Ukraine

What I saw at the Okhmatdyt bomb site

13 July 2024 9:00 am

Kyiv For weeks, Kyiv had felt relatively safe compared with just about everywhere else in Ukraine. People had adjusted to…

What the Tories got wrong on housing

13 July 2024 9:00 am

Sir Keir Starmer may be our first atheist prime minister, but his manner in parliament resembles that of what, in…

Brexit has helped the EU

6 July 2024 9:00 am

There was hardly an election poster to be seen on the roadside during a two-hour drive from London to the…

Putin is trying to annexe people, not just land

29 June 2024 9:00 am

On 1 September 2021, six months before his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin was speaking at the All-Russian Children’s…

My return to Ukraine

29 June 2024 9:00 am

I arrive at Lviv station just before 9 a.m. As the clock strikes, the conductor announces a minute’s silence: a daily…

Sending US contractors to Ukraine could provoke Moscow

28 June 2024 2:03 am

Call it ‘slippery slope’ or ‘mission creep’, America’s strategy for helping Ukraine defend itself against the Russian invasion has adapted…

Ukraine’s greatest, yet least publicised success

22 June 2024 9:00 am

Odessa Our conference here is about Black Sea security, where I am the guest of UK Friends of Ukraine. Its…

Why should Putin be allowed to keep seized Russian assets?

22 June 2024 9:00 am

The seizure of enemy treasure, formerly known as plunder and pillage, is an ancient tool of war. Though still practised…

Zelensky’s peace summit flop

22 June 2024 9:00 am

Ukraine’s allies are running out of patience

Portrait of the Week: Farage returns, Abbott reselected and Trump guilty

8 June 2024 9:00 am

Home Nigel Farage took over leadership of the Reform party from Richard Tice and is standing for parliament in Clacton.…

My summer of love with God’s gift

1 June 2024 9:00 am

Studying in Russia in 1994, Viv Groskop falls in love with a Ukrainian rock guitarist named Bogdan Bogdanovich and accompanies him on a visit home

Biden partially lifts ban on strikes within Russia

1 June 2024 12:45 am

David Cameron publicly said it was up to Ukraine to decide whether to use British weapons to strike targets on…

In Kharkiv, culture is a form of defence

25 May 2024 9:00 am

Kharkiv It was a strange feeling to walk alone through eerie corridors in the basement of the Kharkiv Opera Theatre…

Letters: the admirable strength of Ukrainians

27 April 2024 9:00 am

The bravery of Ukraine Sir: Few articles could resonate as strongly as that of Svitlana Morenets (‘Scrambled logic’, 20 April).…

The cost of European peace

27 April 2024 9:00 am

After six months of delay, the US Senate has finally passed a $60 billion foreign-aid package which will send urgently…

Why does the West protect Israel but not Ukraine?

20 April 2024 9:00 am

When Israel and its allies shot down hundreds of Iranian drones and missiles, they demonstrated what an effective air defence…

Will Biden support Ukraine’s attacks on Russia?

13 April 2024 9:00 am

This time last year, Volodymyr Zelensky was touring western capitals, calling for weapons and money to launch a decisive summer…

Macron vs Putin: this summer’s Olympic battle

13 April 2024 9:00 am

Dixmont, Yonne Last summer, Emmanuel Macron lashed out at France’s constitution because it prevents him from running for a third…

Can David Cameron charm the Americans?

9 April 2024 11:31 pm

David Cameron is stateside today as the Foreign Secretary tries to muster up support for the US to send aid…

Portrait of the Week: hate crimes, surprise knighthoods and flaming rickshaws

6 April 2024 9:00 am

Home The Hate Crime and Public Order Act came into effect in Scotland, making it a crime to communicate or…

How Ukraine plans to revive its birth rate

30 March 2024 9:00 am

In my village in Ukraine, there aren’t many families left intact. The funerals of those who have been killed in…

The fresh, forceful voice of Frantz Fanon

9 March 2024 9:00 am

The Marxist from Martinique became a rallying figure for anti-colonial movements across the world. But might he have revised his violent message had he lived longer?

Would I die for Britain? No thanks

27 January 2024 6:52 pm

The West’s military posture has moved from ‘thick’ to ‘suicidal’. The recent speech of General Sir Patrick Sanders, the head…