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Two Major Ukrainian Cities Lose Power Overnight as Russian Infrastructure Attacks Grow More Effective
Putin’s attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure are accelerating as winter approaches, reports George Llewelyn from Kyiv
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What Nathan Did Next: A Kremlin-Backed Forum on How to Subvert Western Democracy
The former Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was due to give a talk on cryptocurrencies at a Kremlin-backed convention in Moscow when he was arrested
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‘Stunned?’ Farage’s Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny
Insiders have told Byline Times it is ‘inconceivable’ the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide’s pro Russian statements
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Kyiv Blackout As Putin Escalates His Attacks on the Ukrainian Grid
As temperatures drop, so too are Russian bombs on Ukrainian infrastructure, reports George Llewelyn from Kyiv
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Winter Is Coming: Can Ukraine Keep the Lights On?
As temperatures fall and Putin’s strikes on the grid escalate, Ukraine prepares for a winter of severe hardship, reports George Llewelyn from Kyiv
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‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’s strategic plan to crush Ukrainian independence with ‘Moscow’s Man in Ukraine’
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Moldova Election: How Russia Tried and Failed to Hack the Vote
Russian operatives launched a vast online operation to sway the vote, bankrolled by Moscow and local proxies, Théo Provoust reports
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‘Absolute Devastation’: Scenes From The Kyiv Blitz
Paul Conroy reports from Kyiv on the devastation wreaked by Russia’s aerial bombardment over the weekend
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Ukraine’s Other War: The Battle Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria
The black earth trenches on the battlefield are not only producing casualties. They are breeding superbugs, reports Iain Overton
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‘A Serious Escalation’: Putin Launches Russia’s Largest Aerial Assault on Ukraine Since 2022
Russian aggression against Ukraine continues to escalate, despite Putin’s pretence at seeking peace, reports Zarina Zabrisky
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A Russian ‘Drone Siege’ Threatens to Cut Off the Ukrainian City of Kherson
60,000 civilians risk being trapped as the Russian military adopts a deadly new form of warfare, reports Zarina Zabrisky
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‘Let No One Believe the Lie That Zelensky Could Have Avoided War by Spurning NATO’
It’s time to bury this myth for good, argues Derrick Wyatt
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Russia Sanctions Byline Times Journalists and Contributors for Exposing Putin’s War Crimes
The Russian foreign ministry added multiple Byline Times and Byline TV contributors to its “stop list” following our award-winning investigations into the Putin regime
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Trump and Putin Meeting in Alaska: ‘Chess With the Bear’
The summit’s optics could reshape alliances, potentially moving the US closer to Russia, and sidelines Europe at a moment when transatlantic unity is critical, writes Zarina Zebrisky
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The Trump Putin Alaska Summit and Europe’s Munich Moment
“The uncomfortable truth is this: if Ukraine falls, Europe won’t be debating whether to confront Russia, but when”
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Aerial Terror in Kherson – A City Under Drone Siege
As Russia declares its intent to destroy Ukraine’s front line city, 60,000 civilians face being cut off by drone attacks
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Trump Made ‘Mistake of Historic Proportions’ on Ukraine Says His Former Ambassador
The United States’ former ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, tells Alexandra Hall Hall that she couldn’t “in good conscience” execute the President’s plans for the country
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Zelensky Struggles to Stem Backlash After Joining Bid to Neuter Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Agencies
Ukrainian protesters and MPs fear that hard fought progress against systemic corruption in the country is being undone by allies of the President
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‘What Trump’s Ukraine U-Turn Really Tells Us About His Psychology’
Trump’s shift from betraying Ukraine to turning on Putin reveals a lot about the man and his Presidency, argues George Llewelyn
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Russia Ramps Up Overnight Attacks as It Prepares for a New Summer Offensive Against Ukraine
Ukrainians are enduring a significant increase in the scale and frequency of Russian attacks, reports George Llewelyn
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Retaliation? Putin ‘Closely Monitors’ Criminal Strikes on Civilians in Kherson
Following the UN and Human Rights Watch identifying Russian drone attacks in Kherson as war crimes and crimes against humanity—the Russian military launched a massive combined assault on the city’s central district
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How Ukraine Used Cheap Drones and a Lot of Ingenuity to Strike a Major Blow Against Russia
“I spent most of the early hours of Saturday in my hallway feeling the walls shake as the ballistic missiles exploded”, Chris York reports from Kyiv
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UN Confirms Russian Drone Attacks on Kherson are Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes
Zarina Zabrisky, who first exposed the “human safari” in Kherson for Byline Times in July 2024, reports on the UN’s historic confirmation that Russia deliberately targeted civilians in a campaign of terror.
