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A new Duma bill adopted on 18 February would criminalize criticism of reserve call-ups, while Bloomberg reports Russia lost 9,000 more troops than it replaced

Analyses of Kremlin military manpower trends say Russia pays more rubles for soldiers already killed in action, than it does to pay salaries to men

Ukraine hit the naval helicopter near Kamyshly in occupied Crimea and destroyed the air defense launcher near Mariupol, while also striking troop concentrations, logistics warehouses

Country’s death toll in brutal war actually equals or exceeds the death toll among French and German volunteers Tom Blackwell February 17, 2026 National Post

by Martin Fornusek February 16, 2026 The Kyiv Independent The U.S.-Europe dynamic was more cordial at the Feb. 13-15 Munich Security Conference than last year,

By Federigo Argentieri Published in Corriere della Sera, supplement La Lettura 15 February 2026 On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the so-called “special military operation”

By Nataliya Gumenyuk February 15, 2026 The New York Times   Ukrainian soldiers tend to find questions about the future unsettling. When I asked Capt.

Fake registration channels collected data on Russian units, contacts, and terminal locations. Benjamin Murdoch February 12, 2026 Euromaidan Press   Ukrainian hackers and volunteer OSINT

BBC News Feb 12, 2026 Bethany Bell   The official online fan shop of the Olympic Games has been selling T-shirts with designs from the

Report says, while his war on Ukraine becomes too big to fail Share News Break Feb 8, 2026 The Kremlin’s financial situation is becoming increasingly

Ukraine’s Plan B is to be able to protect itself if allied security guarantees prove worthless. February 3, 2026 By Veronika Melkozerova POLITICO   KYIV

The Kremlin is using imperialist repression techniques to break the spirit of the country’s defenders. By Mitzi Perdue and Nicole Monette January 28, 2026 CEPA

Kyiv says roughly 9,000 of its soldiers were killed in past year, but claims Moscow’s losses were far higher  Kieran Kelly February 5, 2026 The

Diane Francis February 5, 2026 What is underway with Russia is not a peace process but a slow-motion humanitarian catastrophe. Donald Trump choreographs trilateral meetings

Ukraine’s FP-5 “Flamingo” reaches Kapustin Yar. Olena Mukhina February 5, 2026 Euromaidan Press   Throughout January 2026, Ukraine’s Defense Forces carried out a series of

US president’s feckless approach to peacemaking risks a flawed deal that would clear the way for another Russian invasion David Blair 3 February 2026 The

Diana Slobodian February 1, 2026 The Ukrainian Review   American businessman Elon Musk implemented measures to stop Russian forces from using Starlink satellite internet on

Author: Combat Medic Nadiya Bila, Ukraine In the evening, I learned about a seriously wounded man who couldn’t be carried away. He had been lying

Russia sent 90 troops under fog cover for rapid breakthrough. What happened next was devastating. Olena Mukhina January 31, 2026 Euromaidan Press   Ukrainian forces

By Kade Winslow Newsweek Jan 28, 2026 Ukrainian long-range drones have turned Russian airfields into some of the most vulnerable assets in the war, wiping

The innovation shown by Zelensky’s regime in the face of Russia’s ongoing bombardment merits more recognition from its allies Samuel Ramani 25 January 2026 The

Ukraine accuses Putin’s forces of using banned weapons thousands of times but there is now a threat of deadlier agents Matthew Campbell January 25, 2026

With the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1918, Ukraine declared independence and was promptly invaded by both the Russian monarchist White Army and Vladimir

CHICAGO — Dec. 7, 2025 — Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is not a standalone conflict but the outward expression of a deeper imperial governance

Catastrophic malfunctions are mounting across Russia’s aviation forces, with crashes, crew deaths, and systemic failures accelerating deep in the rear. 15/12/2025 Frontline report Euromaidan Press

What looks like stability is just the residue of fear and habit. Liubov Tsybulska December 14, 2025 Euromaidan Press Russian soldiers expect peace from Trump

Andy J. Semotiuk December 13, 2025 Forbes   Europe might have just eliminated one of the Kremlin’s most dependable leverage points, the matter of the

Trump’s peace plan includes an amnesty for all actions during the war, but victims in Ukraine are urging Britain to support prosecutions Christina Lamb December

Five tankers hit in two weeks—and insurance costs have tripled. Peeter Helme December 12, 2025 Euromaidan Press   Ukraine’s naval drone campaign against Russia’s shadow

The operation followed months of heavy fighting after a Russian breakthrough in September triggered the creation of a special strike group. By Yuri Zoria 12/12/2025

Ukraine’s modern political tradition began not with rebellion, but with a moral rejection of imperial rule. By Bohdan Cherniawski December 12, 2025 When people in

Pokrovsk sector becomes killing field as Ukraine’s drones devastate assault after assault 11/12/2025 Frontline report Euromaidan Press Today, there are important updates from the Pokrovsk

By Askold Lozynskyj “NATO was created to counter the Soviet Union, which collapsed over thirty years ago. Since then, U.S. participation has cost taxpayers trillions

Dec. 11, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS Ukraine made the biggest geopolitical mistake of the 20th century when it surrendered to Moscow the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected claims that he is using the war to cling to power By Illia Novikov and Danica Kirka | AP December 10,

Despite pressure from the Trump administration, Mr. Zelensky, after meeting with European leaders who vowed continued support in the war, said Ukraine’s position on territory

On October 23, the Ukrainian Free University in Munich marked the 80th anniversary of its postwar presence in Bavaria with ceremonial celebrations at Munich’s Old

December 8, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS On December 4, Trump released his dangerous new US National Security Strategy for the United States. It was weirdly silent

We can move from defensive crouch to position of strength but only if we use the economic cards we have against US coercion Georg Riekeles

Ukrainians want honest government. Do we? Ukraine’s fight against corruption is impossible to imagine right now in America or Russia December 7, 2025 A few

Why Munich or Yalta are inadequate parallels for Trump administration’s current infamy. CEMIL KERIMOGLU Dec 7, 2025 To make sense of Trump’s current, morally obscene

  Askold Lozynskyj This document should be an eyeopener for all Americans. Unfortunately, many will not understand and even more will not care. Perhaps the

Atlantic Council By Myroslava Gongadze Dec 4, 2025   Almost every night last week, I woke up in Kyiv to the piercing sound of air

Amid relentless Russian attacks on the Ukrainian power grid, workers defy drones, separation from their families and the constant fear of death Anthony Loyd December

Russia’s new style of urban warfare is creating a fog of terror among Kyiv’s troops Memphis Barker and Victor Sajenko December 6, 2025 The Telegraph

The 43rd Maritime Attack Aviation Regiment may be down to three planes out of 24 David Axe Trench Warfare Dec 5, 2025   Ukrainian missiles

Russia is hoping to use India’s booming tech sector to challenge the West and China for IT supremacy. By Catherine Belton December 5, 2025 The

By Glen E. Howard Dec 2, 2025   On Friday, November 28, several Ukrainian Sea Baby drones attacked two Russian shadow-fleet tankers, Kairos and Virat,

According to a transcript obtained by the German outlet, Europe rallied around Volodymyr Zelenskyy and sharply criticized Washington. December 4, 2025 By Seb Starcevic, Ferdinand

December 4, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS Vladimir Putin used the December 2 talks with American negotiators in Moscow to enhance his international stature, lower Europe’s, threaten

December 1, 2025 Ukrainska Pravda A Ukrainian Manifesto On 1 December 1991, Ukrainians changed the course of their nation’s history, and that of the world,

Fog and shattered buildings helped turn Russia’s high-stakes push into a quiet surrender on the town’s front line. Frontline report 01/12/2025 Euromaidan Press   Here,

Mistreatment, exploitation, and Russia’s own history suggest a precarious postwar future. By David Kirichenko and Alexander J. Motyl November 28, 2025 FP   Russia is

Ariel Cohen November 25, 2025 Forbes Russia’s war machine is showing unmistakable signs of strain. After nearly four years of fiscal overreach caused by injecting

  Charlie Angus The Resistance Nov 24, 2025   We are at a line-in-the-sand moment for Ukraine and the democratic world. On one side stand

November 30, 2025 Alex Stezhensky Smart News   Russian state-run propaganda outlets are spreading false claims of an imminent collapse along Ukraine’s front line, citing

Even if a peace can be reached, it won’t be easy to solve the problem of Ukrainian civilians languishing in Russian jails. This is one

Askold Lozynskyj For purposes of disclosure which is really unnecessary since anyone who has read any of my commentaries knows that I am quite embarrassed

Ukraine is dying every minute, fullfilling NATO’s destiny, he said. Still, it’s not a member of the Alliance. By Olena Mukhina 27/11/2025 Euromaidan Press  

By Stephen Blank November 28, 2025 AP In the last fortnight Paris, Washington, and Athens have shown signs of solidarity with Kyiv that strengthen Ukraine

Russia controls roughly 30 percent of the town after narrow infiltration tactics left their gains unstable. Now Ukraine’s newly formed Joint Forces Group is counterattacking

RKSL The Frontline Nov 28, 2025 The raid on Andriy Yermak’s home and his resignation from office have drawn understandable attention, yet their real significance

Europe thinks the unthinkable: Retaliating against Russia Countries are looking at joint offensive cyber operations and surprise military drills as Moscow steps up its campaign

November 27, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS Steve Witkoff is a real estate developer and a pal of President Donald Trump. Both men have done extensive business

More than 5,000 vehicles carrying Chinese goods destined for Russia remain stranded at Kazakhstan’s border crossings, with Russian companies reporting multimillion losses as shipments spoil

By Lubomyr Luciuk Nov 22, 2025 Like most North Americans, I’m neither a billionaire nor a real estate developer, and I’ve never met Donald Trump.

RKSL The Frontline Nov 24, 2025   While the parties involved in the current discussions about ending Russia’s war against Ukraine have remained notably tight-lipped,

November 24, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS One can’t help but notice that the Trump regime’s preposterous 28-point non-peace “peace plan” for Ukraine and Russia has knocked

The powerful ATACMS missile system made an unexpected comeback, striking the Pogonovo training ground where a significant presence of Russian troops was reported. With restrictions

Enforcing the 28-point proposal would contradict 13 treaties and 23 political agreements Washington helped create Eerik N Kross November 24, 2025 Euromaidan Press   A

Dear Ukrainians!   There comes a moment in the life of every nation when everyone needs to talk things through. Honestly. Calmly. Without speculation, rumors,

OPINION As Trump seeks to make a deal over Ukraine with a modern-day Russian Stalin, we should recall what happened the last time a US

Without a better strategy, the U.S. could see defeat of democracy in the heart of Europe. Fareed Zakaria November 21, 2025 The Washington Post  

The 15–20 km “kill zone” in Pokrovsk poses a major threat to movement, complicating logistics. ISW, however, expects Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad to fall. By Yuri

Ruslan Mahamedrasulov has spent four months in pre-trial detention on espionage charges that have produced no evidence. Peeter Helme November 21, 2025 Euromaidan Press  

November 20, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS The 1938 Munich Agreement saw Britain and France force Czechoslovakia to cede the German-speaking Sudetenland to Nazi Germany. This solved

Newsweek Nov 20, 2025 By Brendan Cole   Germany’s push to make its army the strongest in Europe is essential given the threat posed by

Has the USA Recognized the Holodomor as Genocide? By Askold Lozynskyj I suggest that recognition of a nation’s genocide by a foreign state is a

Ukraine’s F-16s operate from night from small airstrips while under constant threat of Russian attack. Despite this, they’re surviving. David Axe November 17, 2025 Euromaidan

As many as 5,000 Russian glide bombs rain down on Ukraine every month. How can the Ukrainians slow the lethal rain? David Axe November 15,

November 15, 2025 bne IntelliNews   North Korea has significantly reduced its shipments of artillery shells to Russia in 2025, as domestic stockpiles show signs

Longtime Russia strategist Glen Howard argues Kyiv’s disruption of the North Korean arms route decisively proves the connectivity of the Europe and Indo-Pacific theaters. by

DIANE FRANCIS The salient developments suggesting collapse are as follows: Russia’s oil revenues are down 27% due to the effectiveness of sanctions and intense bombing

November 17, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS Ukrainians have been fighting a war with Russia for years, and now the country faces a war internally against some

Lubomyr Luciuk Nov 17, 2025 It’s not exactly a yellow brick road. The journey to the other side begins when you step off a nondescript

by Oleg Sukho The Kyiv Independent   Suspects in a major corruption case centered around the state nuclear power monopoly Enerhoatom are linked to a

Homegrown, female-driven scary movies in which witches and zombies lay waste to invading troops are proving popular in Ukraine. But why seek out horror on

Ukrainian orphans in their new Russian military uniforms represent the endpoint of Russia’s systematic child militarization program. Maxim Volovich November 12, 2025 Euromaidan Press  

By Joanna Kakissis, Tetiana Burianova, Polina Lytvynova NPR Nov 11, 2025   KYIV and KHARKIV, Ukraine — Maryna Mytsiuk spends her free time at a

By Derek Gatopoulos and Volodymyr Yurchuk Defense News Nov 10, 2025   KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At a secret location in rural Ukraine, columns of

Valerii Zaluzhnyi 10 November Henry Kissinger noted that the heaviest burden of politicians is the need to make decisions when there is not enough time

By Craig Langford November 9, 2025 UK Defense Journal   British transport aircraft continue to operate regular flights between RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and

Askold Lozynskyj Nov 8, 2025 This threat is as prevalent as feared. Anyone involved in any activity considered by the Russians to be inimical to

Russian forces attempted a risky pincer movement to outflank Ukrainian defenses near Velykomykhailivka in Dnipropetrovsk region, but Ukrainian drone operators and tank crews systematically destroyed

“Last November, I visited Pokrovsk and called it the farmhouse at Waterloo”, writes the former Ukrainian Marine, Shaun Pinner. Both places have mauled the army

November 10, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS The air war in Ukraine and Russia escalates, the ground war stalls, and allies are in disarray. Trump reconsiders giving

By John Varga Newsbreak Nov 7, 2025 A Ukrainian commander, Robert “Madyar” Brovdi, made a bold claim that his unit annihilated over 20,000 Russian troops.

