Lindsey Hilsum
Sergei Lavrov says the military fatigues who have taken over Ukrainian military bases in Crimea are not Russian soldiers. One colonel tells me: “It’s a lie.”
Lindsey Hilsum
The first shots of the Russian occupation of Crimea were fired overnight at Belbek air force base. Luckily, they were into the air.
Lindsey Hilsum
They weren’t very friendly when we turned up at the besieged Ukrainian marine base at Feodosiya this morning.
Lindsey Hilsum
The priest told me he wasn’t blessing the Russian forces above the Ukrainians, but blessing them both and praying for peace.
Lindsey Hilsum
The stand off at the Crimean regional parliament in Simferopol can only be ended through negotiation – any attempt to use force of arms could pitch Ukraine into a dangerous conflict.
Lindsey Hilsum
These are the titushki, uneducated thugs, many of them petty criminals, who have disrupted Ukraine’s anti-government demonstrations.
Lindsey Hilsum
Journalists make poor prophets, but January is the month when we all think about the year ahead, and the big picture.
Lindsey Hilsum
“I think we are on the verge of civil war,” said my friend Jok Madut Jok in South Sudan. Yesterday Jok saw 200 bodies in the barracks where the fighting started and 40 in the morgue of the hospital.
Lindsey Hilsum
“If a mortar falls, it only affects us for an hour or so. After that, things go back to normal. The next day it’s as if nothing happened.”
Lindsey Hilsum
As they drove off, down another street littered with rubble and glass, I wondered how any Syrians, whatever their religion or political allegiance, would ever be able to live a normal life again.
Lindsey Hilsum
The nuclear deal is just a start of what could become a major shift in alliances in the Middle East. What happened in Geneva may have huge ramifications in Damascus and beyond.
Lindsey Hilsum
You prove yourself by getting great stories not by taking insane risks and talking about it in the bar afterwards – a consideration of the dangerous business of reporting from war zones.
Lindsey Hilsum
Nothing exemplifies the state of Libya so much as a conversation I had with an analyst in Benghazi this morning, writes Lindsey Hilsum.
Lindsey Hilsum
In Nairobi’s ‘Little Mogadishu’ district, many people fear that Somalis will collectively be expected to shoulder the blame for the Westgate attack.
Lindsey Hilsum
Iran’s new president has taken to social media to underline his reforming credentials, retweeting news of the release of political prisoners, including the prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh.