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…
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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…
Inter-ethnic animosity saps effectiveness of Russia’s army in Ukraine
Russia’s 2022 re-invasion of Ukraine has damaged not only bilateral relations between the two majority–Eastern Slavic neighbors but…
Missiles and escorts: Unblocking Ukraine’s ports on the Black Sea
From the beginning of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war, the Russian Black Sea Fleet moved in to block or…
Ukrainians report over 400 cases of rape and other forms of sexual abuse by Russian troops
More than 400 cases of brutal sexual abuse by Russian troops have been reported to the Ukrainian authorities,…
Putin has gone to war not only against Ukrainians but against their pet dogs and cats
Pictures of Ukrainians fleeing from Russian aggression with their pet dogs and cats in their arms have become…
“Three Russian soldiers raped my mother and sister. The fourth made me watch.” Hundreds of cases of rape by Russian soldiers in Ukraine
Rape – a “standard tactic” of the Russian military On 12 April, President Zelenskyy said that hundreds of…
Putin triples spending on state media to promote his war in Ukraine
There is a classic Soviet joke which ever more frequently comes to mind given Vladimir Putin’s war in…
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 58: Ukrainian troops hold their positions in Donbas, Russians bury war crimes victims’ bodies in mass graves
Morning report day 58 – April 22 The report is based on media reports, expert analyses, and official…
Poll: Russian-speaking Kazakhstanis more likely to support Putin’s war in Ukraine than Kazakh speakers
An unusual poll in Kazakhstan conducted by Demoscope for the Adenauer Foundation highlights why it is so important…
Poll: 9 in 10 ethnic Latvians back Ukraine against Russia, even 1 in 5 ethnic Russians there do
Ninety percent of ethnic Latvians support Ukraine against Putin’s war there, but the ethnic Russian community in that…
Bucha: a turning point–not only in Putin’s war in Ukraine, but in relations between Moscow and the world
Now that Ukrainian forces have retaken Bucha and other villages near Ukraine, the horrors of the Russian military…
Medvedev makes it clear the call for genocide against Ukraine came from the Kremlin
When Russian commentator Timofey Sergeytsev published his horrific plan for the destruction of Ukraine and Ukrainians, many in…
Latest from Moscow on Ukraine more frighteningly explicit than even Hitler, Savvin says
Many people of good will in Russia, Ukraine and around the world have been horrified by the recent…
Putin’s ‘Z’ symbol echoes Hitler’s swastika in pointing to a final ‘solution’ of Ukrainian problem, Svanidze says
When future historians examine Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, one of the most curious things they will have…