Volodymyr Zelenskyy seemed genuinely perplexed by the very possibility of making public his telephone conversation with Donald Trump. While answering questions from Ukrainian journalists, Zelenskyy even said that he had assumed that only...
Since the beginning of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it has been obvious to all but the blind and those who refuse to acknowledge what they in fact see that the Kremlin has used regular Russian military units in Ukraine and...
Many fear that the inexperienced Volodymyr Zelenskyy may prove to be a disaster as president of Ukraine, making the kind of mistakes that Vladimir Putin and others will exploit to undermine Ukraine’s territorial integrity and...
The regime Vladimir Putin has created in Russia is an “existential” enemy of the West and an international system intended to limit the use of violence by one state against others, Aleksandr Skobov says. His aggression...
What do we really want? Against a backdrop of daily stupidity perpetrated by our “criminal government” and the undisguised sneaky backstabbing committed by former government members, who now comfortably oppose everybody and...
For the last few years, Ukraine has been all over the news due to its two prominent features: a passionate, idealistic desire to defeat corruption, and the corruption’s resistance. The whole world witnessed how during the...
The newest Freedom House “Nations in Transit” report has revealed the biggest overall decline of democracy in the tracked countries in 23 years of the project’s history. Even in the 19 (out of 29) former Eastern Bloc...
The Ukrainian Night, a book about a particular place – the main city square of Ukrainian capital and the moment in history, transcends the time and place and tells a somewhat universal story about the human struggle for freedom...
Ever more people are calling for the containment of Putin’s Russia and some are even celebrating that the West has already been taking the necessary first steps in that direction, but such appeals and even more such celebrations...
A film about the war in Donbas has won best documentary at a US film festival. “Breaking Point: War for Democracy in Ukraine” delves into the fallout of the Euromaidan revolution and the war that followed. The film follows...
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...
