John Sweeney

London, Kyiv

Investigative Journalist and Writer, Ex-BBC Panorama

John Sweeney is one of the UK’s best-known investigative journalists. He worked for 17 years at the BBC for Panorama and Newsnight, and prior to that, he was a reporter for The Observer for many years. Sweeney reported from the frontlines of the Bosnian conflict and reported on war crimes in the aftermath of the Kosovo war. As a result, he appeared as one of the witnesses at the trial of Yugoslav and Serbian officials at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. 

Sweeny has covered Russia and Ukraine extensively and is the author of 12 books, including Killer in the Kremlin(2022).