Unlike the Germans in WWII, where their access to information was limited, now there are many more sources available and even the ones in the west are not protesting or helping Ukrainians (with a few exceptions). Sweeney said that Ukrainians (he is in Kyiv) told him they don’t trust Navalny, he still thinks Navalny as an option. John has profoundly provided a gift for all mankind to an awareness of the courageous who went before us, for all of us! After a career with the BBC, Sweeney is now determined to let the world know the Russia story under Putin, and the evidence that that this man is a sadistic psychopathic kleptocratic pleoneviat (look it up). Summary: This was an approachable read, but the tone and lack of citations make me question its credibility.

BORIS NEMTSOV, ASSASSINATED RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER * 'A dictator, bent on rebuilding an empire, will never erase the people's love for liberty. Leaving no stone unturned, Sweeney exposes the dark underbelly of Russian politics and the mysterious man at the helm.

It is, instead, a polemic relating not only to Russia’s president but to many other aspects of the politics of Russia and Ukraine.

He also co-authored the investigation into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, Murder On The Malta Express. g. NATO's soft expansion in Europe over the past decades which imo, has only added fuel to the fire.In the midst of one of the darkest acts of aggression in modern history - Russia's invasion of Ukraine - this book shines a light on Putin's rule and poses urgent Before that he worked at The Observer, covering wars and revolutions in more than sixty countries including Romania, Algeria, Iraq, Chechnya, Burundi, and Bosnia. This account, which includes first hand reporting from the streets of Ukraine under siege, we travel back in time to Putin's early years (adopted?

When reading this quotation, I was struck by Donnelly’s reluctance, if only here, to distinguish between the ongoing Cold War and the current Hot War, and by Putin’s insistence, until very recently, that this new Hot War is merely a ‘special military operation’. John Sweeney is an award-winning journalist and author, currently working as an investigative journalist for the BBC's Panorama series. What we see is a long list of people who are blown up, poisoned, shot, fall from windows, and die in air crashes with the background information of events and people's movements confirmed or where necessary suggested using interviews and information from others such as Bellingcat, courageous Russian journalists and others.Sweeney has written 12 books, which includes his best-selling novel set in the war in Burma, Elephant Moon. Without any in-text citations and a sparse bibliography, I only had confidence in claims Rennie or I had read elsewhere.

the author admits, ‘I still don’t understand why Vladimir Putin started his idiot war’ against Ukraine.From the British government’s involvement in Iraq to the state of North Korea and now Russia, he has reported on and published revealing literature on some of the world’s most dangerous and closely guarded secrets. They successfully encouraged desertion from the army, they gave legal aid to the deserters and if anyone won the first Chechen war it was these brave women.