Category: Uncategorized

  After months of fighting, the Russians are still struggling to gain a toehold in Ukraine’s 266th biggest population center. David Axe Forbes June 4,

The peninsula is becoming a death trap for the Kremlin’s forces The Economist June 1, 2024   GOOD NEWS, at last, from Ukraine. The approval

Bogdan Maftei The Erudite Elders June 1, 2024   The Ukrainian Armed Forces have conducted missile strikes targeting the ferry crossing and oil terminal at

Joe Barnes June 1, 2024 The Telegraph   On the reconnaissance drone’s pixelated video feed, a small, four-wheeled robot trundles into view, coming to a

After making quick early gains across Ukraine’s northern border, Russia’s May offensive on Kharkiv Oblast has run out of steam. by Francis Farrell May 31,

Kyiv is making it increasingly difficult for Russia to keep the peninsula supplied. By VERONIKA MELKOZEROVA May 31, 2024 POLITICO   KYIV — Ukraine is

by Irene Sanchez and Giorgos 31 May 2024 Transitions   In the lead-up to the European Parliament election, rising Russian disinformation threatens to sway voters.

Ukrainian president unleashes on Beijing, saying it’s helping Moscow threaten countries with higher food and fuel prices to convince them not to attend June 15-16

Exclusive interview: Ukrainian president says US delaying use of western weapons on targets inside Russia has cost lives Katharine Viner, Luke Harding , Shaun Walker

A coalition of officials and lawmakers in Kyiv and Washington raced behind the scenes as the assault on Kharkiv roared on. By ERIN BANCO, LARA

Two years into Russia’s war, the ghost of the German Ostpolitik philosophy lingers over the country’s foreign policy WINFRIED SCHNEIDER-DETERS May 31, 2024 Euromaidan Press

Isabel van Brugen Newsweek May 30, 2024   Russia is rapidly approaching a major milestone in its losses of armored personnel vehicles in the war

Euromaidan Press May 29, 2024   On 28 May, there are a lot of updates from the Kharkiv direction. After the initial Russian plan to

  Peter Dickinson May 27, 2024 Atlantic Council   On May 23, Russia launched a missile strike against Ukraine’s largest printing house, killing seven employees

By Aaron G. Burnett, Yuliya Ziskina May 28, 2025 ERIC Some G7 leaders are worried about the kind of precedent seizing $300 billion of frozen

Ukraine wants to use donated weapons to attack targets inside Russia, but its allies are split on the issue. By LAURA KAYALI, JACOPO BARIGAZZI and

These Ukrainians fear they will be the next target for Putin’s forces – but they will fight to the last Askold Krushelnycky The Independent May

Ex-Belgian jets boost Ukraine’s future F-16 fleet to 85 planes. David Axe Forbes May 28, 2024   Gen. Serhii Golubtsov, the commander of the Ukrainian

The men of the 5th Separate Assault Brigade, under the command of Major Ruslan Habinet, are determined to defend the key strategic town of Chasiv

Irishman’s Ukrainian parents hid his passport to stop him joining defence of Kyiv at age 17 Daniel McLaughlin May 26, 2024 The Irish Times  

With the Right Support and Approach, Kyiv Can Still Win By Andriy Zagorodnyuk and Eliot A. Cohen May 21, 2024 Foreign Affairs   The U.S.

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 05/25/24 The Hill   Vladimir Putin’s recent government reshuffle has produced a flood of oftentimes contradictory assessments, but there’s general agreement

Russia has deployed advanced tech to interfere with Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, Ukrainian officials said, leading to more outages on the northern front battle

Surviving Ukrainian M-1s are beginning to sport anti-drone cage armor David Axe Forbes May 24, 2024   The United States gave Ukraine 31 M-1A1 Abrams

Russian agents infiltrated President Zelensky’s security detail in an attempt to murder the commander of the country’s military intelligence Maxim Tucker May 26, 2024 The

