Alarm after alarm buzzes around 8am as Putin flexes ahead of meetings in Turkey. They pose no danger to me, but I dare not restrict my notice settings any further. It’s a beautiful day in Kharkiv. I have no meetings until the afternoon and the blood donation center is closed today, so I set off…

My phone screams at me. It’s around 3am and I’m getting a perfectly timed reminder that I need to tune my air raid warning system correctly. I grumble about it into my pillow for about two hours before I pass out again. Tuning assistance in the morning comes with a reminder to be glad this…

Regards from Kharkiv. I actually arrived yesterday, but after a journey spanning 4,900 miles (over 850 overland) and 60 hours spent between two cars, two planes, and three trains I needed to call an early night. Putin’s invasion has rendered passenger air travel nonviable, and so the most practical method for non-official persons to traverse…