Five years after Belarus’ stolen election, Ukraine is still catching up on Tsikhanouskaya
Zelenskyy met Tsikhanouskaya in January—Ukraine's first presidential-level contact. Two months on, the Kyiv visit and special envoy remain undelivered.
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Analysis of events in Ukraine
Trump’s Iran war lasted 39 days. The impact on Ukraine will last longer
Five weeks on, we are updating our analysis of the Iran war and its impact on Ukraine: what we got right, what we got wrong, and the moves that nobody saw coming.
NATO’s generals warn of war by 2029. Europe won’t be ready until 2035.
The gap between threat timeline and readiness timeline is not a planning error. It is a window.
Ukraine fired its NATO trainers. The alliance is running out of time to learn why.
Ten Ukrainians eliminated two allied battalions in a day. The frigate crew never saw the attack coming.
Zaluzhnyi now blames Zelenskyy for the counteroffensive. He wasn’t always so sure.
Ukraine's cursed 2023 counteroffensive ran into Europe's largest fortified belt without air cover. The blame game between Kyiv's leaders lets the biggest culprit off the hook.
China sells 62% of Russia’s weapons-making machines. EU sanctions target Kyrgyzstan.
18 countries funnel war tech to Russia. The EU's new tool covers one.
The Hungary-Ukraine crisis, explained
One Russian drone, five fronts, seven weeks—seized gold, deployed troops, blocked billions, and a pipeline Russia bombed
We scored every way the Iran war hits Ukraine. Two gains, eight losses.
We scored every military, economic, and geopolitical factor. The result isn't close.
The fabricated crises in Transcarpathia that help win Hungarian elections—and block Ukraine’s path to Europe.
From a 2018 firebombing to 2026 troops, Budapest has run the same playbook against Ukraine's west—with Russian fingerprints at every turn.
Georgia was fast-tracking EU membership. Now it’s fast-tracking dictatorship.
In several weeks, the regime went after universities, pharmacies, car imports, and a sidewalk. The speed isn't strength—it's desperation.
What Ukraine’s fifth year of war will really look like
Here are the battles — technological, industrial, and institutional — that may decide the war in 2026
Russia’s army hasn’t grown in six months. Ukraine is making it pay.
Troop numbers flatlined at 711,000 even as Moscow adapted to cut casualties. Now Ukraine is counterattacking where Russia can't reinforce.
Russia’s war didn’t start in 2022. It started the day Ukrainians chose Europe.
The start date matters. Get it wrong, and you misread the war entirely. This is not a territorial dispute—it is an twelve-year campaign to crush a people's revolution.
Enter the “gray zone”: Russia is already at war with Europe. Germany’s wargame missed it
The Baltics called the exercise "insulting." The wargame ignored their preparation—and the war Russia is already waging.
Europe now outspends America on Ukraine. Zelenskyy noticed.
Washington wants a bilateral deal with Russia. Ukraine spent Munich making that impossible.
Russia’s war is getting cheaper. That’s the worst news Europe has heard in years.
Four years of data show Russia trading tanks for drones—while its new armor heads not to Ukraine, but to NATO's border.
“If not Brussels, then Moscow:” Munich Security Report 2026 paints stark picture of Europe’s security crisis
Europe faces a choice between unity or submission, report warns
Kyiv signals election readiness—while 59% of Ukrainians say wait until war ends (INFOGRAPHICS)
Kyiv signals readiness to Washington while its own institutions say May is impossible.
Ukrainians warned for years that Europe’s human rights chief was a Kremlin conduit. The Epstein files just proved them right.
Thorbjørn Jagland offered to connect Jeffrey Epstein to Lavrov. KGB defectors had named him "Yuri" decades earlier.
Honeytrap empire: Epstein files reveal deep ties to Belarusian and Russian individuals, including an FSB-trained business advisor
3 million pages document FSB contacts, sanctioned bank transfers, and channels to the Kremlin