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Jen Stout

A windfarm in the Shetland Isles.

Oil tankers line Shetland’s horizon, but islanders face bitter fuel poverty

To avoid fuel poverty, residents of the ‘energy isles’ would need salaries of £104,000. Almost nobody here earns that

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Makeshift graves for civilians killed by shelling in Siversk.

A cult of violence

Writing against Kremlin propaganda about Ukraine.

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Men in orange high-vis ornage jackets fixing the road.

‘What matters most is that the support from the West doesn’t ebb’

Dispatch from Kyiv

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A drone team of the Ukrainian army setting up equipment in former Russian trenches.

In the air

A day on the road with Ukrainian specialist drone unit near Russian border

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Soldier holding a black and white kitten

One Day in Donbas

With the frontline medics as Russians advance

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Apartment building in Karkhiv.

Wartime Christmas in Kharkiv

Interview with Nikolai and Lyubov, Kharkiv pensioners

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Gritter gritting roads on a very snowy Shetland road.

Shetland power outage report

Life is lived one day at a time as many islanders shiver and wait.

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Vlada Chernykh, Ukrainian army volunteer

'Forever our sister'

Ukraine war reporter remembers courageous chemistry student, 28, turned army volunteer after death on the frontline.

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Sepia style image of women sweeping a road in front of several large buildings.

Concrete resistance: how one building symbolises Kharkiv’s defiance

How one building symbolises Kharkiv’s defiance...

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Door peppered with bullet holes behind a gate.

Writer's War: On the essential role of writers and culture in war-torn Ukraine

Why writers really matter in Ukraine's battle for survival.

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A person crossing the street in Ukraine with two boarded up buildings in the background.

Jen Stout’s diary: Fear and trembling in Kharkiv

Diary piece from Kharkiv in April 2024.

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Jen Stout photographed by Andrew Crawley

'Would we accept this?'Alumna and freelance journalist Jen Stout (MA Sociology 2012, MRes Sociology 2015) reflects on war in Ukraine.

Writing for the Edinburgh University alumni magazine.

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Victoria Amelina wearing a bulletproof helmet and flak jacket.

The eloquent fury of Victoria Amelina

Remembering the Ukrainian journalist and novelist.

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Two apartment buildings damaged by bombings.

‘The basement won’t save you’ Jen Stout reports from Kramatorsk

Jen Stout reports from Kramatorsk.

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A family getting into a white van.

‘The bombing is too intense. The children are too scared’: Ukrainian families forced to flee homes close to front line

On the evacuation run from Siversk.

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A person in camouflage looks on at hundreds of Ukrainian flags on the ground in front of them.

'The 24th: As the anniversary of Russian invasion approaches, Ukrainians look back on a year that changed everything'

Different Ukrainians reflect on how their lives have changed.

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Mass graves after the bodies have been removed, marked by wooden crosses.

Hunting for Vakulenko

Ukrainian writers are being targeted by Russian forces. Their loved ones are left searching for the truth.

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A mouth with the tongue sticking out with the word Toxic repeated 3 times.

Ukraine's War of the Words

Throughout centuries of imperial and Soviet history, the Ukrainian language was denigrated as something “less” than Russian.

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The harbour at Lerwick showing the tall ships race starting line in 2023

Photo essay: 'Shetland welcomes the tall ships races'

Photo essay from a colourful festival.

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Black and white image of smoke coming from a Ukrainian apartment building.

'The New Normal' - profile of Prix-Pictet-nominated photographer Gera Artemova

A profile of Prix-Pictet-nominated photographer Gera Artemova

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