Ukrainian women have a long tradition of fighting for their people. Not only was that sanctioned by Cossack democracy long before other countries approved of the practice, but it is generally considered that the first woman to reach...
As over 100,000 Russian troops mass on Ukraine’s border, the Transatlantic Task Force on Ukraine (TTFU) held an online forum to discuss the Western response and measures that could strengthen Ukrainian security resilience,...
For his first two years in office as President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy tried hard to present himself as a peace-making anti-militaristic leader, which included holding no military parades on Independence Day. The parades on 24...
Breaking with Petro Poroshenko’s tradition of inviting NATO forces for military parades for Independence Day on 24 August, in the first two years of Zelenskyy’s presidency, Ukraine did not hold a military parade at all. In...
Despite the title of the article, I strongly support a future NATO membership for Ukraine. It is probably the only diplomatic tool that might end the Russian aggression against Ukraine. Additionally, I am in no doubt that Ukraine’s...
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...
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...
Several reasons were put forward to try to explain the springtime Russian buildup; and any or all of them may have played some role. According to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, three of these motives potentially included: (1)...
November 2020 marked the seven-year anniversary of the Euromaidan protests and the Russian military invasion into eastern Ukraine. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas region has resulted in the displacement of 1.5 million...
On Wednesday, 23 September, two tiltrotor military aircraft vehicles of the US special operation forces buzzed over the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, making their way along the Dnipro river. At the same time, Lockheed MC-130J Commando II...
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...
