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, […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
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 […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
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 […]
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, […]
China / Taiwan / World
Facing down the Dragon in ‘the most dangerous place on Earth’
Published by The Daily Mail (23rd August, 2022) Kneeling on the floor, Kate Wang pressed a bandage to stem the flow of blood from a nasty-looking wound, while […]
China / World
How Hong Kong was swallowed by the Chinese dragon
Published by The Daily Mail (30th June, 2022) For almost half a century, the glitzy Jumbo Floating Restaurant was one of Hong Kong’s best-known sights as it sat majestically […]
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
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
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 […]