Published by The Independent (29th December, 2014) News is by nature a grim business, the most terrible and tragic tales dominating headlines and squeezing out the humdrum humanity […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
The west is letting Putin get his way on Ukraine
Published by The Guardian (28th November, 2014) Ukraine’s new parliament was sworn in today. More than 400 members took their oaths, but 27 seats remain vacant – the annexation of […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Why do we stand by and watch Putin?
Published by The Independent (1st September, 2014) There were long queues of cars at checkpoints in Mariupol yesterday morning. Many were filled with families fleeing the city,which lies in […]
Europe / Ukraine
With the remains of 200 victims, the train of death finally moves out
Published by The Daily Mail (22nd July, 2014) The freight train filled with its grisly cargo of death last night finally pulled out of the station where it […]
Europe / Ukraine
The grimmest journey for MH17 victims
Published by The Daily Mail (21st July, 2014) The stench of death is thick in the air as onlookers peer inside a freight train containing the bodies of […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
The graveyard of desecration
Published by The Mail on Sunday (2oth July, 2014) There was something almost beautiful about the white ribbons tied to stakes as they fluttered in the wind; some […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Blood on Putin’s hands?
Published by The Daily Mail (18th July 2014) The world may have averted its gaze towards Israel and Gaza, but this week the rumbling warfare in eastern Ukraine […]
Europe / European Union / Politics / Russia / Ukraine
Ukraine and the shame of Europe
Published by The Wall Street Journal (22nd May, 2014) There are flickers of hope that calm can descend again on Eastern Europe. We are told that those threatening […]
Europe / European Union / Russia / Ukraine
Europe’s response to Ukraine has been a betrayal
Published by The Guardian (3rd May, 2014) Two weeks ago I stood and watched as three groups of heavily armed men in military uniforms entered a police station […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Putin’s secret army, hellbent on war
Published by The Mail on Sunday (20th April, 2014) Outside the occupied Ukrainian police station, sandbags were being piled for protection as a car slammed to a halt. Out […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Spark that could ignite a tinderbox
Published by The Daily Mail (14th April, 2014) This is the long-dreaded moment. It is seven weeks since a strange struggle in the east of Europe began, with […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Don’t fall for Putin’s lie
Published by The Guardian (1st April, 2014) Vladimir Putin has won plaudits at home and brushed aside censure abroad with his brazen theft of Crimea. His few supporters […]