Syria is up for grabs
After 13 years of war that began with street protests during the heady days of the Arab Spring and morphed…
How life carries on near the Kursk front line
Sumy, Ukraine In the city of Sumy, the jumping off point for the Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Kursk region, the…
Putin is biding his time to seek revenge for Kursk
Vladimir Putin, it seems, is procrastinating. Just when the war in Ukraine was going his way and the Russian army…
Putin takes revenge for the Kursk attack with glide bombs
In the sprawling and unlovely village of Billopilya, only five miles from Ukraine’s border with Russia, when death comes, it…
Near the Russian border, Ukrainians are delighted about the Kursk attack
The road from the Ukrainian city of Sumy to the Russian border gave just a foretaste of the fighting 20…
Ukraine’s plight is getting more desperate by the day
Driving into the bomb-damaged eastern Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka you can hear the impacts from the big Russian guns and…
Putin wants to create an unliveable no man’s land in Ukraine
The residents of Velyka Pysarivka had almost finished renovating their municipal library. They laid the floor with large white tiles,…
Despite Russia’s intensifying attacks, Kharkiv carries on
Irina Kotenko, 53, was already awake when a Russian drone crashed into the roof of her three-story building at 1…
Should Ukrainians stop speaking Russian?
A young woman called Lyudmila walks into a cafe in Odessa, the southern Ukrainian city. Her phone is switched on…
The bodies keep the score in Lviv
Lviv, Ukraine At the Lychakiv cemetery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv the bodies keep the score. Within its…
The team recovering Ukraine’s dead soldiers
The team recovering Ukraine’s dead soldiers
The looming battle for Chasiv Yar
In the eastern Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar, seven-year-old Symon was clinging to a chocolate bar and a packet of…
The night train to Kyiv
After several months in the UK, the lady sleeping on the opposite bunk on the night train to Kyiv told…
Bucha and the dark echoes of Srebrenica
High on a hillside not far from the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica the remains of dozens of young Muslim…
Russian cruelty has been laid bare
It was 2 a.m. when Russian gunmen broke in and took away 21-year-old Milana Ozdoyeva. When Sara, her three-year-old daughter,…
Has Putin finally handed over control to his generals?
Russia has signalled that, a month into a war that it expected to take a few days, it would begin…
The terrifying prospect of Putin escalating the war
Battered Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second most populous city, is showing no signs of falling. The column of Russian tanks outside Kiev…
Putin and the Muslim world
Several thousand Muslim Chechen fighters are reportedly massing on the edge of Kiev. Syrian volunteers, filmed this week holding assault…
Ukrainians fear Chechen fighters. Russian soldiers hate them
Residents fleeing the Kiev suburb of Bucha reported Chechens machine-gunning cars, even those with the word ‘children’written in their windscreens.…
Putin is bored
At the beginning of this year, Vladimir Putin was sitting comfortably in the Kremlin: his legacy so far a steady…
Putin's next move
Budapest Russian troops, many apparently without insignia, began advancing into the disputed Donbas region yesterday. The question now is how…
Letter from Odessa: life on the front line of a new Cold War
‘God Save the Queen’ trended on Ukrainian social media over the weekend. ‘As a Brit in Kiev I have never…