PUTIN HIJACKED AUSTRIA’S SPY SERVICE. NOW HE’S GOING AFTER ITS GOVERNMENT Intelligence officials suspect Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek of colluding with the far-right Freedom Party

Strike late Thursday was latest in mounting campaign against Russian air-defense systems, war planes and other military infrastructure By Ian Lovett and Nikita Nikolaienko May

by Jake Epstein May 22, 2024 Business Insider The Biden administration’s policy restricting Ukraine from using US-provided weapons to strike military targets inside Russia is

David Axe Forbes May 23, 2024   Ukrainian workshops build more than 100,000 explosive first-person-view drones every month for the Ukrainian military. That’s a lot

BTR-50s are only slightly better than the golf carts some Russian troops ride in David Axe Forbes May 20, 2024   The thinly-protected, 1950s-vintage BTR-50

“Shoot down what’s in the sky over Ukraine,” he said in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times. “And give us the weapons to

Ada Wordsworth 22 May 2024 The Guardian   The Russian offensive on the Kharkiv region this month has, after 20 months of relative peace, again

By Isabel van Brugen May 21, 2024 Newsweek   The European Union on Tuesday approved a plan to hand Ukraine the profits generated by frozen

‘Foreign agents’ law just one of many moves made back towards Moscow while the west looked the other way Daniel Boffey 17 May 2024 The

It was one of the biggest single-day losses for Russian air power in the Ukraine war David Axe Forbes Staff May 17, 2024 The Ukrainian

And Now Those Brigades Are Blasting Russian Assault Groups The Russian attack on Chasiv Yar has ground to a halt David Axe Forbes May 18,

The supreme bishops of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine held a synod in which the Russian Church’s doctrine and Putin’s actions were judged anathema to

There is a method behind their destructive madness Shankar Narayan May 20, 2024   “Russia cannot defeat Ukraine or the West — and will likely

American officials say they do not want U.S. weapons used in cross-border attacks or intelligence reports used to strike inside Russia. By Helene Cooper, Julian

By John E. Herbst May 16, 2024 Atlantic Council   Ambassador John Herbst, senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, testifies before the Commission

The military alliance is turning 75. But there’s little to celebrate in Kyiv, as Putin’s forces continue their bloody advance 18 May 2024 Simon Tisdall

AI is playing an ever-greater role in the Ukraine war but the basic principle remains the same: kill or be killed Anthony Loyd May 17,

Associated Press May 18, 2024 Nick Potts   RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Oleksandr Usyk defeated Tyson Fury by split decision on Sunday to become the

Russian attacks in northern Ukraine are losing momentum David Axe Forbes May 16, 2024   Whatever the Russian military is trying to accomplish in northern

By Maria Avdeeva May 16, 2024 Atlantic Council   Residents of Kharkiv have been monitoring reports with increasing urgency for the past five days as

Kyiv says it is now thwarting Russian advances in the north. U.S. sees Moscow grabbing territory but not gaining strategic advantage. Daniel Michaels and Nancy

by Bogdan Maftei The Erudite Elders May 16, 2024   The Ukrainian forces launched a decisive counterattack in the Kharkiv region on the afternoon of

Opinion by Victor Rud May 15, 2024 EU Today   No one country has been as fundamentally determinative in restoring America’s global primacy as Ukraine

By Askold S. Lozynskyj The Ukraine-America Relationship Secretary of State  Blinken travelled to Kyiv to give Ukraine’s president Zelensky a heads up on the July

Kyiv watched as Russians massed on the border, but they weren’t allowed to use long-range missiles provided by Washington. By PAUL MCLEARY and ERIN BANCO

Thousands of Ukrainians have fled border towns and villages in the northeast Kharkiv region as Russian troops advance in a new attack. By Isabelle Khurshudyan

May 13, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS   In early May, French President Emmanuel Macron said he would send French troops to Ukraine if Kyiv requested their

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 05/13/24 The Hill   The only thing worse than wishful thinking is wishful denial. If you believe without evidence that something

