Liz Cookman

Liz Cookman has been a member of Linktree for 4 years and joined in December 2021. The social media accounts linked to from Liz Cookman are: • Instagram • X Besides social media accounts, Lizcookman has populated their site with: • Across the globe, internet blackouts are a new tool for autocratic regimes – The Observer • Turkish opposition: We will protest until Erdogan calls election • Ukraine’s teen saboteurs groomed by Russia to target their homeland – The Observer • Azerbaijan’s internally displaced long to return to regained land • How Liz Cookman went from school dropout to award-winning war correspondent - Press Gazette • ‘I live in constant fear’: surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkey’s farmers - The Guardian • ‘Everything is burned’ – life in Ukraine’s most dangerous city after four years of war – The Observer • Kyiv under siege: ‘I try to sleep as much as possible, then you don’t notice the cold’ – The Observer • Tourists go nuts for Turkey’s dashing ‘man of the year’ - The Times • Childbirth under attack: how women and babies became targets in conflicts around the world – The Guardian • Love in a time of war: the new sex therapy for Ukraine’s injured soldiers – The Observer • ‘Children thrive down here’: the secret play centre hidden under Ukraine’s most dangerous city – The Guardian • How Russia is fuelling a birth-rate crisis in Ukraine – video, The Guardian • How Russia is grooming Ukraine’s children to fight for it: ‘I understood it wasn’t just play’ – The Guardian • As Russian drones rain down on Ukraine, this unit has one... – The Observer • ‘Russia is targeting us deliberately’: how attacks on maternity hospitals fuelled a birth-rate crisis in Ukraine – The Guardian • We want peace – but not on Putin’s terms, Ukrainians say – The Observer • How Europe can hit Russia where it hurts — and why it probably won’t – The Times • Pregnant, panicking… then the bomb struck | The Observer • Sickness and starvation stalk Somalia’s children in the ‘City of Death’ – The Telegraph • On the ground with the crew battling Turkey’s blazing wildfires - The Times • How Erdogan went from pariah to peacemaker – The Times • The honey from a hidden Turkish valley that costs £1,000 a vial – The Times • Turkish opposition: We will protest until Erdogan calls election – The Times • Rebuilding Old Damascus After Assad - Foreign Policy • Children pull skulls from mass graves in Syrian killing field - The Telegraph • Dave McKechnie Memorial Prize winner: There may be a war in Ukraine, but almost nothing can get in the way of a manicure • Now Ukraine Is Also Recruiting Prisoners – Foreign Policy • Parents dive on disabled children to save them from Russian hospital attack – The Telegraph • The Resilience of Ukraine’s War Widows - Foreign Policy • Ukrainian orphan abducted by Russia tells of how he escaped Putin’s grasp - The Telegraph • We’re the only opposition to Putin left, say Russian soldiers fighting for Kyiv - The Telegraph • Russia killed our husbands. We want the right to bear their children – The Sunday Times • In occupied Ukraine, the best way to survive is to stay silent - a longread for The Telegraph • After Surviving Soviet Repression, a Turkic Minority Is Being Divided in Ukraine - a longread for New Lines • On patrol with the Ukrainian army’s drone hunters - The Economist 1843 • Russians carved swastikas into foreheads of Ukrainian captives - The Telegraph • How Gaza’s wealthiest neighbourhood was flattened overnight - The Telegraph • Podcast: The man in the forest - The Economist • ‘I just want justice’: Ukrainians struggle with hidden war crime of sexual violence - The Guardian • He was tortured for standing up for Ukraine. Now he lives alone in a forest - The Economist 1843 • A Ukrainian sniper called Lucky dreams of vengeance – The Economist 1843 • ‘With help, we might survive’: Kyiv sees sharp rise in homeless people – The Guardian • Ukraine Starts to Rebuild After Russia’s Rampage – Foreign Policy • Ukraine’s 10,000 amputees and the struggle for artificial limbs – The Telegraph • The Kids Aren’t Alright – Foreign Policy • ‘Some women have been forced into sex acts to cross a checkpoint’ – Al Jazeera • ‘Killing Was a Game for Russians’ – oral histories for Foreign Policy • Mariupol: The ruin of a city – The Guardian • The exploded dam has flooded