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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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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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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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
www.theguardian.com
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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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...
New: Zelenskyy will press Donald Trump to impose sanctions on Russia when they meet next week in New York and urges allies to "stop wasting time". "Everyone is looking to the US," Ze told journalists in Kyiv, saying pressure should be applied to Slovakia & Hungary www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Zelenskyy accuses allies of ‘wasting time’ as he prepares for Trump meeting
Ukrainian president will urge his US counterpart to impose more sanctions on Russia when they meet next week
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September 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
New: Zelenskyy will press Donald Trump to impose sanctions on Russia when they meet next week in New York and urges allies to "stop wasting time". "Everyone is looking to the US," Ze told journalists in Kyiv, saying pressure should be applied to Slovakia & Hungary www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Nothing to see here: just Boris Johnson acting as a fixer for Evgeny Lebedev - the son of a KGB foreign intelligence officer - and introducing him to Elon Musk www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Revealed: Boris Johnson approached Elon Musk on behalf of London Evening Standard owner Lebedev
Former PM’s private office forwarded business proposal from peer to owner of X in June 2024, leaked files suggest
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September 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Nothing to see here: just Boris Johnson acting as a fixer for Evgeny Lebedev - the son of a KGB foreign intelligence officer - and introducing him to Elon Musk www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A wonderful book! Valerian Pidmohylnyi's 1927 novel "The City", in a new English translation by Harvard Library of Ukrainian Lit. It's an extraordinary portrait of Kyiv in the years after the revolution through the eyes of a young writer: his encounters with women (much poor behaviour) & urban life
August 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A wonderful book! Valerian Pidmohylnyi's 1927 novel "The City", in a new English translation by Harvard Library of Ukrainian Lit. It's an extraordinary portrait of Kyiv in the years after the revolution through the eyes of a young writer: his encounters with women (much poor behaviour) & urban life
Good piece by Ken Roth on why Putin invaded #Ukraine. It had nothing to do with "Nato" or "neo-Nazis". Rather, it was about crushing a pro-European democracy on Russia's doorstep, and "quashing" the example that offered to millions of Russians www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump needs to understand what the war in Ukraine is really about | Kenneth Roth
It’s not about Nato or the Soviet Union. It’s about democracy.
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August 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Good piece by Ken Roth on why Putin invaded #Ukraine. It had nothing to do with "Nato" or "neo-Nazis". Rather, it was about crushing a pro-European democracy on Russia's doorstep, and "quashing" the example that offered to millions of Russians www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here's my explainer on what security guarantees Ukraine might get in the event of a deal with Russia? Short answer - we don't know - but they could include a European peace-keeping force, led by UK and France, as well as protection for the skies and Black Sea www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
What security guarantees might Ukraine get in return for a peace deal?
As western leaders meet, questions remain about the steps they could take to prevent any future Russian aggression
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August 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Here's my explainer on what security guarantees Ukraine might get in the event of a deal with Russia? Short answer - we don't know - but they could include a European peace-keeping force, led by UK and France, as well as protection for the skies and Black Sea www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Who are Zelenskyy's Oval Office "bodyguards"? My mini-profiles of the European leaders who are meeting with Trump today, together with #Ukraine's president. Their goal: to prevent a repeat of February's WH mugging, when Trump accused Zelenskyy of "having no cards" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Zelenskyy’s European ‘bodyguards’: which leaders will join Trump talks in Washington?
Presidents, PMs and heads of Nato and European Commission to accompany Ukraine’s leader at White House
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August 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Who are Zelenskyy's Oval Office "bodyguards"? My mini-profiles of the European leaders who are meeting with Trump today, together with #Ukraine's president. Their goal: to prevent a repeat of February's WH mugging, when Trump accused Zelenskyy of "having no cards" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Writers, artists and MPs have urged the Royal Ballet and Opera House to drop the Russian soprano Anna Netrebko from its new season. The singer is a “longtime symbol of cultural propaganda for a regime that Is responsible for serious war crimes” they write www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...
Royal Ballet and Opera house urged to drop Russian soprano with Putin links
Exclusive: MPs and Ukrainian artists sign letter saying Anna Netrebko is ‘symbol of cultural propaganda for a regime responsible for war crimes’
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August 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Writers, artists and MPs have urged the Royal Ballet and Opera House to drop the Russian soprano Anna Netrebko from its new season. The singer is a “longtime symbol of cultural propaganda for a regime that Is responsible for serious war crimes” they write www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...