Haye Kesteloo May 13, 2024 Drone Technology   A High-Tech Blow to the Black Sea Fleet The impact of technology on modern warfare has never

Chris Panella and Jake Epstein May 9, 2024 Business Insider Russian electronic warfare has created problems for some American-made precision weaponry in Ukraine, but Moscow

How many long-range missiles does Russia have left, and how have its tactics for large-scale strikes changed? YEVHEN BUDERATSKYI 9 May 2024 Ukrainska Pravda  

By Gustav C. Gressel May 8, 2024 ERIC Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion against Ukraine, western public and media have been discussing which

The flow of grain ships through ports in the Odesa region is a welcome boost for Ukraine’s war-ravaged economy. But analysts warn it may not

May 9, 2024 UAWire Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky spearheads the near-total reconstruction and repurposing of the country’s defence industry for ambition beyond self-reliance. This move

By Brendan Cole May 9, 2024 Newsweek   Gazprom, the energy giant at the heart of Russia’s economy, has announced it is selling property in

WSJ accompanies a four-man team on an operation to replenish front-line troops’ essential supplies By Ian Lovett and Nikita Nikolaienko May 10, 2024 The Wall

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL May 9, 2024 The Hill   In mid-April, Germany reported capturing two Russian “Spionen” — identified as Dieter S. and Alexander

“If Hitler didn’t kill me for being a Jew, then Putin would kill me for being a Ukrainian.” By MICHAEL STARR May 10, 2024 The

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 05/06/24 The Hill   Ukrainians are determined to “decolonize” their country. Imperial rule may be a thing of the past, they

By Michael Liebreich, Lauri Myllyvirta, and Sam Winter-Levy May 8, 2024 Foreign Affairs   On January 19, a Ukrainian drone struck an oil depot in

Andrii Borovyk May 7, 2024 The Kyiv Independent   U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians (REPO) Act on

Ukraine’s unmanned surface vessels are running out of easy targets DAVID AXE May 6, 2024 Trench Art   The Ukrainian intelligence service’s drone boats blew

By Andrew D’Anieri and Doug Klain May 6, 2024 Atlantic Council   For the last four months, NATO forces have staged the largest drills since

May 6, 2024 By James Waterhouse and Laura Gozzi BBC News   Ukraine said it arrested two Ukrainian officials who worked with the Russian security

Ukraine says they’re being held as bargaining chips By Ivana Kottasová and Olga Voitovych CNN May 6, 2024   “Dear mom and dad, I am

Over six months, The Post examined the changes sweeping Russia as Putin has used his war in Ukraine to cement his grip on power. By

Cameron Manley May 4, 2024 Business Insider Illia Ponomarenko grew up in the city of Volnovakha in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. He was a student

TIMOTHY ASH May 1, 2024   It is pretty remarkable looking back at the last two years of Russia’s full scale war against Ukraine and

By Cameron Manley May 5, 2024 Business Insider   Ukraine’s armed forces released a video claiming to show 42 destroyed Russian military vehicles. The Ukrainian

They Didn’t Know The Ukrainians Had Aimed Four ATACMS Rockets At Them. Potentially more than 100 Russians died as the ATACMS struck near Kuban in

President Biden and Ukraine’s allies have invoked a sense of urgency over weapon deliveries. But there are logistical hurdles, and Ukraine has little time to

European Nato support may be enough for a defensive stalemate, but total victory against the Russians will prove to be far costlier MICHAEL BOHNERT 2

by Alexander Khrebet May 2, 2024 The Kyiv Independent Editor’s note: Due to the security protocols of the Ukrainian military, soldiers featured in this story

May 3, 2024 The Kyiv Independent Daryna Shevchenko   “Do you cooperate with independent Russian journalists to reach a Russian audience?” We at the Kyiv

The foreign secretary called the conflict ‘the challenge of our generation’ after making second trip to Kyiv to meet Zelenskiy Patrick Wintour 2 May 2024

