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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

How General Armageddon built his career – and his wife’s fortune – on a mountain of corpses

Published by The Daily Mail (13th October, 2022) He has served the Kremlin in five wars around the world, leaving behind a trail of blood, crushed cities and […]

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The day death rained from the sky

Published by The Daily Mail (11th October, 2022) THE first blast erupted after 8am, sounding alarmingly loud and perilously close to my hotel. Then came a couple more, […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Putin’s plan for Ukraine lies in ashes

Published by The i paper (10th October, 2022) Ukraine was a place of joyful celebration when people woke on Saturday to learn that an explosion had ripped through […]

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Putin’s ‘miracle’ bridge in flames

Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th December, 2022) It is a picture that shows the stunning devastation caused to the only rail and road link between Russia […]

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Kherson fightback sees Ukraine retake 29 towns

Published by The Daily Mail (7th October, 2022) Ukraine says it has recaptured 29 towns and villages in the south of the country over the past week after […]

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We’re hunting them down and shooting them like pigs

Published by The Daily Mail (6th October, 2022) When Russian forces took over the city of Balakliya, eastern Ukraine, they turned the central police station into a base […]

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Europe / Feature / Russia / Ukraine

Russia’s monstrous new tactic: forcing Ukrainians to fight against their own side

Published by The Daily Mail (29th September, 2022) Oksana did not want her children indoctrinated by Russia after Vladimir Putin’s invading troops took over her village in southern Ukraine, […]

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Boxed in and snarling back – but this is Putin’s admission that his war is an astonishing blunder

Published by The Daily Mail (21st September, 2022) Vladimir Putin likes to tell a story about the lesson he learned as a child from a cornered rat that […]

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Dangerous moments for the killer in the Kremlin

Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th September, 2022) Vladimir Putin built his dictatorship on two core foundations: ruthless control of his nation, whether fleecing its wealth with […]

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This is no time for complacency

Published by The i paper (12th September, 2022) I first met Maria Avdeeva, an expert in cyber-security, in early February when we had a coffee in a chic […]

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Ukraine captures key towns as Putin’s forces hit by lightening advance

Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th September, 2022) UKRAINE has made stunning advances in a rapid counter-offensive that has caught the Kremlin by surprise, with intelligence experts […]

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Traumatised mums say their sons who refuse to fight for Kremlin held in torture pits

Published by The Mail on Sunday (31st July, 2022) MAKSIM Kochetkov is being held captive in a penal colony 6,000 miles from his home on an island near […]

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Ian Birrell is an award-winning columnist, foreign correspondent, feature writer and investigative journalist. He is contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday, a weekly columnist in The i Paper and writes frequently for other papers and platforms. He is also co-founder with Damon Albarn of Africa Express, the acclaimed collaborative music project. (Pictured: Talking to refugees in Iraq fleeing Islamic State)... Read More.

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