Ukrainian kindergarten and school hit as Russian-hybrid forces escalate hostilities all over Donbas The full official statement says: According to the L/DNR, evacuation of the local population is planned in some settlements in the...
Ukraine is in the middle of another war scare – the second one in just one year. Reports in US mass media in the last two and a half weeks, statements of US government representatives make people think about the worst-case scenario:...
The regular court hearing in The Netherlands in the case of the downing of flight MH17 where these intercepts were shared took place on 17 June 2021 and was reported by the Ukrainian state media agency Ukrinform. The accusation prested an...
What are war crimes? The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court stipulates a legal definition of war crimes and provides their list. All of this is taking place in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, with kidnapping,...
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, the reserve system reforms introduce a number of key changes (Army Inform, April 22): Help reduce the time needed to reinforce the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) and other military formations since...
In 2014, Putin used stealth to advance Russian forces toward and into Ukrainian territory; but this time, the Polish defense analyst says, he flaunted what he was doing in the expectation that such a display of force would be sufficient to...
Several reasons were put forward to try to explain the springtime Russian buildup; and any or all of them may have played some role. According to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, three of these motives potentially included: (1)...
The current escalation of tensions around eastern Ukraine is dangerous and may appear untimely and inopportune while Europe and Russia seek to focus on managing the latest COVID-19 pandemic wave as well as addressing its accumulating...
With the turn of the calendar and increased tensions between Russia and Ukraine and Russia and the West, Moscow will be ready to launch an attack on Ukraine “in a month,” although it remains far from certain whether it will...
Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula, which took place from 20 February to 18 March 2014, marked the initial stage of Russian aggression in Ukraine. The Kremlin eventually admitted the obvious – the Russian...
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...
