Every single day Russian forces lose at least 500 soldiers killed in action during the incessant assaults on Ukrainian Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Olkesii Reznikov told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica....
On 28 July, US President Joe Biden issued a statement marking the centenary of diplomatic relations between the United States and Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Referencing the fifty-year period of Soviet occupation, which the nations...
On July 9, the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority announced the opening of the Bystre Canal on the mouth of the Danube River for the entry and exit of vessels transporting Ukrainian agricultural products (Uspa.gov.ua, July 9). “Bystre...
Ukraine, NATO, and the EU are once again concerned that the ongoing Russian military build-up near Ukraine might be an indication of an impending new assault on Ukraine. The information space is full of information on force composition and...
Mykhailo Gonchar, President at Center for Global Studies “Strategy XXI,” provides eight steps Ukraine and the West should take. 1. The Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian cooperation in countering Putin’s pipelines should be...
Poland and Ukraine vow to oppose Nord Stream 2 After the text of the deal was published on 21 July, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau joined his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in denouncing the deal, releasing a joint statement...
The latest “National Security Strategy of Ukraine” was approved on September 14, 2020 (see EDM, September 24, 2020), months overdue; and the “Military Security Strategy” was only adopted on March 25, 2021 (see...
In November 2018, Kyiv adopted the “Strategy of the Naval Forces of Ukraine Until 2035” (Navy.mil.gov.ua, January 1, 2019). This planning document outlined the formation of a so-called “mosquito fleet” as a...
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, the reserve system reforms introduce a number of key changes (Army Inform, April 22): Help reduce the time needed to reinforce the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) and other military formations since...
In this interview with Valentyna Samar, editor-in-chief of the Center for Journalistic Investigations, and Julia Kazdobina, head of the Ukrainian Foundation for Security Studies, originally published at the Center for Journalistic...
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...