Eurasia Daily Monitor By: Yuri Lapaiev November 6, 2025   Russian President Vladimir Putin shows no sign of giving up on his war against Ukraine

by Will Stewart, John O’Sullivan Nov 6, 2025 The Daily Express   A visibly paranoid Vladimir Putin has accused Western intelligence agencies of plotting to undermine

Ukrainian forces are conducting counterattacks around Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad to prevent encirclement, as Russian forces suffer hundreds of casualties daily. Despite enormous pressure and Russian

General Oleksandr Syrskyi launched a focused Ukrainian counterattack near Dobropillia to divert Russian attention from the brutal push on Pokrovsk. Using drone-mounted loudspeakers to broadcast

Kyiv is messaging it wants blackouts across west and south Russia, and has launched dozens of drone strikes targeting the Russian power grid to start

A 400-kilometer pipeline capable of transporting 7.4 million tons of fuel annually to Russian forces is out of operation after HUR operatives executed a coordinated

The road to Rodynske remaining open despite 170,000 Russian troops stationed on the Pokrovsk front. By Olena Mukhina 03/11/2025 Euromaidan Press   In these minutes,

The Frontline RKSL Nov 3, 2025 The Russian campaign to persuade the West of “good Russians” has intensified. It presents exiles and opposition figures as

Lubomyr Luciuk Nov 1, 2025 I don’t like surprises. So, when, on my first day in Peremyshyl, I was told I was going to be

As Russia pushes artillery forward to pound Pokrovsk with thermobaric weapons and 200 infiltrators spark street fighting in central districts, Ukrainian forces have launched a

  In an interview with Kyiv Post, Gen. (Ret.) Philip Breedlove says the West must drop “deterred” posture as Lithuania battles border incursions, insisting Moscow

Askold Lozynskyj The Ukrainian side has pretty much accepted every proposal for a temporary ceasefire knowing full well that a temporary ceasefire does not solve

Inside Putin’s weaponization of history — and how it became central to his war on Ukraine. by Martin Fornusek October 28, 2025 The Kyiv Independent

By Peter Dickinson October 28, 2025 Atlantic Council   Russia is deliberately targeting Ukrainian civilians in a deadly drone strike campaign that aims to depopulate

Drones dominate the skies in Ukraine. Below, ground robots evacuate the wounded where medics would die trying. David Kirichenko October 27, 2025 Euromaidan Press  

Analysts say president’s war on Russia’s fossil fuel revenues is a chance to bring peace to Ukraine and profit to US Jillian Ambrose 26 Oct

Volodymyr Mykolayenko, the ex-Ukrainian mayor who spent three years in captivity after refusing to serve Russia, speaks of the beatings and starvation he faced Marc

Doctors at the secret facility are able to perform amputations while others monitor zigzagging drones overhead Luke Harding 25 Oct 2025 The Guardian   Scrubby

Andy J. Semotiuk October 23, 2025 Forbes   For nearly three years, European leaders have discussed how to unlock Russian frozen assets held in Western

by Laura Kelly 10/23/25 The Hill   Senators are hoping to seize the momentum as President Trump goes on the offensive against Russian President Vladimir

Plan to connect nuclear plant to Russian grid was foiled and it has now been reconnected to Ukrainian power Dan Sabbagh and Artem Mazhulin 23

“This is the beginning of a long journey, but it takes us one step closer to a major export deal for Saab and Sweden and

David Kirichenko 21 Oct 2025 ASPI   The war between Russia and Ukraine stretches far beyond the trenches. Kyiv has been waging a shadow war,

By Oleksandr Tolokonnikov Oct 23, 2025 Atlantic Council   On October 20, pensioner Larisa Vakulyuk was killed by a Russian drone while tending to her

Think Four Weeks, Not Two Phillips P. OBrien Oct 23, 2025   You would not be mistaken in thinking that last night the Trump administration

NewsGuard Eva Maitland and McKenzie Sadeghi Oct 14, 2025   For U.S. citizens wary of the war in Ukraine and its cost to taxpayers, the

Askold Lozynskyj A subject of particular interest in Ukraine is Ukrainian American relations. I have the good fortune to have been invited by a number

Russia’s main summer offensive has officially failed, with Ukrainian forces launching clearing operations after repelling mechanized assaults near Pokrovsk. Since August 21, nearly 13,945 Russian

Ukraine has built up its own long-range strike capability and is now punishing Russia for its attacks. By Veronika Melkozerova October 17, 2025 POLITICO  

Russian forces tried to avoid Ukraine’s drones near Pokrovsk. But the attempt failed—and the drones wrecked an assault group. By David Axe 18/10/2025 Euromaidan Press

By Askold Lozynskyj The Summit at the White House between President Trump and President Zelensky on October 17, 2025 deserves further comment. At least in my

Andy J. Semotiuk October 15, 2025 Forbes   The forced transfer, indoctrination, and remoulding of Ukraine’s kidnapped children by Russia into loyal enemies of their

Bill Browder, Marcus Kolga and Aaron Gasch Burnett The Globe and Mail October 15, 2025   How might history, our Ukrainian friends or Canadians judge

We don’t know for sure how many Russian troops are dying in Ukraine right now. But it’s more than the Kremlin can replace. David Axe

Ukrainian authorities are growing frustrated with a surge in foreign components being found in Russian drones, with a senior diplomat calling on allies to tighten

Wave after wave of desperate Russian attacks were crushed by Ukrainian defenses near Dobropillia, leaving fields covered with dead soldiers tangled in razor wire. In

Even as they provide billions in aid to Ukraine, several EU countries, including France, the Netherlands, and Romania, have increased Russian energy imports in 2025,

Ukrainian drones and artillery isolate the last escape roads while intercepted messages reveal panic and starvation inside. The Frontline 12/10/2025 Euromaidan Press   Today, there

Along Donetsk’s frontline, a small counteroffensive by Ukrainian troops aims to help change perceptions about the war among Kyiv’s western allies By Luke Harding 11

September 23, 2025 Within the framework of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly, the Leaders’ Summit of the International Coalition for the Return

Ukrainian forces are exploiting intimate knowledge of supply routes they recently abandoned in the Serebryanski forest, using drone surveillance to systematically destroy Russian troops attempting

In the Baltic, Russian-linked vessels are suspected of spying and sabotage. Elisabeth Braw October 2, 2025 Foreign Policy   The infamous Pushpa, a unflagged tanker

Intelligence officials say Beijing is supplying reconnaissance and Kyiv has imposed sanctions on a Chinese company said to be providing drone parts for the war

By Humeyra Pamuk October 5, 2025 Reuters WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s administration is mobilizing U.S. diplomats to lobby against a U.N. resolution calling on

RKSL The Frontline Oct 5, 2025 Should Ukraine step aside and allow Russian drones and missiles and tanks to roll into Paris, Berlin, and Prague?

Bogdan Maftei The Erudite Elders Oct 4, 2025   The United States is finally doing something that actually changes the war for Ukraine. Not a

Destroying the Kerch Bridge would mean that Russian supplies for Crimea would have to travel a far more dangerous route, closer to the war’s front

Semi-automated interceptors can fill a gap in air defences — and help Europe address its own aerial vulnerabilities Ben Hall, Charles Clover and Laura Pitel

On patrol with Skala, whose fearless motorbike assaults have gained Ukraine valuable ground against Russia — but has it come at too high a cost?

In annexed Crimea, drivers are limited to five gallons of gas at the pump, and all Russians face higher taxes and less social spending as

Nico Lange Oct 3, 2025 CEPA From Madrid to Paris to Berlin to Warsaw, the leaves are changing to a glorious kaleidoscope of gold, orange,

How Russia seeks to weaponize Ukraine’s children. From Baltic to the Black Sea Cemil Kerimoglu Sep 22, 2025   In the shadowed corners of the

As the 22-month offensive collapses into blood and failure, Russian troops are asking if their commander ever stopped working for Ukraine. The Frontline 03/10/2025 Euromaidan

October 02, 2025 By Halyna Tereshchuk RFE/RL   JURECZKOWA, Poland — On a rainy morning on September 30, a team of Ukrainian researchers carefully cut

Askold Lozynskyj The Times of Israel reported: “Israel has delivered a Patriot air-defense system to Ukraine, which has been operational for a month. President Volodymy

October 2, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS Ukraine was the Silicon Valley of the former Soviet Union for decades, and it was mostly Ukrainians, not Russians, who

Disguised as cosmetics and sex toys, Russia’s parcel bombs could have turned cargo planes into falling fireballs. Investigative journalist Michael Weiss tells Euromaidan Press why

Day and night, Ukrainian FPV drones hunt Russian soldiers attempting to slip through Novotoretske’s ruins, while ambush teams wait in destroyed buildings. This systematic elimination

A Czech Republic-led effort gathers munitions for Kyiv from around the world, but an opposition party expected to win elections there has vowed to drop

The budget indicates that Russia will continue to fight largely as it has, locking it in a grinding war of attrition. Ivan Nechepurenko Sept 30,

Bucha was the war’s bloodiest civilian massacre. These 13 commanders led the troops accused of rape, torture and execution Dominic Hauschild, Oleksiy Morozov September 27,

Russia has failed to achieve its core aim — the destruction of the Ukrainian nation September 27, 20205 Yuval Noah Harari Financial Times   Contrary

The staggering toll means twenty Russian soldiers die for every single meter of territory gained, while some surviving Russians now use social media platforms to

Askold Lozynskyj The initial question and perhaps most important is, without any American support, how does Ukraine finance the war effort. Since Trump took over,

Ukrainian troops surround hundreds of Russian infantrymen, restoring hope after a brutal summer and, they say, swaying Trump in their favour Maxim Tucker September 25,

As Moldovans head to the polls on Sunday, Moscow is primed to unleash a cocktail of street protests, false flags, and reflexive control to topple

By Bohdan Cherniawski | July 23rd, 2025 In the waning weeks of August 1944, as the German military retreated across France and Allied divisions advanced

Sept. 23, 2025 By Thomas L. Friedman The New York Times   Sometimes you have to get outside America, and go to a place like

Since the beginning of the Ukraine War, Russia has kidnapped thousands of Ukrainian minors for forced adoptions and reeducation. Ilan Berman September 25, 2025 The

Askold Lozynskyj Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr, a Trump appointee, threatened the American Broadcasting Company and its parent Disney with licensing issues over comedian

  Ucrainica Research Institute is proud to announce the organization of the annual Holodomor Exhibit, which will be held in two locations this November in

September 25, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS President Donald Trump dropped several bombshells at the United Nations this week: He stated that Ukraine should and will win

The president’s remarks come after a meeting with Ukraine’s president. By Eli Stokols 09/23/2025 POLITICO   NEW YORK CITY — President Donald Trump said Tuesday

Unmaking of Nations By Bohdan Cherniawski Feature Essay – September 9, 2025 Summary The Russian Federation presents itself as a federation of equals, yet in

Assertions that Ukraine is banning Christianity are absurd. Ukrainian authorities are not banning anything. Rather, they are trying to curb Russian influence within a Kremlin-linked

Katya Soldak Forbes September 22, 2025   More than three and a half years into Russia’s full-scale invasion, and over a decade since Russia’s illegal

Mackenzie Hughes of Calgary was serving in Zaporizhzhia region when Russia attacked his position. Now, he hopes to get back on the battlefield Janice Dickson

Death of Andriy Parubiy in Lviv seen as part of a covert campaign of hits and car bombs waged by Moscow and Kyiv Shaun Walker

The gains could help counter Moscow’s narrative that Russian advances are unstoppable and that Kyiv should settle for a peace deal, even if it means

Oana Marocico and Seamus Mirodan, September 21, 2025 BBC News   A secret Russian-funded network is attempting to disrupt upcoming democratic elections in an eastern

By John Varga Express U.S. Newsbreak Sept. 22, 2025   Russia’s top military leadership is reportedly in chaos, with rumors of a looming purge of

Russian MiG-31s violated Estonian airspace, drones swarmed Poland and Romania, and Lavrov dismissed Trump’s land swap – while EU trumpets a 19th sanctions package. The

With 602 tanks lost, the Donbas fortress city is becoming this war’s Stalingrad Julian McBride September 18, 2025 Euromaidan Press Russia burns through 68 soldiers

The battlefield around Pokrovsk is “a total mess.” And it’s about to get worse. How many Russians are left in their salient northeast of Pokrovsk,

In the forests and villages outside Pokrovsk, foreign fighters ambushed infiltration groups and raised Ukrainian flags in secured areas. September 19, 2025 The Frontline Euromaidan

Understanding the historical and civilizational significance of Ukraine’s current struggle against Russia. CEMIL KERIMOGLU From Baltic to the Black Sea Sept 15, 2025   I

The Museum of Gdańsk’s project about the 450,000 Polish soldiers made to fight for the Third Reich has attracted rightwing protests, but others insist the

The Guardian joins the Swedish coastguard to patrol an area that has become a hybrid warfare battleground The Guardian Miranda Bryant 13 Sep 2025  

Askold Lozynskyj There is no other way to explain Trump’s second official state visit to the United Kingdom at the personal invitation of King Charles

Apple News Sept 18, 2025 Senate Republicans are growing increasingly exasperated over President Trump’s refusal to give them permission to move tough bipartisan sanctions legislation

HRL March 17, 2025 Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine includes a systematic campaign of forcibly moving children from Ukraine into Russia, fracturing their connection to

Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said shielding Ukraine from Russian drone attacks would protect the rest of Europe, too, amid concerns over the war’s spread. By

Eurasia Daily Monitor By Yuri Lapaiev September 17, 2025   On September 3, Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen announced that Ukrainian defense company Fire

By Thomas L. Friedman September 16, 2025 The New York Times   Since President Trump decided to rebrand the Defense Department as the Department of

David Kirichenko September 17, 2025 Forbes   Kyiv is intensifying its air campaign, aiming not only to destroy Russian oil refineries but also to expose

September 18, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS My August 28 newsletter, “Trump’s Peace Profiteering”, was about how President Donald Trump’s peace efforts in Ukraine have been impeded

From the front lines in Kherson, with one of Ukraine’s most lethal units Ken Harbaugh September 15, 2025 The Atlantic   On Ukraine’s front lines,

RKSL The Frontline September 15, 2025 Zapad, Russia’s great rehearsal of war staged in Belarus, now bears the mark of American participation, and that fact

The Black Sea has become Ukraine’s hunting ground. David Axe September 13, 2025 Euromaidan Press Ukrainian forces struck and damaged another ship supporting Russia’s war

Askold Lozynskyj During America’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent trip to Israel, the Prime Minister of Israel, in essence a thug under criminal prosecution

Andy Semotiuk Sept 16, 2025 At this moment, Ukraine is the epicentre of a confrontation between a beleaguered West struggling to maintain composure in the

Adrian Blomfield September 11, 2025 Smart News   The last time Russia held a major military exercise in Belarus, officials in Minsk and Moscow dismissed

Ukrainian and European officials say President Vladimir V. Putin has become emboldened by a lack of Western pushback. By Andrew E. Kramer September 11, 2025

Transitions Sept 9, 2025 Marta Prochwicz Jazowska Poland’s political infighting and rising anti-Ukrainian sentiment are weakening its ability to lead on European security and undermine

Kyiv will allow the Russian marauders to keep the toilets they stole, a daily reminder of their grubby defeat September 12, 2025 Survivors of brutality

  Charlie Kirk was a fierce and consistent critic of U.S. aid to Ukraine, describing the war as a conflict that is “not our fight”. 

