BIO

Shaun Walker is a British journalist and author, noted primarily for his writing on Ukraine and Russia for British newspaper The Guardian. From 2019, he has been The Guardian’s central and eastern Europe correspondent.

Walker is the author of the non-fiction books Odessa Dreams: The Dark Heart of Ukraine’s Online Marriage Industry (2014) and The Long Hangover: Putin’s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past (2018). The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West (2025) is about the agents who lived apparently normal lives in the west as part of Soviet espionage programmes.

Walker was shortlisted for the 2024 UK Press Awards.