Ninety percent of ethnic Latvians support Ukraine against Putin’s war there, but the ethnic Russian community in that Baltic country is divided: 22 percent support Ukraine, 21 percent support Russia but a majority do not have or are...
European Council President Charles Michel announced on Monday, March 7th, that the European Union would begin the procedure for reviewing Ukraine’s application to join the 27-member bloc. Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
Past 24 hours in the war zone On Feb 22 and the following night, the Russian occupation forces launched 112 attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donetsk, Luhansk, and Mariupol sectors, including heavy artillery, reported JFO. 1 Ukrainian...
On 26 January, Latvia’s President Egils Levits issued a statement on the growing threat of Russian aggression against Ukraine and demands towards NATO, where he slammed Russia’s “intention to rebuild the Soviet...
US export control regulations require approval from the State Department for the countries before transferring any weapons received from the US to third parties. These approvals would allow Estonia to transfer Javelin anti-tank...
Past 24 hours in the war zone Joint Forces Operation report two attacks by Russian hybrid forces, near Pisky. Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed in a landmine blast. Between evenings of January 5 and 9, OSCE SMM recorded 152 violations,...
Past 24 hours in the war zone Russian-hybrid forces launched four attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donetsk, Luhansk, Mariupol sectors, including heavy artillery and weapons banned by the Minsk accords, according to Ukraine’s Joint...
In this short summary of the main takeaways from our series of interviews with ten intellectuals from Belarus, Russia, Moldova, Lithuania, Georgia, and Ukraine, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR, you can read...
Moldova Unlike most of Moldova, which was part of Romania in the interwar period, Transnistria was an autonomous Moldovan republic within the USSR stretching along the banks of the Dnister River. In 1990, the 14th Soviet Army Russian army...
In 1920, when hopes were high for the creation of an independent Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, and Baltic states, the national independence struggles were mostly ended with occupation by the USSR. The Baltic states, Moldova, and western...
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...