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Analysis: Liz Truss Doesn’t Care About Stopping the War in Ukraine

Oliver Eagleton

By preventing peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, Liz Truss is dragging out a devastating conflict. But that’s a price she’s willing to pay for preserving Britain’s interests, argues Oliver Eagleton.

Soldiers of Russia's Interior Ministry practice martial arts during a drill marking Reconnoissance Day in the southern Russian city of Stavropol

Analysis: Russia Is Using Ethnic Minorities As Cannon Fodder In Ukraine

Diyora Shadijanova

Ethnic minority soldiers from low income Russian regions are already dying at a higher rate in the war. Now Putin’s latest mobilisation is causing fresh fear – and increasing tensions across the federation.

Two nuclear power station towers emit plumes of smoke

Analysis: Could Nuclear Actually Solve the Energy Crisis?

Ell Folan

Liz Truss wants to turbocharge nuclear power. As well as its environmental implications, asks Ell Folan, could it even solve our energy crisis?

A cow with a white face and brown fur looks at the camera. Another stands in the background

Report: The Dairy Industry is Blaming Vegans for Its Decline

Sophie K Rosa

The UK’s biggest dairy company is begging consumers not to “cancel the cow”. Yet with only around 2-3% of the population cutting out dairy, vegans aren't what’s hurting the industry. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Analysis: Don’t Ignore Biden’s Shadow War

Oliver Eagleton

With Joe Biden looking set to double down on America’s drone programme, Oliver Eagleton argues that the return to traditional warfare in Europe must not eclipse evolving modes of conflict elsewhere.

Report: Helping White Refugees Gets You £350. Helping Black or Brown Ones Gets You Prison Time

Tiara Ataii

If those crossing the Mediterranean were white, would we criminalise their rescuers? Tiara Ataii doubts it.

Opinion: We Saved 14,000 People From Drowning in the Mediterranean—And Italy Wants to Imprison Us for It

The Iuventa Crew

In 2017, the crew of search and rescue ship Iuventa was arrested by the Italian authorities. As their trial begins, they write about their ordeal.

Image shows workers collecting wheat at the Benha grain silos, in Al Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt

Analysis: Bankers Are Driving the Wheat Price Explosion, Not the War in Ukraine

Matteo Tiratelli

The war in Ukraine and climate breakdown have been blamed for a wheat price surge that threatens mass starvation. The truth is that financial speculation and grain-hoarding are to blame, writes Matteo Tiratelli.

Report: Central Asia Will Be Collateral Damage in the Ukraine Crisis

Volodya Vagner

With the Russian economy tanking, post-Soviet republics - and the Central Asian migrant workers who sustain them - are in deep trouble. Volodya Vagner reports from Kyrgyzstan.

Russian army take part in a rehearsal of military parade on April 18, 2022 on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, in preparation for the May 9 parade. About 11 thousand military personnel, 131 units of modern weapons and military equipment, 77 aircraft and helicopters are involved. Russia is hurling its military might against Ukrainian cities and towns and pouring more troops into the war, seeking to slice the country in two in a potentially pivotal battle for control of the eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories.

Feature: How Putin Bribed Russia’s Peasant Army Into a War They Don’t Want

Liza Smirnova & Alexey Sakhnin

Three-quarters of Russians are city-dwellers. Yet the army today looks almost the same as it did under the tsars, write Alexey Sakhnin and Liza Smirnova: peasants in overcoats.

Feature: The Facebook Groups That Are Like ‘Tinder’ for Ukrainian Refugees

Sophie K Rosa

Platforms 'matching' Ukrainian refugees with hosts in the UK are putting refugees at risk of violence, exploitation and trafficking, say experts. Sophie K Rosa reports.