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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Kherson fightback sees Ukraine retake 29 towns

Published by The Daily Mail (7th October, 2022) Ukraine says it has recaptured 29 towns and villages in the south of the country over the past week after […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

We’re hunting them down and shooting them like pigs

Published by The Daily Mail (6th October, 2022) When Russian forces took over the city of Balakliya, eastern Ukraine, they turned the central police station into a base […]

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Europe / Feature / Russia / Ukraine

Russia’s monstrous new tactic: forcing Ukrainians to fight against their own side

Published by The Daily Mail (29th September, 2022) Oksana did not want her children indoctrinated by Russia after Vladimir Putin’s invading troops took over her village in southern Ukraine, […]

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Europe / Feature / Russia / Ukraine

Boxed in and snarling back – but this is Putin’s admission that his war is an astonishing blunder

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Europe / Ukraine

Fear for ex-British soldier captured by Russian forces after steel plant surrender

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th June, 2022) A former British soldier has disappeared after being captured by pro-Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine. Combat medic John […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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