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‘Kill Zones’, Body Bags and Starvation: Gaza aid Workers on The Devastating Reality of Life in the World’s Most Dangerous Place
It’s the “most dangerous place in the world to be an aid worker” – and every day it gets worse
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Inside the Trenches in Ukraine Where Exhausted Soldiers Fight to Hold the Line as Ammunition Runs out
Tom Mutch tells a harrowing story of resilience and desperation
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One Year On from the Kharkiv Counter-Offensive, Civilians Still Face Bombing and Deprivation
Tom Mutch meets those left rebuilding their lives following Russian attacks in Kharkiv Oblast
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‘This Is Ethnic Cleansing… They Want to Finish What They Started’: Inside the Siege of Nagorno-Karabakh
Decades of war and the memory of genocide add to the threat of starvation in the blockaded Armenian enclave
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The Hidden Suffering of Zapporizhzhia, Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Hub
The trauma of loss and the fears of a bigger catastrophe around the nearby nuclear power plant haunt Ukrainians living near the reactivated front line
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‘We Have No Water, No Electricity, No Gas… But We Have Hope’: Inside the Town at the Centre of Ukraine’s Counteroffensive
Tom Mutch reports from Orikiv in Zaporizhzhia, an area with historic Russian ties, which has turned against Moscow after a reign of torture and terror
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Dancing Against Destruction in Irpin: One Ukrainian Couple’s Story of Renovation and Renewal
Tom Mutch talks to the owners of a chain of dance studios in Donbas, whose epic journey suggests a brighter future for their war-ravaged homeland
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Bakhmut: Ukraine Fights to the Death while Observers are Split on Withdrawal
As the Russian winter offensive appears to have stalled on the Donbas front, Tom Mutch assesses the military cost to both sides in the war
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War in Ukraine: ‘The Hardest Part is Leaving’
Tom Mutch documents the ups and downs of the last 10 months of triumph and horror, and how Ukrainian resourcefulness brought hope out of despair
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How Russians Tormented One Occupied Ukrainian Village
Tom Mutch talks to the survivors of Russian occupation in recently-liberated Novopetrovsk and discovers a reign of looting and terror followed by an orderly withdrawal
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Surviving Six Months Under Bombs: Inside Ukraine’s Southern Fortress of Mykolaiv
Tom Mutch reports from the frontline city of Mykolaiv, which avoided capture by the Russian Army and is now at the centre of a Ukrainian counter-offensive
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On the Frontline of Exposing the Truth About Russia and Brexit
Four years ago, Tom Mutch thought he had the ‘scoop of the century’ blowing open Russia’s involvement in Brexit. Now, after the UK has left the European Union and Putin wages genocidal war in Ukraine, he wonders whether we are any closer to knowing the truth
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Why did Amnesty International Ignore My Warnings about their Ukraine Investigation?
Tom Mutch reveals his time on the front line with Amnesty officials and the glaring oversights and errors in their recent much-criticised report
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Beyond the Vulture Squad: from the Road of Death to the Road of Life
Tom Mutch marks 150 days of Russia’s onslaught on Ukraine and reflects on the different experiences of Ukrainians, as he travels from Kyiv to Kharkiv, and onto the apocalyptic Donbas front
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100 Days of Tragedy and Triumph
In the first instalment of two reports on Russia’s invasion, Tom Mutch describes the barbarity of Putin’s aggression, and the resilience of Ukraine and its people
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‘War Is War But You Need to Carry on Living’: The Beginning of the Rebuilding of Ukraine
A trip through the ruined towns around Kyiv is a story of resilience in the face of horror, finds Tom Mutch
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‘Trapped in a Cocoon of my Own Grief’: Putin’s Promise of ‘Liberation’ Brings Terror to Donbas
Tom Mutch reports on the plight of Ukrainian families that remain trapped in Russian-controlled enclaves
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28 Days: 28 Pictures – Documenting the War in Ukraine
Tom Mutch has spent the first month of Russia’s war against Ukraine depicting the lives of ordinary people facing Vladimir Putin’s onslaught, and it is a portrait of both horror and hope
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Ukraine Under Siege: ‘We’ve Been at War Here for Eight Years Already!’
As Kremlin controlled media reports explosions in separatist-held regions of Ukraine, Tom Mutch reports from Mariupol, the port at the frontline of the country’s conflict with Russia
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‘The West Will Fight Russia. To the Last Drop of Ukrainian Blood!’
Ukrainians across the country try to live life as normal while they prepare for war against Russia alone, reports Tom Mutch from Kyiv
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Violence Continues: Inside the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Tom Mutch reports from Kabul as the Taliban face an insurgency from the Isis-inspired jihadi movement, ISIS-K
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Beirut’s Ashes: One Year After the Port Explosion, Lebanon is On its Deathbed
Tom Mutch reports from Beirut on the deteriorating living conditions for most Lebanese people and the fury towards its political class, following the explosion which rocked the country’s capital a year ago
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The Murdered and the Martyred: Armenia’s Political And Spiritual Crisis
Six months after losing the Nagorno-Karabakh war, Armenia is a nation in crisis. With the US recognition of the Genocide, Tom Mutch asks whether they can begin to heal
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‘We Are Waiting for Patients to Die so Others Can Have Their Beds’: Lebanon’s Medics Tell Their Story
First-hand testimony from Lebanon’s young healthcare workers reveals the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on the country
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Rage and Grief as Armenia Loses its War With Azerbaijan
After many bloody battles Armenia has lost its war with Azerbaijan, now the country is grappling with where to go from here. Tom Mutch reports from the country’s capital
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‘Don’t Happy, Be Worry’ – Intense Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan
After a month of conflict and three failed ceasefires, Armenians gird themselves for a punishing winter war. Tom Mutch reports from the frontline around Stepanakert