September 11, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS Vladimir Putin just conducted a test run against NATO, and the alliance flunked. Russian drones entered Polish airspace, NATO shot

by Alexander J. Motyl 09/10/25 The Hill   If you think that a rogue state on the verge of systemic breakdown would have more important

Highly focused attacks are damaging the Kremlin’s key money-making facilities. They could eventually bleed Russia of war-fighting funds. Sergiy Makogon Sept 8, 2025 CEPA  

From a Crimean Tatar activist to an elite intelligence officer and former parliament speaker, each killing bears Russian fingerprints that demonstrate Moscow’s deadly reach inside

September 8, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS   “You may not be interested in the war, but the war is interested in you” — Russian Communist revolutionary

By Branislav Slantchev August 22, 2025   The first months of Trump’s return to office have been dominated by one question: what will he do

Askold Lozynskyj Clearly Russian aggression in Ukraine, beginning with the invasion in February 2014, contravenes the basic principles of the United Nations Charter. Add to

The West as “infidels”, Ukrainians as “heretics” CEMIL KERIMOGLU May 11, 2025 Many in the West struggle to grasp how Russia – once a key

America’s Alignment with Autocracy RKSL The Frontline Sep 5, 2025   The Washington Post on September 4, 2025, reports that the administration is ending long-standing

September 4, 2025 Diane Francis China hosted world leaders this week and showed off its military hardware at the latest Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked President Donald Trump for having a “long and detailed” conversation with him and other European leaders about how to possibly

RKSL The Frontline September 3, 2025 As soon as we learned that the man who murdered Andriy Parubiy was the estranged father of a Ukrainian

Askold Lozynskyj Further to my recent piece on this subject, following some comments from my readers, I believe that some clarification is needed. All agents

September 1, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS The Battle of Stalingrad in 1943 was history’s bloodiest battle and a turning point in the Second World War because

Ukrainian World Congress August 30,2025   The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) deeply mourns the tragic loss of Andriy Parubiy and strongly condemns his senseless murder.

Askold Lozynskyj “The top leader of the world’s foremost superpower is, objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset,” Portugal’s President de Sousa said, according to the

by Lev Stesin Algemeiner Aug 29, 2025   On August 24, 1939 — almost exactly 86 years ago — Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and

August 30, 2025 by Martin Fornusek, Lucy Pakhnyuk The Kyiv Independent   Andrii Parubii, a Ukrainian politician who previously served as the parliament speaker and

By Bohdan Cherniawski August 24, 2025 At Queen’s Park, a weathered Crimean War cannon stood as Ukraine’s flag was raised — a reminder that what

Stop Pandering to Putin “The truth appears so naked on my side, that any purblind eye may find it out.” – Shakespeare, Henry VI August

Three years of grinding war between Russia and Ukraine has dramatically changed the way militaries large and small fight. And the innovations keep coming. By

RKSL The Frontline Aug 28, 2025 Russia rained death on Ukraine again last night, tearing children from their beds, setting homes ablaze, and leaving neighborhoods

By Anna Hirtenstein and Marwa Rashad August 26, 2025 Reuters   LONDON – U.S. and Russian government officials discussed several energy deals on the sidelines

More meaningless jargon from the foreign policy blob on NATO, Ukraine, and Russia. GARRY KASPAROV Aug 26, 2025   If you pay close attention to

By Alexander Motyl Aug 25, 2025 National Security Journal   Key Points and Summary – The biggest threat to Ukraine may not be on the

AUDREY MACALPINE August 24, 2025 The Telegraph   On Aug 11, Russian soldiers breached Ukraine’s front-line defences and penetrated at least six miles behind enemy

“We are with you every step of the way,” the Canadian prime minister said in Independence Day ceremony. By Mike Blanchfield August 24, 2025 POLITICO

EXCLUSIVE: Russia is treating kids as prisoners of war and hostages. Their lives have been stolen. By Zak Garner-Purkis Aug 23, 2025 Daily Express  

Ukraine’s blue and yellow colors trace back to 1256 when Prince Danylo Halytskyi created Lviv’s coat of arms – beginning a 767-year journey through persecution,

Bouquet Kyiv Stage Festival in its 8th year, is itself an act of resistance. by Julian Knysh Aug. 24, 2025 Kyiv Post   Kyiv is

My late father, Evhen Lozynskyj, belonged to that Greatest Generation of Ukrainians who grew up and struggled between the world wars of the last century,

How Russia buys time with fake diplomacy while building 200,000-strong drone forces. The tactical breakdown every leader needs to understand. Jānis Bērziņš Aug 22, 2025

Aug 23, 2025 Embarrassingly, special envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to allow security guarantees. “Allow.” Really, Putin would allow

A New York tech CEO is finding the answer to Russia’s three-to-one manpower advantage. David Kirichenko August 19, 2025 Euromaidan Press   The math is

As negotiations over the war carry on, President Vladimir V. Putin is pushing hard with tactics that have evolved over three and a half years.

Aug. 19, 2025 By Thomas L. Friedman The New York Times I am really trying to be fair in analyzing the Trump-Putin-Zelensky-Europe drama that has

Peter Navarro Aug 18, 2025 The Hill   Here’s how the India-Russia oil mathematics works. American consumers buy Indian goods. India uses those dollars to

Timothy Snyder The Globe and Mail August 18, 2025   In the ancient world, people spoke of “Ultima Thule,” a mythical land in the extreme

Ukraine has a new cruise missile. It may be one of the hardest-hitting missiles in the world. But it’s unclear how many Kyiv can afford.

‘It Is Important That the United States Sends a Clear Signal That It Will Be Among the Countries Helping with Security Guarantees for Ukraine” –

TIMOTHY SNYDER Aug 17, 2025   As Ukrainian and European leaders travel to Washington for discussions in the White House this Monday about ending Russia’s

by Steff Danielle Thomas 08/16/25 The Hill   Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) tore into President Trump early Saturday after his high-stakes meeting with

August 18, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS Many news stories have been written about the failed Trump-Putin Summit on August 15, and more will be written about

By Askold Lozynskyj I could not imagine a more substance depleted and yet very revealing summit than Alaska 2025.  The sycophancy was dramatic and the

David Kirichenko 15 August 2025 Lowy Institute   Throughout the invasion, Kyiv has fought an asymmetric campaign to offset Russia’s numerical advantage in soldiers and

Facts don’t defeat fascists. Fear does. Alya Shandra August 13, 2025 Euromaidan Press   You show Russians footage of their soldiers dying in Ukraine. They

For those who feared the summit on Ukraine might resemble Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler in 1938, the reality was worse David Smith 16 August 2025

President Donald Trump dropped his demand for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Here are five takeaways from the

Alaska was not diplomacy. It was surrender. The summit was never about peace. It was theater. Vladimir Putin arrived with demands, staged his photo beside

Stagecraft abroad cannot erase conquest at home. By Bohdan Cherniawski | August 15th 2025 The Alaska summit looked like a breakthrough—for Russia. The United States

by Alexander J. Motyl 08/12/25 The Hill Trump, who was supposed to impose ruinous secondary sanctions on Aug. 8 but did not (shades of TACO?),

By Lubomyr Luciuk Aug 13, 2025 Maybe he should start looking for a new job. As Alaska’s governor, Mike Dunleavy has been a great booster

RKSL The Frontline Aug 13, 2025 Donald Trump is preparing to bring Vladimir Putin, an indicted war criminal, onto American soil under the false pretext

Ukrainian Canadian Congress August 14, 2025   Recently, US President Trump said that the Russians would have been in Kyiv in “four hours” but the

US has underestimated the Russian president’s fixation on conquering his neighbour, meaning the proposed deal is unlikely to satiate his desire Marc Bennetts August 12,

Statement by President Macron, Prime Minister Meloni, Chancellor Merz, Prime Minister Tusk, Prime Minister Starmer, President von der Leyen and President Stubb on Peace for

Ukraine fears that the Kremlin will try to convince President Trump at U.S.-Russian talks in Alaska that Ukraine, not Russia, is the obstacle to peace.

August 11, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS Ukrainians are cynical about the August 15 Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska and for good reason. They are directly involved but

Andy Semotiuk Aug 10, 2025 CEED Putin’s claim that ‘all of Ukraine is ours’ raises fears of appeasement at the Alaska talks. President Donald Trump

RKSL The Frontline Aug 10, 2025   On the eve of Donald Trump welcoming Russia’s genocidal leader, Vladimir Putin, onto American soil, there are credible

President Donald Trump, who recently threatened Russia with sanctions over its war in Ukraine, is set to meet Vladimir Putin in Alaska next week. By

By Askold Lozynskyj Yesterday was August 8, 2025. Additional sanctions were to be imposed on Russia and secondary tariffs on countries that continue to purchase

by The Associated Press Aug 9, 2025 KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Saturday the planned summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and

By Sam Kiley The Independent Aug 7, 2025   A long-overdue summit between the presidents of the United States and the Russian Federation to discuss

By Alice Edwards August 7, 2025 The New York Times   One of the few successes to come out of the recent peace negotiations between

Drones can be stopped by nets that entangle their propellers, halting them in their tracks before they can reach their targets Marc Bennetts August 6,

by Tim Zadorozhnyy August 8, 2025 The Kyiv Independent   Russian oil companies are redirecting shipments of Urals crude from India to China after U.S.

Russia launches ‘catalog’ of Ukrainian children for adoption, sorted by eye and hair color August 7, 2025 The Kyiv Independent Martin Fornusek   Russian occupation

Aug. 5, 2025 By Mikhail Zygar The New York Times   Mr. Zygar is a Russian journalist and the author of the newsletter The Last

Krzysztof Mularczyk Brussels Signal Aug 1, 2025   Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed into law legislation that recognises ethnic Ukrainians expelled from Communist Poland

The allies attempt to “out-math” the Russians. Bullets are cheaper than Shaheds. WES O’DONNELL Aug 3, 2025 AFU   Every now and then, military history

August 3, 2025 By Janusz Bugajski The National Interest   Messaging from the Kremlin over the last year reveals deep concerns about Russia’s internal unity

By Alexander Motyl Aug. 1, 2025 National Security Journal   Donald Trump just made a sensational assertion on his Truth Social site: “I have just

The Third Army Corps’ interception unit has Moscow’s Iranian-designed Shahed suicide drones in its sights but must constantly adapt to catch its target Maxim Tucker

It took London and eight years to bring to justice Ukraine’s richest men who siphoned off 1.5% of its GDP Peeter Helme August 2, 2025

Diane Francis August 4, 2025   Putin and Russia are a greater threat to the world than was Hitler and Nazi Germany, but a sea

Operation has retrieved 11 babas from southern Ukraine, where Turkic nomadic people flourished in medieval times Luke Harding 31 July 2025 The Guardian   A

A Ukraine without Ukrainians: Putin is erasing Europe’s largest nation Peter Dickinson July 31, 2025 Atlantic Council   When Ukrainian schoolchildren in Russian-occupied regions of

A Russian tank column rolled into a bloody disaster outside Siversk in eastern Ukraine. But Moscow’s troops are still advancing. By David Axe 29/07/2025 Euromaidan

The Times joins the elite Ukrainian troops using UK-built mobile howitzers to hold back the enemy’s advances Maxim Tucker July 25, 2025 The Times  

US president expresses frustration with Putin after meeting with UK PM amid pressure on Russia for ceasefire George Chidi 28 July 2025 The Guardian  

July 28, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS Vladimir Putin’s war against Europe began in 1985, the minute he landed in Germany as a KGB agent. Posing as

By Askold Lozynskyj The people of Ukraine are the best. I was about to say that Ukrainian democracy is the strongest in the world, but

RKSL The Frontline July 25, 2025   The late governor of Texas, Ann Richards, once said that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, only

By: Andreas Umland July 24, 2025 The National Interest   The change in Trump’s rhetoric vis-à-vis Russia has so far meant very little. After threatening

By Bohdan Cherniawski | July 23rd, 2025 In the waning weeks of August 1944, as the German military retreated across France and Allied divisions advanced

By DAVID AXE 20/07/2025 Forbes   An anti-aircraft vehicle from the Cold War is enjoying a dramatic second career in Ukraine—as a top killer of

The first of up to 49 fresh M-1 Abrams tanks have arrived in Ukraine. What will the Ukrainian military do with the 69-ton, four-person vehicles

Robyn Dixon July 19, 2025 The Washington Post   Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rejection of President Donald Trump’s peace overtures and his continued killing of

