Kasia Sobocinska

Jan 24, 2025 | thetimes.com | Shayma Bakht |Kasia Sobocinska

One of the migrants, Biniam Tomas, told The Times he had made it across the border to Poland on six previous occasions in September alone, only to be pushed back by Polish border forces to the Death Zone. Tomas was part of the most recent wave of asylum seekers pushed toward Poland by Belarusian smugglers in what the European Union and Poland has branded an attempt by Russia and its ally to destabilise the EU's eastern border by manufacturing a migration crisis.

Feb 22, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Marc Bennetts |Kasia Sobocinska

The shell burst out of the mortar with a flash and explosion that reverberated across the war-shattered Ukrainian landscape, hurtling towards nearby Russian troops. “Our task is to support the units of the armed forces of Ukraine that work here. We locate and destroy enemy targets,” said the mortar unit’s commander. He identified himself only as Zhora, his codename. “The enemy came on to Ukrainian land to shoot at civilians and destroy infrastructure.

Feb 1, 2023 | thetimes.co.uk | Paul Morgan-Bentley |Kasia Sobocinska |Stephanie Bosset

British Gas routinely sends debt collectors to break into customers’ homes and force-fit pay-as-you-go meters, even when they are known to have extreme vulnerabilities, a Times investigation can reveal. An undercover reporter worked for Arvato, a company used by British Gas to pursue debts, amid rocketing energy prices and more customers falling behind with their bills.

Feb 1, 2023 | thetimes.com | Paul Morgan-Bentley |Kasia Sobocinska |Stephanie Bosset

British Gas routinely sends debt collectors to break into customers’ homes and force-fit pay-as-you-go meters, even when they are known to have extreme vulnerabilities, a Times investigation can reveal. An undercover reporter worked for Arvato, a company used by British Gas to pursue debts, amid rocketing energy prices and more customers falling behind with their bills.