DIANE FRANCIS May 2, 2024   Russia’s economy has been sanctioned, punished, and distorted as a result of its war. But loopholes and workarounds have

The case of Britons allegedly working for Russian intelligence is just one example of how Moscow is actively disrupting normal life in Europe and the

Josh Pringle CTV News May 2, 2024   The city of Ottawa is installing new “Free Ukraine” street signs in front of the Russian Embassy

By Alexander Motyl May 1, 2024 CEPA   Decolonization is hard for Ukrainians, but for Russians it’s proving almost impossible. A revolution in mindset is

By Serhiy Chalyi April 28, 2024 Reuters   Zaporizhzhia Region, Ukraine – Oleksandr Taran’s mobile artillery unit isn’t officially part of Ukraine’s military, but that

On Jeremy Appel, “My Afternoon with Ukrainian Nationalists in Edmonton,” The Orchard, 1 May 2024 My talk in Edmonton focused on the “crippling legacy” of

May 1, 2024 Sławomir Sierakowski The Kyiv Independent   As Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine rages on, the stability of neighboring Belarus, which has been

Ukraine’s top commander said his outgunned troops were facing a dire situation as Russia tried to push its advantage before the first batch of an

The United States gave Ukraine a lot of long-range rockets; Ukraine isn’t hesitating to use them DAVID AXE May 1, 2024 Trench Art   The

RRC appears to defy neutrality principle, as Ukrainian officials criticise ‘weak response’ and accuse Red Cross of being advocate for Russian aggression Shaun Walker 29

SCEEUS Report No. 6, 2024 By Julia Kazodobina, Jakob Hedenskog, and Andreas Umland Executive Summary   Exactly ten years before the publication of this report,

The Economist April 29, 2024   New research traces the origin of crucial imports Despite Western sanctions, Russia’s arms industry is booming. Its production of

April 29, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS   On April 23, Russian martyr Alexei Navalny landed a blow from the grave when Russia’s Deputy Minister of Defense

By: Taras Kuzio April 24, 2024 Eurasia Daily Monitor   Ukraine’s strikes on military targets deep within Russian territory have picked up in recent months.

Yuriy Syrotyuk 26 April 2024   Bribery and lies are a long-standing traditional tool of Russian imperialism for the promotion of influence. From the time

The country is doubling down on a campaign of strikes on Russian oil refineries, airfields and logistics By Isabel Coles April 29, 2024 The Wall

By LUKE COFFEY 04/27/24 The Hill   After more than 480 days, Congress has finally given the green light for desperately needed aid for Ukraine.

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 04/26/24 The Hill   A recently released documentary film produced by murdered opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s Anticorruption Foundation is making waves

by Chris York April 23, 2024 The Kyiv Independent   The long-awaited passing of the U.S. aid bill in the House of Representatives over the

By MARK TOTH and JONATHAN SWEET 04/25/24 The Hill Russian President Vladimir Putin is doubling down on his war against Ukraine. In recent days and

By George F. Will The Washington Post April 24, 2024   Stoking the passion that is their excuse for pandering — the nihilism of a

“Pathological liar. Sadist. Self-esteem is inadequate. Intelligence is low.   His personality is rapidly deteriorating.   He lives in a parallel world, is cut off

The 2,300mph ATACMS were used last week in a caught-on-camera strike on a Crimean air base, destroying valuable ammunition in storage. By REBECCA ROBINSON Apr

By Askold Lozynskyj April 25, 2024   The prevailing mood in Ukraine has changed dramatically. It is euphoric almost and America has recaptured a good

Former policeman, British citizen Peter Fouche, now a combat medic in Ukraine’s army, calls on the West to give Ukraine weapons now, or find themselves

By Peter Dickinson April 18, 2024 Atlantic Council   Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, is in danger of becoming a “second Aleppo” amid a surge in

By Elena Davlikanova April 17, 2024 CEPA Ukrainians are tired but still determined, and will continue to resist Russia whether the world helps them or

