Exclusive. Vika Mats, aged 10, and her mother Liana, 36, are stuck underground again in a Metro station after a terrifying day and night of rocket bombardments from advancing Russian forces in north-east Ukraine. They had enjoyed a five days of sunlight after Ukrainian troops pushed the Russian forces back toward their border and out of […]
Exclusive.By Paul Cainer in Kyiv It was a strange but almost comical scene. A dog was running towards me across Kyiv’s central landmark, Independence Square. And trying with some difficulty to restrain the animal, on a long lead, was the dog’s new master, 26-year-old Sviatoslav Yurash, Ukraine’s youngest member of parliament. He had been taken […]
It’s been dubbed City of Heroes, the official accolade awarded by President Volodymyr Zelensky to Kharkiv — Ukraine’s battered second city. Two intrepid cameramen-producers have chronicled its trials and tribulations under Russian fire in a riveting film called “Ukraine: Life Under Attack”. Their documentary has added poignancy as the Russian bombardment, apparently receding a month ago, […]
First ever exclusive interview with BOTH Klitschkos in a location (“bunker”) we are not disclosing for security reasons. Vitali, the great world champ boxer now mayor of Kyiv, makes a direct appeal to the soldiers fighting Ukraine inside his country: “Go home now. Why should you die in a foreign land just for the money […]
Protected: Why a student demo 50 years ago was the beginning of the end of apartheid South Africa. Post date14 June 2022 By Paul Cainer. Fifty years ago this month the South African apartheid regime’s baton-wielding police attacked white students, including me — and triggered a national State of Emergency. It also led to the […]
As I walked in to a hotel to interview Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s prime minister from 1959 to 1990), I should perhaps have read the signals. The Singaporean leader looked at me, then at his wrist-watch, in quick succession. He pointed to a chair I was to sit on. “I was expecting someone, er, more important,” he […]
It was a strange but almost comical scene. A dog was running towards me across Kyiv’s central landmark, Independence Square. And trying with some difficulty to restrain the animal, on a long lead, was the dog’s new master, 26-year-old Sviatoslav Yurash, Ukraine’s youngest member of parliament. He had been driven from Kyiv to Bucha just […]