My piece from Kramatorsk. Putin is demanding Ukrainian troops and civilians leave the eastern city, as part of a "peace deal" to be discussed on Friday with Donald Trump in Alaska. meanwhile, Russia attacks with drones and bombs. Photos by @alessiomamo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘It’s a robot war’: eastern Ukraine faces onslaught of Russian glide bombs, rockets and kamikaze drones
Putin has escalated strikes on Donetsk region and is likely to demand Ukraine hands it over in talks with Trump
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August 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
My piece from Kramatorsk. Putin is demanding Ukrainian troops and civilians leave the eastern city, as part of a "peace deal" to be discussed on Friday with Donald Trump in Alaska. meanwhile, Russia attacks with drones and bombs. Photos by @alessiomamo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
My story with @alessiomamo.bsky.social on the race to save Ukraine's early medieval stone baba sculptures from the frontline
‘Ukraine doesn’t forget its cultural landmarks’: the team risking their lives to rescue statues from the frontline
‘Ukraine doesn’t forget its cultural landmarks’: the team risking their lives to rescue statues from the frontline
Operation has retrieved 11 babas from southern Ukraine, where Turkic nomadic people flourished in medieval times
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July 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My story with @alessiomamo.bsky.social on the race to save Ukraine's early medieval stone baba sculptures from the frontline
I spoke to the Guardian's Today in Focus podcast about the anti-government protests in #Kyiv last week and the latest from the frontline, where Russia is going forward. Politics is back, the war grinds on, it's democracy vs autocracy. thanks @helenpidd.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
Protests against Zelenskyy as drones torment Ukraine - podcast
Luke Harding talks to people in Kyiv protesting against the Ukrainian president’s recent changes to the country’s anti-corruption bodies, and analyses where the war against Russia is heading next
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July 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I spoke to the Guardian's Today in Focus podcast about the anti-government protests in #Kyiv last week and the latest from the frontline, where Russia is going forward. Politics is back, the war grinds on, it's democracy vs autocracy. thanks @helenpidd.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
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„NATO should join Ukraine“
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„NATO should join Ukraine“
Thank you for this good interview, Luke -
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#nato should join #ukraine - quotes #LukeHarding
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July 28, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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„NATO should join Ukraine“
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„NATO should join Ukraine“
Thank you for this good interview, Luke -
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My dispatch from Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk oblast is the Guardian's Sunday Read. I met Valentyn Velykyi, the last person to leave the shattered village of Maliyivka, occupied yesterday. "That idiot Putin wants it all," he told me. Pix: @alessiomamo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘That idiot Putin wants to take it all’: Russia’s kamikaze tactics fuel a slow advance in Ukraine
Latest wave of displaced citizens curse ‘imperial ambition’ that has led to an estimated one million Russian casualties
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July 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
My dispatch from Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk oblast is the Guardian's Sunday Read. I met Valentyn Velykyi, the last person to leave the shattered village of Maliyivka, occupied yesterday. "That idiot Putin wants it all," he told me. Pix: @alessiomamo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
I wrote a piece about comedy in Ukraine. The stand-up scene is flourishing! A lot of dark humour about bomb shelters (“even if you tell a bad joke, people will stay”) and Joe Biden (“He’s very similar to Ukrainians. He looks like he can die at any second.”) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘War is very funny for the first couple of years’: how Russia’s invasion transformed Ukraine’s comedy scene
Standup has become an escape for many as the conflict drags on, and comics see dark humour as part of their mission to ‘stop people going crazy’
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July 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I wrote a piece about comedy in Ukraine. The stand-up scene is flourishing! A lot of dark humour about bomb shelters (“even if you tell a bad joke, people will stay”) and Joe Biden (“He’s very similar to Ukrainians. He looks like he can die at any second.”) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
More protests are expected tonight outside Zelenskyy's presidential office in Kyiv, after he approved a controversial bill weakening two anti-corruption agencies. Europe is unhappy. Civil society is furious. Ukraine's political crisis is growing. My Guardian piece www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Zelenskyy defends bill stripping anti-corruption bodies’ independence amid protests
Move by Ukrainian president widely opposed and may prove a setback to hopes of country one day joining the EU
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July 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
More protests are expected tonight outside Zelenskyy's presidential office in Kyiv, after he approved a controversial bill weakening two anti-corruption agencies. Europe is unhappy. Civil society is furious. Ukraine's political crisis is growing. My Guardian piece www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
It was another terrible night in Kyiv. My latest report with photos by @alessiomamo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Russian strikes hit Kyiv metro where hundreds were sheltering
At least one person killed in attacks on central Kyiv that also damaged shops, houses and a kindergarten
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July 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
It was another terrible night in Kyiv. My latest report with photos by @alessiomamo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...