A long-read for Prospect magazine: reporting from SE Ukraine on demining
& conversely, on the scramble to leave the Mine Ban Treaty by countries threatened by Russia.

Blog & extra pics:
www.jenstout.net/post/deminin...

Article w/Julia Kochetova (!) pics: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...

Delighted to welcome Tami Hoffman, Director of Public Policy @theguardian.com to our stellar panel @georginalee.bsky.social FactCheck & Data News Editor @channel4news.bsky.social, Dr Manny Ahmed Founder & CEO @openorigins.bsky.social.

Join us at The Frontline Club, London, Tues 23 Sept at 7pm.

The American Monument, mull of Oa, Islay. Commemorates the hundreds who died when troops ships sank off these cliffs in 1918.

Russian mines are endangering fighters, farmers and children across liberated Ukraine. Now Kyiv wants to set its own traps for the invaders, writes @jenstout.bsky.social.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...

5/ The agreement would also require Ukraine to hand over its heavily fortified defensive lines, much as Neville Chamberlain's Munich Agreement did to Czechoslovakia in 1938. Russia's next invasion of Ukraine would be made far easier.

Some very exciting news yesterday - Night Train to Odesa won the Highland Book Prize!
www.shetnews.co.uk/2025/07/22/s...

@jenstout.bsky.social and I discuss:

- What it was like being in Moscow on the eve of the invasion

- Why she was compelled to cover the conflict

- How Putin uses and abuses Russian and Ukrainian history

open.spotify.com/episode/2ueb...

New ep! @jenstout.bsky.social talks about the war in Ukraine, Putin’s use and abuse of history, how to actually be a war reporter – and if anyone can sell her a cheap camper van…?

linktr.ee/strategyaaron

Never thought I'd see this in my life: the rare 'Fata Morgana' mirage. The coast of Fife, shot from NE Edinburgh, stretched into huge, inverted, towering optical illusions.
Caused by weather conditions. Absolutely surreal.

NE Edinburgh, the view to Fife, and just round that headland, the sewage works.
Bonny light nights at 11pm still...

This Thurs. 4/17 @6pm join award-winning journalist @jenstout.bsky.social all the way from Scotland! Her new book covering the war in Ukraine as an independent reporter is vivid, timely, empathetic, & highly readable. @casematepublishers.bsky.social

peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/night-...

Dreamed of seeing this city all my life

Off to St Andrews this evening to give the Sanctuary lecture - registration is free and it will be livestreamed via Teams. Join here:
events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/annua...

Many of my written articles now available to read on my site: jenstout.net/articles
Kharkiv architecture, frontline dispatches, language politics, tall ships festivities, it's all there...
More to come, and more radio work, when I find time!
📸 Photography portfolio also on the site

I went to a great event last week by the Ukrainian community in the UK. Music, stories, poems. Lots stayed with me, including when @jenstout.bsky.social asked "what is Europe, a standard of living?". #Europe is a great achievement, let's preserve it. Here's hoping it really fights the good fight.

Latest read was this highly necessary debut by @jenstout.bsky.social about her time reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine from late 2021 to the spring of 2023. Goes without saying that it's a tough read in places, but recent events made me feel it had to be done and I recommend it highly.

Read @jenstout.bsky.social's beautiful dispatch from Kharkiv in the winter issue of @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...