Luke Harding
@lukeharding1968.bsky.social
Journalist @Guardian, #1 New York Times best-selling author, foreign correspondent. Latest book: "Invasion: Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival", shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and Peterson Literary Prize. Agent: Susanna Lea
A great review of Betrayal in @prospectmagazine.co.uk: "Harding’s gift has always been to connect individual lives to grand geopolitical happenings. His prose is lean and cinematic, moving briskly between eyewitness observation and geopolitical analysis" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7458...
This is the new world order
And it’s been made by madmen who have their eyes on empires and their fingers on nuclear buttons
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Great to talk to @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social last night about my new book Betrayal at a packed Kings Place in London. We discussed Trump and Putin, our dark geopolitical times, and Russian spies and Reform. There were jokes amid the gloom! Thanks to Intelligence Squared for an incredible evening
Friends! I'm talking about my new book Betrayal with Alastair Campbell this evening at Kings Place in London. Tickets below if you would like to come, plus details of my other events this autumn. I'm speaking at literary festivals in Cambridge, Hay, and Oxford, among others linktr.ee/luke_harding
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Trump, Putin and The New Age of Conquest - the new book from Luke Harding. Out Now.
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I launched my book Betrayal last night at Daunt's in Holland Park in London! A fun evening with friends, family and colleagues from @theguardian.com, followed by a pint in the pub down the road. This morning a little hungover! Thanks to my brilliant publisher @faberbooks.bsky.social
My newsletter for @theguardian.com about the relationship between Trump and Putin. It includes the cover of the new Danish edition of my book Betrayal, published on Fri. It's a terrifying image of a wolf with the earth in its teeth, against a blood red background! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
What’s really behind Trump’s deference to Putin?
Whether or not US president fits the definition of a Russian asset, his actions align closely with the Kremlin’s interests
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A fun (if dark) conversation
Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast@ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 2w ago🇷🇺>🇺🇸? Is Donald Trump a Russian asset? ICYMI, our jawdropping weekend bonus edition with the Guardian’s genius Russia expert @lukeharding1968.bsky.social talking to @nndroid.bsky.social 🇷🇺 Listen linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...
My interview with @eldiario.es about my new book Betrayal [Spanish]: "The Americans are mired in another quagmire in the Middle East, and the Russians, after almost five years, are nowhere near achieving their objectives in Ukraine. Both powers share the same hubris, and the same miscalculations."
María Ramírez@mariaramirez.bsky.social · 3w agoEntrevisto al gran reportero @theguardian.com @lukeharding1968.bsky.social sobre su nuevo libro ‘Betrayal’ (traición): "Trump se comporta como si fuera un activo ruso" www.eldiario.es/1_cd91f0?utm...
My new book Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest is published today by @faberbooks.bsky.social. See linktree below for events and literary festivals
Faber Books@faberbooks.bsky.social · 3w ago'Dark and compelling . . . brilliant' Bill Browder 'War reporting at its finest' Serhii Plokhy 'More gripping than a thriller' Andrey Kurkov Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest by @lukeharding1968.bsky.social is out today in hardback, ebook and audio. linktr.ee/luke_harding
‘The Trump-Putin relationship is the biggest mystery in international politics’: foreign correspondent @lukeharding1968.bsky.social answered your questions www.theguardian.com/theguardian/...
‘The Trump-Putin relationship is the biggest mystery in international politics’: foreign correspondent Luke Harding answered your questions
The Guardian’s Luke Harding discussed Trump, Putin and the state of the war in Ukraine, his expulsion from Russia, his new book Betrayal, and his career as a foreign correspondent
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The Guardian's review of my new book Betrayal. The headline asks: "Is Trump a Russian asset? My answer, broadly, is yes. (Most people seem to agree; the piece has generated 5K comments; typically "Duh"!) "If he were a Russian agent, what would he do differently?” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
Betrayal by Luke Harding review – could Donald Trump be a Russian asset?
A Guardian correspondent’s sobering account of the US betrayal of Ukraine – and the possible reasons behind it
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Here's an exclusive extract from my new book Betrayal, about how Russian spies infiltrated Nigel Farage's party. It tells the inside story of Nathan Gill, a former UKIP MEP, now in jail, who accepted £££ in bribes to make pro-Russian speeches. Thanks @thenerve.news www.thenerve.news/p/luke-hardi...
Bribes, betrayal … and Reform’s Nathan Gill: inside Russia’s dark operation to drive a wedge between Ukraine and Europe
In an exclusive extract from his new book, acclaimed foreign correspondent Luke Harding joins the dots of a continent-wide Kremlin influence network disrupted by the jailing of a former senior officia...
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Bribes, betrayal … and Reform’s Nathan Gill: inside Russia’s dark operation to drive a wedge between Ukraine and Europe. www.thenerve.news/p/luke-hardi...
Bribes, betrayal … and Reform’s Nathan Gill: inside Russia’s dark operation to drive a wedge between Ukraine and Europe
In an exclusive extract from his new book, acclaimed foreign correspondent Luke Harding joins the dots of a continent-wide Kremlin influence network disrupted by the jailing of a former senior officia...
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Thanks to @thenerve.news for running an extract from my new book Betrayal, published next week by Guardian Faber. Below is the story of Nathan Gill, the UKIP and Reform politician who took $$$$$ from Russia
Steve B@stevebasnett.bsky.social · 4w agoRespected war correspondent embedded in Ukraine for much of the last few years @lukeharding1968.bsky.social for @thenerve.news: Voloshyn cultivated Gill using KGB methods. There was flattery and expressions of friendship, similar to the techniques used on Trump in the 1980s by the Soviet ambassador
I sat down with Oli Dugmore for an in-depth video podcast. We discussed Trump's relationship with Putin, the KGB's mysterious break-ins at our Moscow apartment, and the wobbling world order. Also the Kremlin's delusional Ukraine war. Thks @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=37ok...
