Operation Babushka: the inside story
Today’s cover story: Operation Babushka, the plan hatched by a Sydney woman to rescue her 91-year-old grandmother from Kyiv.
A parallel story to the war horrors in Ukraine has been the kindness of strangers, the good people who stepped up at great risk to their own safety; the true heroes.
We have a taste of that in journalist Will Swanton’s story on Operation Babushka, the desperate plan hatched by a woman in Sydney to get her frail 91-year-old grandmother out of Kyiv. It’s an extraordinary tale featuring a colourful cast of characters who could have easily looked the other way, but didn’t.
The perfect late summer salad
If your peaches are already super sweet, don’t even bother grilling them.
A Greek salad with the lot, and then some
The surprise here is the stone fruit, which pops with sour–sweetness to elevate the lot.