Washington says Beijing’s dual-use trade has helped Moscow rebuild its war machine Ian Talley and Alan Cullison April 23, 2024 The Wall Street Journal  

PM pledges equipment including 400 vehicles, 1,600 weapons and 4m rounds of ammunition, plus £500m in funding Pippa Crerar 22 April 2024 The Guardian  

By Kurt Volker April 22, 2024 CEPA It took far too long, but House Speaker Mike Johnson showed true leadership in bringing Ukraine aid to

She fled to Britain but is still teaching children history in Russia-occupied regions via Zoom   Constance Kampfner April 22, 2024 The Times   For

By KIRA RUDIK April 21, 2024 The Hill   Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners of the 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade Kholodny Yar monitor the sky from their

The assaults have all but destroyed the factories and plants that were the economic lifeblood of the towns and cities in Ukraine’s east. By Andrew

By Victoria Butenko and Maria Kostenko CNN April 20, 2024   Ukraine launched attacks on eight Russian regions with long-range strike drones in the early

By Siobhán O’Grady April 20, 2024 The Washington Post   KYIV — Ukrainian officials expressed gratitude and relief Saturday after the U.S. House of Representatives

by Daria Shulzhenko April 20, 2024 The Kyiv Independent   In his battle for Ukraine, Pavlo Petrychenko used not only weapons but also his voice. 

Ukrainian president thanks America after Speaker Mike Johnson secures bipartisan support for funding Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan Robert Tait, Joan E Greve and Chris Michael

By Askold Lozynskyj Francoise Thom teaches Soviet history and international relations at Paris Sorbonne. In September 2023 she wrote an article entitled “The Second Front”.

Nasha Canada is a much-needed counterpoint to the propaganda spread by Russian media, which Canadians can still access online, says the head of DisinfoWatch Tom

David Hambling April 16, 2024 Forbes   With so many drones from both sides at the front it is inevitable that encounters will occur; since

Paul Niland argues that those calling for a negotiated peace in Ukraine fundamentally misunderstand how Russian torture, rape, and other war crimes make such a

Catherine Belton April 19, 2024 Washington Post   Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been drawing up plans to try to weaken its Western adversaries, including the

April 18, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS   The world is awash with Kremlin disinformation and undercover operations aimed at undermining democracies, societies, and war efforts. This

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 04/18/24 The Hill   Ukrainians are asking an indelicate question: Why has the West reacted with near-unanimous indignation to Iran’s missile

  by Chris York April 17, 2024 The Kyiv Independent   A secret Kremlin foreign policy document calls for Russia to leverage the war in

April 11, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS   Europe’s biggest fraud suddenly turned into its biggest espionage scandal. A sensational story in the Financial Times reads like

By Ben Hodges April 15, 2024 Atlantic Council, Ukraine Alert   Ten years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began with the illegal annexation of Crimea,

April 15, 2024 Hudson Institute By Luke Coffey and Peter Rough   Introduction As Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its third year, now is

Oksana Semenik’s social media campaign both educates the curious about overlooked Ukrainian artists — and pressures global museums to relabel art long described as Russian.

Ukraine’s New Ram II Drones Are Clearing The Way. The Ram II waits for Russian air defenses to appear—and then strikes David Axe April 13,

Fearing a Resumption of U.S. Aid to Ukraine, the Russians Are Attacking With Abandon—And Losing 80 Vehicles in a Day ‘I was not physically or

Askold Lozynskyj April 15, 2024   “We understand that there’s concern about the safety, security and sovereignty of Ukraine, but the American people have those

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 04/12/24 The Hill   The ongoing deadlock in Washington over aid to Ukraine is the stuff of tragedy. As Ukrainians are

Su-27s and smaller Mikoyan MiG-29s can deliver 50 French-made bombs every month DAVID AXE April 13, 2024 Forbes   The Ukrainian air force’s best fighters—its

While in office, Donald Trump made it clear that he believed that Ukraine should be part of Russia, as stated by his former advisor Fiona

