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Deborah Haynes

Deborah Haynes

Security and Defence Editor

 




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Expertise

  Foreign, defence, security  

Languages

  Japanese, French  

Location

  London  

Email

  Deborah.haynes@sky.uk  

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Biography


Deborah is the security and defence editor. She covers the biggest foreign stories around the world and carries out her own investigations. She has reported from Europe on Brexit the United States on Donald Trump, and broken stories on suspected Russian disinformation operations and suspected cyber attacks in the UK.

Before joining Sky, she was defence editor and previously Iraq correspondent at The Times. She covered wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, as well as focusing on armed forces issues in the UK, including exposing the true extent of a funding crisis within the UK's military. 

She won the Amnesty International award for national newspaper human rights reporting in 2008 for a series on the plight of Iraqi interpreters working for UK forces in Iraq.

This series also won Deborah the inaugural Bevins Prize for investigative journalism in 2008.

Prior to joining The Times, Deborah worked for the Reuters news agency after six years at AFP in Tokyo, Geneva, Baghdad and London.
 



Articles by Deborah Haynes  








Daria and Misha



State of emergency declared as Russia brings its war into Ukrainian homes  










How Russia brought war into people's homes  










Were the Russia Ukraine peace talks a success?  






Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised Europe in his speech. Pic: AP



Zelenskyy drops brutal truth bombs upon European allies  






U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a reception with business leaders, at the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos, Switze



US allies need to learn key lesson from Trump's Greenland obsession  






Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a press conference with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in December. File pic: AP



Trump's attacks on NATO allies sideline efforts to support Ukraine  






Counterterrorism police carry out their operation on the ferry



Armed terrorists. Dead passengers. The captain taken hostage. What do police do now?  










This is how a terror attack could unfold at sea  






The Kremlin has denied Western allegations of a growing campaign of sabotage. Pic: Reuters



Russia is waging hybrid war on UK and Europe through 'disposable agents'  






Chief of the Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton



UK has no plan for defending nation in event of war, military chief reveals  






British soldiers train during a major exercise in the north of Finland in December



Where is the urgency in rebuilding the UK's national defence?  






Danish military forces participate in an exercise with NATO troops in Greenland. File pic: AP



There's an uncomfortable truth behind Trump's Greenland grab  










An 'extraordinary intervention' - and a warning from MI6  






Pics: Reuters



Get ready to fight: Armed forces chief issues stark warning as Russian threat grows  






Vladimir Putin. Pic: Sputnikl/AP



Russia trying to 'bully' UK and allies with attacks under threshold of all-out war, MI6 chief says  






British Army soldiers in Finland during a NATO training exercise on the border with Russia. Pic: Owen Humphreys/PA



Everyone in UK 'must step up' to deter Russian threat of wider war, armed forces chief to warn  






Al Carns. Pic: PA



UK 'rapidly developing' plans to prepare for war  










Ex-commander of unit tasked with trialling Ajax armoured vehicle lost 20% of hearing  










The army's armour problem explained  






Russian troops launched a drone attack on Dnipro on Monday. Pic: AP



Russia may exploit death of British soldier in Ukraine  






Norway's foreign minister Espen Barth Eide. Pic: Reuters



Europe's future 'on the line' in Ukraine peace talks  






Pic: Reuters



Putin looks to be preparing for more war, not less  










Norwegian minister: Europe's future 'on the line'  






HMS Iron Duke shadowing the Russian Frigate Neustrashimy through UK waters in September. Pic: PA



'We are holding on - but not by much': Navy chief warns of Russian threat  










Rare access inside a secret underground military base in eastern Ukraine  










Inside Ukraine's underground military HQ  






Pics: Sky News/Reuters/Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/Cover Images/AP



Giving up territory would be 'unjust peace', says Ukraine's armed forces chief  










Ukraine giving up territory 'unjust and unacceptable'  










'If someone took Trump's land, how would he feel?' 










'It wasn't fine - and the Russians knew': Inside the decades-long saga that's left UK shockingly unprepared for war  










'The British people are not safe'  






A British man appears in Ukraine in October accused of spying for Russia. Pic: Kyiv prosecutor's office



Briton detained in Ukraine on suspicion of spying for Russia to make 'easy money'  










What do we know about Ukraine's corruption scandal?  






Andrii Yermak and Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a meeting earlier this year. Pic: Reuters



Zelenskyy will cut a lonely figure without his towering chief of staff  






Pic: Ministry of Defence



Britain's military chiefs hold 'very difficult' meeting  






US army secretary Daniel Driscoll, Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev and Ukrainian general Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov.
Pic: Reuters



Who is negotiating the potential peace deal for the US, Russia and Ukraine?  






The Ajax armoured military vehicle. Pic: MoD



The army's Ajax vehicle injured troops and cost billions - there must be accountability  






Russian Ship Yantar transiting through the English Channel. 
File pic: MOD



Britain warns Russia's spy ship - but is it a hollow threat?  










Will UK back up spy ship warning to Russia?  






Britain's new Ajax fighting vehicle, which arrived overdue and at great financial cost. Pic: PA



UK plan to defend itself from invasion moving at 'glacial' pace  










MI5 red alert on spying  










UK aircraft carrier on call to fight for NATO  






The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales in Tokyo. File pic: AP



The UK's flagship aircraft carrier is ready for war - just not without help  






Defence Secretary John Healey and Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper during a visit to HMS Prince of Wales in Italy.
Pic: PA



Foreign secretary plays down reports that UK halted intelligence sharing with US  










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