Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th July, 2022) Like many of his male friends, Serhiy no longer leaves his home in western Ukraine for fear of being […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
The West needs to show strength – like Ukraine
Published by The i paper (20th June, 2022) Four weeks before Vladimir Putin sent his tanks and troops over the border in a vainglorious attempt to impose a […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Ukraine’s newest heroes: the brave Russian defectors joining the fight against Putin
Published by The Daily Mail (16th June, 2022) Like all his Ukrainian army comrades, Volodymyr Grotskov is fuelled by deeply-held patriotism as he risks his life on the […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Lethal aim of the husband and wife snipers
Published by The Daily Mail (8th June, 2022) Oksana Krasnova smiles when I ask if she enjoys her job as we sit talking in a simple white farmhouse […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Putin the Great? Hardly…
Published by The i paper (6th June, 2022) When the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, many officials took down their icons of Communism to replace them with […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Enemy at the gates
Published by The Daily Mail (2nd June, 2022) First came the huge explosion in a school yard that damaged 2,400 flats in the early hours of the morning. […]
Russia / Ukraine
Heroes of the resistance who are sabotaging Putin’s war machine
Published by The Daily Mail (31st May, 2022) The bomb, almost 2lb of high explosive, was hidden in a fuse box by the front door of the block […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
A struggle between good and evil
Published by The i paper (30th May, 2022) Yesterday I was interviewing more Ukrainians fleeing Vladimir Putin’s invasion, hearing sad stories of families whose homes and lives have […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
The Kremlin’s sharpened its attack – and the mood is suddenly more pessimistic
Published by The Daily Mail (28th May, 2022) Suddenly the tone has become more pessimistic. Ukraine’s leaders plead desperately for more weapons as they warn that Russia is […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Video nasty: Russian PoW’s film shows cruelty and chaos
Published by The Daily Mail (24th May, 2022) A Russian tank officer who was captured after one month fighting in Ukraine was found to have been filming a home […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Nationhood forged in blood
Published by The i paper (23rd May, 2022) Gorky Park sits in the centre of Kharkiv. Before the war, families would flock there to feed squirrels, ride Ukraine’s […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
The sweet smell of liberation as Ukraine pushes back and people emerge from bunkers
Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd May, 2022) Tamara was sitting on a bench outside, warming herself in the sun after a cold night sleeping in a […]