“Russia has been successful at muddying the waters”: lessons from the Syrian conflict
The war in Syria has been ongoing for over nine years. The war in eastern Ukraine has entered…
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How Ukrainian society can withstand Russian aggression
Since Ukraine's Euromaidan Revolution that toppled pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych from power in early 2014, Russia has deployed…
As long as Russia remains an empire, Moscow will be repressive at home and aggressive abroad, Eidman says
As long as Russia remains an empire, Igor Eidman says, Moscow will be repressive at home and aggressive…
Putin’s talk about Russian lands in neighboring countries didn’t come out of nowhere
Most commentaries reacted to Putin’s words either with enthusiasm (some Russian imperialists), horror (almost everyone else in Russia…
The price of Russia’s war is too heavy for Ukraine to lift alone – report
On 25 June 2020, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) presented online its study on the…
Russian passport-holders in occupied Donbas shuttled to vote for Putin’s Constitution
Russia is shuttling residents of its statelets in eastern Ukraine to vote for the constitutional amendments set to…
Nature hates a vacuum, and autocracies don’t tolerate weak democracies: Kyiv Security Forum 2020
Lack of trust Lack of trust was the key thesis of the 15 May 2020 online discussion. Anne…
Putin says Russia gave land to republics and none should have left without giving it back
This represents an even more egregious misreading of the historical record than even the Kremlin leader is usually…
Ukrainian MoD plans radical cuts to elite units in the Armed Forces of Ukraine
On June 11, Lieutenant General Mykhailo Zabrodsky, Hero of Ukraine, former commander of Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces, Deputy…
Critical water shortage in Crimea may prompt new Russian attack against Ukraine
The Crimean Peninsula has long suffered from water shortages, but these are now often exacerbated by the ever-more…
Russia pushes to complete Nord Stream 2 challenging US sanctions
While the United States struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, Russia has deployed two pipe-laying vessels to the Baltic…
Russian occupiers treating Crimeans during pandemic even worse than Moscow does Russian Federation residents, Kirillova says
The Putin regime’s failure to provide adequate support for Russians it has ordered to remain at home in…
Pandemic adding to burdens sanctions have imposed on Moscow for seizing Crimea, Umland says
The logic of the sanctions regime the West imposed on Moscow after Putin seized Ukraine’s Crimea was not…
New Ukrainian naval base ‘East’: A countermeasure against Russia’s hybrid strategies in the Sea of Azov?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made an official visit to the southeastern coastal oblast of Zaporizhzhia, on April 11.…
Moscow continues hybrid war against Ukraine despite pandemic, Danilyuk says
Moscow may be unlikely to launch any major new offensive against Ukraine while the pandemic is going on,…
Kremlin employs Cossacks, Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine against Kyiv
For as long as official cases of COVID-19 have remained manageable inside the Russian Federation, Moscow was able…
Moscow creates new ‘Cossack’ paramilitary units for possible use against Ukraine
Recent reports that Moscow is deploying Cossack groups along the Russian-Ukrainian border near the Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv…
Kyiv finds an alibi to step back from Kozak-Yermak plan on Donbas
The COVID-19 coronavirus emergency gives Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a non-political excuse for stepping back from the plan…
Kozak-Yermak plan on Donbas: The fine print
The meeting of the Minsk-based Contact Group, held by videoconference on March 24–26, had been expected to officially…
Ukraine’s president Zelenskyy turns blind eye to Putin-Medvedchuk scheming
On March 10, in Moscow, Ukraine’s leading Russophile politician Viktor Medvedchuk conferred with Russian President Vladimir Putin and…