Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly magazine is a round-up of the world news, opinion and long reads that have shaped the week. Inside, the past seven days' most memorable stories are reframed with striking photography and insightful companion pieces, all handpicked from The Guardian and The Observer.

Lviv primes its defences; London’s cosy welcome for one oligarch and a kitsch take on politics

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

DEATHS

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

Unknown frontiers • THE INVASION OF UKRAINE SPECIAL REPORT

‘WE WILL FIGHT THE RUSSIANS BACK’ • While hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the destruction in the east have arrived in search of sanctuary, the citizens of Lviv have been preparing for the inevitable onslaught by Putin’s forces

Border line • Yavoriv strike is unnerving – but Russia unlikely to attack Poland

In brief

Russia’s claims • Is there any justif ication for Putin’s war?

Avengers assemble • The foreign fighters coming to Kyiv’s aid

Assad invites his troops to repay a debt to Putin

Keyboard warriors • How a booming tech sector has switched to war footing in the face of Russian invasion

A subtle pact Beijing is still refusing to condemn Russia, but for how long?

Can the west slaughter Putin’s ‘sacred cash cow’? • Ukraine believes the only way the Russian president will back down is if his economic power base in fossil fuels is threatened. Putin thinks Europe and the US are too weak to do it – but some believe there is a way

Big Mac to go • Moscow’s war renews a dark era of economic isolation

Spotlight

Roped in Can mussel farming restore the coastline? • Cultivating shellfish creates a healthy marine habitat and could offer a sustainable alternative to meat or fish

‘A new chapter’ Progressives hope Boric can leave behind a dark past

‘It’s ecocide’ Activists rise against laws that favour industry

Illicit craft brewers risk arrest under restrictive alcohol laws

Concern as ‘antifeminist’ is elected president

Shackleton’s lost ship, Endurance, discovered

Fuel’s errand Republicans seek to pin rising prices on president

Why won’t the Middle East’s oil powers take Biden’s calls?

NO QUESTIONS ASKED • The oligarch and gas billionaire Dmitry Firtash – Putin’s man in Ukraine – is wanted by the FBI for bribery. Nonetheless, he was received into the heart of the British establishment

My own rogues’ gallery • As a Guardian foreign correspondent, I travelled from Brussels to Buenos Aires, building a unique collection.

I have run out of words for the horror brought to Ukraine’s soil Andrey Kurkov

Why the global south has opted for neutrality on Russia sanctions David Adler

People want Ukrainian refugees to come. The Home Office doesn’t Nick Cohen

Ukraine’s cultural identity is in Putin’s sights as much its people and territory

Letters

Silenced • Russia’s last remaining independent TV station struggled to the last but has been forced to close by brutal new media laws – for the time being

Ukraine, by cinema • From historical footage to intimate family portraits

The new showstoppers • Shouting, fighting and drunkenness … A spate of rowdy behaviour raises the question: have audiences forgotten their manners during the pandemic?

The Andy Warhol Diaries • Netflix

Alpha

Source material • One of the leading proponents of the short story explores how to be a man in an Ireland on the road to change

Voice for freedom • ‘China’s Mandela’ draws attention to the shamefully overlooked plight of the Uyghurs in this collection of essays, many suppressed

The sex factor • This...