Germany pledges five Patriots, Norway — billions for drones, as Ukraine’s new defense chief leads first major international push since taking office The allies agree

By Askold Lozynskyj This is an attempted analysis of the more than a decade long war of Russian aggression in Ukraine with the aim of

An intelligence war rages as a network of Russian agents constantly attempt to penetrate Ukraine’s defences, and recently succeeded in killing a colonel Maxim Tucker

Former State Department adviser and CIA analyst Paul Goble says Trump’s 50-day deadline gives Russia the green light for summer offensive. by Alex Raufoglu July

Simon Shuster July 17, 2025 TIME Magazine   Vladimir Putin could not make out the names of the missing children that appeared on the screen

Bhagyasree Sengupta July 19, 2025 First Post   Amid the grave war that has been raging on between Russia and Ukraine for three years, one

Hundreds more long-range Furious drones are coming, funded by Berlin. David Axe July 7, 2025 Euromaidan Press   Germany is reportedly paying for the production

By Askold Lozynskyj According to The New York Times current United States trade with the Russian Federation stands at 3 billion in imports and only

Russia’s war in Ukraine is not only transforming the battlefield, it is also rewriting the rules of battlefield medicine. By David Kirichenko July 16, 2025

The Frontline, RKSL July 15, 2025   Donald Trump’s latest scheme, which allows NATO to purchase American weapons for Ukraine while the United States steps

Ian Garner July 16, 2025 UnHerd   Donald Trump, apparently “disappointed” by Russia’s increasingly intense attacks on Ukraine over the past month, is on the

July 17, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS President Donald Trump finally admitted on July 14 that Vladimir Putin had strung him along and announced massive weapons shipments

Azov’s intel chief “Gandalf” lays out Ukraine’s evolving war doctrine – from drone strikes to long-war reforms – and warns the West: Russia’s war is

The Times criticizes Ukraine’s legitimate self-defense against Russia while Vladimir Putin’s troops escort their reporter. GARRY KASPAROV July 15, 2025 The New York Times  

By Andy J. Semotiuk July 15, 2025 Forbes On July 14, in an announcement that caught both allies and critics off guard, former President Donald

OPINION Despite tough talk on Russia and promises of new weapons for Ukraine, Trump’s vague timeline and lack of details spark skepticism, while the Kremlin

Recognising Putin is not serious about peace is first step towards ‘strategic neutralisation’ proposed by ex-minister Dan Sabbagh 13 July 2025 The Guardian   While

If the plan is finalized, it would allow critical aid to flow to Ukraine as it endures one of Russia’s heaviest assaults of the war.

By John Varga and Brigid Brown, Newsbreak July 8, 2025 The command echelon of Russia’s formidable 155th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade has been completely decimated,

Reports emerged of attacks near key military sites, including the Kronstadt drone plant, defense factories in Tula, and strategic aviation facilities in Taganrog and Lukhovitsy.

Ilan Berman July 8, 2025 Newsweek Last month’s conflict between Israel and Iran has only just concluded, but its results are already being felt throughout

Request to clarify details on military aid comes after Donald Trump says US will ‘send more weapons’ Luke Harding Kyiv 8 July 2025 The Guardian

By Andy Semotiuk July 8, 2025 CEED   Three years into Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. and other Western countries (especially the EU)

July 7, 2025 Diane Francis War news broke fast and furiously in recent days concerning Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine. On July 2, allies were

By Askold Lozynskyj Is President Trump working on ending the war in Ukraine? You can say that. Since he took office he has not imposed

Three Ukrainian soldiers fired 125mm shells at point-blank range near the village of Yablunivka, halting a month-long Russian offensive aimed at Sumy Oblast. David Axe

Azerbaijan has been pushing back against Russian dominance in the Caucasus region, seeking closer ties with Turkey and Israel. By Mary Ilyushina July 3, 2025

The Kremlin seeks to marginalize and delegitimize nations once colonized by the U.S.S.R., including Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine By Marcus Kolga July 4, 2025

  Western Half Measures Have Prolonged the War, but Decisive Action Now Could End It Michael Carpenter July 1, 2025 Foreign Affairs   When U.S.

Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians. Anne Applebaum July 4, 2025 The Atlantic   The American president wrote, “Vladimir,

Ihor Kalynets, a prominent Ukrainian poet, dissident and political prisoner, a member of the 60’s movement known as the “Shestydesiatnyky” passed away at the age

While Ukraine’s allies debated aid, 150 weekend engineers launched the rapid-response pipeline smoking NATO deadlines — delivering tech that crashes Russia’s multi-billion weapons within weeks.

By Wellingtone Nyongesa June 16, 2025 Standard Media   In a twist of historical irony, Vladimir Putin’s aggressive campaign in Ukraine has cast a renewed

By Andy J. Semotiuk June 17, 2025 CEED   Against the breathtaking backdrop of Canada’s Rocky Mountains in Alberta, U.S. President Trump jolted the Kananaskis

A new report claims that Ukrainian children are being forced into a sprawling network of militarised camps and indoctrinated by Moscow to rebuild its armies

Covert strikes across Russia and beyond are reshaping a conflict that shows no signs of letting up. David Ignatius June 5, 2025 The Washington Post

Aerial strikes hit US aerospace giant’s premises in Kyiv, raising questions about Moscow’s intent Christopher Miller June 15, 2025 Financial Times   A building used

Ukraine has achieved a breakthrough in its domestic missile program. A new Ukrainian ballistic missile has completed a combat test, striking a Russian command post

Status quo huggers hide behind fear of what might happen instead of confronting the brutal truth of what’s actually happened or is happening. GARRY KASPAROV

Kseniya Kirillova June 11, 2025 CEPA   Even the regime’s favored media has spotted the increasing reluctance to sign up for the war. The “last

The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services. A company owned by a Russian

They look like they should be fixing your Wi-Fi or brewing oat milk lattes—but inside a bunker near the frontline, they’re building $300 drones that

The moral and strategic chasm is undeniable. While Ukrainian strikes on military targets are a defensive necessity, Russian terror bombing campaigns are in hopes of

The Ukrainian military says its new weapon system, which launches antiaircraft missiles from a remote-controlled speedboat, has brought down two Russian jet fighters. By Maria

Rebuilt from Soviet wreckage with CIA help, Ukraine’s spy agency hunts down Putin’s top allies on three continents — crossing every “red line” the White

by Laura Kelly 06/04/25 The Hill   Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is proposing a carveout for his Russia sanctions bill to exempt countries that help

Oleksii Plastun 2 June 2025 Vox Ukraine   After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many international academic and para-academic organizations suspended membership of

Bogdan Maftei Erudite Elders June 4, 2025   In a meticulously planned covert operation eighteen months in the making, Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) launched a

It may be lost on Trump, but Ukraine’s battle against Russia’s invasion is just remarkable. George F. Will June 4, 2025 The Washington Post  

Europe has the money and the artillery shells, but key U.S. capabilities like operational intelligence and air defense would be difficult to replace. By Steven

Greg Sargent June 10, 2025 New Republic   Data vital to tracking these abducted Ukrainian children may have suddenly disappeared. A bipartisan group of House

Benedict Smith June 4, 2025 The Telegraph A senior official who dismantled the US government’s Russian disinformation unit is married to a Russian woman with

Christopher Burgess May 31, 2025 The Kyiv Independent   From my vantage point, having recently attended the Kyiv International Cyber Resilience Forum (KICRF) and witnessing

Confiscating the funds would shock Putin, help Ukraine, and take advantage of disillusionment in the US economy Phillip Inman 31 May 2025 The Guardian  

Armed with glide bombs and “NATO Wi-Fi,” F-16s strike Russians around Sumy while elite brigades abandon the north. David Axe June 2, 2025 Euromaidan Press

Kyiv Won’t Compromise on Its Sovereignty Because It Isn’t Facing Defeat Dmytro Kuleba May 30, 2025   Ever since the inauguration of U.S. President Donald

A drone attack damaged Russia’s bomber fleet — and exposed air base vulnerabilities worldwide. The Washington Post Max Boot June 1, 2025   On Sunday

Transitions May 28, 2025 Ondrej Kundra   Kherson was turned into a giant hunting ground. How do people live there under the constant attacks from

Young Ukrainians, abducted by Russia from occupied lands, are being trained to fight for Putin. To find them, a Canadian-funded project looks behind a new

Kyiv claims to have hit enemy airbases with a barrage of drones smuggled into Russia in an operation overseen by President Zelensky that took 18

Askold Lozynskyj I cannot deny my conviction that the result of the latest presidential election in Poland is troubling. Recently, Poland had been on a

May 30, 2025 After the recent call between the American and Russian presidents and negotiations in Istanbul, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov once again made

While Ukrainian diplomats in Istanbul pretended not to understand Russian during negotiations, the Ukrainian special services exploit that knowledge in warfare. A Ukrainian linguist tells

By Bohdan Cherniawski | May 30th, 2025 In the theater of modern warfare, where conventional battles collide with cyber tactics, drone strikes, and sabotage, few

How Soft Rhetoric and False Neutrality Betray Ukraine and Democracy Itself By Bohdan Cherniawski Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a troubling

By Kateryna Odarchenko Atlantic Council May 27, 2025   In recent months, US-led efforts to initiate a Russia-Ukraine peace process have focused primarily on the

Stephen Blank May 26, 2025 Euromaidan Press   Donald Trump is selling Ukraine and European security out to Moscow. However, he has not gotten his

May 26, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS The world’s most boastful dealmaker was out-maneuvered by the world’s most murderous leader in a two-hour phone call on May

By Askold Lozynskyj I had the good fortune to lecture at two of the preeminent universities of Lviv. That is always a favorite part of

Andreas Umland May 22, 2025 The Kyiv Independent   In the early 19th century, one of the founding fathers of modern war studies, the Prussian

Three years after Ukraine’s allies gave it three days to live, its “track pants soldiers” are still redefining global warfare — exposing the painful truth

May 21, 2025 By Brendan Cole Newsweek   Moscow and Kyiv must independently end the war started by Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump has told

How Soft Rhetoric and False Neutrality Betray Ukraine and Democracy Itself By Bohdan Cherniawski Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a troubling

For over a decade, ‘Pravfond’ has been providing legal aid to Russians across the world. Internal emails obtained by journalists show how it collaborated with

Trump appeared to accept Putin’s demand to postpone a ceasefire until after negotiations, and there was little to indicate Russia had abandoned demands Ukraine finds

The Case for Seizing Russian Assets to Fund Ukraine’s Defense Wally Adeyemo and David Shimer May 21, 2025 Foreign Affairs   As Russia continues its

by Yevheniia Motorevska May 18, 2025 The Kyiv Independent   As Ukraine’s liberating forces advanced in the fall of 2022, several trucks stopped near the

Putin’s soldiers travelling to the Ukrainian frontline at night have been left exposed due to inexpensive kit By Carrington Walker May 19, 2025 The Express

After Trump’s third phone call with Putin since his inauguration, it appears there will be no let- up in fighting and less U.S. pressure on

Topics included news about POW exchanges, and various possible venues for follow-up talks, but the President held firm that Ukraine will not “withdraw our troops

By Bohdan Cherniawski May 18, 2025   Ukrainian Roots in the Far East In the summer of 2020, the Russian Far East—often dismissed as a

May 19, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS   Putin was a no-show in Istanbul on May 16 at a summit to end the war in Ukraine. For

The National Interest May 5, 2025 By: David Kirichenko   A wave of assassinations deep inside Russia is rattling the Kremlin, eroding Putin’s sense of

David Kirichenko May 16, 2025 The Hill   A common talking point from President Trump is that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “has no cards.” This

By Askold Lozynskyj   The People’s Republic of China is one of the most powerful and complex countries in the world. To understand even  its name and 

By Ihor Rosomakha May 16, 2025   When Frederick Forsyth published The Devil’s Alternative in 1979, it was billed as a Cold War thriller—a genre

oleksandr.pukhliak@mfa.gov.ua Appeal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to the Parliaments and Governments of Foreign States and International Organizations Regarding the True Intentions of the

Quora May 15, 2025   Russia’s invasion of Ukraine isn’t just about borders or NATO. It’s a symptom of something far deeper and darker. It

Sonya Bilocerkowycz on the Impact of Generational Trauma in the Midst of Russia’s Ongoing Imperialist Onslaught By Sonya Bilocerkowycz May 12, 2025 LIT HUB  

The Kotlyne Counterattack That Changed the Game U.S.-Ukraine Foundation ROBERT MCCONNELL   With NATO tactics and night operations, Ukraine turned a potential defeat into a

What’s needed is balance, not appeasement of Putin Derek H. Burney May 14, 2025 National Post   Donald Trump prides himself in being the consummate

Days after his election as head of Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV calls Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Christopher Miller and Amy Kazmin May 12, 2025

Ukraine reportedly destroyed a KN-09 rocket launcher in Kursk Oblast, striking a blow against Moscow’s foreign weapons pipeline. David Axe May 12, 2025 Euromaidan Press

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Svitlana eliminated a Russian assault team that had infiltrated behind Ukrainian positions on the

Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior member of Zelensky’s team, said that the idea that the Russian president would agree to a rational peace deal was an

Keno Verseck May 11, 2025 Deutsche Welle   An unprecedented smear campaign against Ukraine is raging in Hungary. Prime Minister Viktor Orban wants his fellow

by Andrea Januta, Linda Hourani, Kate Tsurkan May 11, 2025 The Kyiv Independent   Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include comments from

In Ukraine’s 25-kilometer kill zone, nothing moves unseen—and few make it through. Yevheniia Martyniuk May 10, 2025 Euromaidan Press   Ukraine has established a lethal

Ukrainian security services claimed to have uncovered a Hungarian spy ring gathering information about military activities in Ukraine’s western Transcarpathia region. Isobel Koshiw, Serhii Korolchuk

May 11, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS Popes can alter the course of history through moral force, not military or political might. This week, the Vatican’s conclave

The process for “habemus papam” was relatively short in duration, but the election was surprising unless one had insider information and even then. The conclave

May 5, 2025 Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter   Bernard-Henri Lévy, the French writer and public intellectual, and Lina Kostenko, the renowned Ukrainian poet and former Soviet dissident,

While tanks and troops parade through Red Square, the leader of the Freedom of Russia Legion has accused the Kremlin of using WWII battles to

Ukraine’s AI drones strike Russian vehicles until they finally score a hit. Is this a solution to Russian jamming? David Axe May 8, 2025 Euromaidan

May 9, 2025 by Chris York The Kyiv Independent   Amid much pomp, military machinery, and the threat of Ukrainian drone strikes, Russian President Vladimir

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor By: Elena Davlikanova May 6, 2025   This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the

by Victor Rud May 7, 2025 EU Today   If you doubted that Putin’s mind slaughter works, it does. Reality reversal, reflex control, conditioned response,

Ukrainian forces eliminated 14 Russian soldiers attempting a novel concealment strategy, resorting to increasingly desperate measures against advanced reconnaissance technology on the Donbas front. By

From Trump Tower to the Vatican: inside the tortuous dealmaking to link Kyiv’s resources to US support Christopher Miller and James Politi May 1, 2025

Kyiv is fast becoming the ‘arsenal of the free world’ but critical vulnerabilities remain Fermin Torrano May 4, 2025 The Telegraph   On a sunny

By Robert Leslie and Mia Jankowicz May 5, 2025 Business Insider   An international volunteer who fought in Ukraine told Business Insider that Russia’s armed

May 5, 2025 Diane Francis   On May 9, President Vladimir Putin will preside over an annual military parade in Red Square to celebrate “Victory

A Patriot air-defense system is moving from Israel to Ukraine, and Western allies are discussing the logistics of getting Germany or Greece to send another.

