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Svitlana Morenets
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🇺🇦Ukrainian, staff writer at Spectator magazine and the author of 'Ukraine in Focus' weekly newsletter. Young Journalist of the Year in the 2024 UK Press Awards. Get in touch: [email protected]
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In my latest piece, I explain what Zarah Sultana gets wrong about Ukraine’s working class — and why her call to stop pumping money into arms manufacturers would leave Ukrainians defenceless.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/zara...
Zarah Sultana’s pompous, luxury beliefs about Ukraine
Zarah Sultana loves to pose as a champion of the working class, seeing the world through the lens of class struggle. Even, it seems, the war in Ukraine. In her latest interview, she calls Nato ‘an imp...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
My latest from Kramatorsk on how Ukrainian soldiers celebrated Easter - and what they think of Putin’s “truce”, Trump and peace deals.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/east...
There was Easter but no truce on Ukraine’s frontline
Kramatorsk, Donetsk region In a wooden Greek-Catholic church on the frontline of a warzone, encircled by red tulips and military vehicles, the priest’s sermon is woven through with the war – just like...
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April 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Trump is reportedly considering recognising Crimea as Russian in exchange for a ceasefire. I reported from occupied Crimea in 2018 - and in the article below, I explain why this move won’t end this war, and will guarantee the next one.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/givi...
Giving Putin Crimea will not end the war
When Volodymyr Zelensky speaks of the Ukrainian territories under Russian control, he always calls them ‘temporarily occupied’. The phrase, first used by Zelensky’s predecessor, has been engraved into...
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April 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Putin is engineering a humanitarian crisis in Transnistria, leaving over 300,000 people to freeze as he schemes to install a pro-Russian government in Moldova. Now is the moment when the EU must step in and help the region survive the winter. I write more below:
www.spectator.co.uk/article/puti...
Putin is engineering a humanitarian crisis in Transnistria
Sandwiched between Ukraine and Romania, the tiny republic of Moldova has been easy prey for Russia in the past. Its 2.5 million people are among the poorest in Europe and the Kremlin has been able to ...
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January 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Russia has attacked Dnipro with an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time this morning. The Ukrainian Air Force reported 'no significant consequences'.
November 21, 2024 at 7:57 AM
Biden may believe that he is doing Ukraine a big favour with his ATACMS policy shift, but by limiting the missile systems to Kursk and the Russian border, he is once again imposing constraints on Ukraine’s ability to go for the win.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/joe-...
Joe Biden has put Ukraine in an impossible position
This week, Joe Biden lifted one of the many restraints placed on Ukraine in its war with Russia. The outgoing US president has allowed Kyiv to use long-range US-made ATACMS missiles in the Russian reg...
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November 20, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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November 20, 2024 at 2:34 AM
I have finally opened an account at Bluesky, as Twitter under Musk has horrible engagement when I post about Ukraine. I hope here it is better. Is it?
November 20, 2024 at 2:27 AM