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As seen in: The New York Times, MarketWatch, Rolling Stone, The Times, Radio Free Europe, Morningstar, The i Paper, 411 Mania, The Currency
Writer and filmmaker based in Kyiv. Director of @MoscowNSleeps, @WeatherStationF

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Johnny O'Reilly is an Irish journalist and filmmaker based in Kyiv, with two decades of experience covering the former Soviet region. He has contributed to Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, The Times of London, The Irish Times, and other major publications. As a writer-director, he has earned international recognition for his award-winning films, including two Russian-language features — The Weather Station and Moscow Never Sleeps — which were selected for major festivals and…

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How Stalingrad provided the inspiration for Russia's new war rhetoric and its battlefield tactics...

How Stalingrad provided the inspiration for Russia's new war rhetoric and its battlefield tactics...

With one week left before the mud season starts, the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine sees Russia's mu…

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In Ukraine's Second City, A Bombed-Out Market Slowly Comes Back To Life

In Ukraine's Second City, A Bombed-Out Market Slowly Comes Back To Life

Forty kilometers from the Russian border, traders are slowly setting up shop again at a sprawling, rubble-str…

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The grotesque normality of war has become the soundtrack of life in Kharkiv - The Currency

The grotesque normality of war has become the soundtrack of life in Kharkiv - The Currency

It's midnight on Thursday, June 9 in downtown Kharkiv, two hours into the nightly curfew. The city of 1.5 mil…

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McSavage brings smiles to war zone with comedy tour

McSavage brings smiles to war zone with comedy tour

An Irish comedian is planning a tour of stand-up clubs around Ukraine this week.

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A Ukrainian family's desperate journey from Russian-occupied Kherson to safety in Poland: 'We cou...

A Ukrainian family's desperate journey from Russian-occupied Kherson to safety in Poland: 'We cou...

Kyiv, UKRAINE - Artillery shells exploded around 56-year-old Orthodox priest Father Mykola Dovgan as he pushe…

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Before The Russian Retreat, A Rescue Mission And A Reunion In Ukraine

Before The Russian Retreat, A Rescue Mission And A Reunion In Ukraine

As Russian forces neared their town outside Ukraine's capital, the mayor and his family decided to separate, …

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How Stalingrad provided the inspiration for Russia's new war rhetoric and its battlefield tactics - The Currency

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With one week left before the mud season starts, the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine sees Russia’s much-vaunted new offensive spluttering in the soon-to-be-melting snow. After a year of escalating warfare, Russia has little to show from its war other than a doubling of its troops in Ukraine and a doubling down on its threatening rhetoric. To mark the anniversary, this weekend will see a surge of attacks on Ukrainian civilian targets, grabbing the headlines at home and abroad.
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In Ukraine’s Second City, A Bombed-Out Market Slowly Comes Back To Life

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By Johnny O'Reilly
| Radio Free Europe Verified
KHARKIV, Ukraine -- Before the rockets rained down on Kharkiv, the sprawling warren of shops known as Barabashova was the biggest market in Europe, and one of the busiest. Now, Oleksiy Chelyshev’s 12-square-meter menswear stall is one of only two tiny stores that are open on a deserted, rubbish-strewn passageway near the edge of the 75-hectare market, swaths of which have been turned to rubble. The rest are shuttered behind corrugated roller screens.
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A Ukrainian family's desperate journey from Russian-occupied Kherson to safety in Poland: 'We could see the artillery shells flying above us'

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By Johnny O'Reilly Father Mykola Dovgan, 56, a battalion chaplain, tells MarketWatch about his family's treacherous journey to flee Ukraine Kyiv, UKRAINE -- Artillery shells exploded around 56-year-old Orthodox priest Father Mykola Dovgan as he pushed his son, Sergey, in a wheelchair along the empty country road in southern Ukraine. Gaunt with slicked-back hair and a gray goatee, Mykola had maintained his priestly demeanor when he fled his home in fear of his life.
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