By Bohdan Cherniawski May 4, 2025 On May 4, 1915, the thunder of artillery and rifle fire faded across the slopes of Mount Makivka in

The Moscow Times May 2, 2025   The U.S. Department of State approved the sale of training and technical support for F-16 fighters to Ukraine,

On May 9, Russia will stage its annual Victory Day parade in Moscow’s Red Square — a lavish display of military power wrapped in historical

May 1, 2025 On April 30, in Washington, Ukraine’s Minister of Economy, Yulia Svyrydenko, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have signed The Agreement on

Move seals a deal to create a fund the Trump administration says will begin to repay roughly $175bn provided to Ukraine Andrew Roth 1 May

Ukraine has created a macabre points scheme based on video games to boost the effectiveness of its soldiers. By Veronika Melkozerova April 29, 2025 POLITICO

Ukraine has adapted strategies and weapons during its fight against Russia. It is now banking on expanding the use of domestically produced drones, even though

Roman Sheremeta April 29, 2025 CEPA   Ukraine faces a moment of acute national peril. Having fought a war for national survival against an imperialist

Why America’s pandering to Putin is no “peace plan,” why the rest of the West must reject appeasement, and why Ukraine must be prepared for

By Stephen Blank April 28, 2025 19fortyfive   Russian President Vladimir Putin has just played his latest trick. On April 28, he suddenly announced a

The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months By Juliette Garside, Shaun Walker, Manisha Ganguly, Pjotr

Stuart Anderson April 27, 2025 Forbes Experts say Donald Trump has a poor understanding of the history and causes of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Analysts

Accepting Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea would upend a core tenet of U.S. foreign policy. Max Boot The Washington Post April 24, 2025   In

Askold Lozynskyj In many instances the lying is a result of ignorance. Trump watches television, but he does not read much and very often assumes

by Alexander J. Motyl April 25, 2025 The Hill   It must hurt to be hoist with one’s own petard. President Trump would know. Having

Tom Nichols April 23, 2025 The Atlantic   Donald Trump said on the campaign trail that he would make peace between Ukraine and Russia in

Adding recognition of Crimea as part of Russia to negotiations makes no sense and suggests ulterior motives. Michael McFaul April 23, 2025 McFaul’s World  

April 25, 2025 Ihor Rosomakha   Donald Trump’s rhetoric around preventing World War III paints a picture of himself as a global savior, but a

April 25, 2025 Ihor Rosomakha The status of Crimea remains one of the most consequential and enduring fault lines in contemporary international relations. Since the

by Martin Fornusek April 24, 2025 Newsweek   President Volodymyr Zelensky said on April 23 that Ukraine will always act in accordance with its Constitution,

Several initiatives intended to hold Moscow accountable for war crimes in Ukraine have been vacated, including a bipartisan intelligence coordinator office. April 22, 2025 By

April 24, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS   Trump botched the Russia-Ukraine situation by appointing a Brooklyn real estate developer with Russian oligarch partners to be his

In 1994, Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. Russia invaded anyway. Now, more nations ask: Why disarm if those promises

Ukraine forcefully rejected the Trump administration’s proposal to recognize Crimea as Russian territory, leading US Secretary of State Rubio to withdraw from scheduled London negotiations

Italy has shipped Storm Shadow missiles and SAMP/T air defense systems while pledging $1.5 billion for 2025 along—arming Ukraine with significant firepower while keeping the

UK and Europe will have to supply arms to Kyiv and strengthen our own defences, which will require a radical rethink William Hague April 21,

The secretary of state and the top American commander in Europe just gave two very different perspectives on the war. Mark Hertling April 21, 2025

April 21, 2025   On May 3, 2025, a march cloaked in nostalgia will snake through the streets of Washington, D.C. to honor Soviet veterans

by Kate Tsurkan April 21, 2025 The Kyiv Independent   Pope Francis, who passed away on April 21 at 88, leaves behind a legacy as

by Alexander J. Motyl 04/21/25 The Hill   Why are the American president and vice president so reluctant to visit Ukraine? After all, both are

Ronia Lozynskyj April 15, 2025 Donald Trump’s hostility toward Ukraine is no accident. It is part of a long-standing pattern, a vendetta born from personal

Vitalii Dribnytsia engages with Russians online to correct Kremlin propaganda about Ukraine. Over time, he has come to realize his more important audience is Ukrainians

18 April 2025 SERGIY SYDORENKO, European Pravda SAUL LOEB, AFP/East News   Trump’s team has finally acknowledged that Ukraine has also suffered significant losses for

Forged in occupation, Bucha’s women turned from war victim into drone hunters, protecting the very ground where they once ran for cover. By Vira Kravchuk

The Moscow Times By Inna Bondarenko April 14, 2025 Last week, while Russian missiles rained down on Ukrainian cities, the Kremlin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev

By Taras Kuzio April 17, 2025 The Moscow Times After talks with President Vladimir Putin, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said he was optimistic about soon

April 18, 2025 For much of the past decade, Ukraine has stood as a frontline defender of democracy, fighting not only for its own survival

By Peter Dickinson April 17, 2025 Atlantic Council   As Germany’s next chancellor Friedrich Merz prepares to boost support for Ukraine, the Kremlin is already

The strike on Sumy wasn’t an error, aberration or mishap. It fits into Russia’s long-established tactics — and Washington knows that. April 16, 2025 By

April 16, 2025 Bloomberg Alex Stezhensky   The United States has softened its demands regarding repayment for aid to Ukraine during talks over a bilateral

What explains the Trump administration’s radical reversal toward Moscow?   By Jonathan Mahler April 12, 2025 The New York Times   In 1989, shortly before

Ukrainian president says US president can visit any city, as Trump says deadly bombing of Sumy on Sunday ‘a mistake’ Luke Harding 14 April 2025

Kateryna Shkarlat RBC-Ukraine April 11, 2025   Ukraine has tripled its weapons production in 2024. In particular, missile production has increased eightfold compared to 2023,

April 14, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS Donald Trump took a wrecking ball to the global trading system last week, then bragged that world leaders were “kissing

‘Russians are even trying to ban our holidays’ – women speak out from occupied Ukraine Vitaliy Shevchenko BBC News April 13, 2025   “Russians are

Five murdered Ukrainian artists. Thousands of unborn masterpieces. One methodical Russian campaign to erase a culture. By Orysia Hrudka 09/04/2025 “I wish I had never

April 11th 2025 In April 2025, a senior U.S. envoy proposed dividing Ukraine along the Dnipro River — not as metaphor, but as policy. General

By David Hambling April 9, 2025 Forbes   Ukraine is fielding carrier drones or motherships to transport FPVs to the target area before launching them.

The attack in southern Ukraine could offset Russia’s manpower advantage in the region, where a dozen or more Russian regiments and brigades face just a

A former Ukrainian commander-in-chief describes Ukraine’s DELTA battlefield-management system and other adaptations. By Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi April 10, 2025 Defense One   Ukraine’s tactical drones

Kyra Laubacher April 10, 2025 Pointe   In August 2022, six months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Adrenaline Films producer Julie Meyer

Timothy Snyder Apr 10, 2025 Trump has an obvious weakness that makes America weak. He places the American economy at risk for the sake of

Gen. Christopher Cavoli will tell Congress today that the US and NATO “need to prepare” to meet the long-term threat Russia poses. Kyiv Post gets

By Unshin Lee Harpley Air and Space Forces Magazine   Ukrainian Air Force pilots are operating F-16 fighters “every day,” targeting missile threats and striking

By Peter Dickinson Atlantic Council April 8, 2025   Almost one month since Ukraine agreed to a US-led unconditional ceasefire, Russia has this week come

Daria Synhaievska March 10, 2025 Ukraine World   Since gaining independence, Ukraine has faced active attempts by Russia to create agent networks in various spheres

The Washington Post Editorial Board April 4, 2025   By imposing secondary sanctions on buyers of Russian oil and gas, the U.S. president could push

Inside the Lives of Ukraine’s Tired, Determined Drone Pilots Jakub Laichter April 6, 2025 The New Republic   A column of smoke rises on the

Appeasing Moscow Didn’t Work in the Past, and It Won’t Work for Trump Alexander Vindman March 27, 2025 Foreign Affairs   President Donald Trump’s approach

Tusk government adviser Paweł Kowal says Ukraine peace talks must not lead to recognition of Moscow’s territorial claims Raphael Minder April 6, 2025 Financial Times

The Trump administration is claiming progress in its efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war, but each side is interpreting the ceasefires differently and the fighting

By Askold Lozynskyj Cape May Courthouse is a mid-sized town in the southern part of New Jersey by the shore some 150 miles south of

Defense expert Yan Matveev reveals Ukraine’s new high-risk tactics: abandoning heavy armor to save soldiers and secure fast territorial gains. Yevheniia Martyniuk April 3, 2025

The Russian leader cannot afford to end the war he started. Ian Garner April 8, 2025 Foreign Policy   Even U.S. President Donald Trump—not known

For Ukrainian mothers, drone classes have replaced leisure, medical ID bracelets have become essential accessories, and a perpetually bleeding heart has become the price of

A fresh batch of Tochka-Us reached the front line around January. David Axe Forbes Staff April 01, 2025   When the Soviet army left Ukraine

By Noah Robertson April 2, 2025 Defense News   Pete Hegseth will not attend a gathering of 50 countries to coordinate military support for Ukraine,

Just as America is the land of the free, so is Ukraine. Freedom is the highest value in Ukraine. Valerii Pekar March 28, 2025 The

By Askold Lozynskyj When Russia’s full scale aggression into Ukraine began on February 24, 2022, much of the world stood by anticipating a disastrous albeit

Artillery and drones struck all 12 attacking vehicles. By David Axe Forbes Staff. Mar 30, 2025   It’s tempting fate to roll into a battle

Bohdan Cherniawski March 30, 2025 Something is happening behind closed doors—something that could shape the future of Ukraine, and by extension, the principles of global

Ukrainian president has learned Trump’s team demand positivity and there is little point in trying to ‘inject reality’ Dan Sabbagh 27 March 2025 The Guardian

Some shipments of cash arrived on the day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, just weeks before a currency export ban was imposed. By Graeme

by Alexander J. Motyl 03/27/25 The Hill   The real estate developer Steve Witkoff, whom President Trump made his plenipotentiary in foreign conflicts, is either

“Justice is a prerequisite for sustainable peace,” says the head of a Nobel Peace Prize-winning NGO. By Veronika Melkozerova March 26, 2025 POLITICO   KYIV

Giving Ukraine access to $300 billion of frozen Russian assets would put it in a position of strength. By Robert B. Zoellick March 25, 2025

Sanctions are hitting Russia hard and the EU is ready to keep pressure on Russia. By David O’Sullivan March 24, 2025 CEPA   From the

By Zak Schneider Atlantic Council Mar 25, 2025   US President Donald Trump’s March 18 phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin marked the start

For the first time, an American official has echoed Moscow’s justification for seizing sovereign territory. Khusanboy Kotibjonov March 24, 2025 Euromaidan Press   “Russia stopped

Data vital to tracking these abducted Ukrainian children may have suddenly disappeared. A bipartisan group of House members wants to know: Who did this, and

The U.S., once firmly aligned with Ukraine, has been trying to broker a deal to end the war started by the Kremlin’s invasion. By Eli

Askold Lozynskyj President Zelensky faces a very challenging conundrum. He either plays along with America’s President Trump or he loses American military support and intelligence

The Kremlin has accomplished something that even its most fervent propagandists might have considered impossible: Western figures now echo its untruths. By Maciej Bukowski March

by OREST DEYCHAKIWSKY March 21, 2025 Ukrainian Weekly   To say that this has been a tumultuous time in U.S.-Ukraine relations is a major understatement.

