Russia continues telling its citizens that it came to liberate Ukraine from the yoke of “Nazis,” yet the regime they establish in the Ukrainian territories they occupied could dwarf the likes of Nazi Germany in WWII....
On 13 June 2022, Mykhailo Podoliak, the adviser to President Zelenskyy, published a list of weapons needed by Ukraine. Some Ukrainian and Western experts criticized the list, calling it unrealistic. Oleksandr Kovalenko, a military and...
Ukrainian women have a long tradition of fighting for their people. Not only was that sanctioned by Cossack democracy long before other countries approved of the practice, but it is generally considered that the first woman to reach...
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched its second invasion of Ukraine. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians and soldiers have died from Russia’s unjust war. 14 million Ukrainians are also displaced. Meanwhile, over 33,000 Russian...
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, virtually all humanitarian aid inside Ukraine has been implemented by local actors, not international organizations, according to the review conducted by Humanitarian Outcomes in May 2022. These...
Lend-Lease hasn’t started yet “We need to be grateful to countries giving us military aid. There are very many of them. Many ask to not make public the arms they give. We will thank them all after our victory,” Danilov...
When the Russo-Ukrainian war erupted on 24 February, 2022, Ukrainian civil society organisations throughout the country once again found themselves at the forefront, distributing emergency aid, coordinating and providing support to IDPs...
Putin’s war in Ukraine is different from past conflicts in many ways, ranging from the kind of weapons used to the insistence of some that the pursuit of the end of the fighting is more important than defeating the invader. But...
It became known on 31 May that the US decided to supply multiple-rocket launchers M142 HIMARS. On the next day, US State Secretary Antony Blinken said that Ukraine gave assurances it won’t hit targets in Russian territory with...
Despite the increase in calls from the media for Ukraine to surrender, security analyst Mykhailo Samus remains cautiously optimistic both about western military aid for Ukraine and Ukraine’s final victory over Russia. He explains the...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
