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Now more than ever, all of Europe needs to step up in support of Ukraine

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: As Donald Trump turns his back on the Ukrainian people and his envoy praises Vladimir Putin as a ‘humanitarian’, the rest of Nato must make a stand

The Independent UK · Oct 24

My covert SAS life: I was hiding in a hedge as an Irish farmer covered me in petrol

SAS: THE SHADOW WAR: SAS soldier John describes the grim reality of on-the-ground surveillance in Northern Ireland in the late 1980s to world affairs editor Sam Kiley

The Independent UK · Oct 9

SAS: The Shadow War podcast – How to listen to the series as soldiers break their silence

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The Independent UK · Oct 5

‘I survived 471 days in an underground bunker fighting for Ukraine against the Russians. This is my story’

SPECIAL DISPATCH: Exclusive: A Ukrainian sergeant spent 16 months in a frontline bunker underground, often unable to breathe and near starving. He told his story to world affairs editor Sam Kiley in Sloviansk

The Independent UK · Mar 20

Inside Nikopol: The only place to hide from Putin’s killer drones is our underground school

SPECIAL REPORT: In a harrowing dispatch from the frontline city of Nikopol – so close to Russian forces that few journalists have ventured there – World Affairs Editor Sam Kiley talks to children, parents and teachers who are hunted down daily by Putin’s deadly quadcopters, yet have somehow managed to…

The Independent UK · Feb 21

Ukraine peace talks have been little more than a mafia-style shakedown by the US and Russia

COMMENT: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been powered by lies and backed up by the US. World affairs editor Sam Kiley meets some of Putin’s Russian-speaking victims in Pavlohrad, eastern Ukraine, as Volodymyr Zelensky calls out Trump’s ‘unfair’ treatment of his country

The Independent UK · Feb 18

Growing up in a cold and dark Ukraine under constant Russian attack: ‘My 4-year-old can tell the bombs apart’

SPECIAL DISPATCH: As world leaders wring their hands over Ukraine, Sam Kiley in Kyiv meets a leading politician whose daughter Sophia was born just before the invasion and – alongside her parents and sister – is battling to survive as Putin’s latest strategy targets power supplies

The Independent UK · Feb 15

I spent six months with Nato troops in Afghanistan – Trump’s wrong, they were the front line

IN FOCUS: World affairs editor Sam Kiley was alongside 16 Air Assault Brigade in Helmand where British and US forces put their lives on the line to keep each other safe

The Independent UK · Jan 23

Voices: ‘No quick fix’: Readers split on whether Trump’s Greenland threat is a catalyst for rejoining the EU

YOUR VIEWS: Our community is divided over analysis from world affairs editor Sam Kiley, which suggested Donald Trump’s tariff threat over Greenland should prompt the UK to rethink its relationship with the EU

The Independent UK · Jan 19

Inside the Venezuelan refugee shanty towns where post-Trump hope is dangerous

SPECIAL DISPATCH: World affairs editor Sam Kiley reports from the ‘Venezuela’ favela in Cucuta, on the Colombian border, where Venezuelans live as refugees and worry about life in their post-Maduro homeland

The Independent UK · Jan 8