On 7 February, the ninth meeting of the US-EU Energy Council concluded with the release of a joint statement on behalf of the US Government and the European Union. The meeting was chaired by US State Secretary Antony Blinken...
Recent developments in the Donbas war zone Ukraine’s Joint-Forces Operation Command (JFO) reported that it recorded no attacks by Russian hybrid forces in the war zone on Feb 4. JFO recorded six attacks on Feb 5, some of which...
From its illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014 and its ongoing military aggression against Ukraine, Russia has waged a sustained and coordinated state-controlled disinformation campaign targeting the Russian population,...
On 3 February, on 1+1 TV channel’s evening political talk show Right for Power, NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov mentioned that one of the EU countries blocked Ukraine from joining the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of...
Past 24 hours in the war zone Ukraine’s Join-Forces Operation Staff reported four ceasefire violations recorded in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts on 2 February, including one with weapons proscribed by the Minsk accords. From 19:30 of...
Free-trade deal clinched Ankara and Kyiv signed a number of agreements during the meeting of the two presidents. Among them is a free trade deal that is bound to increase the Turkey-Ukraine annual commerce from $7 billion to $10 billion in...
The Spanish newspaper EL PAIS has published the classified answers of NATO and the US to demands for “security guarantees” that Russia made after months of saber-rattling on Ukraine’s borders. They reveal that the US and...
A new alliance is forming between the UK, Poland, and Ukraine. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the preparation of this new format of cooperation during a speech in the Verkhovna Rada on February 1. The first hints of this...
Ukraine is no infrequent target of pro-Kremlin disinformation. Out of the more than 13,500 cases identified, cataloged, exposed, and debunked by EU vs Disinfo since 2015, Ukraine is mentioned in more than 5,200. That’s nearly...
The Ukrainian media Texty compared nighttime satellite imagery of Ukraine before the Russian invasion of 2014 and five years after it. They found that the Donbas region got darker under Russian occupation and the economic downfall it...
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...