The West is running out of weapons it can supply Ukraine. NATO or a coalition of the willing needs to intervene
24 February 2022 was only yet another phase, the war started in 2014 Tomorrow, political leaders and media…
Browsing Tag
Russo-Ukrainian War (2014-present)
765 posts
Putin’s next miscalculation: Russia’s readiness for a long war
As Russian aggression against Ukraine approaches the half-year mark and combat operations appear to be at a standstill,…
Seeking a diplomatic agreement with Putin is amoral, senseless and dangerous, Russian analysts say
Two of Russia’s more thoughtful analysts, Vladislav Inozemtsev and Aleksandr Skobov, argue in separate commentaries that seeking an…
Russian forces in Ukraine have destroyed almost 60 times more civilian facilities than military ones, Kyiv says
Over the first five months of Putin’s war in Ukraine, Russian forces there have destroyed 17,300 civilian buildings…
Most Russians increasingly optimistic about what war in Ukraine says about Russia’s future, Levinson says
A new Levada Center survey shows that the percentage of Russians who think the country is on the…
Even ‘good Russians’ should stop being invited to discussions about Ukraine and, if invited, should shut up, ‘Grani’ editors say
A month ago, Olha Rudenko, editor of The Kyiv Independent, posted on Facebook a comment about an unfortunate…
For Russians, their war in Ukraine is still ‘a TV war’ not directly involving them, Fedorov says
Today what is happening in Ukraine is for most Russians “’a special operation on television,’” VTsIOM director Valery…
Ukraine’s secret to resisting Russia: resilience
Many continue to report on the war as it is a conventional war that started on 24 February…
Will the Kremlin send new ‘savage divisions’ to Ukraine?
The Russian full-scale re-invasion against Ukraine, launched in February 2022, was initially explained as the desire for “denazification”…
Is a military coup expected in Russia?
However, an influential group is informally forming in the country that has authority among the “pro-Putin majority” and…
Moscow turns to regions to replace losses and boost forces in Ukraine
The center is devoting enormous resources to both now that the spring draft is ending, but problems persist…
Russian assault on world order falters and fails
Russian military command announced an “operational pause” in Donbas after the hard battles for Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, implicitly…
Putin using Kaliningrad exactly the way Hitler did when it was called East Prussia, Skobov says
In the late 1930s, Hitler demanded the opening of “a Polish corridor” to Germany’s East Prussia, triggering a…
NATO’s new Strategic Concept gives short shrift to Eastern Neighborhood and Ukraine
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) new Strategic Concept, approved at the summit just held in Madrid, strongly…
Challenges to Russian arms resupply: tanks, combat aviation, artillery ammunition
After more than four months of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, open-source data confirms that the Russian Armed Forces…
Ukraine has documented more than 11,600 war crimes by Russian forces
Putin’s war in Ukraine is different from past conflicts in many ways, ranging from the kind of weapons…
Moscow using real neo-Nazis to fight its war in Ukraine, German intelligence concludes
Even though the Kremlin regularly claims that it is fighting Nazism in Ukraine, a claim that is without…
Putin isn’t ‘copying the Nazis’ as some in the West say; he is a Nazi, Skobov says
Some in the West are now beginning to say that Putin and his entourage are “'copying the Nazis,'”…
Dealing with the naval blockade of Ukraine: A diversity of views
The issue of Russia’s naval blockade of Ukrainian ports, which severely hampers the export of Ukrainian agricultural commodities,…
“Ukraine has no choice but to fight. Sorry, European oligarchs.” Security expert Samus on western military aid and outcome of war
Despite the increase in calls from the media for Ukraine to surrender, security analyst Mykhailo Samus remains cautiously…