Catherine Philp
The Times of London
United Kingdom
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When and how will the Ukraine war end? Six possibilities explained
The night before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began last year, many Russian troops soon to cross the border still had no idea what was to come. Vladimir P → Read More
Ukraine troops prepare for Russian spring offensive: ‘Putin has more men, but our mentality beats any weapon’
When Russian tanks began thundering over Ukraine’s northeast border into the Sumy region last year there was only a handful of professional Ukrainian soldier → Read More
Russian exit from Kherson ‘an illusion’ as Ukraine prepares for heaviest of battles
The first thing that Vitya did when he reached the Ukrainian military was hand over the co-ordinates of all the Russian positions around his occupied village. → Read More
Ben Wallace seeks rockets in US as Ukraine power plants targeted
Russian missiles have destroyed a third of Ukraine’s power stations, President Zelensky said today as citizens were warned to brace for hardship this winter. → Read More
Kyiv under terror of the ‘kamikaze’ drones that wait then kill
Kyiv woke yesterday to attack from swarms of Iranian-made “kamikaze” drones, a week to the hour after cruise missile strikes rained down on Ukraine’s cities, br → Read More
Web blackout hits Iran as protests spread over Mahsa Amini’s death spread
Iran’s president has claimed publicly that a 22-year-old woman killed by morality police for wearing the wrong headscarf suffered “sudden heart failure”, as protests continued to threaten his regime’s grip on the country.Ebrahim Raisisaid that the death of Mahsa Amini, who had been picked up by the → Read More
Revolutionary Guard poised for ‘decisive’ crackdown on Iran street protests
When Mahsa Amini was buried last weekend, after her death in the custody of Iran’s morality police, a simple message adorned her gravestone: “You will not die. → Read More
Joe Biden sits at back of Queen’s funeral after declining to arrive by bus
President Biden may have been one of the few dignitaries granted permission to take his own transport to Westminster Abbey but once there he had to settle for a → Read More
Mikhail Gorbachev: Leader who made peace with West and paid the price
Few statesmen of the 20th century have had such an impact at both home and abroad, nor has their legacy been so bitterly divided between the two arenas. In dea → Read More
Russian music banned as Odesa’s sandbagged opera house reopens
On a warm summer evening Figaro’s Aria tumbles out from the Odesa opera house, spreading his celebratory song across this fabled Black Sea city. Tonight it is I → Read More
Britons to face trial as mercenaries in Russian proxy court
Three Britons are to stand trial in a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine accused of being mercenaries. John Harding, Dylan Healy and Andrew Hill are in th → Read More
Russian missiles kill at least 18 in attack on children’s centre and apartments
Russia rained down missiles on apartment buildings and a recreation centre for children close to the Ukrainian Black Sea city of Odesa this morning.It is the la → Read More
Russia strikes Ukrainian shopping centre with 1,000 inside
Russian missiles have struck a shopping centre in central Ukraine with more than a thousand people inside, moments after the White House announced that it was s → Read More
US rockets will more than double Ukraine’s artillery range
The United States will supply Ukraine with advanced rocket systems that will more than double its artillery range after Ukrainian officials warned their militar → Read More
Worshippers turn backs on church led by Putin’s bishop
When Russian troops invaded Ukraine, the congregation of Kyiv’s church of the Mother of God of the Sign went to Father Yuriy with an ultimatum: break with the → Read More
British special forces ‘are training local troops in Ukraine’
British special forces have trained local troops in Kyiv for the first time since the war with Russia began, Ukrainian commanders have told The Times.Officers f → Read More
Truth will out about Russian war crimes in Ukraine, says British prosecutor
As Bucha struggled to return to some kind of normality, workers swept the blackened streets clean today after the mangled wreckage of Russian tanks and destroy → Read More
Ukrainian families cling to faint hope for loved ones in face of Russian savagery
Every day for the past five days, Valentina has sat on a toppled tree trunk, watching rescuers sift through the rubble of the apartment block where her daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter lived.On Saturday they pulled the body of Vitaly, her son-in-law, from the tangle of concrete and steel that → Read More
Ukrainian street where step outside meant a sniper’s bullet
Volodymyr Borovchenko stepped out on Yablunska Street for the first time since Russian soldiers swarmed into Bucha six days earlier. It was March 5, a Saturday → Read More
Kyiv begins to bloom again after Russian withdrawal
In the bright sunshine, Dariana, Mikhael and Miriam gathered at a pavement table to compare their wars. “None of us ever left,” Dariana explained. “And now, loo → Read More