Russia’s 2022 re-invasion of Ukraine has damaged not only bilateral relations between the two majority–Eastern Slavic neighbors but also—perhaps inadvertently—destabilized ties, links, goodwill, and mutual trust...
Konstantin is one of the many Russian soldiers currently waging an unprovoked war against Ukraine, which commenced on 24 February. As Russians retreated from territories in Ukraine, harrowing stories of rape, executions, and torture...
AS: What does the retreat of the Russians on the northern front mean? Is this a sign that the Ukrainian forces are winning? What has led to this success? MB: Two factors have played a role. When the Russians were in their purely...
Sniper vs sniper As they say in the army, the best remedy against a sniper is a 120mm mortar. For example, if there’s gunfire from a certain area, then four or five mortars will be more effective than a sniper duel. Of course, it...
The Ukrainian open-source intelligence community Informnapalm has been documenting the evidence for this over seven years of Russian aggression. Based on social media posts and videos source from the occupied “Donetsk and Luhansk...
The Russian high command has long wanted to have a domestic crowd control role, rather than as has been the case in recent years standing by as the FSB and the interior ministry gain influence in the Kremlin because of what they do in that...
By the end of next year, Moscow will have formed 40 new brigades and divisions while cutting the size of its military, thereby the kind of “paper divisions” that plagued the authorities in the past, units which sound...
All too many people in Moscow view Ukraine as a fraternal republic that NATO is using against Russia, Aleksandr Khramchikhin says. In fact, Ukraine is Russia’s mortal enemy and will continue to constitute a serious threat unless and...
Even if all the information related to the relocation of Russian agents, volunteer soldiers, and military hardware in the spring and early summer of 2014 were to be ignored; even if we talk exclusively about the use of regular Russian...
In its Report on Preliminary Examination Activities 2016, the Office reported that by April 30, 2014 the intensity of hostilities between Ukrainian government forces and anti-government armed elements had reached “a level...
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...