From “Pacem in terris” to the March 2024 Moscow document on “a holy war defending the unified spiritual space of Holy Russia.” By Massimo Faggioli

by Alexander Khrebet April 11, 2024 The Kyiv Independent   Adil Muhammad, a Somali, sits in a Russian military uniform among other prisoners of war

Elina Beketova April 12, 2024 CEPA   The Ukrainian people’s resistance to Russia was planned long before tanks crossed the border, and they warn other

The search for neo-Nazis under the bedsheets reflects American progressive hysteria, not Ukrainian reality By VLADISLAV DAVIDZON April 11, 2024 The Tablet   It was

Cipher Brief Philip Wasielewski and William Courtney April 9th, 2024   President Vladimir Putin is signaling a renewed Russian lunge into northern Ukraine, to create

David Axe Forbes April 9, 2024 Small unmanned boats, packed with explosives and steered via satellite, are among the main weapons of Ukraine’s escalating naval

The Ukrainian nationalist leaders embody the democratic and indomitable spirit of the Ukrainian people who are fighting for their freedom today. By BORYS LOZHKIN April

Instead of sending love letters to the Élysée, the pro-Kremlin disinformation apparatus has taken France into its crosshairs by spreading lies and gross misogyny. Is

Smart News April 5, 2024   Ukrainian troops are fighting for the security of all European countries, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said at the

‘PURE BARBARITY’: RESCUERS KILLED AS RUSSIA LAUNCHES ‘DOUBLE TAP’ DRONE ATTACK ON KHARKIV Resistance by Kharkiv’s vastly outnumbered defenders has infuriated Vladimir Putin, as Askold

The Kremlin has hidden the death toll but Nato said welfare statistics showed a 30% increase in disabled men Bruno Waterfield April 4, 2024 The

David Hambling Forbes April 4, 2024 While the U.S. is cautious about providing Ukraine with long-range strike capability, the Ukrainians are forging ahead with homebuilt

By Askold S Lozynskyj “Chutzpah”. There is no better word to describe and encapsulate the behavior, the nearsightedness, arrogance and shameless rhetoric of the United

A day before Nato’s milestone, the alliance will discuss how to ensure support for Kyiv for the duration of the war with Russia, regardless of

The Torah was initiated by the chief rabbi of Kyiv in 2022 By Marcel Gascón Barberá April 3, 2024 Forward   KYIV, Ukraine (JTA) —

Ukrainian media and analysts, and Russian officials, said Ukraine had carried out the attack some 700 miles from the land it controls. Ukraine’s military and

Attack on complex, which reportedly manufactures combat drones, demonstrates Kyiv’s increasing long-range capabilities Marc Bennetts April 2, 2024 The Times   Ukraine has carried out

Two years after Russian forces fled, Motyzhyn has ousted a Russia-linked priest, has built a bomb shelter for its school and is pulping its Russian-language

Forty-eight tanks and fighting vehicles attacked along a single road west of Avdiivka—and got massacred David Axe Forbes April 1, 2024     On Saturday,

Putin’s gloves are off. So, too, are those of Russian society, which is on the verge of descending into paroxysms of violence that will continue

Why the West needs to get out of its debilitating slumber, face harsh realities, and ensure that Ukraine defeats Russia. By Anders Aslund March 31,

April 1, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS The Czechs have never forgotten that allies handed over their Sudetenland Province to Hitler in 1938 after the German dictator

Many units, which say the official conscription system is dysfunctional and unwieldy, have started their own recruitment campaigns to fill ranks depleted in the war

Selcuk Bayraktar, the engineer behind Bayraktar TB2 drones, is now seen as a potential heir to his father-in-law, Recep Tayyip Erdogan By Jared Malsin and

Gunners on the front line are getting orders from Palantir software. This is what it means for the war  George Grylls March 29 2024 The

The Jamestown Foundation Andrii Ryzhenko March 26, 2024   The Russian Navy’s reserve of admirals and ships is steadily decreasing as senior military commanders are

