Below you can find a selection of Isobel’s work by publication and category.
Financial Times
Financial Times
How Ukraine lost hundreds of millions on arms deals gone wrong
Financial Times
Ukraine needs 500,000 military recruits. Can it raise them?
Ahead of a new mobilisation law, exhausted soldiers on the frontline complain of low morale
Financial Times
Ukraine hurries to fill US funding gap
Kyiv in talks with Japan and Canada for extra aid as Zelenskyy government considers spending cuts and tax rises
Financial Times
How Ukraine is trying to help its ‘lost generation’
With lessons in the subway and secret online teaching, adults seek to create some normality for children shaped by war
Financial Times
Ukrainians question Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s ‘rose-tinted’ speeches
Former and current advisers say lack of realism in president’s messaging is undermining confidence
Financial Times
Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls for discipline as cracks emerge in Kyiv’s unity
Ukrainian president fires head of special forces and rebukes top commander who said war with Russia was at a ‘stalemate’
Financial Times
Ukraine cracks down on corrupt army recruiters
Thousands of men have avoided being drafted by paying for exemption papers
Financial Times
Military briefing: Ukraine forces probe Russian defences across Dnipro river
Recent raids in Kherson region could be diversionary tactics as part of counteroffensive