Luke Harding
@lukeharding1968.bsky.social
Journalist @Guardian, #1 New York Times best-selling author, foreign correspondent. Latest book: "Invasion: Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival", shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and Peterson Literary Prize. Agent: Susanna Lea
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'A master reporter and analyst.' Simon Sebag Montefiore
Betrayal, the new book from @lukeharding1968.bsky.social, charts the collapse of the post-1945 international system, from the frontlines of a new age of conquest.
Pre-order from the Guardian Bookshop: guardianbookshop.com/betrayal-978...
Betrayal, the new book from @lukeharding1968.bsky.social, charts the collapse of the post-1945 international system, from the frontlines of a new age of conquest.
Pre-order from the Guardian Bookshop: guardianbookshop.com/betrayal-978...
Here's the cover of my new book 'Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest'. It shows an American eagle on top of a globe, with its talons resting on Greenland... Publication date is August 27. There's a link to pre-order from the Guardian bookshop. Thanks to @faberbooks.bsky.social
Here's the cover of my new book 'Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest'. It shows an American eagle on top of a globe, with its talons resting on Greenland... Publication date is August 27. There's a link to pre-order from the Guardian bookshop. Thanks to @faberbooks.bsky.social
'A master reporter and analyst.' Simon Sebag Montefiore
Betrayal, the new book from @lukeharding1968.bsky.social, charts the collapse of the post-1945 international system, from the frontlines of a new age of conquest.
Pre-order from the Guardian Bookshop: guardianbookshop.com/betrayal-978...
Betrayal, the new book from @lukeharding1968.bsky.social, charts the collapse of the post-1945 international system, from the frontlines of a new age of conquest.
Pre-order from the Guardian Bookshop: guardianbookshop.com/betrayal-978...
January 15, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Here's the cover of my new book 'Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest'. It shows an American eagle on top of a globe, with its talons resting on Greenland... Publication date is August 27. There's a link to pre-order from the Guardian bookshop. Thanks to @faberbooks.bsky.social
My new book 'Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest' will be published in August by Faber in London. The theme - as seen in the last extraordinary week - is the shattering of the post-war international order and the return of nineteenth-century imperialism and spheres of influence
'The old rules – that states do not seize each other’s territory – are crumbling before our eyes.'
Coming in August 2026 - Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest, the new book from @lukeharding1968.bsky.social.
Coming in August 2026 - Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest, the new book from @lukeharding1968.bsky.social.
Guardian Faber snaps up Luke Harding's guide to the 'shattering' of the international order
Guardian Faber has acquired Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest by Luke Harding, a guide to the "shattering" of the international order.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:49 PM
My new book 'Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest' will be published in August by Faber in London. The theme - as seen in the last extraordinary week - is the shattering of the post-war international order and the return of nineteenth-century imperialism and spheres of influence
I wrote about campaigners trying to save Kyiv's rich architectural heritage. They face obstacles: Russian bombs, unscrupulous developers, corrupt officials and hostile or indifferent politicians. “We are trying to live like normal people despite the war," one said
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Saving Kyiv’s heritage: a city rebuilding itself in the shadow of war
Volunteers and neighbours are restoring the century-old homes as an act of defiance against Russia’s assault
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December 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I wrote about campaigners trying to save Kyiv's rich architectural heritage. They face obstacles: Russian bombs, unscrupulous developers, corrupt officials and hostile or indifferent politicians. “We are trying to live like normal people despite the war," one said
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with Russia’s vision www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with Russia’s vision
Moscow welcomes White House document critical of the EU as talks to end the Ukraine war enter a key phase
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December 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Kremlin hails Trump’s national security strategy as aligned with Russia’s vision www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
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December 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Loser takes it all? – How Trump's plan for Ukraine fell apart. @lukeharding1968.bsky.social joins @nndroid.bsky.social to explain why the plan was simply a Russian foreign policy offensive with Trump as its salesman. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#trump #politics #putin #USPOL
#trump #politics #putin #USPOL
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Loser takes it all? – How Trump's plan for Ukraine fell apart. @lukeharding1968.bsky.social joins @nndroid.bsky.social to explain why the plan was simply a Russian foreign policy offensive with Trump as its salesman. Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod
#trump #politics #putin #USPOL
#trump #politics #putin #USPOL
thank you!
