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Julius Strauss

Julius Strauss

The Spectator

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What Putin wants and what America will do

16.02.2025 10

The Spectator

Julius Strauss

Dispatch / My week in war-weary Ukraine

26.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Julius Strauss

Can Ukraine survive the coming of Donald Trump?

On the eastern marches of Europe, after nearly three years of slugging it out with its larger, more powerful neighbour for control of a string of...

29.12.2024 3

The Spectator

Julius Strauss

Syria is up for grabs

After 13 years of war that began with street protests during the heady days of the Arab Spring and morphed into one of the bloodiest civil...

08.12.2024 6

The Spectator

Julius Strauss

How life carries on near the Kursk front line

Sumy, Ukraine In the city of Sumy, the jumping off point for the Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Kursk region, the night is punctuated by the sound of...

25.08.2024 1

The Spectator

Julius Strauss

Putin is biding his time to seek revenge for Kursk

Vladimir Putin, it seems, is procrastinating. Just when the war in Ukraine was going his way and the Russian army doing what it does best –...

21.08.2024 1

The Spectator

Julius Strauss

Putin takes revenge for the Kursk attack with glide bombs

In the sprawling and unlovely village of Billopilya, only five miles from Ukraine’s border with Russia, when death comes, it comes from the skies....

20.08.2024 1

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Julius Strauss

Near the Russian border, Ukrainians are delighted about the Kursk attack

The road from the Ukrainian city of Sumy to the Russian border gave just a foretaste of the fighting 20 miles ahead. We passed tanks on...

18.08.2024 2

The Spectator

Julius Strauss