Recommended by Nick Thorpe
A veteran war reporter and former Russia correspondent writes on Ukraine & Russia, the Middle East, eastern Europe, the Balkans and where the world is going. News, commentary and analysis as well as dispatches from the field.
When my old friend and fellow wanderer in war zones Julius called his Substack 'Back FROM the Front', I hoped he was joining me in the place I always much preferred: a safe distance from the fighting. Instead he's headed back TO the Front, to watch the ALASKA summit from a grandstand seat too close to the hell Russia has wrought in eastern Ukraine. Keep your head down Julius, and look up please, everyone else!