Really enjoying this read from @lukeharding1968.bsky.social. What are you reading this week??
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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My podcast on Nathan Gill, the British MEP jailed last week for 10.5 years for talking cash from a Russian spy. A spectacular case of treachery, stupidity and grubby opportunism. And an illustration of how deep the Kremlin's covert UK influence operation goes www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
How Nigel Farage’s ‘right-hand man’ in Europe was unmasked as a traitor – podcast
Nathan Gill was an MEP for the Brexit party and Ukip, and later became Reform UK’s leader in Wales. Now he has been jailed for 10 years for taking bribes to make pro-Russia statements. Luke Harding re...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
My podcast on Nathan Gill, the British MEP jailed last week for 10.5 years for talking cash from a Russian spy. A spectacular case of treachery, stupidity and grubby opportunism. And an illustration of how deep the Kremlin's covert UK influence operation goes www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
My podcast on Nathan Gill, the British MEP jailed last week for 10.5 years for talking cash from a Russian spy. A spectacular case of treachery, stupidity and grubby opportunism. And an illustration of how deep the Kremlin's covert UK influence operation goes www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
How Nigel Farage’s ‘right-hand man’ in Europe was unmasked as a traitor – podcast
Nathan Gill was an MEP for the Brexit party and Ukip, and later became Reform UK’s leader in Wales. Now he has been jailed for 10 years for taking bribes to make pro-Russia statements. Luke Harding re...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
My podcast on Nathan Gill, the British MEP jailed last week for 10.5 years for talking cash from a Russian spy. A spectacular case of treachery, stupidity and grubby opportunism. And an illustration of how deep the Kremlin's covert UK influence operation goes www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
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Trump says Ukraine deal is not ‘final offer’ as officials gather for Geneva summit
Trump says Ukraine deal is not ‘final offer’ as officials gather for Geneva summit
US president signals potential room for adjustments after Zelenskyy says proposals force Ukraine to choose between national dignity and losing the US
Donald Trump said on Saturday that his Moscow-drafted “peace plan” was “not my final offer”, after a furious backlash from Ukrainians who described it as reminiscent of Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 Munich agreement with Adolf Hitler.
The US president told reporters during brief remarks at the White House: “We’d like to get to peace. It should’ve happened a long time ago … we’re trying to get it ended, one way or the other we have to get it ended.” Continue reading...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Trump says Ukraine deal is not ‘final offer’ as officials gather for Geneva summit
My dispatch from the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv. Russia has destroyed the region's energy infrastructure, bombing sub-stations, and leaving people without heat and in the dark. a sad story, with beautiful chiaroscuro pictures by @alessiomamo.bsky.social
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‘They decided to kill us with cold’: Ukrainians struggle against Russian assault on power network
Chernihiv residents say they are without power for 14 hours a day as they gather in ‘invincibility points’ to charge up and warm up
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November 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
My dispatch from the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv. Russia has destroyed the region's energy infrastructure, bombing sub-stations, and leaving people without heat and in the dark. a sad story, with beautiful chiaroscuro pictures by @alessiomamo.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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My piece from Kyiv on the impossible choice now facing Ukraine: accept Donald Trump's Moscow-drafted "peace plan" or lose the US as a major ally
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Zelenskyy says Ukraine has impossible choice as Trump pushes plan to end war
US president demands that Kyiv accepts plan that would mean giving up territory to Russia
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November 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
My piece from Kyiv on the impossible choice now facing Ukraine: accept Donald Trump's Moscow-drafted "peace plan" or lose the US as a major ally
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Another grim night in Kyiv. Six people were killed and dozens injured after Russian drones and ballistic missiles hit the Ukrainian capital. Our hotel shook. As ever, Vladimir Putin is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in a campaign of murder & terror www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Russian attacks on Kyiv ‘calculated and wicked’, says Zelenskyy
Pictures posted on social media showed different sites in flames and residents gathering in rubble-strewn streets outside apartment buildings
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November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Another grim night in Kyiv. Six people were killed and dozens injured after Russian drones and ballistic missiles hit the Ukrainian capital. Our hotel shook. As ever, Vladimir Putin is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in a campaign of murder & terror www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
I gave Volodymyr Zelenskyy "Invasion" after my interview with him at the presidential palace in Kyiv. Thanks to my wonderful publishers @faberbooks.bsky.social in UK, Vivat in Ukraine, Into in Finland, @deusto.bsky.social Spain & @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social US
Exclusive: @lukeharding1968.bsky.social - author of Invasion: Russia's Bloody War - interviewed Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the Guardian.
