Published by The Daily Mail (26th January, 2022) AS Lieutenant-Colonel Yuriy Trubachiov crunched through the thick snow, he pointed out to me the camera tower, the anti-tank moat, […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Putin’s power play in Ukraine
Published by The i paper (24th January, 2022) Why is Vladimir Putin threatening Ukraine? Outside the Kremlin and presumably Russia’s military top brass, no one really knows – although […]
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 […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
‘This is our land and I’ve no other option than to fight for it’
Published by The Daily Mail (22nd January, 2022) Maksym Bilyk is a young man who thinks carefully before speaking, works with computers and has never fired a gun […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Fears and fighting spirit of nation in Kremlin crosshairs
Published by The Daily Mail (19th January, 2022) Oksana Lanskaya, a mother and successful Ukrainian food entrepreneur, admits being scared now that Russian military forces have encircled her […]
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 […]
Europe / Politics / Russia
Corbyn’s failure of leadership
Published by The Daily Mail (15 March, 2018) Every now and then, there are times in politics when the world explodes into confrontation and a leader is defined […]
Europe / Russia
Putin is winning his war against the West
Published by The i paper (5th March, 2018) The temperatures are below freezing with snow falling, but how sunny the view must seem for Vladimir Putin as he […]
Europe / Russia
Theresa May must make a lonely stand against Putin
Published by The ipaper (2nd January, 2017) Thirty months ago I stood in a cornfield amid rolling hills of eastern Ukraine, surrounded by shattered human bodies. Men, women, […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine / United States / World
New shadow warfare: How Putin is fanning the flames of discontent
Published by the i paper (1st August, 2016) Two years ago Ukraine held a presidential ballot intended to complete the uprising against the Russian stooges running their country […]