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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

Yevhen’s story: how a father from Ukraine rescued his children from the Kremlin clutches

Published by Tortoise (30th May, 2023) The Polyany sanatorium is a two-storey brick building in verdant grounds about an hour’s drive west of Moscow. It is a hybrid […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

‘US missiles with a 100-mile range’ are used in first strikes to retake Mariupol

Published by The Mail on Sunday (26th February, 2023) Ukraine has launched a series of surprise attacks on Russian troops and supply lines in Mariupol – the first […]

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Feature / Serbia / Ukraine

The child snatcher

Published by The Daily Mail (27th October, 2022) The blonde woman in the polka-dot dress was clutching a huge teddy bear as she stood with a small group […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Exposed: Putin’s Stalinist deportation plan for two million Ukrainians

Published by The Daily Mail (14th May, 2022) Russia planned the forcible deportation of up to two million Ukrainians before launching its invasion, according to top-level Kremlin documents […]

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Europe / Ukraine

The songbird of Mariupol who’ll fight on till the end

Published by The Daily Mail (9th May, 2022) The shaky video picks out the woman leading the singing in the darkness, her clear voice imbuing the patriotic songs […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Hours on trucks, interrogated in camps…the hell of forced deportation

Published by The Daily Mail (28th March, 2022) After almost three weeks of war, the candles and food were running out for the 90 petrified people sheltering in […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Mother’s daring mission to rescue more than 100 people from city of hell

Published by The Daily Mail (27th March, 2022) As Russia’s barrage of bombs, missiles and shells lays waste to Mariupol, fearful families cowering in the city’s cellars try […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Briton who fled Mariupol horror on foot towards Russia

Published by The Daily Mail (24th March, 2022) A British man has escaped from the devastated city of Mariupol by walking to Russia after becoming trapped with his […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

The Russians have bombed Mariupol back to Middle Ages

Published by The Daily Mail (19th March, 2022) When Kristina Dzholos sat down to breakfast the morning after her family’s escape from Mariupol, she could not bring herself […]

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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 […]

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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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