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 / 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 […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Good result for Vladimir the Terrible
Published by The Independent (16th February, 2015) On a dank day last March I was chatting to tense Ukrainian officers besieged in their Crimean base by Russian armed […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
The west is letting Putin get his way on Ukraine
Published by The Guardian (28th November, 2014) Ukraine’s new parliament was sworn in today. More than 400 members took their oaths, but 27 seats remain vacant – the annexation of […]