LAST RESORT
As the war reaches its second anniversary, the Ukrainian army has been forced to mobilize soldiers in their fifties and sixties to man the trenches along the frontline.
Guillaume Ptak is a French freelance journalist who has been covering Ukraine since 2019, and has lived in Kyiv since last September. He is a correspondent for French national newspaper Les Echos, who has also worked with Deutsche Welle, Le Monde Diplomatique and France Télévisions.
HORROR SHOW
Ukrainians hunkered down in Bakhmut are watching drone footage in horror as Wagner’s band of murderers and prison rapists keep on marching into battle for the besieged city.
OOOPSKI!
Some collaborated with the invaders out of greed, others for ideological conviction. All now face retribution as the Russian army flees.
body without a head
The Daily Beast was one of the first outlets inside Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv after Russian forces were driven out of the suburb. What we saw was shocking.