According to the police, up to 12,000 people took part in the “No to Capitulation” march led by the Veteran Brotherhood movement, the European Solidarity-linked NGO “Sprava Hromad,” Democratic Axe political party,...
While the protest in Kyiv not unexpectedly attracted the most attention, the fact that Ukrainians came out in more than 30 cities across their country may be more important. On the one hand, and in sharp contrast to Russian protests, it...
Those in Ukraine and elsewhere who fear that the Steinmeier plan will end by becoming the Putin plan are justified in their concerns as even the most superficial examination of what has happened elsewhere along Russia’s periphery...
Since 1 October, Ukraine has been in turmoil. “Steinmeier’s formula” is the reason. This proposal for Minsk negotiations called to end the Donbas war voiced by then-German Foreign Minister Steinmeier in 2015 was called...
Zelenskyy claims that his agreeing to the implementation of the “Steinmeier formula” was necessary solely to unblock a meeting in the “Normandy format.” But at the same time, he does not explain to us or to himself...
On October, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine accepts “Steinmeier’s formula” which stipulates that the occupied part of the Donbas should be granted a “temporary special status”...
Valery Solovey, the former MGIMO professor and current Moscow commentator, says there are seven reasons why the Kremlin almost certainly believes that its policy toward Ukraine is close to achieving strategic success now that Ukrainian...
What has happened these past few days can be called a huge mistake that borders on crime. A nonchalant attitude to such things will cause more bloodshed and deaths, while the war with Russia may turn into civil unrest and provoke a serious...
On 2 October 2019, protests against Steinmeier’s formula continued in Ukraine. Having erupted a day earlier in response to news that ex-President Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine’s representative to the Trilateral Contact Group, had...
The fact that Ukraine agrees to Russian terms and conditions so that a Zelenskyy-Putin meeting can be organized – but, the actual implementation of this formula was subject to Russia’s condition and nothing else –...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
