James Sladden

President Zelensky said that the new law was necessary to clear the organisations of “Russian influence” and improve the work of anti-corruption. Tonight, hundreds more protestors called on him to scrap the bill and restore the independence anti-corruption agencies.

Protestors fear that the change will undermine anti-corruption investigations into senior government officials and damage hopes of Ukraine joining the EU.

The bill, signed by Zelensky on Tuesday places the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) under the control of Ukraine’s Prosector General, appointed by Zelensky.

Protesters took to the streets for a second night in Ukraine after President Zelensky signed a bill that removed the independence of two anti-corruption agencies.

Innovation and improvisation are fueling Ukraine’s emergence as a defense tech hub - businessukraine.ua When they first came across each other, the potential for collaboration was obvious. One team was trialing a remote controlled ground drone that looked like a miniature tank. Next to them on the milit...

'Made in Ukraine' - How Ukrainian soldiers are working directly with Ukrainian businesses to solve battlefield problems, and doing it faster, cheaper and better. My article in Business Ukraine: businessukraine.ua/innovation-a...

The Freedom Convoy The community of people delivering aid to Ukraine

The Freedom Convoy: schoolofjournalism.shorthandstories.com/the-freedom-...

Thrilled to have won the 2024 @nctj.bsky.social Student Feature of the Year Award for two stories from Ukraine, The Freedom Convoy, and Made in Ukraine.

Thank you to @newsassociates.bsky.social for their tuition and support.

"...since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, The Melian Dialogue (Book 5, Chapter 17)

Delighted to be shortlisted for my journalism in the ‘Features of the year’ category for the @nctj.bsky.social Awards for Excellence 2024.

Thank you @newsassociates.bsky.social for their support and outstanding tuition during my NCTJ Diploma, especially Phil Wilkinson and Graham Dudman.

Innovation and improvisation are fueling Ukraine’s emergence as a defense tech hub - businessukraine.ua When they first came across each other, the potential for collaboration was obvious. One team was trialing a remote controlled ground drone that looked like a miniature tank. Next to them on the milit...

businessukraine.ua/innovation-a...

'Made in Ukraine' - How Ukrainian soldiers are working directly with Ukrainian businesses to solve battlefield problems, and doing it faster, cheaper and better.

My article in Business Ukraine.

The Freedom Convoy

The Freedom Convoy - Driving from Estonia to Ukraine with a group of ordinary people taking extraordinary action to deliver support to soliders in Ukraine.

schoolofjournalism.shorthandstories.com/the-freedom-...

The first crossing: British Army Review #187 - Issuu The 2nd Battalion, 72nd Mechanised Brigade’s leadership had reconnoitred its companies’ sectors on or around the 20th February but had not prepared any defensive positions. In the early hours of the m...

"We did not cook food. We did not spend time and energy on it. We only fought. We lay in positions for days. It was snowing, raining. The locals came up in the dark and covered us with blankets and gave us sandwiches."

A Ukrainian soldier describing defending north west Kyiv along the Irpin river.

Full-scale invasion: British Army Review #187 - Issuu Facing an enemy dictating the ‘when and where’ and with a pre-war military strength of only 196,000 active personnel, it would have been extremely challenging for Ukraine to defend against any invasio...

“I didn’t believe in [the prospect of a] full-scale invasion, I thought it was a political game or something, maybe they [the Russians] would cross the border somewhere, but just cross the border and go back, to scare people and that would be it.”

Two years on, the people we interviewed continue to fight to defend their country.

Co-authored with Liam Collins and Ben Connable, edited by
Andy Simms, published by CHACR.

'The Battle of Irpin River' tells the story of how Ukrainians defended north west Kyiv and fought the Russian military on the banks of the Irpin River in February and March 2022.

It is one part of a much bigger story of how Ukrainians defended their capital in 2022.

The words of a Ukrainian Special Forces NCO who walked with us through the places they fought as they told us their story. One of the many people we interviewed and former battlefields we visited in Ukraine.

The British Army Review 187 – The Battle of Irpin River - CHACR The Battle of Irpin River provides a valuable insight into the opening chapter of Ukraine's fight for survival.

“Did you think the Russians would come to Kyiv?"

“No. I didn’t believe it, because we are in the centre of Europe, it’s the 21st Century, a global world. Huta and Moshchun were two nondescript small villages that could become the end of Kyiv.”