Nina Kuryata
Ukraine Editor
“I joined Tortoise when the war in Ukraine started. Tortoise is a perfect place for in-depth journalism, and I am here to tell you more about Ukraine and its importance for the world.”
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Wednesday 27 September 2023
Fugitive businessman at centre of Wirecard scandal potentially linked in court to Russia spy case
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Tuesday 26 September 2023
Thousands of Armenians flee after Azerbaijan seizes disputed enclave
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Thursday 21 September 2023
German aid to Russia
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Monday 18 September 2023
Putin’s strategy of dividing Europe is starting to work
Putin’s strategy of dividing Europe seems to be working, as some of Ukraine’s neighbours take a harder line on supplying weapons to Kyiv
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Thursday 7 September 2023
German “treason”
Suspected spy is tip of pro-Russian iceberg
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Thursday 7 September 2023
Model embryos
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Monday 4 September 2023
Ministerial gambit
… as counteroffensive gains ground
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Thursday 31 August 2023
Ukraine defends the use of drones on targets inside Russia
The mystery of why Ukraine is sending so many drones into Russia may not be a mystery after all. An intelligence official speaks
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Thursday 17 August 2023
Rouble on the slide
Russia considers currency controls as rouble slides
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Tuesday 15 August 2023
Codename “Rengaw”
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Thursday 10 August 2023
Deportations of Ukrainian children recall Nazism
The 700,000 Ukrainian children deported to Russia are a problem with a deadline. Every day they stay there makes it harder to get them back.
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Monday 7 August 2023
Russia’s eastern call up
Generous wages offered to recruits in Kazakhstan
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Thursday 3 August 2023
Wagner Group threatens Polish border as diplomatic tensions rise
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Tuesday 1 August 2023
Stolen childhood
Russia boasts about deporting Ukrainian children
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Monday 31 July 2023
Nuclear threat
Medvedev on Ukrainian success
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Friday 28 July 2023
Crossed swords
Ukrainian fencer disqualified for refusing to shake hands
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Thursday 27 July 2023
Moldova meltdown
Moldova expels Russian diplomats
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Tuesday 18 July 2023
Grain drain
Russia kills off Black Sea grain deal
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Monday 17 July 2023
Extreme weather
South Korea urges climate action after deadly floods
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Friday 14 July 2023
Maria Prymachenko (Saatchi Gallery, July 13 – Aug 31)
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Friday 14 July 2023
Seven bullets
Russia arrests suspect in officer murder
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Wednesday 12 July 2023
Prigozhin goes for nukes
How the Wagner group almost went nuclear
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Tuesday 11 July 2023
Ukraine needs F-16s to win the war – will they get them?
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Monday 10 July 2023
Where is Prigozhin?
Wagner boss roaming free in Russia
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Friday 7 July 2023
Putin’s second front
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Monday 3 July 2023
Death in Berdyansk
Russians are preventing two Ukrainian teenagers’ burial
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Thursday 29 June 2023
Double treason
Putin freezes out senior generals
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Wednesday 28 June 2023
Putin’s showdown with Wagner has been Lukashenko’s moment
Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko has clung to power for 30 years thanks to Putin. The Russian leader’s showdown with Wagner was a chance to return the favour.
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Monday 26 June 2023
Prigozhin’s wild weekend leaves Putin flailing
If Putin couldn’t or wouldn’t take out Prigozhin, can he escalate the war in Ukraine? The wild ride of the Wagner Group raises fundamental questions about Tsar Vladimir’s authority, including over his troops.
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Friday 23 June 2023
Nato members struggle for unity on Ukraine
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Monday 19 June 2023
Africa’s peacemakers
Ramaphosa leads delegation to Kyiv and St Petersburg
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Friday 9 June 2023
Ukraine’s long-awaited counter-offensive has begun
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Wednesday 7 June 2023
Ukraine update
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Tuesday 6 June 2023
Kakhovka dam explosion
Ukraine blames Russia’s 205th motor rifle brigade
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Thursday 25 May 2023
Wagner boss says “de-militarisation” of Ukraine has failed
Wagner boss says “de-militarisation” of Ukraine has failed
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Tuesday 23 May 2023
Belgorod “liberated”
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Friday 19 May 2023
South Africa’s Russia crush
The US ambassador has accused South Africa of supplying arms to Russia. What game is Pretoria playing?