Could Trump be working for Russia? | Luke Harding | The Exchange
YouTube video by The Exchange
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On Wednesday Moscow threatened London with unspecified "consequences", after it emerged Ukraine was using British-made drones to strike strategic targets in Russia, including refineries. I discussed what this might mean with @theguardian.com's The Latest podcast www.theguardian.com/news/video/2...
How credible is Russia’s threat against UK? - The Latest
Russia has threatened the UK with ‘consequences’ after reports that British drones have been used by Ukraine to strike targets on Russia’s mainland for the first time. Annie Kelly speaks to senior int...
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My piece on "Yoblyks": videos from #Ukrainian kamikaze drones as they chase Russian soldiers to their deaths. The clips have become a social media genre. “It’s impossible for me to feel sorry for them. Our task is to laugh at these enemies," one editor explained www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
‘Our task is to laugh at these enemies’: the Ukrainian unit posting drone videos of Russian soldiers’ last moments
Creators of chase compilations reject any moral qualms and say they show ‘death is waiting’ for those who join war
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The president is making US policy friendlier to North Korea and Russia than Canada and Oman. Are you kidding me?
North Korea is hacking our infrastructure. Sending troops and weapons to kill Ukrainians and providing weapons and support to Iran. South Korea is a democratically ally.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · last mo.For the first time in US history, America betrays South Korea, one of our closest allies for over 75 years. These exercises in various forms have taken place every year since 1974.
First review of my book Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest from the Sunday Independent! "Essential reading ... a valuable chronicle of recent history and its human cost. Somehow, despite all the chaos and uncertainty, it ends on a note of hope." Thanks Frieda Klotz & @independent.ie
Good to talk to the BBC about the big events of the noughties - the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the murder of Alexander Litvinenko - and what they say about our tottering world order www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
How Did We Get Here? - No World Order - 3. Russia goes its own way - BBC Sounds
From 9/11 to Iraq, assassinations and the invasion of Georgia in 2008
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A deeply compassionate commentary by @lukeharding1968.bsky.social for a photo essay on Ukraine in today's Guardian. Hard reading, it is a story of personal and national resilience. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Blinded by War: documenting the aftermath of injury in Ukraine – photo essay
Since 2025, Paula Bronstein has been photographing wounded Ukrainian servicemen as they learn to live with the loss of sight, hearing and limbs
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My Sunday essay on #Ukraine's long-range drone strikes against Russia. “We are making history here. This is where democracy beats totalitarianism," Lt Col Ray said, as a drone vanished over the horizon, engine thrumming. It left black smoke & a whiff of gunpowder www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘This is where democracy beats totalitarianism’: Ukraine’s drone strike force takes the fight to Russia
Exclusive: at a launch site in the Ukrainian countryside, members of the elite ‘Magyar’s Birds’ brigade are turning Russia’s vast size into a weakness
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I can’t believe that Reform UK turned out to be financed by a bunch of money laundering fronts for Russia. It’s just so unexpected.
I got back from Ukraine to find copies of my new book, "Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest" waiting for me! It's my tenth non-fiction work, published by @faberbooks.bsky.social on August 27th, with international editions to follow
My piece on #Ukraine's plans to replace Vladimir Lenin with a statute of the Cossack leader Ivan Mazepa. The plinth where Lenin stood has been empty since crowds toppled the sculpture in 2013 during the Maidan. “Why not Mazepa?" historian Nataliia Kryvda told me www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘Lenin was an enemy of humanity’: Why Kyiv wants to put Cossack chief statue in place of Soviet leader
Removal of Soviet-era statues sped up when Russia seized Crimea in 2014, and since Putin’s 2022 invasion has moved at pace as Ukrainians question their identity
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Me for @theguardian.com from Kyiv. The war is now a contest of drones in which #Ukraine has the upper hand. Russian troops are advancing slowly in the east. But Zelenskyy has found a theory of victory: to flatten Russia's economy via unmanned long-range strikes www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
Who has the momentum in the Russia-Ukraine war? – video explainer
Since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, the war in Ukraine has changed dramatically. The Guardian's Luke Harding looks at who has the advantage and how Volodymyr Zelenskyy's strategy has ...
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My latest from Ukraine on Volodymyr Zelenskyy's decision to fire the country's commander in chief Oleksandr Syrskyi following nationwide protests. These are set to continue, with organisers calling on the president to reinstate ex-defence minister Mykhailo Federov www.theguardian.com/news/video/2...
Zelenskyy ousts Ukraine army chief after protests – The Latest
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired his commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, in Ukraine’s biggest military shake-up in two years. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s senior international correspondent Luk...
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Here's my video explaining why Ukrainians are outraged at the sacking this week of defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov. There are protests outside Volodymyr Zelenskyy's presidential office in Kyiv, led by young people, with the country engulfed in political crisis www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
Why Ukrainians are protesting against Zelenskyy's dismissal of defence minister – video
The Guardian's Luke Harding reports on the dilemma facing the president after he removed the popular Mykhailo Fedorov from his post because of his clashes with Ukraine's commander-in-chief, Oleksandr ...
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Busy day yesterday. Zelenskyy held talks with Keir Starmer, who leaves office soon. In downtown Kyiv there were protests over the sacking of #Ukraine's defence minister Mykhailo Federov. A big political crisis. Civil society is fuming; foreign partners dismayed www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Political crisis and protests in Ukraine as Zelenskyy defends sacking defence minister
President says he had to choose ‘one side or the other’ after breakdown of relations between ministry and military leaders
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