Tag Archives: war

Battle fatigue in Ukraine

By Hugh Barnes ON Truth Social, his alt-right media platform, and in any number of rambling speeches, the wannabe Nobel peace laureate Donald Trump likes to claim that he’s on the verge of brokering a ceasefire in Ukraine. But that’s not the way it looks to tens of thousands of war-weary Ukrainian soldiers braving aContinue reading “Battle fatigue in Ukraine”

Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks

By Hugh Barnes The village of Robotyne stands on the high Zaporizhzhian steppe, a remote area that Ukrainians call the ‘wild fields’. Its wildness has only increased since the Russian invasion in February 2022. On the frontline in the war against Russia, halfway between Crimea and Donetsk, 150 miles in either direction, this battlefield withContinue reading “Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks”

Eyeless in Gaza

Article 6(b) of the 1945 Charter of the International Military Tribunal, later enshrined in the Fourth Geneva Convention, classifies the indiscriminate bombardment of civilian targets, including hospitals, as a war crime. Yet Israel has subjected Gaza to intense bombardment since the Hamas assault on its territory on 7th October, killed more than 1,400 people, withContinue reading “Eyeless in Gaza”

In Bakhmut

Hugh Barnes watches a funeral on TV It was a Monday in September and all eyes were glued to a televised funeral. But the ceremony was taking place a thousand miles away from Westminster Abbey, at the National Opera House in Kyiv, mourning the loss of a 47-year-old Ukrainian ballet dancer. Oleksandr Shapoval, its principalContinue reading “In Bakhmut”

Killing time in Palestine

By Toby Abse What the mainstream media generally describe as ‘the war between Israel and Hamas’ has in reality amounted to a massacre of Palestinian civilians. Around two thirds of the 29,410 Gazan dead (22nd February 2024) have been women and children. Unlike the Israel Defence Force (IDF), and unlike the more secular Palestinian armedContinue reading “Killing time in Palestine”