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Zelenskyy seeks a summit with Putin againFollowing United States President Joseph Biden’s example, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has also blinked to the Kremlin. The US president solicited a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on April... -
Four lessons learned from Russia’s Ukraine buildupThe world breathed a sigh of relief as Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that Russia would pullback a portion of its troops from the Russo-Ukrainian border. Over the past... -
Deconstructing Putin: it is time the West learned to be boldA state in decline is a dangerous thing. An autocrat in decline is even more so. Putin’s provocations have caught the West off-balance for too long, resulting in a series... -
Russia effectively seizes control of Sea of Azov, threatening UkraineThe international community has focused on Moscow’s buildup of forces on land adjoining Ukraine, concerned that such a concentration of Russian military power will be used against its neighbor (see... -
Ukraine teams up with Qatar in the gas sectorOn April 5, Ukraine’s acting minister of energy, Yuriy Vitrenko, and his Qatari counterpart, Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, signed a bilateral memorandum of understanding (MoU) on enhancing energy cooperation between the... -
Ukraine’s security service detains alleged provocateurs aiming to detabilize region close to Russian war campThe Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has reported that they have detained more than 60 "titushki" - provocateurs aimed at inciting civil unrest. Those detainees reportedly tried to enter the... -
Zelenskyy accused of usurping power following sanctions streakPresident Volodymyr Zelenskyy has recently been using sanctions to block activities considered harmful to Ukraine. On 15 April, the National Security and Defense Council, the coordinating body for national security... -
NATO prepares to attack, says Kremlin propaganda amid record Russian troop buildup at Ukraine borderAfter a failed "Gleiwitz boy" incident, when propaganda claims that a Ukrainian drone killed a boy in Russian-occupied Eastern Ukraine turned out to be physically impossible, Russia is escalating a... -
Putin’s aggression against Ukraine part of broader effort to destroy international rules of the game and force West to recognize his right to do so, Skobov saysVladimir Putin has so many motives for his actions against Ukraine that it is often the case that those watching him fail to see the forest for the trees and... -
Russia violating international law by closing Kerch Straits to naval vessels until October, Kyiv saysThe international community has focused on Russia’s buildup of forces on territory adjoining Ukraine, concerned that such a concentration of military power will be used against its neighbor. But as... -
Advisor to Russian Defense Minister warns of ‘mental war’: who is waging it and against whom?At the end of March, Andrei Ilnitsky, an advisor to the Russian minister of defense, gave a detailed interview to military magazine Arsenal Otechestva (Arsenal of the Fatherland) (Arsenal Otechestva,... -
Moscow moving 15 warships from Caspian Sea to waters off UkraineThe Russian Ministry of Defense announced today (April 13) that Moscow is sending 15 naval vessels from its Caspian Flotilla to waters off Ukraine to take part in military exercises... -
Seizing Ukrainian water for Russian-occupied Crimea #1 task for Putin, Illarionov saysVladimir Putin has long made clear that he doesn’t believe that Ukraine has a right to exist as an independent country, Andrey Illarionov says. But his “number one task” in... -
Putin regime “on the road to committing suicide,” Piontkovsky saysMany analysts want to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to build up forces is a kind of blackmail designed to force Ukraine and the United States to make... -
Putin to turn a deaf ear to Biden’s words, Portnikov saysThe speech by the President of the United States, in which he explained the reasons for the new sanctions against Russia and called for an end to the escalation, essentially... -
Russian buildup, MH17 tapes, and plans for a Ukrainian Silicon Valley | Weekly news roundupThis week's news digest from Kyiv not Kiev covers the hottest news from Ukraine, such as Russian troops build-up near Ukrainian borders, new evidence in the case of the MH17... -
Constructing the terror: Russia’s forged cases of “Ukrainian extremism”An old textbook rule for authoritarians says: when you have at troubles home, divert attention elsewhere. Since the occupation of Crimea and start of the undeclared war with Ukraine, the... -
“Dropping rumor bombs in Ukraine”: Russia’s building up disinformation around its military build-upPreventively shaped narratives In 2019, the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, a Kremlin-funded think tank, published the essay “Securing Information for Foreign Policy Purposes in the Context of Digital Reality”. The paper... -
Kyiv is becoming the world’s music video capital: 12 iconic clipsMost Ukrainian stars choose foreign locations to shoot their videos. In contrast, foreign directors choose Ukraine. Musicians from all over the world arrive here to create videos for their tracks.... -
Myroslav Irchan. He returned to Ukraine from Canada, only to be executed by the NKVDOn November 3, 1937, some 300 prisoners of the Solovki Gulag were executed in Sandarmokh Forest, including prominent Ukrainian artists, writers, and cultural figures - Les Kurbas, Mykola...""
