Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th March, 2022) Despite the valiant efforts of residents to block roads with felled trees and even to force back some armoured […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Women and children are warned: You will become human shields
Published by The Daily Mail (11th March, 2022) Russian forces are rounding up Ukrainian civilians and holding them as captives in areas they have seized, provoking fears they are […]
Europe / Ukraine
The Home Front heroines aiding the front line on the other side of Ukraine
Published by The Daily Mail (10th March, 2022) As we drove through the darkening countryside amid swirling clouds of snow, Lyudmila Sirko was never off her phone, pleading […]
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 / Ukraine
Ordinary people: ten lives snuffed out by Putin’s brutal war machine
Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th March, 2022) Amid the carnage and chaos, it is difficult to track the death toll data, let alone obtain a true […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Day they laid waste to Freedom Square, heart of a nation’s release from tyranny
Published by The Daily Mail (2nd March, 2022) Two hideous explosions bookended the day in Kharkiv. The first saw a giant fireball erupt after a cruise missile struck an […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Brave Britons answering the call to arms
Published by The Daily Mail (29th February, 2022) Gary Bonini spent 12 years in the British Army. Later this week he aims to head out to Ukraine to join their […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Armed with ‘happiness cocktails’, the villagers all set for battle
Published by The Daily Mail (28th February, 2022) Chortkiv should be finishing off preparations for its 500th anniversary celebrations this summer — but instead the small medieval town […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
How I escaped Kyiv
Published by The Daily Mail (26th February, 2022) For the second day running, I awoke yesterday to the wailing sound of sirens warning of air attacks. I had […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
‘Is it a holiday?’ the children asked when they weren’t woken up for school. ‘No, dears,’ mum replied. ‘The war has started…’
Published by The Daily Mail (25th February, 2022) The driver of a blue minibus, crammed full of people, was desperately trying to slide the door closed. Then I […]
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
‘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 […]