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Voices: ‘Who wants to be cannon fodder?’ Ukraine’s conscription crisis divides opinion among Independent readers

YOUR VIEWS: Our community is divided over Ukraine’s draft crisis. While some empathised with those fearing the front line, others stressed the duty to fight, and many debated how the army could be better organised

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‘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

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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…

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kremlin dismisses new peace plan after Trump’s envoy calls talks constructive

Steve Witkoff has hailed latest talks in Florida as 'productive and constructive' without announcing any major breakthroughs

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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kremlin sinks Trump’s hope of peace deal by Thanksgiving

Moscow says European counterproposal ‘does not work for us’ in sign that both sides remain far apart

The Independent UK

How to fight in ‘hell’: Ukraine veterans say Nato not ready for war with Russia

SPECIAL DISPATCH: Frontline medics and soldiers near Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine tell world affairs editor Sam Kiley how Nato is far from ready for war with Russia – and is training for a bygone era

The Independent UK

Inside Ukraine’s start-up weapons industry rising from the ashes

IN FOCUS: As Europe and the US ponder over what arms to send to help the war against Russia, Ukraine is forging ahead with homegrown missiles and drones made from carbon printers and lawnmower engines. World affairs editor Sam Kiley reports from Kyiv

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Russia stands to gain very little from the bloody battle for Pokrovsk

ANALYSIS: Recently returned from the front lines near Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, world affairs editor Sam Kiley explains that Russian claims they’ve encircled Ukrainian forces are bogus

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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kremlin responds to Trump’s nuclear testing after flaunting Poseidon submarine

News of Moscow’s latest test comes days after Trump warned the US has a nuclear submarine off Russian shores

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Ukraine cannot win against Russia, warns British Field Marshal

WORLD OF TROUBLE: Field Marshal Lord Richards tells The Independent’s Sam Kiley that Ukraine has been given false hope by its Western allies and cannot triumph against Russia unless Nato forces join fight

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Ukraine-Russia war latest: US tells NATO to ‘boost firepower’ ahead of Trump-Zelensky meeting

US defence secretary Pete Hegseth said Nato should have ‘strong and real capabilities’ to deter Moscow

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Sam Kiley: The global South is paying for climate change they didn’t cause

The global South is paying the price for climate change they didn't cause, World Affairs Editor Sam Kiley told The Independent’s Climate 100 event on Tuesday (22 September), marking the launch of the 2025 Climate 100.

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Big Oil is ‘loving life’ - but privately preparing for dangerous temperature rise, renewables champion tells The Independent’s Climate 100 event

Event in New York City marked the 2025 Climate 100 list, celebrating leaders on diverse paths with a singular goal: tackling the worsening climate crisis

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Climate 100: Join us to celebrate the world’s leading environmentalists

The Independent will host the return of its Climate 100 event in New York later this month with a keynote speech from Greg Jackson, the founder of the UK’s biggest energy provider

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Your Middle East questions answered – from Trump’s fragile ceasefire to what Israelis think of Netanyahu

ASK ME ANYTHING: Readers shared their urgent questions about Israel, Iran, Trump, and Netanyahu with our world affairs editor, Sam Kiley, who has been reporting from Tel Aviv amid rising tensions in the region

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Did Trump leak Israeli intelligence again? Sam Kiley explains

For a second time, Donald Trump appears to have disclosed top-secret intelligence on allied operations in enemy territory.

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Trump’s fragile Iran-Israel ceasefire explained: Sam Kiley reports from Israel

Just hours after Donald Trump announced a ceasefire on Tuesday (24 June), Israel was attacked with several waves of Iranian missiles, prompting its foreign minister to accuse Tehran of violating the deal.

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Escalating war in the Middle East: Ask our world affairs editor anything

ASK ME ANYTHING: The Independent’s world affairs editor Sam Kiley is in Tel Aviv to explain what the latest US-Iran escalation means for Israel, Tehran, and the wider Middle East – and to answer your questions on where this growing conflict goes next

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Former MI6 Chief: Putin lacks rationality unless in a ‘permanent state of antagonism’

Former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger told The Independent’s Sam Kiley that Vladimir Putin lacks rationality unless in a “permanent state of antagonism,” offering Russia only “security.” This remark comes just months after the third anniversary of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

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Former MI6 chief and Rusi boss discuss Russia, Trump and the future of the West – how to watch our panel

THE CONVERSATION: The panel, chaired by world affairs editor Sam Kiley, will feature Alex Younger, former MI6 chief, and Rachel Ellehuus, director-general of RUSI, discussing global security, US foreign policy under Trump, and the future of Ukraine and Nato

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