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He was tortured by Russia – now he’s getting his revenge

They are responsible for ambushes, destroying infrastructure and even, allegedly, assassinations. In Kharkiv, Balakiya and Izyum, Bel Trew meets the ordinary citizens who have become the secret weapon in the fight against Putin

The Independent UK

‘Every second felt like eternity’: Inside the torture chambers of Ukraine’s occupied northeast

Detention, rape, beatings and executions. Ordinary Ukrainians endured unimaginable horror in areas captured by Russian troops. Bel Trew in Balakiya, Izium, Pisky-Radkivski speaks to those who survived as they try to pick up their shattered lives

The Independent UK

Russia won’t ‘calm down’ as long as they have missiles, says Zelensky

President warns Ukrainians to expect more cold and darkness in months ahead as Kremlin targets enegy infrastructure

The Independent UK

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‘We’re Ukraine’s second army’: The workers fighting to restore the country’s bombed-out railways

Bel Trew reports from the recently liberated city of Kherson, where – facing a constant threat from mines and potential artillery fire – rail workers are trying to get trains running again

The Independent UK

Tales of torture emerge as Kherson celebrates freedom from months of Russian occupation

In the liberated city, Bel Trew finds joy at President Zelensky’s triumphant visit overshadowed by stories of horror

The Independent UK

‘Months of hell’: Inside Kherson, shellshocked survivors fear what Russia left behind

As locals celebrate a liberated Kherson, the threat from Russian troops left behind looms, Bel Trew reports

The Independent UK

‘How can we rebuild?’: Ukrainians return home to wreckage and tragedy in liberated Mykolaiv

“I am old, I don’t have much of my life left. How can I rebuild it all now?”

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‘We have nowhere to go’: The pensioners barely surviving on Ukraine’s front lines

In the liberated towns and villages of Ukraine, the onset of winter brings with it a desperate need for fuel – but Russian shelling has left the people here without power, heat or water, as Bel Trew reports

The Independent UK

‘We may never find them’: Desperate Ukrainians forced to trawl through dead looking for lost loved ones

The Missing: Bel Trew follows families who may never know the fate of their relatives

The Independent UK

‘A country of missing people’: How Russia is vanishing thousands of Ukrainians

The Missing: In her latest investigation, international correspondent Bel Trew reports from Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Poltava, speaking to Ukrainians and families of victims who were captured and taken to Russia in another possible war crime

The Independent UK

‘A catastrophe for the world’: Ukraine’s farmers, on the frontline of global hunger, try to save harvest

The world relies on Ukraine for food, but Russia’s invasion means millions could go hungry despite any deal allowing grain to be exported. Bel Trew talks to farmers in Kharkiv, Donbas, Dnipro and Kyiv

The Independent UK

‘If you can’t send tanks, send crisps’: The Briton on the front line in Ukraine’s foreign legion

Ukraine relies on large numbers of overseas fighters in its battle with Russia. Bel Trew, in Kharkiv, spoke to some of those who have volunteered to fight thousands of miles from home in the country’s foreign legion

The Independent UK

The only way out: the volunteers rescuing Ukrainians from hell on the frontline

To escape the worst hit areas of the war, the most vulnerable Ukrainians are reliant on volunteers using buses to ferry people to safety. Bel Trew joined one such convoy in Donbas

The Independent UK

‘I was born in war, I will die in war’: Trying to survive on Ukraine’s new front line

Russia’s war has now arrived in the Donetsk city of Kramatorsk, as Moscow vows to push further into Ukrainian territory. Bel Trew meets some of those living there, for whom every day is a battle for survival

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Expert panel discuss how to decipher Russia’s misinformation

Watch back our virtual event with panellists Tim White, Kim Sengupta and Bel Trew hosted by David Harding

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Bound, beaten, killed: Ukrainian civilians reveal horrors of Russian torture chamber

Special report: One prisoner recalls how a man was beaten to death next to him. Another recounts being stripped, stabbed and subjected to electric shocks. In recently liberated Trostyanets in Sumy, Bel Trew speaks to torture victims and uncovers fresh evidence of possible war crimes in northeast Ukraine

The Independent UK

‘Legs shredded like meat’: Inside Mykolaiv, residents live in fear of Russian cluster bombs

The strategic port city in southern Ukraine has been bombarded with suspected banned munitions and is bracing for a renewed Russian onslaught as Vladimir Putin repositions his forces, reports Bel Trew

The Independent UK

Feeding a city under siege: Meet the volunteers who saved Chernihiv civilians from starvation

From bringing in supplies through secret routes to delivering sandwiches amid Russian shelling, citizens in Ukraine’s northern city of Chernihiv tell Bel Trew how they risked their lives every day to provide food to thousands of people battling hunger and thirst

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In the dark shadow of Putin’s war: Murder, mass graves and torture mark a Russian retreat

Special Report: A man watches a Russian missile destroy his family’s home in front of his eyes. A teenager avoids a summary execution by seconds. In Borodyanka, Bucha, Hostomel and Makariv, Bel Trew finds a Russian retreat marked by a trail of murdered civilians, mass graves and devastation

The Independent UK

Ukraine has one of the highest HIV rates in Europe. Russia’s war could set back fight against virus 20 years

Under shelling and missiles, medics risk their lives to treat the 250,000 people in Ukraine with HIV amid fears that the war could set their efforts back decades, reports Bel Trew from Odesa and Zaporizhzhia

The Independent UK

‘Every kindergarten is a grave’: Survivors of Mariupol siege reveal the darkest horrors of Putin’s war

Tens of thousands of people are trapped in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which has become a grim symbol of Russia’s brutal conflict. Those who fled to nearby Zaporizhzhia tell Bel Trew about the starvation, slaughter, and graves being dug across parks, gardens, and schools

The Independent UK

‘The relief is immense’: Buses rescue thousands of Mariupol civilians as Russia accused of blocking evacuation

Civilians who managed to flee devastated city tell The Independent their hometown is ‘utterly destroyed’

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Mariupol evacuation hopes dashed as Ukraine accuses Russia of breaking promises

About 170,000 people estimated to be trapped in besieged city under relentless bombardment

The Independent UK

‘Tell Putin: who are you liberating us from?’ Ukraine’s Holocaust survivors brace for Russian forces

Odesa has been a centre of Jewish life for hundreds of years. Members of the community there tell Bel Trew of their anger and terror as Vladimir Putin – who claimed to want to ‘denazify’ Ukraine – bombards the coast

The Independent UK

‘A living hell’: Inside the besieged city of Mariupol, where residents struggle to survive Russia’s onslaught

Tapping radiators for water, cooking on fires and living underground, people in the encircled Ukrainian city tell Bel Trew of the daily battle to avoid death from a furious bombardment

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