It doesn’t take living in the UK long for one to get used to the reality that the news cycle in Britain churns with brutal rapidity. For much of the last six months, that speediness has sometimes distracted me from the war back home, with only daily messages from my brother bring me back to […]
While the UK was going through its Jubilee jubilation, we Ukrainians have now marked 100 days in our war of existence against Putin’s Russia. The enemy continues to make advances in the east and the south of the country, and spiteful irregular missiles are still hitting Kyiv – including one in the early hours of […]
We’ve heard plenty about the precipitous decline in Russia’s economy since the West imposed sweeping sanctions. The rouble has plummeted, firms can’t get high-tech components from the West, oligarchs’ yachts have been seized and tens of thousands of the country’s most able young people have left the country. But cutting off Russia also has an […]
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of my country is both a disaster for Ukraine and a humanitarian crisis the likes of which Europe has not seen since World War II. According to the UN, some 2 million Ukrainians have fled in the space of two weeks – many of them women and children leaving behind relatives who […]
Eight years ago, I watched as innocent people hiding behind wooden shields were shot dead by Kalashnikovs on the streets of Kyiv. The end of February of 2014 marked most tragic days of the Revolution of Dignity. As one of the coordinators of protests, I was confused, helpless and shocked by the events unravelling in […]
Last week it was Emmanuel Macron and Liz Truss, today it’s the turn of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to visit the court of Vladimir Putin. Thus far the Russian president has studiously kept his interlocutors at a distance, both metaphorically and physically. The sight of Putin conducting ‘face to face’ negotiations at either end of […]
Reading reports of ‘tensions’ on the Ukrainian border feels faintly surreal. For one thing it implies a two-way process, when the reality is that one country has massed its troops on another’s border in preparation for an attack. Both British and American embassies have told staff to leave Kyiv, which suggests their fears of invasion […]
The situation on the Ukraine-Russia border has long been what you could euphemistically call ‘tense’, but in recent weeks things have become particularly unnerving. Depending on which report you read, somewhere between 100,000 and 175,000 Russian troops are massing near Ukraine’s borders, not just from within Russian territory but also in Belarus to the north […]
The last few months have not been an easy ride for the UK in terms of its energy market stability. On November 17 UK gas prices surged by 17%, bringing them to a level six times higher than the same time a year ago. That runaway inflation is partly a result of Germany suspending certification […]