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How Russia’s Fake Spirituality Became a Key Weapon in the Kremlin’s Disinformation Toolbox
Under Putin, Christianity has been turned into a political tool to spread false narratives about the war in Ukraine
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‘How Trump Fumbled the Ukraine Peace Talks in Istanbul and Emboldened Putin — Yet Again’
The Kremlin is now so emboldened by the Trump administration’s position that it’s as if three years of Ukrainian resistance, backed by the West, never even happened, writes Chris York from Kyiv
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Germany’s Political and Cultural Establishment Prepares to Stand Up to Putin and His Allies
As Germany rearms, Patrick Howse visits the eastern state of Saxony, where the country’s cultural elite are now also taking on Putin
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‘Why Putin’s Three-Day May Ceasefire Declaration is Worthless’
The Russian president announced the ceasefire – from 8 to 11 May – without even speaking to Ukraine
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Green Party Deputy Leader Zack Polanski Says UK Must Leave NATO Because of Trump
The frontrunner to become the next leader of the Green Party of England and Wales tells Byline Times the UK must now form new alliances for “peace” instead
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Putin’s Response to Trump’s Appeasement Plan: Hell in Kyiv
Paul Conroy surveys the scale of the destruction to the Svaytoshinsky neighbourhood, fifteen minutes from downtown Kyiv
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Trump’s ‘Devastatingly Incompetent’ Attempts at Negotiating an End to the Ukraine War
In his latest dispatch from Kyiv, Chris York details how Trump’s ‘Art of the Deal’ just isn’t working
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An Urgent Warning to the West From the Ukrainian ‘Elves’ Fighting Russian Infiltration
Zarina Zabrisky speaks exclusively to Ukrainian officers from the ‘Elves’ unit about how Putin’s agents waged a decades-long hybrid war against their country
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Russia’s Murderous Ceasefires and Musk Admiration for Putin
In his latest dispatch from Kyiv, Chris York has tales of occupied territories, tariffs, stalled talks – and storks!
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‘Israel’s Genocide in Gaza is the Fatal Flaw in Starmer’s European Alternative to Trump and Putin’
If we are to build a broad consensus in Europe against Trump, we need to bring Palestine into equal focus with Ukraine, argues Martin Shaw
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Deadly Lies: Ukraine on Tenterhooks as Putin and Trump Talk of Truces
In his latest dispatch, Chris York reports on overnight attacks on Kyiv, Trump’s diplomacy and the latest drone and media manoeuvres
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‘Russia Will Be Hungry for More if Europe Doesn’t Unite to Protect Ukraine’
Defending Ukraine without the US will be complex, costly and politically challenging – but there is simply no alternative, argues Jacob Öberg
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Populist Simplicity in a Hyper-Complex World: Will Trump Overplay His Hand?
Hardeep Matharu dissects what the now infamous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky revealed about the American President’s approach – and speaks to political scientist Brian Klaas about why his ‘alternative realities’ don’t stack up against real-world complexities
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Trump’s Mob Rule: An Offer We Can Only Refuse
If Europeans come from Venus, Peter Jukes observes, it’s only because they are aware (unlike Elon Musk) of the bleak devastation of Mars
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Keir Starmer’s ‘Geo-Political Minefield’ Between Donald Trump and Europe
With Starmer thrust into a damage limitation exercise by the Ukraine crisis, Chris Painter reflects on the fluctuating relations between British Prime Ministers and American Presidents.
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Clouds Darken Over Ukraine: But Is There a Sliver of a Silver Lining?
In his regular dispatch from Kyiv, Chris York explains how US actions feel like a complete betrayal in the interests of Putin
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For Ukrainian Survivors of Putin’s War, Donald Trump is Yet Another Threat to Their Lives
“Let the Trumpists come and spend a few days [here] and feel, hear, and see how Putin ‘wants peace’” a mother of a fallen Ukrainian soldier tells Kris Parker
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Caught in the Net: Star Wars Tactics and Geopolitical Struggles in Kherson
An exclusive Byline Times interview with Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration
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‘It’s Time to End the Trump Denialism and Admit the US Is No Longer Europe’s Ally’
Keir Starmer’s attempts to be an “honest broker” with Donald Trump are doomed to failure, argues Adam Bienkov
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Kemi Badenoch’s Foreign Policy: ‘Channelling Her Inner JD Vance’
The former senior diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall sees signs of Trumpist culture wars and a woeful lack of realism in the opposition leader’s foreign policy set piece speech
