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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

The day death rained from the sky

Published by The Daily Mail (11th October, 2022) THE first blast erupted after 8am, sounding alarmingly loud and perilously close to my hotel. Then came a couple more, […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Putin’s plan for Ukraine lies in ashes

Published by The i paper (10th October, 2022) Ukraine was a place of joyful celebration when people woke on Saturday to learn that an explosion had ripped through […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Putin’s ‘miracle’ bridge in flames

Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th December, 2022) It is a picture that shows the stunning devastation caused to the only rail and road link between Russia […]

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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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Politics

What is now the point of the Tories?

Published by The i paper (3rd October, 2022) he Tories gather for their annual conference in dismal state of disarray. Election of a new leader, their fourth in […]

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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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Politics

Truss and Kwarteng will learn the hard way that sometimes we need the nanny state

Published by The i paper (26th September, 2022) It is three weeks since Liz Truss became Prime Minister – and for much of that time, politics was postponed […]

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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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Politics

A prime minister unlike any other

Published by The i paper (19th September, 2022) As she waited for her accession to the political crown, Liz Truss briefed that she would hit the ground running […]

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Covid19

World’s top medical journal finally says Covid could have come from lab leak

Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th September, 2022) THE world’s leading medical journal has conceded that the Covid pandemic could have been sparked by a laboratory leak […]

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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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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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