Luke's book Invasion is out now.
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Luke's book Invasion is out now.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I gave Volodymyr Zelenskyy "Invasion" after my interview with him at the presidential palace in Kyiv. Thanks to my wonderful publishers @faberbooks.bsky.social in UK, Vivat in Ukraine, Into in Finland, @deusto.bsky.social Spain & @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social US
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Power went out twice during President Zelenskyy's interview with the Guardian's Luke Harding
When the lights went out for the second time, President Zelenskyy said, "See? That’s life," & suggested continuing the interview without interpretation headsets, which also didn’t work without electricity⤵️
When the lights went out for the second time, President Zelenskyy said, "See? That’s life," & suggested continuing the interview without interpretation headsets, which also didn’t work without electricity⤵️
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Power went out twice during President Zelenskyy's interview with the Guardian's Luke Harding
When the lights went out for the second time, President Zelenskyy said, "See? That’s life," & suggested continuing the interview without interpretation headsets, which also didn’t work without electricity⤵️
When the lights went out for the second time, President Zelenskyy said, "See? That’s life," & suggested continuing the interview without interpretation headsets, which also didn’t work without electricity⤵️
I gave Volodymyr Zelenskyy a copy of my book "Invasion" at the presidential palace in Kyiv. Seconds after we sat down for an interview the electricity failed, plunging us into darkness! Zelenskyy seemed relaxed, good-humoured and resilient, after almost four years of full-scale war. A remarkable guy
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I gave Volodymyr Zelenskyy a copy of my book "Invasion" at the presidential palace in Kyiv. Seconds after we sat down for an interview the electricity failed, plunging us into darkness! Zelenskyy seemed relaxed, good-humoured and resilient, after almost four years of full-scale war. A remarkable guy
My exclusive interview with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He told me that unlike other western leaders he wasn't "afraid" of Trump and said reports their last Oval Office meeting was stormy were untrue. He revealed King Charles had urged the US president to back Ukraine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy: why should I be afraid of Donald Trump?
Exclusive: Ukraine’s leader dismisses reports his last Washington meeting was volatile, and praises King Charles for helping build ties with US president
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November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
My exclusive interview with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He told me that unlike other western leaders he wasn't "afraid" of Trump and said reports their last Oval Office meeting was stormy were untrue. He revealed King Charles had urged the US president to back Ukraine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Reform UK, the Russian spy & rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
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By me, @lukeharding1968.bsky.social
@peterwalker99.bsky.social
& Artem Mazhulin
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By me, @lukeharding1968.bsky.social
@peterwalker99.bsky.social
& Artem Mazhulin
Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?
