Putin’s hybrid war objective is to capture effective control, Sazonov says
Many in the West have failed to see that “the main goal” of hybrid war is to change…
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No one in the Donbas believes the ceasefire will last
No one in the Donbas believes the ceasefire declared there a week ago will last, and many say…
Putin’s war games on Ukrainian border aimed at Western leaders above all, analysts say
In January 1991, after Soviet soldiers killed 14 Lithuanians in Vilnius, a remarkable political cartoon appeared: It showed…
Three more danger signs regarding Putin’s intentions in Ukraine
Whether Vladimir Putin will launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in the near future or simply continue to…
Two years after the Ilovaisk tragedy, guilty not found
August 29 is a day of commemoration of the victims of the Ilovaisk tragedy in Ukraine. Two years…
Ukrainian civil society responded more readily to Putin’s invasion than the government
Interview with Ihor Koziy, military expert at the Institute of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation and Valentyn Badrak, Director of the…
NATO losing war of narratives while Russia emerges as leader of nationalist bloc
NATO's most functional dimension has been its "soft-power," which may seem bizarre as ostensibly it is a military…
Kremlin likely to resume its attack on Ukraine under guise of ‘peacekeeping,’ Felgenhauer says
Recent reports about the influx of materiel into the Russian occupied Donbas and increasingly militant rhetoric by DNR…
Moscow mis-reporting its military expenditures to the UN
According to the data that Russia provided to the United Nations, its military expenditures in 2015 grew by…
Italy continues supplying Russia with arms
"Indeed, Italy, despite a direct prohibition against supplying military equipment to Russia, continues to supply the Russian Defense…
Is Moldova’s apparent defeat Kremlin’s blueprint for Ukraine?
What Moscow has done in Moldova, the de facto confederalization of that country and its division between eastern…
Kyiv commentator: Seven signs NATO has ‘finally come out of its coma’
Some Ukrainians were disappointed that NATO’s Warsaw Summit did not move further toward integrating Ukraine and Georgia into…
Why the slow-burning Russo-Ukrainian war suddenly has gotten much hotter
A UN agency says the number of civilians who died as a result of the fighting in the…
How Russia tried to cover up death of Putin’s best helicopter ace in Syria
The Russian helicopter shot down in combat on 8 July 2016 near Palmyra turned into a widely-covered informational event.…
Desertions on the rise from Moscow’s hybrid military force in Donbas
Desertions by pro-Moscow mercenaries in the Donbas are increasing, according to Dmytro Tymchuk, head of Ukraine’s Information Resistance Group, a…
Atamanshchina spreading among Russia’s hybrid military force in Ukraine’s Donbas
Atamanshchina is spreading through Moscow hybrid forces in the Donbas, Beness Aijo, a pro-Moscow mercenary has warned. And because…
Holding elections now will destabilize Donbas
One of the most difficult issues for Ukraine is the problem of conducting elections in the occupied territories…
Russian military analyst: The forces in Donbas are Russian Army
Definitely, the construction of a new [Russian] military base next to the Ukrainian border [in the town of Klintsy…
Belarus under increasing pressure from Russia
While NATO is staging the “Anaconda-16” exercises in Poland, Russian airforce conducts reconnaissance flights over the territory of…
Decadence of western elites threatening world peace
Russia is increasingly pushing its narrative of being forced to prepare for war against NATO and the US.…