Published by The Daily Mail (21st September, 2022) Vladimir Putin likes to tell a story about the lesson he learned as a child from a cornered rat that […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Dangerous moments for the killer in the Kremlin
Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th September, 2022) Vladimir Putin built his dictatorship on two core foundations: ruthless control of his nation, whether fleecing its wealth with […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
This is no time for complacency
Published by The i paper (12th September, 2022) I first met Maria Avdeeva, an expert in cyber-security, in early February when we had a coffee in a chic […]
Europe / Russia
Traumatised mums say their sons who refuse to fight for Kremlin held in torture pits
Published by The Mail on Sunday (31st July, 2022) MAKSIM Kochetkov is being held captive in a penal colony 6,000 miles from his home on an island near […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Conscripts given call-up papers on the beaches of Ukraine as losses mount
Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th July, 2022) Like many of his male friends, Serhiy no longer leaves his home in western Ukraine for fear of being […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
The West needs to show strength – like Ukraine
Published by The i paper (20th June, 2022) Four weeks before Vladimir Putin sent his tanks and troops over the border in a vainglorious attempt to impose a […]
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
Putin the Great? Hardly…
Published by The i paper (6th June, 2022) When the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, many officials took down their icons of Communism to replace them with […]
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
A struggle between good and evil
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 […]