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November 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Reform UK, the Russian spy & rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
By me, @lukeharding1968.bsky.social
@peterwalker99.bsky.social
& Artem Mazhulin
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By me, @lukeharding1968.bsky.social
@peterwalker99.bsky.social
& Artem Mazhulin
My dispatch from an underground hospital in eastern Ukraine, with extraordinary photos by @alessiomamo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Six metres below ground: inside the secret hospital treating Ukrainian soldiers injured by Russian drones
Doctors at the secret facility are able to perform amputations while others monitor zigzagging drones overhead
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October 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
My dispatch from an underground hospital in eastern Ukraine, with extraordinary photos by @alessiomamo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
My latest report from eastern #Ukraine with photos by @alessiomamo.bsky.social. In August Russia seized a chain of villages near Dobropillia. Since then Ukraine has taken much of this salient back. It's a modest success - proof, Kyiv claims, that it isn't losing
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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‘Our job is to maximise their losses’: how Ukraine’s forces attempt to claw back against Russian advances
Along Donetsk’s frontline, a small counteroffensive by Ukrainian troops aims to help change perceptions about the war among Kyiv’s western allies
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October 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
My latest report from eastern #Ukraine with photos by @alessiomamo.bsky.social. In August Russia seized a chain of villages near Dobropillia. Since then Ukraine has taken much of this salient back. It's a modest success - proof, Kyiv claims, that it isn't losing
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
I talked to #Ukraine's deputy foreign minister Sergiy Kyslytsya about Russia's recent drone incursions. His view: Europe needs to "get serious" or Vladimir Putin will "escalate escalating". He says the Kremlin has infiltrated EU countries with "agents and moles" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Europe needs to ‘get serious’ about threat posed to it by Russia, Ukraine minister says
Sergiy Kyslytsia says Kremlin already at war with Europe and predicts that Vladimir Putin will ‘escalate escalating’
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October 4, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I talked to #Ukraine's deputy foreign minister Sergiy Kyslytsya about Russia's recent drone incursions. His view: Europe needs to "get serious" or Vladimir Putin will "escalate escalating". He says the Kremlin has infiltrated EU countries with "agents and moles" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
I spoke to the @irishtimes.com about Russia's war against Ukraine - and Europe - featuring drones, sabotage, propaganda and manipulation www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/in-...
Is Europe already at war with Russia?
In the News podcast
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October 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I spoke to the @irishtimes.com about Russia's war against Ukraine - and Europe - featuring drones, sabotage, propaganda and manipulation www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/in-...
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Today's Guardian Read is my dispatch from the frontline in Ukraine with photos by @alessiomamo.bsky.social
"In between bombardments, Sloviansk enjoys moments of magical calm. Dawn begins with the cooing of collared doves; dusk brings a pulsing symphony of cicadas" www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
"In between bombardments, Sloviansk enjoys moments of magical calm. Dawn begins with the cooing of collared doves; dusk brings a pulsing symphony of cicadas" www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘You have to live’: Ukrainians on frontline practice normality despite Russian bombings
In once-occupied Sloviansk, war has become so routine that nobody pays attention to air-raid sirens
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Today's Guardian Read is my dispatch from the frontline in Ukraine with photos by @alessiomamo.bsky.social
"In between bombardments, Sloviansk enjoys moments of magical calm. Dawn begins with the cooing of collared doves; dusk brings a pulsing symphony of cicadas" www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
"In between bombardments, Sloviansk enjoys moments of magical calm. Dawn begins with the cooing of collared doves; dusk brings a pulsing symphony of cicadas" www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Today's Guardian Read is my dispatch from the frontline in Ukraine with photos by @alessiomamo.bsky.social
"In between bombardments, Sloviansk enjoys moments of magical calm. Dawn begins with the cooing of collared doves; dusk brings a pulsing symphony of cicadas" www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
"In between bombardments, Sloviansk enjoys moments of magical calm. Dawn begins with the cooing of collared doves; dusk brings a pulsing symphony of cicadas" www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘You have to live’: Ukrainians on frontline practice normality despite Russian bombings
In once-occupied Sloviansk, war has become so routine that nobody pays attention to air-raid sirens
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Today's Guardian Read is my dispatch from the frontline in Ukraine with photos by @alessiomamo.bsky.social
"In between bombardments, Sloviansk enjoys moments of magical calm. Dawn begins with the cooing of collared doves; dusk brings a pulsing symphony of cicadas" www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
"In between bombardments, Sloviansk enjoys moments of magical calm. Dawn begins with the cooing of collared doves; dusk brings a pulsing symphony of cicadas" www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...