Cyberwar – the battle to keep Ukraine online

Russia has done all it can to block Ukrainian voices on the internet, but the mass of real-time content streamed around the world by Ukraine’s citizen reporters has united and galvanised the world’s response to Russia’s savage invasion.

We must fight for Ukraine

International outrage and economic sanctions have not made Putin rethink his murderous invasion of Europe’s largest country. It’s time for the West to back up its words and good intentions with actions and fight to save Ukraine.

Russia’s big brother

The violence unleashed on the people of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin is matched only by his utter disregard for truth in his justifications for war.

Russia pays the price of war

International sanctions have placed Russia on the verge of bankruptcy, but Putin cares as little about the economic suffering of his people as he does about the misery he is inflicting on the people of Ukraine.

Murder in uniform

Heartbreaking images of Putin’s war in Ukraine are circulating around Russia as well as the rest of the world. If Putin grinds on, the smartphone war may just deliver regime change in Russia rather than Ukraine.

Dumb bombs and rust

The incompetence of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine shows how easily a determined NATO response with modern, motivated and well-led armed forces could have saved millions from Russia’s lumbering reign of terror.

A tale of two thugs

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the military coup in Myanmar 12 months ago appear very different conflicts, but both are calamitous strategic mistakes directed by autocratic leaders who surrounded themselves with yes-men while the world around them changed.

Russia in the dock over war crimes

Russia has displayed its contempt for international law by its murderous invasion of Ukraine, but international courts are already gearing up to bring Russian war criminals to justice, however symbolic their deliberations may be.

A country, not a region – it’s Ukraine not ‘the Ukraine’

Commentators and journalists referring to ‘the Ukraine’ in their coverage of the Russian invasion are falling into the Soviet trap of denying Ukraine the statehood it holds and is fighting against all odds to retain.

Everyone can boycott Russia

Governments, organisations and companies around the world have cut their ties with Putin’s Russia, but ordinary consumers can do their bit by spurning Russian goods and services.

Europe at the crossroads – again

Putin has united a fractious Europe against him, and every day the brave Ukrainian defenders withstand the Russian onslaught, the pressure for Putin to return to the negotiating table ramps up.

Beauty and the beast

Russia cares nothing for international law, the sovereignty of other states, the lives of civilians or the wrath of the rest of the world. It is little surprise therefore that Ukraine’s priceless cultural heritage is becoming yet another victim of its brutal war.