Shaun Walker
@shaunwalker7
Covering central/eastern Europe for The Guardian. Author of The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past.
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https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-long-hangover-9780190659240?cc=us&lang=en 08-04-2009 11:33:26
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Spoke to new Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺, just back from Kyiv.
“The Ukrainians are tired, but only they are entitled to be tired by this war. We in this west don’t have the right to be tired, because we are not making any sacrifices” theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…
Wrote this on the 4,500+ UKR servicemen & women still held as POWs in Russia, the families stuck without them over the holidays, and the stories of torture - beatings, electric shocks, humilitation - of those who returned.
With photos by Julia Kochetova
theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…
Some good news: Poland has kicked its populist government out of power. What was behind the record voter turnout? And as the far right marches on, what lessons can the rest of Europe take from this election? I speak to Shaun Walker
theguardian.com/news/audio/202…
'What the hell are we doing in Ukraine? It’s madness and it needs to stop.”
Extraordinary story from Pjotr Sauer on a man who has spent 40 years finding the remains of Soviet WW2 soldiers.
Extra layer: his son died fighting for Wagner in Ukraine.
theguardian.com/world/2023/sep…