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
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 […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Our timid tolerance for tyranny
Published by The i paper (25th April, 2022) The president of a European nation gave a surreal press conference on Saturday. The fact that it took place in […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Is this depravity intrinsic to war, to Russians – or to all humanity once its veneer of civilisation is stripped away?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th April, 2022) On the right bank of Kyiv, close to the city centre, lies a peaceful park bisected by a busy road. […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
A terror reborn
Published by The Daily Mail (4th April, 2022) The images that have emerged after Russia’s retreat from the outskirts of Kyiv are haunting, harrowing and a hideous reminder of the […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Has this carnage woken up the West?
Published by The i paper (7th March, 2022) Beside my hotel in western Ukraine there are scruffy sheds and cluttered yards filled with snow-dusted piles of rusting metal. […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
People’s army that is stepping up for the fight
Published by The Daily Mail (24th February, 2022) Liza Lukyanova might seem an unlikely recruit for the army of a country that is facing a fight for survival […]
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, […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Amid fog of this weird war, a day to honour the dead
Published by The Daily Mail (21st February, 2022) The sun was shining as families walked down the street in Kiev, passing trees festooned with paper angels and flowers […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
The hole blown through teddy bear wallpaper that could be the pretext for war in Ukraine
Published by The Mail on Sunday (20th February, 2022) As we left the car, there was a loud thump, followed quickly by two more thuds from the edge […]