Kherson. Many are too exhausted to leave – The Economist 1843 • Liz Cookman's year freelancing in Ukraine: 'Spirit-crushing but worth fighting for' – Press Gazette • Blankets, Food Banks, and Shuttered Pubs: Brexit Has Delivered a Broken Britain – Foreign Policy • Ukraine Battles On in the Dark - Foreign Policy • Defiance in the dark: Ukrainians improvise to thwart Putin’s power cuts - The Sunday Times • Kherson Is Liberated but Not Yet Freed - Foreign Policy • The inside story of the siege of Azovstal - The Economist 1843 • Released Ukrainian PoWs reveal the brutal treatment meted out by their Russian captors - The Sunday Times • In Kharkiv, Ukraine Reveals a Network of Russian Torture Chambers - New Lines Magazine • Forest of the Dead - Foreign Policy • Putin’s War Drives Refugees From Occupied Kherson - Foreign Policy • Ukrainians claw back normal life even in a town 100 miles from the front line - The Sunday Times • Ukrainians brace for worst around Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant - Foreign Policy • They are sick, poor and frightened, yet Donbas’s elderly don’t want to leave - The Sunday Times • Civilians on Ukraine’s Front Lines Face Food and Water Shortages and Worse—Lack of Medication - Foreign Policy • Voices of Mariupol: first-hand accounts from those who escaped – Channel 4 News • Trapped in a Mariupol hospital: ‘They said anyone who left would be shot’ - The Guardian • Mariupol escapees risk lives to go back with aid and to rescue family - AFP • Ukraine war's youngest victims fight for their lives - AFP • “Like the Middle Ages, only with bombs”: inside the sieges of Mariupol and Kharkiv - The Economist 1843 • ‘The World Must Know What Happened to Us’: fleeing Mariupol residents tell of siege - Foreign Policy • "It's not Mariupol anymore. It is hell" - AFP • Life Underground in Bomb-Shattered Kharkiv - Foreign Policy • Desperate relatives seek news from Ukraine’s besieged Mariupol - AFP • On the road in eastern Ukraine, everywhere is the front line - Al Jazeera • Amid attacks, Ukrainians seek shelter in a subterranean church - Al Jazeera • ‘They shoot, we hide’: Life amid shelling on Ukraine’s front line - Al Jazeera • Ukrainians face ‘game of cat and mouse’ with stoic calm - Al Jazeera • ‘Babushka battalion’ ready to protect Ukraine from Russia - Al Jazeera • Interview with British soldiers in Ukraine Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner – Al Jazeera • Ukraine coastguard patrolling Sea of Azov eye Russian war ships - Al Jazeera • ‘They Are No Longer Our Brothers’: on the frontline in Ukraine’s frozen conflict - Foreign Policy • War-weary residents lament homes lost in eastern Ukraine shelling - Al Jazeera • ‘Vaccines carry tiny knives that cut your veins from the inside’: Romania’s toxic anti-vax movement - The Telegraph • With a minority vaccinated in Romania, fears of fifth wave mount - Al Jazeera • Land disputes, climate change pressure Turkish nomads to settle - Thomson Reuters Foundation • From the ruins of war, a tourist resort emerges - Foreign Policy • ‘The water used to be up to your armpits’: birds starve as Turkey’s lakes dry up - The Guardian • Azerbaijan’s internally displaced long to return to regained land - Al Jazeera • Half a million Afghans could flee by the end of the year - Channel 4 News • Taliban Takeover Seen as a Boon for Human Smugglers - Foreign Policy • Fleeing the Taliban: Afghans met with rising anti-refugee hostility in Turkey - The Guardian • Turkey wildfires: Despair and questions as forests burn - Al Jazeera • ‘There’s no life for us here, but we risk death if we stay’: Afghan refugees flood into Turkey - The Telegraph • Climate change ‘sea snot’ killing Turkey’s Marmara Sea - Al Jazeera • Videos from Nagorno-Karabakh conflict prompt accusations of war crimes - The Washington Post • For Armenians Fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh, ‘Losing It Is Everything’ - Foreign Policy • In Armenia and Azerbaijan, desperate families search for news of the Nagorno-Karabakh war dead - The Washington Post • ‘We Don’t Believe in a Political Solution’ in Nagorno-Karabakh, Fighters Say - Foreign Policy • In Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenian soldiers wonder how long peace will hold - The Washington Post • Syrians Make Up Turkey’s Proxy Army in Nagorno-Karabakh - Foreign Policy