Leonid Polyakov, a former Ukrainian defense minister now at the Center for Research on the Army, Conversion and Disarmament, says that in the conflict with Russia over shipping on the Sea of Azov, Ukraine has law on its side but lacks both...
Admiral Serhiy Hayduk, commander of the Ukrainian Navy, says that Russia is seeking to provoke revolts in Mariupol and Berdyansk by blocking shipping to them on the Sea of Azov and thus creating increasingly difficult conditions for those...
Andriy Klymenko, the editor of BlackSeaNews and a member of the Maidan of Foreign Affairs, says that Russia did not allow a single ship to pass through the Kerch Straits to Ukrainian ports between August 14 and August 21, effectively...
Analysts have offered a variety of reasons for the breakthrough on the Caspian – increased Russian concerns about security and a desire to keep US forces out of that region, Iranian interests in having a backdoor if Middle East...
One of the most disturbing and yet instructive scenes in the Norwegian TV series “Occupied” about an EU-assisted Russian occupation of Norway to ensure the supply of oil to the rest of the European Union is when the EU promises to send...
Olena Mosiychuk, call sign “Maliok” (Baby), paramedic “Some tips for women at war: War has no rules and no mercy. Never show that you’re weak or afraid! May the Gods watch over you!” “I’ve always been a fighter, and I’ve...
Pavel Kanygin from Novaya Gazeta, which media critics consider to be one of the few semi-independent media left in Russia, recently interviewed Mykola Azarov, the fugitive prime minister of Ukraine’s ousted President Viktor Yanukovych....
Cadet Andriy Hladun refused to swear allegiance to Russia in Crimea; he has just finished his studies in England and will serve in Eastern Ukraine Andriy Hladun is 21 years old. He is a lieutenant in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He decided...
Ukraine’s military and civil crowdfunding platform “The People’s Project” announces the launch of a new initiative to restore the warship “Netishyn” in a joint-project with the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration Council of...
Ihor Losyev, Radio Svoboda, May 22, 2014 The events in Crimea and now in the Donbas have shown that the security forces of Ukraine have turned out to be ineffective and nonfunctional. A few wits have called Ukraine’s security...
Here is everything you need to know about one of the most disturbing scenarios unraveling in a European institution. What does PACE do, anyway? PACE, the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe, is the “motor” of this institution...
