Published by The i paper (21st March, 2022) This is a tale of two dictators. Both have a background in espionage, trained in the dark arts of intelligence […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
The Russians have bombed Mariupol back to Middle Ages
Published by The Daily Mail (19th March, 2022) When Kristina Dzholos sat down to breakfast the morning after her family’s escape from Mariupol, she could not bring herself […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Terror tactics of Putin thugs: Beatings, kidnap and pitiless repression
Published by The Daily Mail (18th March, 2022) After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mykola Khalupenko opened the first winery in Ukraine built along the lines of […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Chernobyl staff battling to avert nuclear disaster, warns mayor
Published by The Daily Mail (16th March, 2022) The mayor of a town housing workers at the Chernobyl nuclear plant has issued a desperate plea after scores of […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
The man who refused to become Moscow’s stooge
Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th March, 2022) Despite the valiant efforts of residents to block roads with felled trees and even to force back some armoured […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Women and children are warned: You will become human shields
Published by The Daily Mail (11th March, 2022) Russian forces are rounding up Ukrainian civilians and holding them as captives in areas they have seized, provoking fears they are […]
Europe / Ukraine
The Home Front heroines aiding the front line on the other side of Ukraine
Published by The Daily Mail (10th March, 2022) As we drove through the darkening countryside amid swirling clouds of snow, Lyudmila Sirko was never off her phone, pleading […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Has this carnage woken up the West?
Published by The i paper (7th March, 2022) Beside my hotel in western Ukraine there are scruffy sheds and cluttered yards filled with snow-dusted piles of rusting metal. […]
Europe / Ukraine
Ordinary people: ten lives snuffed out by Putin’s brutal war machine
Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th March, 2022) Amid the carnage and chaos, it is difficult to track the death toll data, let alone obtain a true […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Day they laid waste to Freedom Square, heart of a nation’s release from tyranny
Published by The Daily Mail (2nd March, 2022) Two hideous explosions bookended the day in Kharkiv. The first saw a giant fireball erupt after a cruise missile struck an […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Brave Britons answering the call to arms
Published by The Daily Mail (29th February, 2022) Gary Bonini spent 12 years in the British Army. Later this week he aims to head out to Ukraine to join their […]
Europe / Russia / Ukraine
Armed with ‘happiness cocktails’, the villagers all set for battle
Published by The Daily Mail (28th February, 2022) Chortkiv should be finishing off preparations for its 500th anniversary celebrations this summer — but instead the small medieval town […]