Sianushka Writes

Behind the lines with Arthur Snell

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Apr 14 • Sian Norris

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March 2026

All my Feb/March Ukraine reporting in one place

A huge thank you to Krytika and to Conflict and Democracy for publishing my Ukraine stories

Mar 16 • Sian Norris

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'We work to gather coal': Ukraine's mines are the war's second frontline

Last week, I visited the Dnipropetrovsk oblast in Ukraine's Donbas region, to meet miners working through shelling, blackouts, and loss of colleagues.

Mar 7 • Sian Norris

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January 2026

What I learnt at the bomb-destroyed McDonald's

These are some thoughts and sketches from a July 2023 visit to Kharkiv

Jan 25 • Sian Norris

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Ukraine is freezing

I heard from two women in Kyiv about how they are coping with the blackouts

Jan 17 • Sian Norris

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What are we talking about, when we talk about the threat?

Russia, war, and the threat to Europe

Jan 3 • Sian Norris

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December 2025

Ukraine diary, number three

It's taken me a while to write this, I'm not sure why. But I'm ready now.

Dec 20, 2025 • Sian Norris

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Plastic patriots & Putin

Some thoughts on the far right's fake patriotism, and where we are with war and defence

Dec 16, 2025 • Sian Norris

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Russia's greatest disinfo campaign

They're not winning the war. And some other thoughts about where we are.

Dec 13, 2025 • Sian Norris

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2025 - my year in books

Reading. It's my hobby.

Dec 8, 2025 • Sian Norris

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August 2025

April 2025

We could be heroes... on women writing war

Thoughts on women war reporters

Apr 21, 2025 • Sian Norris

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