Alexander Skobov jailed for 16 years over social media post and alleged involvement in opposition group Pjotr Sauer 21 Mar 2025 The Guardian   A

While Trump Courts Him, Putin Is Escalating Russia’s Hybrid War Against the West Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan March 20, 2025 Foreign Affairs   In

From exposing Chornobyl to probing Zelenskyy, Radio Liberty built Ukraine’s democracy — showing what Trump risks surrendering to dictators set to crush both freedom and

Putin’s rejection of ceasefire terms means Zelensky has been handed a chance to bring the US president on side – and he is beginning to

The Ukrainian 14th UAV Regiment located three North Korean M1989 170-millimeter howitzers in Kursk Oblast, enabling a HIMARS strike that deployed submunitions over the artillery

By Linus Höller March 19, 2025 Defense News   THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Ukraine claims to be one of the first countries to have successfully

By Erin Banco and Mari Saito March 19, 2025 Reuters   NEW YORK/BERLIN – Several U.S. national security agencies have halted work on a coordinated

by Alexander J. Motyl March 19, 2025 The Hill   Vladimir Putin is no genius, but occasionally he is right. After the U.S. and Ukraine

How a United Europe Can Help Kyiv Keep Up the Fight Celeste A. Wallander March 17, 2025 Foreign Affairs   The United States’ sudden, although

On March 11 Anthony Constantini, a Fellow at Defense Priorities published an article arguing first that because the Russo-Ukrainian war has become a war of attrition Russia

Askold Lozynskyj The alleged master of deal making has been exposed once again. The purported writer of “The Art of the Deal”, six times bankrupt,

Russia insists on terms to end the war that spell the end of democratic Ukraine, and has followed up the Trump call with an assault

If Zelensky’s government gave up sovereignty to secure peace, the sense of betrayal in Ukraine would be profound Will Lloyd March 16, 2025 The Sunday

Shelby Talcott and Morgan Chalfant Mar 17, 2025 Newsweek   The Trump administration is considering recognizing Ukraine’s Crimea region as Russian territory as part of

By Bohdan Cherniawski March 15, 2025 The Trump-Rubio administration has quietly terminated funding for efforts to track and rescue Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, despite

Olga Boichak and Kateryna Kasianenko March 16, 2025 The Conversation   More than three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a 30-day ceasefire between

by Abbey Fenbert March 15, 2025 The Kyiv Independent   A German parliamentary coalition has agreed to allocate 3 billion euros (approximately $3.2 billion) in

Thousands of women may have been raped by Russian soldiers, experts say, but have kept quiet for fear of the stigma. But that is changing.

The Russian leader has no interest in making concessions. Max Boot March 13, 2025 The Washington Post   In case there was any doubt about

The idea of Moscow as a paragon of Christian nationalism has penetrated the party of Reagan – and the lurch in US policy has huge

Daryna Antoniuk March 13, 2025 The Record   KYIV, Ukraine — The encrypted messaging app Signal has stopped responding to requests from Ukrainian law enforcement

March 14, 2025 You want to talk about “peace agreements,” Mr. Trump? Then listen to me, a doctor who puts the torn bodies of children

Voice of America and Radio Free Europe among outlets forced to make cuts as U.S. seeks to curtail funding. March 16, 2025 By Giorgio Leali

March 13, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS   American negotiators are to meet with Putin in Moscow on March 13 to discuss a 30-day ceasefire that Ukraine

Eurasia Daily Monitor By: Pavel K. Baev March 10, 2025   U.S., European, and Ukrainian peace-making policies are now aligned at a possible breakthrough point,

Kyiv Post 11 March 2025 by Lubomyr Luciuk   Keep in mind the Ukrainians who are dying as you read this. American president Donald Trump’s

Taras Kuzio March 10, 2025 EU Reporter   The Donald Trump administration is seeking a new era of Russian-US relations without recognising Russia is a

In workshops across the country, engineers are devising new ways to produce rockets and drones — and racing to develop long-range weapons Jack Clover March

February 27, 2025 VOGUE UA IN ENGLISH   25-year-old journalist Vasilisa Stepanenko, a Pulitzer Prize winner for her reporting from besieged Mariupol, reflects on the

If those who do not study history are indeed doomed to repeat it, then it would be wise for American leaders to bear in mind

This is how the bad guys act. By Anne Applebaum March 5, 2025 The Atlantic   A book festival in Vilnius, meetings with friends in

The former NSC official who sparked Trump’s first impeachment says successive administrations have bought into Moscow’s vision of itself Lloyd Green 9 March 2025 The

By Andrew A. Michta March 6, 2025 19fortyfive   The increasingly fraught endgame to the Russia-Ukraine war reflects a larger ongoing debate in the US

European countries and private firms can preserve Ukraine’s access to space intelligence. By David Axe March 5, 2025 Forbes   Cynically and bizarrely demanding Ukraine

Lithuanian Eglė Gerulaitytė wrote this on her FB on 25 February 2025: On NATO, Freeloaders, and Great Deals: Why You Can’t Grab Ukraine By Her

Marco Rubio, Michael Waltz, and their ilk will spend the rest of their lives avoiding Ukrainians for fear of being spit on Adam Kinzinger Mar

March 7, 2025 NV Yevhen Dykyi   The situation on the frontlines is still difficult, but the worst period has passed and it is no

March 7, 2025 The transcript below is an incredibly powerful and deadly accurate speech in the French Senate two days ago by Mr. Claude Malhuret.

The most important thing you need to understand about Zelensky is that this isn’t his first time sitting across a negotiating table from Putin. Mar

Aleks Phillips BBC News Mar 6, 2025   Valerii Zaluzhnyi said the White House had “questioned the unity of the Western world” and was “taking

Illia Ponomarenko March 6, 2025 TIME magazine   First there was Donald Trump calling Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator.” Then there was the infamous, heated exchange

Diane Francis March 6, 2025   On February 28, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky was thrown out of the White House after a shouting match with

Warning as Trump severs intelligence link and Starmer prepares to return to White House Larisa Brown, Steven Swinford, Hugh Tomlinson, and Charles Bremner March 6,

How Kyiv Can Persist in the Face of a Hostile Washington Andriy Zagorodnyuk March 4, 2025 Foreign Affairs   Last week, the world witnessed a

After three years of defending itself against Russian aggression, Ukraine has shored up its defenses against cyberattacks. NATO countries are watching and learning from Ukraine’s

Drones have changed the war in Ukraine, with soldiers adapting off-the-shelf models and swarming the front lines. By Marc Santora, Lara Jakes, Andrew E. Kramer,

The Ukrainian president is caught between a rock and a hard place. With an admittedly weak hand, he needs to assess all possible outcomes before

‘Marginal gains’ for Ukraine in major eastern cities could offer the US ‘great leverage in peace negotiations’ with the Kremlin Harriet Barber 02 March 2025

As the president lays waste to the rule of law, too many Americans are experiencing ‘Gleichschaltung” — being brought into line Forward By Terrence Petty

March 3, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS   The lighting was perfect, and the camera was rolling when Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky walked into the Oval Office

The Trump administration’s decision to order U.S. Cyber Command to stop offensive operations against Russia is a major strategic blunder that could have disastrous consequences

Nadia Boianivska 1 March 2025 Global Espreso   Russian opposition politician Mark Feygin says that Trump’s team’s contacts with Moscow began before the November 5,

Yuliia Vyshnevska An intriguing analysis has been circulating online regarding the psychological aspects of Zelensky’s meeting with Trump and Vance. From this analysis, it becomes

By Askold Lozynskyj On the heels of America’s shameless vote with the Russians at the United Nations General Assembly, which aside from exposing America’s lack

The president’s explosive Oval Office encounter reflected his determination to put aside alliances and commitments to principles in favor of raw great power negotiations. By

The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said ‘the free world needs a new leader’ and that it was up to Europeans to take this

It’s ugly, but necessary to face. By David Frum The Atlantic Feb 28, 2025   At least the Oval Office meeting held by President Donald

On his visit to Canada, Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk reminds us that truth is required to end a war Father Raymond J. de Souza Feb 27,

February 27, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS   Germany’s Otto von Bismarck once quipped about politics that “to retain respect for laws and sausages, one must not

The massacre in Bucha, the mass graves in Izium – it is as if these atrocities never happened. Now the truth is being taken out

Trump says the U.S. has spent $350 billion on the war in Ukraine. Other tallies total far less. Isabel Coles February 26, 2025 The Wall

By Brendan Cole February 24, 2025 Newsweek   A document that a U.S. special envoy has said could be a blueprint for talks to end

Bret Stephens Feb 25, 2025 The New York Times   Havel would have understood the deeper reasons. In his 1978 essay “The Power of the

Kyiv hopes agreement on jointly exploring resources will improve relations with Trump administration Christopher Miller, Alec Russell and Gideon Rachman February 25, 2025 Financial Times

By Stephen Blank Real Clear Defense Feb 23, 2025   After only one month, the Trump Administration has revealed its abiding strategic incompetence and malignity

By Nathan Hodge February 25, 2025 RFERL   The outlines of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to reach a peace deal on Ukraine may still

Presidents and prime ministers from 13 countries are gathering in the Ukrainian capital on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion Marc Bennetts February 24,

Like a judo master, the Russian aggressor wears down his opponents until they break. Then he comes back for more Yaroslav Hrytsak 24 February 2025

By Askold Lozynskyj Today on the third anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine at the United Nations General Assembly (UN GA) the United

By Mickey Djuric POLITICO Feb 23, 2025   OTTAWA — When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy first met in 2019,

February 24, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS   On February 22, President Donald Trump made a counteroffer to one he received in November from Ukraine’s President Volodymyr

The recent proposal that forces Ukraine to relinquish 50 percent of its revenues from critical natural resources to the United States is not just a

Ukraine has learned the hard way that it is now time to stop being naïve and to rethink who of their potential allies could be

A New York City residential tenant telephoned his landlord seeking permission to renovate his kitchen at his own cost and expense. The landlord considered the

Sasha Vasilyuk interviews Yaroslav Trofimov about his debut novel, “No Country for Love.” By Sasha Vasilyuk February 20, 2025 Los Angeles Review of Books  

The United States wanted the resolution replaced with a toned-down version that felt overly sympathetic to Russia, an official said. By Siobhán O’Grady and Michael

A hasty peace deal will see the U.S. forfeit principles and norms built over decades. Fareed Zakaria February 21, 2025 Washington Post   At the

Douglas Murray New York Post Feb 21, 2025   This has been a dizzying and disorienting week in international diplomacy. One with wild implications for

By David J. Kramer February 19, 2025 Foreign Policy   U.S. President Donald Trump is right to say Russia’s war against Ukraine “never should have

By New York Post Editorial Board Feb 18, 2025   President Trump’s demand that Ukraine sign over a huge chunk of its economy as repayment

Whose side is he on? It’s hard to keep up, so here’s a handy guide to America’s new policy of close alignment with the Kremlin.

As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year, it appears to be a reaching tipping point. by Ishaan Tharoor February 21, 2025 The Washington

Trump’s messy Ukraine gambit hints he’s set to crush lessons from the 1938 Munich “peace deal” that has been shielding global security and America’s power

Foreign secretary’s speech comes as UK continues to tread fine diplomatic line between supporting Ukraine and not offending Trump Rowena Mason and Richard Partington 20

Blown up by ‘devil drones’, led by a translation app and choosing death over capture, two elite soldiers give the first details of their war

By Abe Greenwald Feb 19, 2025 Commentary Magazine   If there’s a maximally perilous way to go about dealing with the war in Ukraine, it’s

Kyiv blasts back at the U.S. president after he ridicules Ukraine’s leader — and demands the war-ravaged country hold an election. February 19, 2025 By

By Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo Feb 18, 2025 Defense News   ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Ukraine has set out the goal of establishing a 15

by David J. Kramer, John Herbst and William Taylor 02/15/25 The Hill   President Trump is right to seek an end to Russia’s aggression in

Russians and Americans speak about Ukraine, without Ukrainians Timothy Snyder February 17, 2025   Tomorrow in Ukraine, Russian soldiers will attack Ukrainians. Russian drones and

February 15, 2025 By Valeria Yehoshyna, Olya Ivleva, Kyrylo Ovsyaniy, Kira Tolstyakova and Schemes RFERL   In a room far behind the front lines in

Victor Rud February 16, 2025 EU Today   Decades ago, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (born in Ukraine) summed it up:  “They said we must

“The Thin Red Line” carries significant weight today, especially for Ukraine. The imagery of soldiers standing firm against an overwhelming force is deeply resonant in

February 17, 2025 DIANE FRANCIS   Germans coined the phrase “fog of war” in the 19th Century to describe the uncertainty of situational awareness during

Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone says the Russian leader cannot be trusted in peace talks and calls for European allies to double their production of weapons

The betrayal of Ukraine is a final warning to the UK and its continental allies to put a lot more energy and money into rebuilding

Eric Reguly February 15, 2025 The Globe and Mail   A Hollywood film director and members of Toronto’s prominent Tory family have found an apt

American Foreign Policy seen from Munich TIMOTHY SNYDER Feb 16, 2025 As a television show, American foreign policy is about strength. In reality, it is

The capture of alleged Russian mole Dmitry Kozyura came straight out of British intelligence’s Double Cross playbook Ben Macintyre February 14, 2025 The Times  

Prime minister uses call with Ukraine president to restate UK support in face of Trump interventions Peter Walker 14 February 2025 The Guardian   Ukraine

Stephen Collinson Feb 13, 2025 CNN   Two geopolitical thunderclaps on Wednesday will transform transatlantic relations. Donald Trump’s call with Vladimir Putin brought the Russian

by Ben Wallace Feb 13, 2025 MSN   This week leaders and officials from across the world will gather in Munich for the Annual Security

The announcement of the Trump-Putin call made no mention of Europe or of much of a Ukrainian role, playing into fears that their interests will

by Andrea Januta and Chris York and Antonina Andriichuk February 13, 2025 The Kyiv Independent   After promising to quickly resolve the war in Ukraine,

The Times interviewed Russian soldiers who said they face a brutal fight to dislodge determined Ukrainian forces from a sliver of Russian land. Trapped civilians

February 13, 2025 Donald Trump proposes viewing aid to Ukraine as an investment rather than a long-term U.S. commitment. While this approach may seem pragmatic,

Russian commanders’ attempt to overwhelm Terny’s defenders with superior numbers has backfired, forcing them to abandon armored vehicles after catastrophic losses. 12/02/2025 Euromaidan Press  

By Andriy Zagorodnyuk Sept 11, 2025 Atlantic Council   As speculation mounts over possible negotiations to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is important

