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Russia / Ukraine / United States

Trump’s tragic betrayal of Ukraine

Published by The i Paper (18th August, 2025)

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Trump is giving Putin what he wants
Russia / Ukraine / United States

Trump is giving Putin what he wants

Published by The i Paper (11th August, 2025)

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Escape from Putin’s child-snatchers
Feature / Russia / Ukraine

Escape from Putin’s child-snatchers

Published by The Daily Mail (5th December, 2024)

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

‘It’s awful to think people who survived WWII in their youth have fallen victim in old age to the insanity of a mad man’

Published by The Daily Mail (23rd February, 2022) VADIM was walking his pug dog when we met yesterday morning. The sky was blue, the sun shone and the […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

The West must punish this thug as he rips apart another nation

Published by The Daily Mail (22nd February, 2022) When Georgia was on the verge of joining Nato in 2008, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin stirred up bitter separatist tensions, […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Putin’s twisted ploy to trigger Ukraine panic

Published by The Daily Mail (19th February, 2022) The pro-Russian rebel leaders of two breakaway Ukrainian regions claimed yesterday to have started an emergency evacuation of thousands of […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Kremlin plot to spark war with fake film of attack by Ukraine

Published by The Daily Mail (4th February, 2022) An alarming Kremlin plan to create a fake film of an attack by Ukrainian troops was revealed last night. Russia […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

‘Don’t let this madman force us from our homes again’

Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd January, 2022) Ekaterina Pereverzeva is struggling to stop fears of war tormenting her as vast numbers of Russian forces mass across […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Putin’s torture chamber at Number Three, Paradise Street

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th December, 2021) For almost 1,000 days, Stanislav Aseyev was held in a secret torture camp in the heart of a bustling […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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