Ukraine
The secrets of Putin’s shadow fleet
Of all the weapons in Vladimir Putin’s arsenal, the most strategically crucial has proved to be not hypersonic missiles but…
Why is Ukraine trying to cancel Swan Lake?
Two of Ukraine’s most famous ballet dancers face dismissal, cancellation and possible mobilisation into the army. Their crime? They dared…
The Kremlin’s plan to create a new wave of Ukrainian refugees
What is the limit of Ukrainian civilians’ endurance? In nearly four years of relentless war, Ukraine’s people have faced summary…
Portrait of the week: Farm tax backdown, trail hunting crackdown and anti-misogyny courses for 11-year-olds
Home The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs announced plans to criminalise trail hunting ‘amid concerns it is being…
Europe has left Ukraine living on borrowed time
Russia started the war on Ukraine, so Russia should pay for the damage it has wrought. Such was Volodymyr Zelensky’s…
Boris Johnson: will cowardly Europe betray Ukraine again?
Boris Johnson has urged European leaders to hand $247 billion of frozen Russian central bank assets to Ukraine – but…
European leaders have changed their tune on war
Ten days after Thanksgiving, news watchers were exposed to one of the more culturally incongruous images in recent history: Ukrainian…
Portrait of the year: Trump’s tariffs, the definition of biological sex and the fall of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
January Downing Street said Rachel Reeves would remain in her role as Chancellor of the Exchequer ‘for the whole of…
Ukraine’s war on the Russian language is a mistake
Kyiv has stripped the Russian language of its protection under Europe’s Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Culture warriors at home and abroad have hailed…
The path to peace in Ukraine will be tortuous
In order to impose peace terms, you first need to win the war. That fundamental principle seems, for the moment,…
Ukraine is on the verge of political collapse
Defeat, political implosion and civil war – those are the jeopardies that Volodymyr Zelensky faces as Ukraine heads into the…
What my pyjamas taught me about China
About seven years ago, I bought two pairs of pyjamas, one British, the other Chinese. At the time, they seemed…
Portrait of the week: Downfall of a duke, double-decker trains in the Chunnel and no more chocolate Penguins
Home Prince Andrew said he would no longer use his titles, including as Duke of York, or his honours; his…
Ukraine must stand as a fortress of European freedom
It is 35 years since I was last in Warsaw and the city is unrecognisable. Back then it was grimy…
Ukraine’s Foreign Legion was doomed from the start
It seems that people would rather fight for a death cult than a democracy. At most, 15,000 foreigners have fought…
Letters: Bring back the hotel bath!
Moore problems Sir: Many years ago a colleague warned me that I was so impossibly uncool that one day I…
Trump has given Zelensky cause for hope
On Volodymyr Zelensky’s last visit to the White House, he brought a gift: a championship belt from one of Ukraine’s…
Where have all the upper-class Tories gone?
A currently fashionable conservatism is militantly against Ukraine and, by more cautious implication, pro-Russia. We who disagree are, I quote…
Putin’s trap: how Russia plans to split the western alliance
Though you wouldn’t know from the smiles around the table at the White House this week, a trap has been…
Portrait of the week: Ukraine talks, inflation rises and a new house for the Prince and Princess of Wales
Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, joined President Volodymyr Zelensky and the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Finland, the…
Letters: Village cricket is the highest form of the sport
Fighting dirty Sir: John Power is very interesting (‘Dark matter’, 16 August) when outlining the ‘dark arts’ being proposed by…
Portrait of the week: Palestine Action arrests, interest rate cuts and an Alaska meeting
Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, said: ‘The Israeli government’s decision to further escalate its offensive in Gaza is…
Has Zelensky become a liability?
Is Volodymyr Zelensky becoming a liability for the West and for his own country? We are entitled at least to…
Trump’s Alaska meeting is a gift for Putin
From the Kremlin’s point of view, holding a US-Russia summit in Anchorage, Alaska is an idea of fiendish brilliance. The…
Ukrainians have lost faith in Zelensky
Donald Trump this week boosted Ukraine’s air defences with new Patriot batteries, threatened Vladimir Putin with sanctions if he does…
