Jen Stout

This is what they're dealing with - vast swathes of the country unusable and lethal, estimates for cleaning it up in the tens or even hundreds of years.

& pics from demining ops with @minesadvisorygroup.bsky.social & @herorats.bsky.social - thanks to these great teams for having me

pics from the UXO/mine-contaminated (but beautiful) countryside - open steppe, golden fields, blue skies, red landmine warning signs

Demining on the steppe - and the thorny issue of the landmine ban Behind the scenes on the long-read for Prospect magazine about demining, landmine ban treaties, and the war in Ukraine

A long-read for Prospect magazine: reporting from SE Ukraine on demining
& conversely, on the scramble to leave the Mine Ban Treaty by countries threatened by Russia.

Blog & extra pics:
www.jenstout.net/post/deminin...

Article w/Julia Kochetova (!) pics: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...

Delighted to welcome Tami Hoffman, Director of Public Policy @theguardian.com to our stellar panel @georginalee.bsky.social FactCheck & Data News Editor @channel4news.bsky.social, Dr Manny Ahmed Founder & CEO @openorigins.bsky.social.

Join us at The Frontline Club, London, Tues 23 Sept at 7pm.

The American Monument, mull of Oa, Islay. Commemorates the hundreds who died when troops ships sank off these cliffs in 1918.

The Ukrainians clearing Russian mines Kyiv backed a life-saving landmine ban in 1999. Now, with Russian mines endangering fighters, farmers and children across liberated Ukraine, it wants ...

Russian mines are endangering fighters, farmers and children across liberated Ukraine. Now Kyiv wants to set its own traps for the invaders, writes @jenstout.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...

5/ The agreement would also require Ukraine to hand over its heavily fortified defensive lines, much as Neville Chamberlain's Munich Agreement did to Czechoslovakia in 1938. Russia's next invasion of Ukraine would be made far easier.

Stout ‘astounded’ to win Highland Book Prize LOCAL writer Jen Stout has received more accolades after winning the 2024 Highland Book Prize. She won the award for her book Night Train to Odesa: Covering...

Some very exciting news yesterday - Night Train to Odesa won the Highland Book Prize!
www.shetnews.co.uk/2025/07/22/s...

Terror doesn't work. They're Ukrainians. strategyaaron · Episode

@jenstout.bsky.social and I discuss:

- What it was like being in Moscow on the eve of the invasion

- Why she was compelled to cover the conflict

- How Putin uses and abuses Russian and Ukrainian history

open.spotify.com/episode/2ueb...

New ep! @jenstout.bsky.social talks about the war in Ukraine, Putin’s use and abuse of history, how to actually be a war reporter – and if anyone can sell her a cheap camper van…?

linktr.ee/strategyaaron

Big load of haar means temp inversion, as I understand it, but not usually leading to this mirage effect.

Never thought I'd see this in my life: the rare 'Fata Morgana' mirage. The coast of Fife, shot from NE Edinburgh, stretched into huge, inverted, towering optical illusions.
Caused by weather conditions. Absolutely surreal.

That was last night - tonight you're haary too!
This eve was extraordinary - Fata Morgana effect, all of Fife coast was towering, stretched-out mirage shapes, utterly surreal. Will get pics off camera tomorrow.

NE Edinburgh, the view to Fife, and just round that headland, the sewage works.
Bonny light nights at 11pm still...

Jen Stout for Night Train to Odesa When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, millions of lives changed in an instant. Millions of people were suddenly on the move. In this great flow of people was a reporter from the north of Scotland…

This Thurs. 4/17 @6pm join award-winning journalist @jenstout.bsky.social all the way from Scotland! Her new book covering the war in Ukraine as an independent reporter is vivid, timely, empathetic, & highly readable. @casematepublishers.bsky.social

peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/night-...

Dreamed of seeing this city all my life

Annual Sanctuary Lecture: Jen Stout This year, the University of St Andrews is celebrating five years as a University of Sanctuary, a testament to our

Off to St Andrews this evening to give the Sanctuary lecture - registration is free and it will be livestreamed via Teams. Join here:
events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/annua...

Articles | Jen Stout Portfolio of Jen Stout's newspaper and magazine articles

Many of my written articles now available to read on my site: jenstout.net/articles
Kharkiv architecture, frontline dispatches, language politics, tall ships festivities, it's all there...
More to come, and more radio work, when I find time!
📸 Photography portfolio also on the site

Thank you! It's a quote of Pavlo Kazarin, when he was speaking at Lviv Book Forum in 2022.

A screen showing the Ukrainian flag and the words "Ukraine forever"

I went to a great event last week by the Ukrainian community in the UK. Music, stories, poems. Lots stayed with me, including when @jenstout.bsky.social asked "what is Europe, a standard of living?". #Europe is a great achievement, let's preserve it. Here's hoping it really fights the good fight.

The front cover of the non-fiction novel 'Night Train to Odesa' by Jen Stout. It details her time as a reporter in Ukraine from November 2021 to April 2023, documenting the Russian invasion for Scottish news and media outlets. She talks at length about the people she meets along the way and the human cost of what Russia is doing, and how life in Ukraine is still going on regardless. Given the recent behaviour of the US towards Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people I felt it necessary to finally read this, and I recommend you do too.

Latest read was this highly necessary debut by @jenstout.bsky.social about her time reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine from late 2021 to the spring of 2023. Goes without saying that it's a tough read in places, but recent events made me feel it had to be done and I recommend it highly.

Absolutely. I can really recommend LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING by Victoria Donovan, out in April, I just read the proof copy. All about Donbas, landscapes, people, mining, extractive colonial history, and very vivid and personal.

Thanks so much!

I'm late to this but thank you! Hope you enjoyed it.

Concrete resistance: how one building symbolises Kharkiv’s defiance Derzhprom’s concrete walls have heard the whispers of Soviet bureaucrats and the dreams of Ukrainian visionaries. Will it survive to see Kharkiv enter...

Read @jenstout.bsky.social's beautiful dispatch from Kharkiv in the winter issue of @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...