Strikes, fear: an update from Kharkiv
After failing to take Ukraine’s second city, Russian forces continue to pummel it with air, artillery and missile strikes. We speak again with an increasingly despondent Kharkiv native. Many schoolyar...
9 Maalis 202226min
War stories: the view from Russia
With the propaganda machine at fever pitch, not everyone in Russia agrees on—much less agrees with—what is going on in Ukraine. Dissent is being met with increasing repression. A wave of jihadism is c...
8 Maalis 202224min
Rushing from Russians: Ukraine’s refugees
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered a refugee crisis in Europe. More than a million people have left; millions more could follow. Turkey’s reasonably stable relationship with Russia may not sur...
4 Maalis 202224min
Climate of fear: the IPCC’s new report
A new report shows that climate change is already causing widespread, tangible damage, and argues that adaptation is now as important as mitigation. A once-promising candidate for the French presidenc...
3 Maalis 202224min
All that Xi wants: China’s Ukraine dilemma
After backing Russia’s grievances against NATO, China now finds itself treading a very fine line on Ukraine. There are often reasons to be suspicious of a country’s covid-death tally; we examine resea...
2 Maalis 202220min
Square in their sights: Kharkiv under siege
The levelling of Freedom Square in Ukraine’s second city is powerfully symbolic. One resident has been speaking to us daily since the invasion began. In the American West, minerals crucial to a clean-...
1 Maalis 202225min
The battlefield broadens: Ukraine resists
On the ground, Ukrainian resistance is holding—so far—and Vladimir Putin’s nuclear posturing reveals a crumbling of his plans. Meanwhile the international response grows more serious and more united. ...
28 Helmi 202224min