MICHAEL BOCIURKIW March 29, 2024 The Globe and Mail   The southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa, which built its reputation for unrestrained exuberance and

by Askold S. Lozynskyj Ukraine, America, and the world await Speaker Mike Johnson to do what is right. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has done her

March 27, 2024 USCC   While the Kremlin is trying to link Ukraine to the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack, the Islamic State (ISIS), specifically

Simplistic acoustic sensors, first tried a century ago, make a comeback to protect against threat from Russia Joe Barnes 26 March 2024 The Telegraph  

  With a Soviet-style election, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has come full circle. By Adrian Karatnycky March 24, 2024 Foreign Policy   In 1968, the American

Centre for Democratic Integrity The Russian political establishment and some observers abroad assert that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was allegedly prompted by Moscow’s national security

Sinéad Baker March 23, 2024 Business Insider   Any lingering doubts about the effectiveness of the US-made Patriot air-defense system at shooting down airborne threats

Ukraine’s fight for justice for women, men and children who suffer terrible sexual crimes shows this battle goes far beyond territory Kateryna Busol 25 Mar

By Max Boot March 23, 2024 The Washington Post There is some cruel irony in the fact that Russia, which has been the perpetrator of

March 25, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS Russia may be a military dictatorship and armed to the teeth, but it struggles against Ukraine and fails to protect

A struggle for a position held by Ukrainian forces in the eastern city of Avdiivka underlines how the conflict is increasingly being fought in close-quarter

The Kremlin dismissed warnings earlier this month about the terror group. Mark Galeotti, an expert in Russian security affairs, examines the fallout Mark Galeotti March

Igor Burdyga March 21, 2024 DW   Many Ukrainian museums have been looted since Russia’s invasion in February 2022. Kyiv is now trying to locate

EUROPEAN PRAVDA 24 MARCH 2024   Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has urged the public not to allow Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin and his associates

         Now Do The Right Thing     Luke 23:34 At the invitation of Anthony Rota, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Yaroslav Hunka went

Civilians who gather dead Russian soldiers face many of the war’s perils along the front, where death is ubiquitous. Tyler Hicks and Marc Santora March

Filip De Mott March 19, 2024 Business Insider   Several global banks that have helped Russia circumvent Western sanctions are now turning their backs on

Moscow is ramping up its campaign of disruption and disinformation after President Macron’s abrupt transformation into western Europe’s leading Ukraine hawk Charles Bremner March 21,

Agreement to effectively sequester €190bn came late on Thursday after almost a year of negotiations Lisa O’Carroll 21 March 2024 The Guardian   EU leaders

Oksana Lyniv, who is leading “Turandot” at the Metropolitan Opera, has used her platform to criticize Russia and promote Ukrainian culture. By Javier C. Hernández

It’s even more dangerous than an orbital nuclear bomb By Robert Zubrin March 20, 2024 Kyiv Post   On Feb. 14, US Representative Mike Turner

A PORTRAIT OF HYPOCRISY   Senator Lindsey Graham, a sidekick for the late Senator John McCain and caddie for former president  Donald J. Trump travelled

March 21, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS On March 17, Putin won his sham election. The dictatorship is secure, Navalny is dead, opponents are in prison, and

By David L. Stern March 20, 2024 The Washington Post   KYIV — Ukraine manufactured practically no weapons before Russia invaded in February 2022, but

Policy Brief Free Network March 14, 2024   The important strategic role that sanctions play in the efforts to constrain Russia’s geopolitical ambitions and end

With military worn down and U.S. aid stalled, leaders confront how to hold off larger and better-equipped Russian army By Isabel Coles, Ievgeniia Sivorka and

Ukrainian gunners are coordinating with drone strike teams David Axe Forbes March 18, 2024   At the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 18, Czech defense

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL March 18, 2024 The Hill   Almost overnight, pundits and analysts have begun singing a very different tune. Until recently, Ukraine

by Kateryna Denisova March 18, 2024 The Kyiv Independent   When faced with questions from German lawmakers on March 13, Chancellor Olaf Scholz once again

