In an interview with Suspilne, Ukrainian Ambassador to the USA Oksana Markarova said that the key priority for 2023, which the entire diplomatic corps is working on, is to give Russia the right status. “Of course, we understand that...
Putin’s press-secretary Dmitry Peskov has openly stated that Ukraine must fulfil Russia’s demands for the bombing of critical infrastructure to stop. Speaking to journalists, Peskov said that Ukraine’s leadership has...
On October 26, the Polish Senate condemned Russian military aggression against Ukraine in a new resolution. Members of the Senate designated the Russian government “a terrorist regime” in the document and urged the...
1. Designating Russia as a sponsor of terrorism is not just a symbolic measure, it holds severe consequences On 27 July, the US Senate passed a resolution requesting that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken designate Russia as a state...
Yury Shulipa, author of How Putin Kills Abroad, says that Putin has two reasons for doing away with his political opponents. On the one hand, he wants to spread fear among both others who oppose him and the international system as a whole....
Since the beginning of the undeclared Russian-Ukrainian war in early 2014, the secret services of both countries have been key players in the conflict, particularly due to its “hybrid” nature. Covert operations, sabotage and...
Just as some leaders seek to distract attention from their old lies by telling new ones, so the Putin regime regularly commits new crimes so that those who are investigating old ones are often viewed as cranks concerned about what some...
For many, the coronavirus pandemic and the economic turmoil that has led to the collapse of the ruble are the most important events of this week. They are certainly attracting more attention. But for Vladimir Putin, the hearings at the...
The way Minister Avakov communicates is often questionable. “Avakov wrote a post on the detention of the ‘suspects’ of the assassination of Amina Akueva. Why was the message delivered via Facebook and Twitter? Where is...
Since the beginning of November, there have been fake calls claiming that bombs have been planted in the Kyiv metro station forcing police to search for them; since the beginning of 2019, there have been 20 such calls; and since 2014, 200,...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
