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Francis Farrell

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Reporter at @kyivindependent | Aussie at home in Ukraine | Support us here: https://t.co/iZIVm6Wyq4

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  • 'All of Ukraine Is Ours' - Putin on Russia's Territorial Ambitions in Ukraine

    1 week ago | rsn.org | Kateryna Hodunova |Francis Farrell

    ALSO SEE: Iran’s Missiles Kill 7-Year-Old Ukrainian Girl Seeking Leukemia Treatment in Israel Russian President Vladimir Putin said "all of Ukraine" belonged to Russia in a speech on June 20 at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, amid increasingly aggressive official statements about Moscow's final territorial ambitions in Ukraine.

  • Inside the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine

    1 week ago | kyivindependent.com | Francis Farrell

    This audio is created with AI assistance Forged from the remnants of the Soviet Spetsnaz, Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces have become a vital pillar of the country’s current defense, playing their role in some of the war’s most decisive engagements – from Kyiv to Donbas, and to Kursk Oblast in Russia.

  • ‘That politics thing’: young people’s narratives of connection and collaboration in the age of Brexit

    1 week ago | tandfonline.com | Francis Farrell

    ABSTRACTOn 23 June 2016 the British electorate voted to leave the European Union (EU). The referendum campaign and the aftermath of the vote were marked by a spike in hate crimes fuelled by anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant discourse. This article offers an analysis of qualitative group interviews designed to gain insights into young people’s sense of belonging during this period. Data was collected from young people aged 14–24, based in schools and youth groups located in the northwest of England.

  • From buffer zone to new front: Russia pushes deeper into Sumy Oblast

    2 weeks ago | kyivindependent.com | Francis Farrell

    In March 2025, as Ukrainian forces made their final retreat from Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, new grey spots began to appear on open-source maps on the other side of the state border, in Ukraine’s Sumy Oblast. For the first time since 2022, when Moscow’s forces retreated frantically from northern Ukraine, Russian troops have once again set their sights on Sumy Oblast.

  • ‘Find and destroy’ - how Ukraine’s own Peaky Blinders mastered the art of bomber drones

    3 weeks ago | kyivindependent.com | Francis Farrell

    Editor’s note: In accordance with the security protocols of the Ukrainian military, soldiers featured in this story are identified by first names and callsigns only. DONETSK OBLAST – From the moment the vehicles duck into pre-prepared positions in the leafy treeline to the first dead Russian soldiers, less than twenty minutes pass.

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