Jen Stout

When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, millions of lives changed in an instant: people were suddenly on the move and in this great flow of people was a journalist from Shetland. Jen Stout left Moscow abruptly, ending up on a border post in southeast Romania, from where she began to cover the human cost of Russian aggression. Working alone, her firsthand, vivid reporting brought the war in cities across Ukraine, first Odesa, then Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Kyiv and Donbas home to readers in Scotland. A writer always seeking to understand the bigger picture of the history, hopes and fears in this war in Europe, in her first book – Night Train to Odesa – Jen brings to life stories from those on the ground, from those enduring and surviving the daily catastrophe of the conflict, from the night trains, birthday parties, military hospitals and bunkers.