Siobhán O'Grady

Kyiv, Ukraine

Chief Ukraine correspondent

Education: Dickinson College

Siobhán O’Grady is The Washington Post's chief Ukraine correspondent. She previously served as Cairo bureau chief, covering North Africa and Yemen. Before that, she reported on foreign affairs for The Post, including from Afghanistan, Lebanon and Cameroon. She also freelanced across sub-Saharan Africa and worked as a staff writer at Foreign Policy magazine.
Latest from Siobhán O'Grady

Ukraine taps former ambassador Andrii Sybiha as top diplomat

The replacement of prominent Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba comes amid a wide-ranging government reshuffle ahead of the president’s trip to the United States.

September 5, 2024
Andrii Sybiha, right, then deputy head of Ukraine's presidential office, listens with other officials as President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speak on May 14, 2023, in Berlin.

Zelensky reshuffles cabinet at key moment in war and ahead of U.S. trip

The reorganization of the administration comes as Russia unleashes a new wave of aerial attacks on Ukrainian cities, including one on Lviv that killed seven overnight.

September 4, 2024
Dmytro Kuleba at the Foreign Ministry in Kyiv on April 8.

More than 50 killed in Russian missile strike on Ukrainian city of Poltava

Two missiles hit a military educational institution and nearby hospital. President Volodymyr Zelensky called for lifting restrictions on Western-supplied weapons.

September 3, 2024
First responders return to the site of the Russian missile strike on the Military Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology in Poltava, Ukraine, after an air raid alert Tuesday.

Ukraine launches massive drone attack on Russian energy infrastructure

Russia said it downed 158 drones in what appeared to be one of the largest Ukrainian drone attacks yet. Fires broke out at energy facilities, including in Moscow.

September 1, 2024
Ukrainian soldiers change a tire in Russia's Kursk region on Aug. 18.

Ukraine’s gamble in Russia has yet to slow Moscow’s eastern assault

Ukraine’s advances into Russia buoyed morale but Moscow’s forces are poised to bite off new chunks of the country in the east.

August 31, 2024
A Ukrainian drone unit commander, right, stands in Ukrainian-held territory in Russia's Kursk region on Aug. 18. (Ed Ram for The Washington Post)

Last chance to escape: Ukrainians flee Pokrovsk as Russians advance

As Ukrainian soldiers struggle to stave off waves of Russian fighters, civilians flee Pokrovsk, a city once thought far from the front line.

August 23, 2024
Emergency services workers carry children onto an evacuation train before its departure on Thursday in Pokrovsk, Ukraine.

In Ukraine-controlled Sudzha, stranded Russian civilians question what’s next

For Ukrainian forces on the ground, the offensive is seen less as a conquest for long-term annexation and more as a negotiating tactic.

August 18, 2024

    Inside Russia with Ukrainian soldiers

    Post reporters traveled to Sudzha, Russia, where Ukrainian soldiers now hold territory and Russian civilians are braving the war.

    August 18, 2024

    Ukraine’s offensive derails secret efforts for partial cease-fire with Russia, officials say

    The warring countries were set to hold indirect talks in Qatar on an agreement to halt strikes on energy and power infrastructure, according to officials.

    August 17, 2024
    A transformer of an electrical substation burns after shelling from Ukraine in the town of Shebekino in the Belgorod region of Russia in late 2022.

    In a Ukrainian prison, cells are full of young Russian conscripts

    The capture of so many young men in the Ukrainian incursion poses a significant challenge for the Kremlin.

    August 16, 2024