Publications - Isobel Koshiw, Journalist

Isobel Koshiw • Journalist

The Guardian

Tanks, bombs, shootings: Ukrainians describe Russian takeover of villages

Witnesses describe soldiers shooting people dead in the street and confiscating phones and laptops

The Guardian

Putin’s alleged war crimes: who are the Ukrainian children being taken by Russia?

What we know about the children behind the indictment of Vladimir Putin and his children’s commissioner for abduction

The Guardian

Weeks turn to months as children become stuck at camps in Crimea

The Russian-run camps were advertised as restorative breaks; parents say some children have been kept there for months

The Guardian

Alleged Russian ‘torture room’ uncovered in liberated Kherson

Ukrainian investigators claim Russian forces took over juvenile detention centre, beating and killing people inside

The Guardian

‘Biggest challenge of my life’: Kherson’s leaders toil to turn city around

After the euphoria of the Ukrainian city’s recapture, many of its people are living at rock bottom, lacking the basics to survive

The Guardian

‘We don’t know where the rest of the bodies went’: the search for answers in Izium

Ukrainians in recaptured town where 445 graves have been uncovered tell of suffering during Russian occupation

The Guardian

‘Someone has to do it’: the volunteers exhuming Kyiv region’s dead

Grisly work in woodland and cemeteries in push to officially record civilian deaths

The Guardian

’Collect my parents or collect my son’s body’: a Kyiv family’s tragic plight

Sasha Ivanov, 18, an aspiring neurosurgeon, was killed trying to help his grandparents. It was not the end of the family’s ordeal

Washington Post

Ukraine flood victims say occupying Russians aren’t sending help

Ukrainians in Russian-occupied areas of the south, inundated after the collapse of the Kakhovka dam, described continuing chaos.

The Economist 1843

Ukraine’s emergency workers say they are being deliberately targeted

Rescuers risk their lives clearing munitions and dousing fires

The Guardian

Mariupol: The ruin of a city

A year on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Guardian tells the story of perhaps the most shocking chapter of the war so far

The Guardian

‘I can’t tell him his mother has died’: the cost of Russia’s assault on Kharkiv

Shelling is so intense that doctors and nurses at one hospital have lived there for 29 days, as casualties including many young children are brought in under fire

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