I am once again woken up by the unpleasant buzzing of Russian drones
Also this week: Volodymyr Zelensky’s purchasing power and cross-pollination warfare.
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Noam Chomsky: Russia is fighting more humanely than the US did in Iraq
The US linguist on the war in Ukraine, how the West is provoking China and why the UK is “not…
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Dmytro Kuleba: “Russian victory will ruin everything the West stands for”
The Ukrainian foreign minister on China, Donald Trump and how the war ends.
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There are cracks between how Ukraine and the West see the war ending
Kyiv wants to fight until Crimea is returned, but the US has doubts.
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Terror and tragedy in Ukraine
A helicopter crash kills three Ukrainian officials, while China tries a new approach to diplomacy
What we know about the helicopter crash that killed three Ukrainian officials
They are the first senior government figures to be killed or injured since Russia’s brutal invasion began.
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Ukraine’s energy grid is teetering on the brink of collapse
As temperatures plunge and Russia attacks, Kyiv is fighting to keep the lights on.
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Reviewed in short: From Derek Owusu to Luke Harding
Also featuring The Story of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski and Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow.
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From the NS archive: The city of Kiev is to have a new railway station
18 May 1929: What could be more appropriate than to make the station a living monument of the city’s intellectual…
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A night in a Kyiv bunker, palliative care in a war zone, and another chance for Jeremy Hunt
I recently visited Ukraine to help train doctors, and witnessed first-hand Putin’s brazen desire to rain terror on civilians.
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When Russian missiles rained on Kyiv
The strikes on the Ukrainian capital have sent its people underground again – but their stoicism persists.
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Russian strikes on Ukraine’s cities are an implicit nuclear threat
After a bomb partially destroyed the Crimean Kerch Bridge, Vladimir Putin has retaliated by targeting parks and universities in Kyiv…
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Nato unity faces scrutiny as defences to protect the Baltic states ramp up
The war in Ukraine will dominate this week's summit in Madrid, including the admission of Finland and Sweden as members.
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First revolution, then war: Ukraine’s long fight for a European future
As Ukraine seeks to join the EU, an activist’s death symbolises his country’s struggle to leave Russia's orbit.
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In Ukraine, Russian is now “the language of the enemy”
The linguistic migration away from Russian that has been happening for decades has a new urgency in the wake of…
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“We want to be free”: video diary of a Ukrainian refugee
A young Ukrainian documents her journey to safety.
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Ukraine is haunted by the ghosts of wars past
Veterans still proudly wear their old Soviet uniforms, yet they have nothing but contempt for the Russians and Vladimir Putin.
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Russia-Ukraine war: an invasion 30 years in the making
For Vladimir Putin, the fall of the Soviet Union was “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century”.
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Angry and afraid, Kyiv braces for Russian attack
It will take a lot for the Russians to terrify the city's remaining residents into submission.
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“Kyiv holds its breath”: Lyse Doucet’s diary from Ukraine
The streets of Ukraine are being either transformed into zones of defence or blasted into nothingness. History sits waiting.
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