By Léonie Allard and Ian Brzezinski Atlantic Council Feb 11, 2025   While US President Donald Trump’s early foreign policy moves have been focused elsewhere

But A Ukrainian Drone Was Watching. And A Bomb-Laden Ukrainian MiG-29 Was On Its Way. Two French-made Hammer glide bombs blasted the underpass shelter. David

For war vets, the competition is a chance to shift focus from the war — and restore faith in society Phil Melnychuk February 9, 2025

Tim Mak, Oleksandr Matviienko, and Mariana Lastovyria February 8, 2025 Counteroffensive News   KHARKIV REGION, Ukraine — In the early dawn hours, as the sun

These killing machines swerve explosions, rain machinegun fire and save manpower in the fight against Putin. We witnessed their first platoon-scale assault Maxim Tucker February

For war vets, the competition is a chance to shift focus from the war — and restore faith in society Phil Melnychuk February 9, 2025

Chris Panella February 8, 2025 Business Insider   Drone operators flying uncrewed aircraft over Ukraine are constantly running into invisible shields, causing them to suddenly

Alleged Moscow agent, on trial for high treason, reached the top ranks of Ukrainian intelligence on the eve of war Maxim Tucker February 8, 2025

A Ukrainian delegation to the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington will make the case that Russia threatens the religious freedom of Christians who don’t follow

The Achilles Regiment demonstrates how innovative technology is transforming warfare in Ukraine. Scripps News By Jason Bellini Feb 5, 2025   Deep in a labyrinthine

Systematic Ukrainian deep strikes on Russia’s largest oil facilities reveal a vulnerable energy giant whose air defenses struggle to protect its most vital economic assets

When Expansion Yields Few Gains Andrew Kosenko and Peter Liberman Foreign Affairs February 5, 2025   Today, about 20 percent of southeastern Ukraine is under

By Olena Mukhina 06/02/2025 Euromaidan Press   Since the start of the war in 2022, Russian soldiers have killed nearly 50 priests and destroyed or

September 20, 1968 – February 4, 2025 It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Natalie Roxanne Shymko, beloved daughter of Stephanie

At the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, East German writer Marko Martin delivered a memorial speech in Bellevue castle in Berlin,

February 6, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS In Donald Trump’s geo-economic war, nation-states are real estate, resources are assets, trade surpluses are profits, and tariffs are weapons.

Ukraine’s robotic revolution is reshaping modern warfare — and the future of combat. February 4, 2025 Smart News David Kirichenko   Ukraine has become a

Julia Davis Feb. 3, 2025 The Daily Beast   Stern proclamations by U.S. President Donald Trump concerning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine initially caused trepidation in

Yes, by all means, Secretary of State Marco Rubio should be “realistic” about Ukraine. Let’s win. George Will The Washington Post January 31, 2025  

by Jonathan Sweet and Mark Toth January 30, 2025 The Hill   The expression “snow job,” first uttered during the second World War, was a

The raid in Kstovo capped a month of devastating attacks on Russian energy. David Axe Forbes Staff January 29, 2025   Late Tuesday night or

“Our enemy is Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy caused the problems we have. I don’t like him because he harms Slovakia,” claimed Slovak’s Prime Minister amid Russian gas

January 30, 2025 By Dmytro Shurkhalo RFE/RL   When Ukraine declared its independence from the U.S.S.R in August 1991., Kyiv came into possession of the

“Putin is trying to destroy us as a nation, just as Hitler tried to destroy the Jewish people in World War II,” Roman Schwarzman declared.

Mark MacKinnon January 27, 2025 The Globe and Mail   For the past five years, former soldiers living in western Ukraine could go to the

  by Andrew Chakhoyan January 28, 2025 The Hill   Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, one Russian phrase has haunted me.

And in his eagerness to cut a deal to end it, he may give Putin the lifeline he so desperately needs. Garry Kasparov January 27,

Pavel Luzin Jan 28, 2025 CEPA   The death and disablement of hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers, acute strains in the defense budget and

After losing 15,000 armored vehicles, the Russians turn to unarmored civilian models. David Axe Forbes Staff Jan 27, 2025   As reserves of armored vehicles

Forbes Staff Jan 26, 2025   Feigning defeat and retreat, soldiers from the Ukrainian army’s 225th Assault Battalion lured a large Russian force into a

January 17, 2025 Ukraine World   Ukraine’s role transcends borders, serving as a pivotal nexus for security, economic vitality, and the preservation of a rules-based

The next three drones apparently knocked out the tank. David Axe Forbes Jan 24, 2025   An ex-Danish Leopard 1A5 tank belonging to a Ukrainian

Cast aside by employers, Ukraine’s wounded veterans and war widows drive nation’s small business boom, healing both the economy and their own battle scars. Maria

Mick Ryan 24 Jan 2025 The Interpreter   The new year has begun with a rush of events. In Europe, governments are posturing for the

Vladyslav Smilianets and Sergiy Karazy January 24, 2025 Reuters   As snow fell in a wooded area of Ukraine, the long-range attack drones accelerated one

The conversation is no longer just about the present conflict, there is already an undeclared covert war under way 25 January 2025 Observer editorial The

By Per Nyholm 24.01.2025 The Ukrainian Review   Ukraine, Denmark and Europe as a whole suddenly feel and fear the effects of the change of

by Daria Shulzhenko January 22, 2025 The Kyiv Independent   Seeing the face of Ukrainian soldier Maksym Kolesnykov light up with joy over an apple

Russia’s looting of Ukrainian artifacts is a calculated attack to erase our identity — a systematic strategy rooted in centuries of oppression and cultural theft.

Andrey Kurkov 24 January 2025 The Guardian   Last November, my wife Elizabeth planted a great many tulip and daffodil bulbs in the cold autumn

By Peter Dickinson Jan 23, 2025 Atlantic Council   NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has warned alliance members that if the Russian invasion of Ukraine is

Mykhailo Hlukhovs’kyi January 18, 2025 Hlavkom   “We are paying an extremely high price for caution on the part of the US”.  Ukraine has 11

By Frederick W. Kagan January 19, 2025 The New York Post   A peace in Ukraine that puts America first must do more than stop

By Askold Lozynskyj There was plenty of nonsense, but most of it did not or will not matter except for the moment and only for

January 20, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS Donald Trump has been upending the world order well before his Inauguration today with tough rhetoric and harsh tactics. He

15  January 2025 Dear Minister of Justice Virani: On 24 October 2024, the Honourable Chris Alexander, a Distinguished Fellow of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, testified before

OPINION Amid a litany of missed chances and missteps, the Biden administration’s policy blunders and hesitant strategies shaped the US response to Putin’s war against

Michael Holtz January 17, 2025 The New Yorker   Last summer, I followed Matthew O’Callaghan, a field officer for the humanitarian mine-clearance organization the HALO

Anastasiia Savova, the 24-year-old founder of an advocacy group for imprisoned marines, is still holding out hope for her father, who was captured at Mariupol

The partnership helped Ukraine defend itself and gave the U.S. key intelligence. By Patrick Reevell January 17, 2025 ABC News   KYIV — Lt. Gen.

January 16, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS The world enters the fourth year of war in Ukraine, which Donald Trump promised he would end on January 20.

Peter Dickinson Jan 16, 2025 Atlantic Council   With international attention firmly fixed on the Russian army’s advances in eastern Ukraine and the Ukrainian invasion

The forced recruitment of Indians into the Russian army has been a point of tension between New Delhi and Moscow, even as the countries have

David Hambling January 15, 2025 Forbes   Ukraine’s heavy drone bombers, known to the Russians as Baba Yagas, are the unsung heroes of the war.

When Russian boots crossed Ukrainian borders, Ukrainians learned what the West had long forgotten: security and freedom do not endure without a price. By Bohdan

Fires have raged for a week. David Axe Forbes Staff Jan 14, 2025   On Jan. 8, Ukrainian drones flew at least 400 miles to

The barrage appeared to be one of the largest recent assaults in Ukraine’s campaign to damage Russia’s war machine on its home territory. By Cassandra

September 18, 2024 By JACKIE HAJDENBERG JTA   A Russian disinformation campaign targeted Israel and American Jews in a bid to weaken support for Ukraine,

Samuel Bendett and David Kirichenko January 10, 2025 Modern War Institute   Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the war there has

Right now, Russia knows all it needs to do to prevent a country from joining is to invade and partially occupy it — and that

Ukrainian drones keep Russian tanks away from the front line. David Axe Forbes Staff January 13, 2025   For the first time in Russia’s 35-month

The village of Makhnovka is a killing field. David Axe Forbes Staff Jan 8, 2025   Russia and North Korea may have lost around 400

Elite Azov fighters have halted Russia’s assault on Niu-York. Is it time for their skills and experience to be spread more widely? By David Kirichenko

The strike on the 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army in Novohrodivka is a setback for the Russian offensive. David Axe Forbes Staff Jan 12, 2025

By Askold Lozynskyj The Gulf of Mexico to be renamed, Panama, Greenland and Canada to be annexed are all silly, yet dangerous halos. Perhaps, none

Forget Patriot air defences — volunteer brigades equipped with clunky machineguns are taking down swarms of lethal Shaheds George Grylls January 8, 2025 The Times

Ukraine is not getting what it needs to win the war. The report from Sten Richard Larsen, Norway’s military attaché in Kyiv, is crystal clear:

An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian soldiers standing in for the warriors, has struck a chord as Kyiv battles

Josh Layton January 8, 2025 Metro   A Ukrainian Special Operations Forces team defeated a Russian platoon in one of many daring missions carried out

An initial assessment of Ukraine’s break out from its Kursk salient, Russia’s response and what Ukraine’s objectives for the new offensive might be. Mick Ryan

By William Courtney January 8, 2025 Defense News   In late-December conversations in Kyiv, I found Ukrainians determined to resist Russian aggression but tired of

By Moscow Times Reporter Jan. 7, 2025   In 2024, Russia’s ethnic republics witnessed some of the country’s largest protests, suffered from the disproportionate mobilization

In an interview with the Kyiv Independent, Kasparov shared his thoughts on the current state of the Russian opposition, why they’re looking for a “good

January 9, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS On January 7, President-elect Donald Trump launched his geo-economic war to make the world safer and bolster America’s living standards.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Jimmy Carter served as US president when Ukraine was not yet independent but the Ukrainian president recognized that “his

With the incoming administration seeking to cut U.S. aid to Ukraine, Europe should tap the Kremlin’s frozen reserves. By Adrian Karatnycky January 8, 2025 Foreign

Nurlan Aliyev January 7, 2025 War on the Rocks   Russia wields a formidable capability to target NATO’s undersea infrastructure in critical regions such as

Ukraine On My Mind Olga Lautman Jan 2, 2025   While the world celebrated the holidays, Ukraine continued to endure unrelenting bombardment, a stark reminder

Andrew A. Michta January 5, 2025 19fortyfive   As the second Trump administration prepares to take charge of US foreign and security policy, there is

Ukraine’s ‘Viking’ Su-27 Pilot Said After Surviving Three Years of Combat Against Superior Russian Forces David Axe January 04, 2025 Trench Art   “I was

Putin sends General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov to organise the fight back before Donald Trump forces peace negotiations James Kilner 05 January 2025 Smart News   Russia’s

After North Korean troops failed to dislodge Ukrainian forces from Kursk, Russia’s decision to redeploy elite units from Donbas led to devastating losses from precision

Ukraine criticizes UN report on POW treatment as hundreds return from Russian captivity with life-threatening injuries Ukraine’s ombudsman criticizes UN report’s equivalence of POW treatment,

The successful tactical adaptation keeps pilots beyond Russian air defense range. Yuri Zoria January 3, 2025 Euromaidan Press   Forbes reports that the Ukrainian air

Begins to Take Out Russian Glidebombs Shankar Narayan U.S. – Ukraine Foundation Dec 31, 2024   A few weeks ago, a Ukrainian military blogger reported

Stepped up attacks by Russia are heightening longstanding concerns over how Ukraine manages its military and countering assumptions that Moscow’s offensive would slow, soldiers and

Trump Must Gain More Leverage to Bring Putin to the Negotiating Table Alina Polyakova December 31, 2024 Foreign Affairs   In June 2024, Keith Kellogg,

Russia is suspected in a wide range of indirect attacks in Europe, including cutting undersea cables. Max Boot December 31, 2024 The Washington Post  

Ukrainian soldiers released a video showing Russian serviceman Rudakov ordering the shooting of civilians in the Luhansk region. by Kateryna Zakharchenko January 1, 2025 Kyiv

‘It’s terrible,’ one bystander said as a bunker full of soldiers burned in Lgov. David Axe Forbes Dec 30, 2024   Something struck a group

Anton Grushetskyi and Volodymyr Paniotto December 30, 2024 Foreign Affairs   War transforms countries. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launched in 2022, has not only

by The Kyiv Independent December 30, 2024   As Russian troops continued to hold an advantage on the ground, Ukraine has been keen to level

The invasion of Kursk could convince Ukraine’s allies that the war is winnable by some definition. David Axe December 29, 2024 Trench Art   In

31 December 2024 Dear People! Behind me stands Mother Ukraine. Ukraine that stands firmly on its feet, does not bow its head, looks ahead, believes

Newsweek Dec 28, 2024 By Brendan Cole   A freight train exploded at a railway station in the Moscow region, according to Ukraine. Ukraine’s intelligence

As Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepares for possible negotiations, friends and neighbours should be gearing up for industrial warfare Peter Pomerantsev 29 December 2024 The Guardian  

By Newsman Nona December 15, 2024 The Daily Handle   Russian historian Botakoz Kassymbekova asserts that Russia’s colonial and authoritarian identity is structurally entrenched, resisting

Since 2014 at least, observers of Moscow’s expansionist maneuvers, deceived by their poor knowledge of Ukraine and by Putin’s propaganda, have underestimated the Kremlin’s true

It Took Nearly Two Years, But Large Numbers Of German-Made Leopard 1 Tanks Are Finally Arriving In Ukraine Almost as many of the tanks shipped

by Yuri Yarim-Agaev December 27, 2024 The Hill   There is no such thing as choosing to end a war. You can either win it

