Despite the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainians reach out to help the families affected by recent earthquakes in Türkiye. Ukraine’s cargo airplane AN-124 delivered 101 tons of humanitarian aid to Incirlik Air Base in...
Using a low-profile fleet of ships under US sanctions, Syria has this year sharply increased wheat imports from the Russia-occupied Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. Wheat sent to Syria from the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Crimea...
Morning report day 28 – March 23 The report is based on media reports, expert analyses and official information posted online. Situation According to information from the General Staff as of 18.00 23.03.2022, supplemented by its noon...
The war in Syria has been ongoing for over nine years. The war in eastern Ukraine has entered its seventh year. The two wars are incomparable. Still, they have features in common — particularly Russia’s crucial role. This role...
The Hetmanate & the Oriental Orthodox Church Relations between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Church date back many centuries. In 1656, the land of the Cossacks was visited by Antiochian Patriarch Macarius and...
The PACE Committee recently approved a draft resolution proposing a change in the Council’s Charter so that its members, even if their credentials are contested or revised, cannot be deprived of their voting rights, as well as the...
Personnel of Russian private military companies, which are illegal according to Russian law, have appealed to the International Criminal Court in the Hague to launch an investigation into the organizers of the Russian PMCs and to seek...
Read also: Wagner mercenaries: what we know about Putin’s private army in Donbas In early October, the SBU (Ukraine’s Security Service) published a list of 206 non-staff servicemen of the GRU (Russian Armed Forces’ Main...
Despite the fading of the Wagner private military company which attracted so much attention earlier because of evidence of its use by the Kremlin in its wars in Ukraine and Syria and the company’s increasing use of criminals rather...
Many countries have private military companies, Vladimir Pastukhov says; and there is no reason that Russia should not as well, especially in a world where many military tasks are outsourced and where there are some tasks states do not...
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...
