Tom Mutch is a New Zealand journalist who has been covering Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion as a correspondent for the New Zealand Herald. His articles also appear frequently in the Daily Beast, Popular Mechanics, Military Times and Byline Times and he is a regular guest on the Daily Telegraph’s podcast Ukraine: The Latest.
Tom’s reporting has been widely cited in international media as well as on Ukraine’s official social channels and President Zelensky’s accounts. He likewise has been recognised by the Kremlin, which banned him from Russia for reporting human rights abuses (he snuck into Kursk with the Ukrainian Army anyway). Oksen Lisovyi, Ukraine’s Minister of Education and Science, said that Tom was ‘one of the bravest, best journalists I met in Ukraine’.
He read modern history at Christ Church, Oxford, and is an incoming scholar in the international politics concentration at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.