Today’s Daily Express is a special one for me as we we kick of VE Day 80th anniversary coverage. An incredible exclusive by ZakGP from Ukraine with 99-year-old veteran Volodoymir Overko who pleads: ‘Please do not give up on us’. This war hero fought shoulder-to-shoulder

EXCLUSIVE: As Vladimir Putin continues his brutal offensive, Ukraine is taking inspiration from the spirit of the Blitz that defeated Adolf Hitler 🇺🇦🇬🇧 #dailyexpress #80thanniversary #veday #veterans #ukraine ZakGP

I didn’t understand Ukraine until I saw the civilian mass graves and torture chambers. Until I met the families of children who were groomed then abducted by a state. Until I was woken by the nightly air raid sirens and saw the wreckage of drone attacks in regular residential

Our investigations editor ZakGP has just returned from Ukraine. Watch his powerful film about life in Kharkiv here 👇 youtu.be/jplCp1rCl4s

Kharkiv. Ukraine. Neighbourhoods turned into ghost towns. Incessant danger from the skies. I got a glimpse into the terrifying consequences of Putin’s war and the courageous defiance it has created. youtu.be/jplCp1rCl4s?si…

ZakGP goes alone to Kharkiv, where daily battles between Ukraine and Russia rage. Watch the full video on Daily Express YouTube.

A British nanny. A Moscow penthouse. A war next door. While tanks rolled into Ukraine, she was earning six figures raising a Russian oligarch’s kids. #Russia #Ukraine #ModernConflict #Underreported

🥊 Usyk to Trump: “We don’t fight for land. We fight for our people—those being tortured, kidnapped, killed.” The champ thanks US leaders but warns: peace must not forget Russian war crimes. Full interview via Daily Express: 🔗 express.co.uk/news/world/206… #Usyk #Ukraine #Trump

📄 Starmer urged to deploy British soldiers to Ukraine express.co.uk/news/world/206… ZakGP #DailyExpress #Ukraine

This neighborhood in Kharkiv looked abandoned. It’s not. People came back after missiles, fire, destruction. One man rebuilt his apartment from rubble. What I saw in Saltivka changed how I see war zones forever. 🎥👇 🎥 vm.tiktok.com/ZNdBWP89L/ #Ukraine #Saltivka #WarZone

EXCLUSIVE: We spoke to the migrant beggars wreaking havoc on billionaires row ZakGP #dailyexpress #migrants #investigation

Russian troops dug trenches in Bucha. Now Ukrainian mothers train in them. They call themselves the Bucha Witches — an all-female frontline unit. One was a housewife. Now she hunts drones by night. 🎥 On the ground in Ukraine. 📍 Full story: @journo_zak #Bucha #UkraineWar

EXCLUSIVE: ‘I’m an American ignoring Trump to fight Putin in Ukraine - this is what it’s like’ 🪖 #dailyexpress #ukraine #russiaukraine ZakGP

The story of the Wine and Rose hotel - a refurbished underground strip club that became the safest place to stay in Kharkiv during the terrifying battle for the city 👀 #russiaukraine #kharkiv #dailyexpress ZakGP

He filmed Russia’s war crimes in Bucha… …from inside his house, with nothing but a phone — while soldiers were murdering his neighbors. I tracked him down and asked why he did it. This is his story: 🎥 [youtu.be/PzedKX8X03k?si…] #Ukraine #Bucha #WarCrimes #PutinsLies

EXCLUSIVE: Russia's Bucha Massacre caught on hidden camera. ZakGP (Warning: Distressing details and scenes)

🚨EXCLUSIVE: The Express found asylum seekers working illegally from a migrant hotel in central London youtube.com/watch?v=yN9urm… ZakGP #DailyExpress

Watch the full Daily Express video with ZakGP here…Chris Philp MP has to warn one aggressive man to ‘take it easy’ as tensions escalate youtube.com/watch?v=mqJdON…

Excellent write up by ZakGP Daily Express on what we witnessed together in the Channel yesterday express.co.uk/news/politics/…

💔 1.6M Ukrainian children are hostages. Cut off from families, indoctrinated, denied education. Tens of thousands abducted + deported to Russia + Belarus. @SaveUkraineua has rescued 793 — but millions remain hostage. This is why at the Daily Express we have launched a new