A guide to Russian propaganda. Part 2: Whataboutism
During the Cold War, westerners dealing with the Soviet Union grew frustrated at the automatic Soviet response to…
Car bomb in Kherson Oblast kills one and injures four
On Thursday at around 1:30 PM local time there was a car bomb attack in Novooleksiivka, Kherson oblast,…
Russia attempts to stir up anti-Muslim, anti-Tatar sentiments in Kherson
A week ago the SBU announced the capture of a terrorist cell that was based in Odesa and targeting the…
Whatever happened to the Kharkiv Partisans?
For over a year Russian propaganda pushed the story of an anti-Ukrainian “resistance” movement in Kharkiv. This guerrilla…
Putin’s crony in Ukraine proposes new “compromise” plan ahead of Minsk talks
The Ukrainian pro-Russian politician Medvedchuk told the Spanish magazine El Pais that, if the Minsk agreements cannot be…
The War comes to Kherson
Yesterday morning a grenade exploded at an office of the Crimean Tatar Majlis organization in Kherson in Southern…
Strelkov co-founds “Committee of January 25th” to work against Ukraine, Belarus, and Russian liberals
Several well-known Russian nationalists and Stalinists have formed the “Committee of January 25th” a new “movement” to “prevent…
Russia prepares for a Crimean blockade at sea
The Ukrainian law banning almost all trade with Russian-occupied Crimea is now in force. Activists began taking down…
Is Putin preparing to expand the war to Kherson?
The blockade and blackout of Crimea got the Kremlin’s attention. Putin may be preparing a response to expand…
Russian hijack of Ukrainian drilling rigs could open hybrid naval blockade
Could Russian irregulars capture Zmiinyi Island and blockade Ukraine? Russia is trying to seize still more of Ukraine, but this…
A Two-track Subversion Strategy for Russia’s War in Ukraine
Russia has not given up on destroying Ukraine, but how will this be accomplished? A straight-up invasion would…
Putin talks about terrorism in Presidential Address, but not his terrorist allies in Ukraine
In his 2015 Address to the Federal Assembly (perhaps a Russian equivalent to the American State of the Union Address) Putin…
Another terrorist training camp held at a Russian Orthodox Church near Moscow
The group E.N.O.T. Corps is a group of irregular fighters who fought in Ukraine alongside the “Donetsk and Luhansk…
Putin’s alternate Ukraine strategy: between blitzkrieg and schleichkrieg
This should have been a week of good news for Ukraine. The Ukrainian economy is officially out of…