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Wednesday 17 May 2023
Hypersonic interception
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Friday 12 May 2023
Storm Shadow
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Friday 28 April 2023
Insecurity Council
What just happened
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Thursday 13 April 2023
Intelligence blared
What just happened
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Monday 27 March 2023
Sensemaker: Stalingrad 2.0
What just happened
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Monday 20 March 2023
Sensemaker: Moscow rules
What just happened
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Wednesday 15 March 2023
Sensemaker: War profiteers
What just happened
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Friday 3 March 2023
Sensemaker: A gun to the head
What just happened
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Friday 24 February 2023
Sensemaker: The price of defeat
What just happened
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Thursday 23 February 2023
Sensemaker: How to win
What just happened
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Wednesday 8 February 2023
Sensemaker: Target Crimea
What just happened
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Monday 30 January 2023
Sensemaker: No red lines
What just happened
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Friday 20 January 2023
Sensemaker: Ready, steady, cook
What just happened
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Friday 13 January 2023
Sensemaker: Critical mass
What just happened
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Friday 16 December 2022
Sensemaker: The year of Ukraine
What just happened
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Wednesday 30 November 2022
Sensemaker: General Frost
What just happened
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Tuesday 22 November 2022
Sensemaker: More war
What just happened
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Thursday 10 November 2022
Sensemaker: Rubicon, Rubicoff
What just happened
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Wednesday 26 October 2022
Sensemaker: Dirty lies
What just happened
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Thursday 6 October 2022
Sensemaker: Putin on the ropes
What just happened
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Monday 3 October 2022
Sensemaker: New world disorder
What just happened
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Wednesday 21 September 2022
Sensemaker: Russia on the edge
What just happened
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Wednesday 14 September 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Peak Putin?
What just happened
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Tuesday 23 August 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Losing Russia’s war
What just happened
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Friday 19 August 2022
What does Erdoğan want in Ukraine?
Turkey is selling weapons to both sides in Russia’s war in Ukraine – while also pitching itself as peacemaker
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Friday 19 August 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Two-faced Turkey
What just happened
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Wednesday 10 August 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Treason and power
What just happened
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Tuesday 2 August 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Justice in war
What just happened
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Monday 18 July 2022
The battle for Ukraine’s grain
A deal to release huge stockpiles of grain from Ukraine’s ports is within reach – but remains in Putin’s gift
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Monday 18 July 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: The battle for Ukraine’s grain
What just happened
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Monday 11 July 2022
How to beat Russia
To end the slaughter in Ukraine and bring Putin and his enablers to justice, the goal is simple: defeat Russia. The question is – how?
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Monday 11 July 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: How to beat Russia
What just happened
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Wednesday 29 June 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Are sanctions working?
What just happened
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Thursday 23 June 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Wrecking ball
What just happened
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Thursday 16 June 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Dying for weapons
What just happened
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Thursday 9 June 2022
10 minute read
Sensemaker: Russification and resistance
What just happened
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Monday 14 March 2022
This is not a Ukraine crisis. It’s a Russian war
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Tuesday 29 August 2023
Putin v Prigozhin: A story of mutiny and death
In late June, Yevgeny Prigozhin marched on Moscow with a small army of mercenaries. Exactly two months later, he was dead. This is the story of what really happened on the road to Moscow
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Friday 4 August 2023
Putin’s useful madman
When he was president Dmitry Medvedev was relatively moderate. Now he’s threatening to use nuclear escalation.
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Thursday 23 February 2023
A year in Ukraine
A year since Russia began its full scale invasion of Ukraine, what are the five key moments which have defined the war so far?
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Friday 23 December 2022
Comedian, president, wartime leader
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has thrust President Volodymyr Zelensky onto the international stage and into the spotlight. He’s been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and honoured with an Oscar but now he needs a victory
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Thursday 22 September 2022
A crime in the making: Russia’s atrocities
No war crime is ever inevitable, but it’s possible to make one likely. Russia did exactly that before 53 prisoners of war burned to death at Olenivka
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Monday 23 May 2022
Odesa
The Ukrainian port normally feeds the world, but the Russian invasion means nothing is getting out. Can we reopen the port – or will millions starve?