Why are Russians hell-bent on destroying Ukraine and killing Ukrainians, fueled by TV lies and old myths? A new book asks what dark purpose that hatred serves.
Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev stated that Moscow's peace negotiations in Istanbul must result in the Ukrainian government's elimination rather than compromise.
Putin wants Ukraine's neutrality, protection for Russian speakers, and guarantees against NATO membership for former Soviet republics, while Ukraine rejects all these demands.
Despite heavy losses, Moscow "seems comfortable with the current cost of its slow advances," betting on a war of attrition that intelligence officials say will likely favor Russia through 2025 without increased Western aid for Ukraine.
"Novorossiya is an integral part of Russia," Putin recently declared, with his spokesperson Dmitry Peskov defining the region as encompassing eastern and southern Ukraine including Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa and Mykolaiv oblasts—far beyond currently occupied territories.
Decades of viewing Ukraine as a mere “buffer zone” between Europe and Russia have led to precarious Western complacency amid a roaring global conflict, experts warn.
As Ukrainian troops advance into Kursk Oblast, they encounter an unexpected ally: history itself. Ironically, Russia's justification for invading Ukraine crumbles on its own soil.
Shunned both by the West and Russia’s liberal opposition, indigenous activists find new ways to challenge Russia’s colonial ways — and rekindle their people’s will to independence.
While battling Russian aggression, Ukraine is quietly fostering a cadre of leaders poised to carve independent nations from Russia's vast, multiethnic territories.
"Awareness and treatment of imperial trauma are paramount in this time-consuming and difficult psychological process," Tetiana Pylypchuk, director of the Kharkiv Literary Museum, told a rapt audience in Odesa, capturing the central dilemma of Ukraine's decolonization debate.
The 11th Forum of Free Nations of Post-Russia, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, culminated in the issuance of a joint "Proclamation of Good Neighborliness" calling for the dismantling of the Russian empire.
Nearly a decade after Ukraine's Euromaidan revolution, the struggle against Russian influence has found new life on the streets of Tbilisi, where protesters see the "foreign agent" law as a haunting echo of the empire's last gasps.