Tim Judah

1 month ago | nybooks.com | Tim Judah

As I was waiting outside Kyiv’s main military hospital at the end of April, I saw a man in a wheelchair come out of the main gate. He wove gingerly past seven “hedgehogs”—the large metal antitank traps that were deployed across the capital’s streets at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Now they have almost all been cleared away. Soldiers were walking out of the gate carrying bags of medicine and large flat folders with their X-rays, while visitors were checking in.

Feb 4, 2025 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Tim Judah

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Nov 14, 2024 | nybooks.com | Tim Judah

As we got closer to the front everyone in the car went quiet. Sheriff—the unit commander’s call sign, because he was a police chief before the war—took out a gadget the size of a cigarette packet and stared at its tiny screen. If it flashed a 1, that meant there was a Russian drone a mile and a half away.

Sep 19, 2024 | almendron.com | Tim Judah

As we sped down Georgia’s main highway, the spine of the country linking east and west, Vato Bzhalava, who had helped set up this trip, showed me a video. He had made it as plainclothes policemen bundled him into a van during last spring’s anti-government demonstrations in the capital, Tbilisi. By chance, journalists who were livestreaming the protest also filmed the moment, and his friends saw the footage. This was lucky. Georgia is a small place; one way or another everyone knows everyone.

Sep 18, 2024 | nybooks.com | Tim Judah

As we sped down Georgia’s main highway, the spine of the country linking east and west, Vato Bzhalava, who had helped set up this trip, showed me a video. He had made it as plainclothes policemen bundled him into a van during last spring’s anti-government demonstrations in the capital, Tbilisi. By chance, journalists who were livestreaming the protest also filmed the moment, and his friends saw the footage. This was lucky. Georgia is a small place; one way or another everyone knows everyone.