Outreach to Putin, crackdown on Medvedchuk: A hard stretch for Zelenskyy
At the same time, however, Zelenskyy persists with his quest to meet personally with Putin in order to…
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Zelenskyi / Zelensky / Zelenskiy)
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Blinken’s debut in Ukraine: A case for managing expectations (Part 1)
Should the Joseph Biden administration confirm the containment goal as part of its overall strategy in Europe, it…
One-on-one with Putin: A reckless adventure for Zelenskyy (Part 2)
To read Part 1, please click here. Elaborating on Putin’s pre-conditions (see EDM, April 28, 29) to such…
Meeting one-on-one with Putin: A reckless adventure for Zelenskyy (Part 1)
Unwittingly, Zelenskyy’s public statements and actions are conveying his vulnerabilities. Disappointed by the Franco-German mediation’s conclusive failure in…
The Kremlin sets insuperable preconditions to meeting with Zelenskyy
The war scare has sent Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sliding down from the mid-point of his learning curve…
Zelenskyy seeks a summit with Putin again
The Kremlin has, since early April, deployed overwhelming military forces around Ukraine, with high publicity and dire rhetorical…
Biden phones Zelenskyy amid Russian troop build-up along Ukrainian borders and escalation in Donbas
Ukraine has been locked in a conflict with Russia since March 2014 when Russia annexed Ukraine’s southernmost region…
Kremlin propaganda’s conspiracies claim that Ukrainian, Lithuanian leaders faked their vaccinations
Sputnik’s claims were immediately debunked by Lithuanian journalists, and the case was added to the EUvsDisinfo database. Ms. Grybauskaitė received…
Yermak’s earlier giveaways come back to haunt Zelenskyy and Ukraine
Russia abandoned the ceasefire in Ukraine’s east in early February (see EDM, February 18) and persists with low-intensity…
While President Zelenskyy promises peace, Ukraine’s Army faces serious challenges
On March 3, the Russian proxy representatives of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) reportedly gave permission to…
Protests as plagiarist, Yanukovych crony appointed Ukrainian education minister
The epoch of Zelenskyy’s presidency and his single majority in the Parliament has been marked by turbulence in…
Historian Yaroslav Hrytsak: “Ukraine is in a state of permanent revolution”
Revolution: a virus similar to COVID-19 ─ A sudden surge of public activity ─ street protests ─ victory…
Post-Euromaidan gains for Ukrainian language challenged by creeping Russification and state indiffirence
Since 2014, Ukraine has had a state policy for the protection and promotion of the Ukrainian language, to…
Zelenskyy’s party expels whistleblower but the monolith has cracked
The expulsion of Geo Leros An urban art project director and former Zelenskyy advisor, turned-MP, Leros became a…
Planned inspection of Ukrainian positions by Russian-controlled forces sparks protests
Up until last Sunday, Zelenskyy bragged that no Ukrainian soldier died during the ceasefire regime effective since 27…
Wagner in Belarus: Ukrainian journalists cry treason as high officials suspected of blowing MID special op
On 29 July reports came from Belarus that the country’s secret service KGB arrested 33 Russian mercenaries from…
The quick way to quasi-recognition of Donetsk-Luhansk’s armed formations: a play-by-play account
Ceasefire deal While the agreement’s full text has been released by all signatory parties, the page reserved for…
Kozak celebrates diplomatic victory over Ukraine in rude letter to Normandy Forum
Russia’s presidential envoy for conflict-management in Ukraine, Dmitry Kozak, has sent a highly undiplomatic letter to his other…
New Donbas ceasefire appears to be holding despite spike in violations on first day
Last week amid a string of strange disparate events in the country, Ukrainian president Zelenskyy announced another ceasefire…
Angry father berates Zelenskyy for abandoning his wounded son in the war zone
Serhiy Zhuravel, father of Ukrainian Marine Yaroslav Zhuravel, travelled from his native village in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to take…
