The collapse of Kyiv’s position at home and abroad over the last six months reflects the fact that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s three closest advisors are working for the Kremlin and have given Vladimir Putin a...
The exact date of such a meeting was not announced, but the Kremlin took advantage of the telephone conversation between Putin and Merkel to emphasize again: it is necessary to legislatively secure a special status with broad autonomy for...
The scandal arising from Yevhen Shevchenko’s suggestion on Moscow TV that Ukrainian defenders rather than Russian aggressors are responsible for the continuation of the war is the latest surfacing of what may be the views of many in...
In an important two-part essay, Russian commentator Andrey Piontkovsky argues that there is now a good chance that the Donbas will remain “a frozen conflict” rather than be resolved either by the capitulation of Ukraine or by...
Both those who want Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to live up to all the provisions of the “Steinmeier formula” plan he has agreed to and those who are against that because they see it as capitulation, Vitaly Portnikov...
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...
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...
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...
At a press conference in Kyiv, Refat Chubarov spoke on behalf of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, reminding the Ukrainian government that the contract on power supplies to occupied Crimea from mainland Ukraine is valid until...
Bobsledder Dmytro Tkachenko volunteered to feed and rebuild Chernihiv “I understood that there would be a war,” bobsledder Dmytro Tkachenko, 41, says. “It’s just that we didn’t want to believe until the...
