IWPR Founder and Executive Director Anthony Borden reporting from Mykolaiv, Ukraine, 10 May, 2022.
IWPR Founder and Executive Director Anthony Borden reporting from Mykolaiv, Ukraine, 10 May, 2022. © IWPR

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Ukraine War Diary by Anthony Borden

Reporting from Ukraine by IWPR founder and executive director Anthony Borden.

To understand the challenges of local journalism, it is essential to me to continue working as a journalist, and I have travelled on a number of reporting and training missions to Ukraine over the past year.

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From Ukrainian journalists and volunteers, from government officials and from citizens across the country who have suffered from the war, I’m sure I’ve learned more than I have been able to share. All of my reports are undertaken in partnership with superb local journalists, to whom I owe much.

"Why should young Ukrainians die just for the absolute absurdity of some medieval concept of history and empire?"

Julia views her one-week-old daughter Veronica in the intensive care for newborns at Okhmatdyt Hospital on December 06, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Earlier this week the same hospital was hit by Russian missile with many killed and injured including 4 children. © Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Julia views her one-week-old daughter Veronica in the intensive care for newborns at Okhmatdyt Hospital on December 06, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Earlier this week the same hospital was hit by Russian missile with many killed and injured including 4 children. © Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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A celebrated Ukrainian medic Yuliia Paevska, code name Taira, rose to fame on March 15, 2022 when she managed to smuggle out of Mariupol footage of the southern city under Russian siege. She was by Russian forces the day after and spent 94 days as a prisoner of war. She developed a course on tactical medicine and organised a unit of volunteers, called later the Angels of Taira, which has evacuated hundreds of wounded servicemen and civilians. © Courtesy of Y. Paevska. © Courtesy of Y. Paevska.
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Ukraine: One Year On

IWPR looks at the impact of the full-scale invasion on ordinary Ukrainians.

Since February 24, 2022 Ukraine has withstood bombing, siege and unbearable atrocities. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has brought the worst destruction Europe has seen since WWII.

But the Russian missiles have not shattered Ukrainians’ resilience.

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