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Stephen Fidler

ARTICLES BY STEPHEN FIDLER

Local residents sit inside a bomb shelter in the frontline town of Bakhmut, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine February 15, 2023. (Photo: Reuters)

Smartphones are changing the war in Ukraine

4 min read . 16 Feb 2023

Ukrainian forces, helped by state-of-the-art, cold-weather gear provided by Canada and others, appear better equipped for winter than their Russian counterparts (Photo: AFP)

Six factors that will shape Russia’s winter war in Ukraine

7 min read . 26 Dec 2022

Ukrainian serviceman checks a destroyed Russian Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC), in the town of Izium, liberated by Ukrainian Armed Forces, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine (Photo: Reuters)

How Ukrainian strategy is running circles around Russia’s lumbering military

7 min read . 13 Oct 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin stopped natural-gas shipments via the Nord Stream pipeline (Photo: AFP)

Vladimir Putin’s energy war with Europe seems to falter

6 min read . 19 Sept 2022

The second Elizabethan Age ended on Thursday. (AFP)

As the second Elizabethan age ends, a personal reflection on 70 Years

5 min read . 09 Sept 2022

A general view shows the Russia-controlled city of Kherson, Ukraine (Photo: Reuters)

War with Russia enters new phase as Ukraine readies southern counterblow

6 min read . 01 Aug 2022

The invasion has prompted an unprecedented suite of economic sanctions against Moscow from Western powers and their allies (Photo: AFP)

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed the world in days

7 min read . 28 Feb 2022

Putin spelled out a list of grievances Monday over the treatment of Russia by the US and Europe in the past three decades (Photo: Reuters)

Putin’s endgame: Unravel the post-cold war agreements that humiliated Russia

7 min read . 22 Feb 2022

In Mexico, the president says he won’t be held hostage by vaccine makers and there are no plans to inoculate under-18s except those at risk (AP)

As the US races to vaccinate kids against Covid-19, some countries hold back

6 min read . 14 Nov 2021

FILE PHOTO: A CalFire firefighter is administered his first dose of the Moderna vaccine in his arm by a CalFire Emergency Medical Technician during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in El Cajon, California, U.S., January 15, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo (REUTERS)

New coronavirus variants complicate the battle against the pandemic

5 min read . 25 Jan 2021

US President-elect Joe Biden (AP)

What US-Europe relations under Biden may look like

4 min read . 16 Jan 2021

European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters (REUTERS)

U.S.-U.K. relationship is a little less special after Brexit

6 min read . 27 Dec 2020

European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters (REUTERS)

Britain, EU prepare borders for life after Brexit

6 min read . 25 Dec 2020

Viruses mutate all the time and coronaviruses less so than some others, such as the ones that cause influenza (REUTERS)

What we know about the new Covid-19 strain in England

2 min read . 20 Dec 2020

FILE PHOTO: A dose of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination of BioNTech and Pfizer is pictured in this undated handout photo, as Britain became the first western country to approve a COVID-19 vaccine, in Mainz, Germany. BioNTech SE 2020, all rights reserved/Handout via REUTERS (via REUTERS)

U.K.’s covid-19 vaccine program to test its national health service

5 min read . 04 Dec 2020

Photo: Bloomberg

Can vitamin D help fight Covid-19?

4 min read . 03 Nov 2020