By Tom Balmforth December 24, 2024 Reuters   ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine – Spying runs in the family for Oleh Kolesnikov. The Ukrainian citizen said his father

by Alexander J. Motyl 12/26/24 The Hill   Vladimir Putin’s recent end-of-the-year press conference was mostly a self-congratulatory snooze, but there were several moments that

Katharina McLarren 10 Oct 2023 tandfonline   In the face of war, not only state actors, but also religious actors react and engage in international

Tom Kington Dec 24, 2024 Defense News   ROME — Russia is moving military assets from Syria to Libya, creating a security threat in the

24 December 2024 This is the sound of light. This is the sound of a miracle. This is the sound of life. This is the

David Hambling Dec 24, 2024 Forbes   A fire at a Russian warehouse destroyed components for hundreds of Shahed-136 kamikaze drones according to a report

While most boxers stick to skipping rope and sparring, the heavyweight champion casually holds his breath for 4 minutes and 40 seconds—between winning multimillion-dollar fights

Justin Ling December 23, 2024 WIRED   In Russia’s war against Ukraine, electronic warfare, including signal-jamming, anti-drone weapons, and innovative protections for critical military systems,

Vitaliy Shevchenko BBC December 22, 2024   Ukrainian sniper Oleksandr Matsievsky was captured by Russians in the first year of the full-scale invasion. Later, a

It’s an ominous development for Russia. But not necessarily a decisive one. David Axe Forbes Staff Dec 21, 2024   Struggling to make good the

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 12/13/24 The Hill   As analysts go into overdrive interpreting the Assad regime’s collapse and its implications for the Middle East,

The assassination of a top Russian general in Moscow is part of a campaign to track and kill Kremlin war criminals wherever they are in

Katya Soldak Forbes December 20, 2024   Russia’s war on Ukraine has taken a heavy psychological toll on the country’s children, with 43% exhibiting psychosocial

On January 1, Ukraine can sever one of its last remaining ties with Russia if it ignores a last-minute campaign by Moscow’s friends in the

More than 20 years ago I feared that Ukraine’s Orange Revolution and the failure of Moscow’s proxy Victor Yanukovych to be elected as the country’s

SCEEUS, 2024 December 19, 2024   Executive Summary Holding Russia accountable for its violations of international law will be central to any lasting Russia policy,

Secrecy has shrouded Phoenix Ghost drones since the U.S. first rushed them to Ukraine. Now their little-known maker, Aevex, is stepping into the light with

By Peter Dickinson Dec 19, 2024 Atlantic Council Ukraine Alert   The war unleashed by Russia almost three years ago in Ukraine is rightly recognized

At this time of Christmas and the expectations of the   New Year, we send greetings to all on the birth of God’s Son, because He

Igor Khrestin, Bradford M. Freeman Managing Director, Global Policy, George W. Bush Institute and David J. Kramer, Executive Director, George W. Bush Institute and Vice

A vacuum among his generals is the last thing the president needs. He will be holding his breath for Trump’s inauguration Olga Chyzh 19 December

An anti-corruption strategy is promised for next year, some time. Nobody is holding their breath. The priority for this government is economic growth, not cleaning

Christopher Miller Dec 17, 2024 FT   North Korean troops have fought for the first time alongside Russian forces against Ukrainian soldiers in Russia’s Kursk

Alexander Motyl 19fortyfive Dec 18, 2024   On December 17, the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of the Radiation,

By Peter Dickinson Atlantic Council Dec 17, 2024   Putin’s quiet Syrian surrender reveals the weakness behind his intimidation tactics The collapse of the Assad

ALEXANDER VINDMAN Dec 16, 2024 The collapse of the Assad regime should be viewed as a sign of Russia’s diminishing power projection capabilities. Having lost

By Ivana Kottasová, Olga Voitovych and Svitlana Vlasova CNN December 16, 2024   Pastor Dmytro Bodyu said the Russians kept telling him they knew he

Kyiv had charged the top general with orchestrating numerous attacks with banned weapons. A few hours later he was dead. December 17, 2024 By Veronika

December 16, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS The shape of a deal that could end the war in Ukraine is being formed. President-elect Donald Trump set a

That’s been tried before, and Russia broke its promise National Post, 15 December 2024 Thirty years ago this month, Russia solemnly promised to respect the

Assad was a valuable client for Putin. And he couldn’t save him. Fareed Zakaria December 13, 2024 The Washington Post   The collapse of the

Dear Editor: The study of history is a deeply flawed subject because it is very often written by the victorious side and thus unfair to

George Grylls The Times Dec 13, 2024   The sprawling factory in Dnipro bears the scars of regular Russian missile strikes. Some of the windows

By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, John Herbst, Robert Hormats and Stephen Henriques December 10, 2024 TIME Magazine   Sonnenfeld is the Lester Crown Professor of Leadership Practice

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has made much of Russian Orthodoxy as a moral paragon, while intentionally omitting in his alternative history that Christianity came to

Alexander Motyl Dec 9, 2024 The Hill   Everyone wants a negotiated end to the Russo-Ukrainian war, but negotiations can succeed only if all sides

The decision to send RGB agents came in early October following a Russian request for war assistance By Lee Sang Yong December 9, 2024 Daily

‘Catastrophic.’ With Mines, Drones, Artillery And Tanks, Ukrainian Troops Wreck 90 Russian Vehicles Across Four Square Miles Of Kursk. Russia’s long offensive is faltering. David

By Andrew Chakhoyan Dec. 7, 2024 New York Post   When 100,000 Russian troops stormed into Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the world rushed to

Ukraine’s forces are still outgunned by its much larger opponent – but the disparity looks like it is becoming distinctly less than it was before.

An Operation We Might Not Survive Timothy Snyder Dec 07, 2024   Imagine that the day has come for your brain surgery. You are lying,

by Alexander J. Motyl 12/05/24 The Hill   As the second Trump presidency approaches, calls for immediate negotiations to end the Russo-Ukrainian War are getting

Even after doubling its sign-on bonus payment, the Russian army’s recruitment rate is falling. Losses may now outpace new enlistments. December 4, 2024 Dmitry Lovetsky

By JONATHAN SWEET and MARK TOTH 12/04/24 The Hill   It has been another bad week for Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. Syrian

Yale researchers traced hundreds of children taken to Russia in the war, finding what they described as “a higher level of crime than first understood.”

Russia Is Equipping Its Regiments For A Big ‘Show’ In Kursk Russian President Vladimir Putin has given his forces until February to defeat the Ukrainians

He treated the conflict as a crisis to be managed, not a war to be won. By Phillips Payson O’Brien The Atlantic November 30, 2024

RFE/RL Siberia Realities Dec 3, 2024   A Russian national, Nomma Zarubina, has been arrested on possible charges of providing false information to U.S. law

December 2, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS   Donald Trump catapulted to fame in 1987 with his book “The Art of the Deal,” which outlined tactics for

The Nov. 27 raid may have been a powerful and elaborate diversion. David Axe Forbes Dec 1, 2024   In a powerful coordinated strike on

The commander of Ukraine’s lethal drone unit unites homemade technology with the legacy of the Lubavitcher rebbe By Vladislav Davidzon December 01, 2024 Tablet Magazine

The West is behind the curve, the defence analyst writes. Russia’s deployment of North Korean soldiers is just one facet of a conflict being fought

She stepped down as Estonia’s prime minister to take up foreign policy role replacing tough talker Josep Borrell Jennifer Rankin 1 December 2024 The Guardian

Russia’s war on Ukraine is in reality a war against the West by other means that needs to be ended by resolution and firmness. By

Larry Lee Business Times Nov 19, 2024   Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing a destabilizing crisis in Abkhazia, a breakaway Georgian region that has

George Weigel 11-27-2024   Dear Senator Vance: As Americans celebrate a unique national holiday, the origins of which remind us that our democracy is an

Ukraine is not a burden to the West but a valuable investment By Diane Francis November 24, 2024 Kyiv Post   Ukraine has offered America

By Hugo Dixon November 25, 2024 Reuters   LONDON, Nov 25 (Reuters Breakingviews) – During his election campaign, Donald Trump pledged to end the war

By Billal Rahman November 26, 2024 Newsweek   New advanced U.S. drone systems have been hailed as “game changers” after being successfully tested on the

For Volodymyr Nikulin, being a wartime police officer means aiding evacuees, surviving a shrapnel wound and tackling looters. It also means quickly switching cities when

‘Danish Model’ of funding cuts costs, delays and corruption, boosters say Daniel Michaels, Sune Engel Rasmussen and Jane Lytvynenko November 26, 2024 The Wall Street

Western countries have shied away from reacting to Kremlin acts of sabotage and terror. By LAURA KAYALI, DIRK BANSE, WOLFGANG BÜSCHER, ULRICH KRAETZER, UWE MÜLLER

Authorization to use longer-range missiles comes as Russia gains momentum on the battlefield By Jane Lytvynenko Nov. 24, 2024 The Wall Street Journal   KYIV,

  After Kyiv used Storm Shadow missiles, Russia’s leader asserted his ‘right’ to attack the UK and US. In truth, he has been doing exactly

This Has Happened Eight Times In Nine Months. Repeated attacks on trainees speaks to profound problems in Russian command. David Axe November 22, 2024 Forbes

Plants have already either halted processing or are operating at reduced capacity, according to industry sources 20 November 2024 By Gary Dixon Trade Winds News

US military adviser Jack Keane, a former four-star general, says Russia, China and North Korea see America as weak — and Donald Trump must address

The Kremlin is apparently trying to position its battered forces for a favorable ceasefire David Axe November 21, 2024 Trench Art   Losses are piling

By Askold Lozynskyj Most recent Putin rants, including a revised threshold for the use of nuclear weapons by Russia, as well as the total elimination

Ukrainian Information Service   On November 19, 2024, the 13th Forum of the Free Nations of Post-Russia “Rethinking the Future of Russia” was held in Ottawa,

Israel initially overlooked Ukrainian warnings about the threat posed by Iranian drones before the Gaza war erupted but with increased threats in the region, Israeli

by Chris York November 20, 2024 The Kyiv Independent The first reports of Ukraine striking deep inside Russia with U.S.-supplied ATACMS emerged on Nov. 19,

FREE NATIONS POSTRUSSIA FORUM – OTTAWA EDITION International Experts and representatives of Russia’s captive nations explore the viability of a peaceful transformation and decolonization of

Askold Krushelnycky speaks to a colonel who says Kyiv’s forces need to inflict as much pain on Vladimir Putin’s army as quickly as they can

By ROBBIE GRAMER and ERIC BAZAIL-EIMIL 11/19/2024 POLITICO   Ukraine’s strongest backers in Washington have a message for President JOE BIDEN: It’s still not enough.

November 18, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS November 19 marks the 1,000th day in Ukraine’s struggle against Moscow’s full-scale invasion. Fittingly, President Joe Biden yesterday shifted policy

Officials have suggested permission for wider use could be response to North Koreans joining war on Putin’s side Dan Sabbagh 17 November 2024 The Guardian

Morale in the country has dipped after the US election but even if western support fades, the Ukrainian president promises a new plan Maxim Tucker,

Kyiv’s drone suppliers are ramping up production of computer-guided drones that are cheap and can’t be electronically jammed By James Marson and Daniel Michaels November

Between Snake Island and Russian-occupied Crimea sit 12 vessels that are crucial to Russian operations — but the Ukrainians are determined to evict them Maxim

Doug Saunders November 15, 2024 The Globe and Mail   Your view of what should be done in Ukraine after 2024 is determined by what

Daily life in Ukraine involves uncertainty and its suppression. And teaching kids to manage in a world of danger and evil. By Francis Harris November

While some EU diplomats put a positive spin on China-hawk Marco Rubio, Tulsi Gabbard’s intelligence role is generating greater alarm. November 14, 2024 By Nicholas

First suggestions by president-elect to freeze war with Russia, as Putin says he is ready to talk with ‘courageous’ leader Roland Oliphant 7 November 2024

12 November 2024 Anastasiya Ringis European Pravda   At the end of October, Canadian parliamentarians convened a Standing Committee on Public Safety Security and Defence

President-elect Donald J. Trump may accelerate the timetable for a truce. Kyiv views guarantees against renewed aggression as crucial to any settlement. By Andrew E.

And Biden has mere weeks to give the Ukrainians the resources they need to fight. Anne Applebaum November 12, 2024 The Atlantic   Russian drone

Ukraine accused the president-elect’s choice for cabinet of being on the Kremlin’s payroll Marc Bennetts November 14, 2024 The Times   Donald Trump’s pick for

Diane Francis A gradual takeover of the White House by the “New Right” is underway. Its public face is Elon Musk, who entered politics by

Two ideas included in Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s ‘victory plan’ were crafted with the Republican’s presidency in mind Financial Times Nov 12, 2024   Ukraine has been

Nov 11, 2024 Anders Åslund Project Syndicate   In recent weeks, prominent Russian oligarchs have openly criticized the bank’s governor, Elvira Nabiullina, fueling speculation that

David Hambling November 8, 2024 Forbes   ‘Saint Javelin,’ a cartoon Madonna cradling an American missile launcher, has become a popular Ukrainian meme. The Javelin

by Irynka Hromotska,  Kateryna Denisova and Kateryna Hodunova November 9, 2024 The Kyiv Independent   Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has destroyed

by Evelyn N. Farkas November 11, 2024 The Hill   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated Donald Trump last week on his electoral victory on X

November 10, 2024 Just Peace Advocates   JNF loses court appeal: Canada’s most iconic Zionist charity has days to disband The Jewish National Fund of

America’s election outcome jeopardizes the arms pipeline that has enabled Ukraine to keep fighting By Lara Seligman, Nancy A. Youssef and Gordon Lubold November 9,

By: Taras Kuzio November 8, 2024 Eurasia Daily Monitor   Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced on November 5 that the Ukrainian government has begun a

David Hambling November 7, 2024 Forbes   Khyzak REBOFF is a new Ukrainian FPV kamikaze drone with fiber optic cable for communication instead of radio.