Published in The Sunday Post, 28th June 2026 The north­ern­most dis­trict of one of Kharkiv’s vast high-rise estates feels like […]

Published in The Observer, 7th June 2026 The shell of a school, a long two-storey Soviet-era building, is highlighted in […]

Published in the LRB print & online, 19th February 2026 ‘Dear residents! If you’re in the lift when the lights go […]

Published in print and online in Prospect magazine, 28th June 2026 A long read on the the moral and legal […]

Published in print and online in The Sunday Times, 13th December 2025 Dispatch from two days with medics of the […]

Click here to read the full piece at Prospect magazine. In late July I spent a few days in southern […]

Article published in Prospect Magazine 1st May 2025. A vast city in blackout is, for a moment, beautiful. The starry […]

Article published in Prospect Magazine in print on 5th Dec 2024, online on 16th Nov 2024. Only in Kharkiv, ever-changing […]

Article published in the New European, 27th Jul 2024. Serhiy Zhadan: Nobel Prize nominee, poet, rockstar, and – recently – […]

Article published in the Sunday Post, Sunday 18th Feb 2024, print only. Childhood goes by in a blink of an […]

Published in the Sunday Post, 16th December 2023 All pictures ©Jen Stout Minutes after the Ukrainian president met his US […]

Article published in the Sunday Post and Press & Journal, 30th Jul 2023, print only. Shetland felt like the centre […]

Article published in Prospect Magazine, 14th Jun 2023. “Do you mind not speaking Russian?” The tobacconist cut me off abruptly, […]

Article published in the New European, 4th July 2023. There is a photograph of Victoria Amelina which I love. A […]

I wrote this article for ‘The Journalist’, a magazine produced by the National Union of Journalists (of which I am […]

Article published in the London Review of Books, 16th Mar 2023. It takes a few hours to drive from the […]

Article published in the Sunday Post, 12th Mar 2023, print only. Siversk, at first glance, is a ghost town. A […]

Article published in the New Humanist, 16th Feb 2023.A version broadcast on From Our Own Correspondent, BBC Radio 4.Shortlisted for […]

Article published in the Sunday Post, 12th Feb 2023. This is the second war of Alexandra Nosulia’s life. She was […]

Article published in the Sunday Post on 8th Jan 2023. Three days after Christmas, social media posts from Ukraine revealed […]

Published as ‘Our only wish this Christmas is for peace’ in the Sunday Post on 18th Dec 2022 “The blackouts […]

Article published as ‘One day in Donbas: Close to the frontline, Ukrainians stay strong as winter is weaponised by Putin’ […]

Article published in the Sunday Post on 20th Nov 2022. On the outskirts of Kharkiv the drone division is preparing […]

Article published in the Shetland News in November 2022. IN SEVERAL big European cities every night the streets are pitch […]

Article published in Open Democracy, Sept 2022. Up here in Shetland, where the oil and gas flows, where tankers line […]