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How to rebuild and renovate when the danger is growing? Report from Kharkiv, June 2026
Published in The Sunday Post, 28th June 2026 The northernmost district of one of Kharkiv’s vast high-rise estates feels like […]
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Ukraine’s robotic army starts to turn the tide against Russia’s bloody advance
Published in The Observer, 7th June 2026 The shell of a school, a long two-storey Soviet-era building, is highlighted in […]
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‘Winter in Kyiv’ – London Review of Books
Published in the LRB print & online, 19th February 2026 ‘Dear residents! If you’re in the lift when the lights go […]
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What Makes a Traitor?
Published in print and online in Prospect magazine, 28th June 2026 A long read on the the moral and legal […]
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Death was near — I survived thanks to Ukraine’s A&E on wheels
Published in print and online in The Sunday Times, 13th December 2025 Dispatch from two days with medics of the […]
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Advice for aspiring journos
I get lots of emails from student/young/wannabe journalists, asking for help & advice getting into foreign reporting. I can’t answer […]
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Demining on the steppe – and the thorny issue of the landmine ban
Click here to read the full piece at Prospect magazine. In late July I spent a few days in southern […]
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Highland Book Prize
Hello. Some absolutely huge news this morning: Night Train to Odesa has won the Highland Book Prize. The shortlist was […]
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Jen Stout’s diary: Fear and trembling in Kharkiv
Article published in Prospect Magazine 1st May 2025. A vast city in blackout is, for a moment, beautiful. The starry […]
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Zarina Zabrisky’s Kherson doc – watch this now
Very occasionally you see a reference to Kherson on the news. A mention of ‘human safari’ taking place there. But […]
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Kharkiv, January 2025 – city of art, city of lights
Read on BBC Radio Scotland, 1st February 2025 They do Christmas lights better than we do, in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, […]
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Concrete resistance: how one building symbolises Kharkiv’s defiance
Article published in Prospect Magazine in print on 5th Dec 2024, online on 16th Nov 2024. Only in Kharkiv, ever-changing […]
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Pirate radio from the frontlines with Ukraine’s rockstar poet
Article published in the New European, 27th Jul 2024. Serhiy Zhadan: Nobel Prize nominee, poet, rockstar, and – recently – […]
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‘If Russia can’t take Kharkiv, they will reduce it to rubble’
Article published in the Sunday Post, Sunday 17th Apr 2024. Russia has ramped up attacks on Ukrainian cities in recent […]
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‘The New Normal’ – profile of Prix-Pictet-nominated photographer Gera Artemova
Article published in the Royal Photographic Society Journal, March 2024, print only. For the last two years images from Ukraine […]
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‘Ukraine’s kids will always be different. Even far from frontline they have trauma’
Article published in the Sunday Post, Sunday 18th Feb 2024, print only. Childhood goes by in a blink of an […]
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2023, reflections
There is such a vast gulf between Shetland and Donbas, such a lot of sea and different realities, but these […]
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Amid missile strikes and plummeting temperatures, worries that western support could end – Kyiv, December 2023
Published in the Sunday Post, 16th December 2023 All pictures ©Jen Stout Minutes after the Ukrainian president met his US […]
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Photo essay: ‘Shetland welcomes the Tall Ships races’
Article published in the Sunday Post and Press & Journal, 30th Jul 2023, print only. Shetland felt like the centre […]
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Ukraine’s War of the Words
Article published in Prospect Magazine, 14th Jun 2023. “Do you mind not speaking Russian?” The tobacconist cut me off abruptly, […]
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The eloquent fury of Victoria Amelina
Article published in the New European, 4th July 2023. There is a photograph of Victoria Amelina which I love. A […]
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Reflections for ‘The Journalist’, 2023
I wrote this article for ‘The Journalist’, a magazine produced by the National Union of Journalists (of which I am […]
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‘The basement won’t save you’ Jen Stout reports from Kramatorsk
Article published in the London Review of Books, 16th Mar 2023. It takes a few hours to drive from the […]
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Dispatch: Evacuations in frontline Siversk
Article published in the Sunday Post, 12th Mar 2023, print only. Siversk, at first glance, is a ghost town. A […]
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Hunting for Vakulenko
Article published in the New Humanist, 16th Feb 2023.A version broadcast on From Our Own Correspondent, BBC Radio 4.Shortlisted for […]
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‘The 24th: As the anniversary of Russian invasion approaches, Ukrainians look back on a year that changed everything’
Article published in the Sunday Post, 12th Feb 2023. This is the second war of Alexandra Nosulia’s life. She was […]
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‘Forever our sister’ – obituary of soldier Vladislava Chernykh
Article published in the Sunday Post on 8th Jan 2023. Three days after Christmas, social media posts from Ukraine revealed […]
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Wartime Christmas in Kharkiv
Published as ‘Our only wish this Christmas is for peace’ in the Sunday Post on 18th Dec 2022 “The blackouts […]
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Shetland power outage: Life is lived one day at a time as many islanders shiver and wait
Article published in the Sunday Post on 18th Dec 2022. Six days after much of Shetland was plunged into darkness […]
