Homage to Kharkiv

Report from a besieged city + The US election and Ukraine's future.

History of the Present (week ending 3 November 2024)

A montage of Russian missiles being launched from Belgorod, Russia, on just one day, 17 June 2024. Taken by the Ukrainian photographer Vadim Bielikov from the window of his apartment in north-east Kharkiv

The day I arrived in Kharkiv, a ninety-four-year-old woman was burned alive there by a Russian glid…