In proposing theses for an open letter condemning Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, Moscow commentator Aleksandr Skobov has stated in lapidary terms why the West must support the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people. The reason...
Interviewer: I remember various security conferences in Ukraine a few years ago. Each time, when one of the Ukrainians would say that Putin had mental health problems, foreign guests would turn away. Or at best, such appeals were perceived...
Russia’s war against Ukraine is not only a war for territory. It is a war full of war crimes. Putin has already started massively killing civilians by bombarding residential buildings, launching missile strikes at city centers, and...
It’s day seven of russia’s invasion of Ukraine, five days after putin’s generals expected to be in total control of Kyiv. Instead, Ukrainians are fighting on all fronts and never surrender. Thus the russian offensive...
The results of the February 27 referendum claimed 65.16% support for the changes in the Belarusian constitution, strengthening Lukashenka’s hold over the country and shedding Belarus’s neutral and non-nuclear status. This...
Now that the Kremlin dictator is engaged in what appears to be an increasingly all-out military invasion of Ukraine, the same thing is happening: he is moving elsewhere as well and his other moves are largely being neglected, something...
For almost three decades, Vladimir Putin has been saying and many in Russia and the West have followed him in this that the Soviet Union came apart because the Bolsheviks set up union republics and gave them the right to leave, a right...
СDS experts highlight that Putin’s public position regarding Ukraine morphed from seeking a favorable agreement with Ukraine as a foreign country in 2020 to chauvinist claims in 2022 that Ukraine is a historical error that...
In the war zone: Russian proxies launch 86 attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donetsk, Luhansk and Mariupol sectors, incl heavy artillery and weapons banned by Minsk, reports JFO. 3 Ukrainian soldiers killed, 18 wounded; 1 civilian killed...
After recognizing its puppet Donetsk and Luhansk “republics” in Donbas on 21 February, Vladimir Putin on 22 February stated it is recognizing them within the borders of two entire Ukrainian oblasts, the Luhansk and Donetsk...
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...
