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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

The man who refused to become Moscow’s stooge

Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th March, 2022) Despite the valiant efforts of residents to block roads with felled trees and even to force back some armoured […]

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Europe / Ukraine

Ordinary people: ten lives snuffed out by Putin’s brutal war machine

Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th March, 2022) Amid the carnage and chaos, it is difficult to track the death toll data, let alone obtain a true […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

The hole blown through teddy bear wallpaper that could be the pretext for war in Ukraine

Published by The Mail on Sunday (20th February, 2022) As we left the car, there was a loud thump, followed quickly by two more thuds from the edge […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

One hundred yards behind the front line, windows are still boarded up from the last war

Published by The Mail on Sunday (30th January, 2022) Avdiivka looks like many other small towns in Ukraine, with shoppers stomping along icy streets in sub-zero temperatures, the […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

‘Don’t let this madman force us from our homes again’

Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd January, 2022) Ekaterina Pereverzeva is struggling to stop fears of war tormenting her as vast numbers of Russian forces mass across […]

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Canada / China / Covid19 / World

Call for probe into ‘Covid’ outbreak at wuhan games 2 months before world was alerted

Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th January, 2022) A Canadian military officer who fears he was at the ‘Ground Zero’ of Covid two months before China officially […]

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Europe / Russia / Ukraine

Putin’s torture chamber at Number Three, Paradise Street

Published by The Mail on Sunday (19th December, 2021) For almost 1,000 days, Stanislav Aseyev was held in a secret torture camp in the heart of a bustling […]

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Africa / Rwanda

Truss urged to block diplomat over kidnap of Hotel Rwanda hero

Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th December, 2021) Foreign secretary Liz Truss is being urged to block the appointment of Rwanda’s top diplomat in London over his central […]

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Europe / Serbia

Spectre of war in the Balkans

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th November, 2021) Munira Subasic lost her husband and teenage son in the darkest chapter of European history since the Second World […]

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China / World

Exposed: China’s 18 concentration camps

Published by The Mail on Sunday (21st November, 2021) As he strolled along the street in the Chinese city of Urumqi, trying his best to look like a tourist, […]

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Belarus / Europe / Poland

Laser attack on border guards

Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th November, 2021) Border police have been blinded with lasers and strobe lights as they struggle to shore up Europe’s eastern frontier defences […]

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Belarus / Europe / Germany / Immigration / Poland / Policy

A grotesque game of human ping-pong

Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th November, 2021) We met deep inside Europe’s last remaining primeval forest, where bison and wolves roam beneath ancient towering oaks. ‘I […]

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Ian Birrell is an award-winning columnist, foreign correspondent, feature writer and investigative journalist. He is contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday, a weekly columnist in The i Paper and writes frequently for other papers and platforms. He is also co-founder with Damon Albarn of Africa Express, the acclaimed collaborative music project. (Pictured: Talking to refugees in Iraq fleeing Islamic State)... Read More.

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