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…
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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…
Moscow Patriarchate tells Russian troops: “Your task is to wipe the Ukrainian nation off the face of the earth”
In the wake of the exposure of the Russian massacre of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, an action that…
To ‘de-Nazify’ Ukraine, Moscow must impose a brutal generation-long occupation, Novosti journalist says
In vicious language that makes the notorious Morgenthau Plan for Germany in 1945 look like a first draft…
The specter of Budapest Memorandum hangs over Ukrainian negotiations, darkens the future of global security
Following the revelation of the horrific atrocities committed by Russian forces in Bucha and the surrounding areas of…
Karachay-Cherkess women protest Moscow’s use of Muslim troops in Ukraine
Almost from the beginning of Putin’s war in Ukraine, there have been reports suggesting that non-Russians and Russians…
Putin likely to view West’s declarations about Ukraine as appeasement, as Hitler did their predecessors’ words about the Rhineland, Pastukhov says
Vladimir Pastukhov says that it is unclear why Western leaders say with increasing frequency that they are not…
Failure of Russian people and West to stop Putin 20 years ago led to war in Ukraine, Podrabinek says
There can be little doubt that “the lion’s share of responsibility” for Putin’s war in Ukraine “rests with…
Ukraine should not become a sacrificial lamb to Putin for our illusion of peace
On March 11, two days after Russia deliberately struck a maternity hospital in the besieged Ukrainian port city…