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Jen Stout

A windfarm in the Shetland Isles.

4 min read

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

Makeshift graves for civilians killed by shelling in Siversk.

8 min read

A cult of violence

Writing against Kremlin propaganda about Ukraine.

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

3 min read

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

Dispatch from Kyiv

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

5 min read

In the air

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

Soldier holding a black and white kitten

7 min read

One Day in Donbas

With the frontline medics as Russians advance

Apartment building in Karkhiv.

4 min read

Wartime Christmas in Kharkiv

Interview with Nikolai and Lyubov, Kharkiv pensioners

Gritter gritting roads on a very snowy Shetland road.

3 min read

Shetland power outage report

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

Vlada Chernykh, Ukrainian army volunteer

5 min read

'Forever our sister'

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

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

13 min read

Concrete resistance: how one building symbolises Kharkiv’s defiance

How one building symbolises Kharkiv’s defiance...

Door peppered with bullet holes behind a gate.

6 min read

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.

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

4 min read

Jen Stout’s diary: Fear and trembling in Kharkiv

Diary piece from Kharkiv in April 2024.

Jen Stout photographed by Andrew Crawley

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'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.

Victoria Amelina wearing a bulletproof helmet and flak jacket.

5 min read

The eloquent fury of Victoria Amelina

Remembering the Ukrainian journalist and novelist.

Two apartment buildings damaged by bombings.

4 min read

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

Jen Stout reports from Kramatorsk.

A family getting into a white van.

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‘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.

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

10 min read

'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.

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

10 min read

Hunting for Vakulenko

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

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

7 min read

Ukraine's War of the Words

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

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

4 min read

Photo essay: 'Shetland welcomes the tall ships races'

Photo essay from a colourful festival.

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

1 min read

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

A profile of Prix-Pictet-nominated photographer Gera Artemova

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