever-growing section of my closet.
May 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Happy #VyshyvankaDay from an ever-growing section of my closet.
"whatever you’d say about what the West was doing, we were just about stopping the Ukrainians from losing. But we never had the balls to give them what they needed actually" -Boris Johnson www.politico.eu/article/we-d...
We didn’t have the balls to fully back Ukraine under Joe Biden, says Boris Johnson
Johnson, who was U.K. PM when Russia invaded Ukraine, criticized the West’s Biden-era approach — and said Trump can do better.
www.politico.eu
May 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"whatever you’d say about what the West was doing, we were just about stopping the Ukrainians from losing. But we never had the balls to give them what they needed actually" -Boris Johnson www.politico.eu/article/we-d...
This is a major change in tone from the Vatican www.ft.com/content/c933...
New pope breaks with Francis to support Kyiv and ceasefire push
Days after his election as head of Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV calls Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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May 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This is a major change in tone from the Vatican www.ft.com/content/c933...
If I had a dollar for every time I heard the word "uncertainty" at the #Milken2025 conference, I could have bought multiple Erewhon smoothies in Beverly Hills. Here’s our wrap featuring exclusive sideline interviews and highlights from panels www.pionline.com/money-manage...
Market uncertainty hangs over Milken as demand for private markets and overseas deals ramp up
Uncertainty and questions over how U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff policy will shake out and the future of the U.S. economy hung over this year’s Milken Institute Global Conference 2025 held in B...
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May 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
If I had a dollar for every time I heard the word "uncertainty" at the #Milken2025 conference, I could have bought multiple Erewhon smoothies in Beverly Hills. Here’s our wrap featuring exclusive sideline interviews and highlights from panels www.pionline.com/money-manage...
On the ground at #Milken2025 blogging what executives and world leaders are saying. So far uncertainty and wait and see around tariffs are top of mind. Follow here: www.pionline.com/live-blog/mi...
Milken Institute Global Conference 2025 Live Blog
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May 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
On the ground at #Milken2025 blogging what executives and world leaders are saying. So far uncertainty and wait and see around tariffs are top of mind. Follow here: www.pionline.com/live-blog/mi...
May Victoria RIP. This is Russia: "the hyoid bone in her neck was broken. It is the kind of damage that can occur during strangulation...when her body was returned during the exchange on 14 February, certain parts were missing, namely the brain, eyes and larynx." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison
The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
May Victoria RIP. This is Russia: "the hyoid bone in her neck was broken. It is the kind of damage that can occur during strangulation...when her body was returned during the exchange on 14 February, certain parts were missing, namely the brain, eyes and larynx." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
ICYMI yesterday, another executive comp fight is brewing this year: www.pionline.com/money-manage...
ISS urges vote against BlackRock executive compensation proposal
BlackRock’s executive officers’ compensation is in the spotlight as Institutional Shareholder Services, or ISS, asked investors to vote against the $11.58 trillion asset manager’s compensation proposa...
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April 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
ICYMI yesterday, another executive comp fight is brewing this year: www.pionline.com/money-manage...
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⚡️Death toll in Russian missile attack on Kyiv rises to 12.
Twelve people were killed and 90 civilians, including six children, were injured in a large-scale Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv overnight on April 24, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.
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Twelve people were killed and 90 civilians, including six children, were injured in a large-scale Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv overnight on April 24, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.
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'Russian peace in all its glory' — Mass Russian missile, drone attack on Kyiv kills 12, injures 90
A series of explosions rocked the capital around 1:00 a.m. local time on April 24, Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground reported. Additional explosions were later heard around 4 a.m. local time.
kyivindependent.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
⚡️Death toll in Russian missile attack on Kyiv rises to 12.
Twelve people were killed and 90 civilians, including six children, were injured in a large-scale Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv overnight on April 24, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.
kyivindependent.com/explosions-h...
Twelve people were killed and 90 civilians, including six children, were injured in a large-scale Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv overnight on April 24, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.
kyivindependent.com/explosions-h...
Since 2022, going to bed in the US knowing it's bad, checking on family and friends. Waking up in the morning to see the total death toll and again checking on everyone I love.
Russian forces launched a major missile and drone attack on Kyiv early Thursday, killing at least nine people in the city, Ukrainian officials said, the deadliest attack on Ukraine's capital since last summer.
At Least 9 Dead in Russian Airstrikes on Kyiv, Ukrainian Officials Say
The overnight assault on Ukraine’s capital was the deadliest since last summer, and comes as the United States has threatened to walk away from the peace process.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Since 2022, going to bed in the US knowing it's bad, checking on family and friends. Waking up in the morning to see the total death toll and again checking on everyone I love.