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 […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
The Kremlin’s sharpened its attack – and the mood is suddenly more pessimistic
Published by The Daily Mail (28th May, 2022) Suddenly the tone has become more pessimistic. Ukraine’s leaders plead desperately for more weapons as they warn that Russia is […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Video nasty: Russian PoW’s film shows cruelty and chaos
Published by The Daily Mail (24th May, 2022) A Russian tank officer who was captured after one month fighting in Ukraine was found to have been filming a home […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Nationhood forged in blood
Published by The i paper (23rd May, 2022) Gorky Park sits in the centre of Kharkiv. Before the war, families would flock there to feed squirrels, ride Ukraine’s […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
The sweet smell of liberation as Ukraine pushes back and people emerge from bunkers
Published by The Mail on Sunday (22nd May, 2022) Tamara was sitting on a bench outside, warming herself in the sun after a cold night sleeping in a […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Putin’s executioners shot these three brothers in the head and buried them. Miraculously, one dug himself out and lived to tell the tale
Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th May, 2022) As Mykola Kulichenko stumbled out of the Russian military jeep, his body aching from another beating after three days […]
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 / Ukraine
The songbird of Mariupol who’ll fight on till the end
Published by The Daily Mail (9th May, 2022) The shaky video picks out the woman leading the singing in the darkness, her clear voice imbuing the patriotic songs […]