Seeking to crack Western unity, Putin sinks Russian economy
On the Donbas battlefields, Russian troops still strive to advance, but in the global arena of confrontation with…
NATO’s new Strategic Concept gives short shrift to Eastern Neighborhood and Ukraine
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) new Strategic Concept, approved at the summit just held in Madrid, strongly…
Challenges to Russian arms resupply: tanks, combat aviation, artillery ammunition
After more than four months of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, open-source data confirms that the Russian Armed Forces…
Dealing with the naval blockade of Ukraine: A diversity of views
The issue of Russia’s naval blockade of Ukrainian ports, which severely hampers the export of Ukrainian agricultural commodities,…
Inter-ethnic animosity saps effectiveness of Russia’s army in Ukraine
Russia’s 2022 re-invasion of Ukraine has damaged not only bilateral relations between the two majority–Eastern Slavic neighbors but…
Missiles and escorts: Unblocking Ukraine’s ports on the Black Sea
From the beginning of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war, the Russian Black Sea Fleet moved in to block or…
Macron’s Ukraine diplomacy runs into a Kremlin wall
French President Emmanuel Macron held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy…
German security assistance to Ukraine perpetually on hold (Part 2)
An itemized list of Ukraine’s latest request for German security assistance has found its way into two major…
German security assistance to Ukraine perpetually on hold (Part 1)
Germany ranks among the top arms-exporting countries worldwide. However, it is withholding lethal security assistance to Ukraine and…
Moscow, Kyiv differ over goals in relaunching Normandy process
On January 26, 2022 in Paris, senior political advisors to the Russian, Ukrainian, German and French heads of…
Russia’s military exercise in Belarus prepares for war
The Russian-Belarusian large-scale military exercise Soyuznaya Reshimost (Allied Resolve) 2022 forms a critical dimension in Moscow’s war planning…
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The Kremlin is pleased after Kozak-Nuland talks on Ukraine (Part 2)
According to Kremlin-connected analyst Fedor Lukyanov, the Joseph Biden administration had to work hard with Moscow to make…
The Kremlin is pleased after Kozak-Nuland talks on Ukraine (Part 1)
The Joseph Biden administration has apparently decided to work with Russia toward a political solution to the conflict…
A war and peace visit to Moscow
After arriving in Moscow, Nuland had a lengthy meeting on October 12 in the foreign ministry with Deputy…