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Aliide Naylor

Aliide Naylor is a British-Estonian journalist and author who also works closely with The Reckoning Project. She has specialized in Russia and frontline Europe for more than a decade, during which she has reported for RFE/RL, Politico Europe, Vice, The Times of London, and many others. Her first book, "The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front," was published by Bloomsbury in 2020.

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Putin addresses the public amid the Wagner Group’s armed rebellion in Russia on June 24, 2023.

Starving residents of Oleshky must not become props in Russian propaganda

For months, desperate civilians remaining in the southern Ukrainian city of Oleshky have been blockaded inside, as Russia severed food and medicine supplies to the city amid constant shelling, food shop closures, and reports of looting; many of the city's elderly and less mobile residents have been forced to forage for weeds and eat grass in order to simply survive. Oleshky is starving. The stories of the residents have been well documented. Now, there seems to be light at the end of the tunne