Simon Shuster March 18, 2024 TIME Magazine   This winter, after a protracted impasse along the frontlines, the war in Ukraine began a new phase

The Tupolev Tu-141 and Tupolev Tu-143 originally were reconnaissance vehicles. David Axe Forbes March 16, 2024   Ukraine is reaching deeper into its stocks of

The Kremlin will use this victory to justify an intensified war. But even the state news agency reported election rebellion Samantha de Bendern 18 March

March 18, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS Biden and Trump will again duke it out to become President of the United States, and the issue of age

One of the characteristics of the Ukrainian American electorate is extreme loyalty to the point of being peculiar in a democracy which is still viable

By Philip Wasielewski and William Courtney Defense News Mar 15, 2024   As Ukrainian forces assume a more defensive posture, Kyiv’s irregular warfare behind enemy

By Peter Dickinson March 14, 2024 Atlantic Council   When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Ukrainian Security and Defense Council

By David Brennan March 15, 2024 Newsweek   Crude oil prices jumped this week after Ukrainian UAVs again struck multiple Russian oil refining facilities, as

Subterranean schools and secret opera performances are testament to the resilience of Ukraine’s battered second city Catherine Philp The Times March 15, 2024   Just

Ukrainian drone strikes have been able to hit refineries deep in Russian territory, indicating a new vulnerability. But it is unclear if that will affect

In urging the victim to yield to the aggressor, he repudiates centuries of Catholic teaching. By George Weigel March 13, 2024 The Wall Street Journal

The Biden administration has come to believe that, absent more American military support, ‘countless lives’ will be lost this year as Kyiv struggles to stave

David Hambling March 12, 2024 Forbes   FPV drones are kamikaze racing quadcopters, usually carrying an RPG-7 warhead. They are effective against vehicles, from self-propelled

By Marianna Sotomayor, Leigh Ann Caldwell and Abigail Hauslohner March 13, 2024 The Washington Post   Pressure is mounting for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to

Ten years on from Russia’s annexation, with all-out war making its dominance vulnerable, authorities are increasing a crackdown on pro-Ukrainian voices – while others simply

March 14, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS Europeans finally realize they must “hang” together and help Ukraine, or they will hang separately. This reality prompted France’s President

‘FATE OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE’ DEPENDS ON IT Greg Nash March 13, 2024 The Hill   Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk this week called on

THAT WOULD GIVE RUSSIA A GREEN LIGHT FOR ENDLESS WAR Pope Francis’s anti-western views are well known – and his new advice would lead not

Nicolas Tenzer March 12, 2024 CEPA   Macron ended the taboo on discussion as part of a carefully considered switch in policy. He means what

The package will include $300 million worth of weapons. By LARA SELIGMAN and ALEXANDER WARD 03/12/2024 POLITICO   The U.S. is planning to send a

March 11, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS   In February 1992, I interviewed in Moscow a Canadian of Russian-Georgian descent who had opened several computer stores to

The head of Germany’s parliamentary defence committee has joined British and French criticism of the chancellor’s decision Peter Conradi March 10, 2024 The Sunday Times

By Max Boot March 11, 2024 The Washington Post   Ukraine’s ammunition is running low, and its front-line positions are in danger of crumbling before

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL March 10, 2024 The Hill   Comparisons of Russia’s illegitimate president, Vladimir Putin, with the Nazi Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, have become

Then Russia Prepares A Replacement A-50. So Ukraine Targets Its Factory. Some strike-planner in Kyiv surely is having a good laugh. David Axe Forbes March

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Ilona Sologoub Vox Ukraine 6 March 2024   Almost immediately after the murder of her husband, Yulia Navalnaya announced that she would

Francis’s failure to condemn Moscow as aggressor decried as ‘shameful’ and ‘incomprehensible’ Angelique Chrisafis 10 March 2024 The Guardian   The Ukrainian government has responded

By Francesca Ebel and Serhiy Morgunov March 8, 2024 The Washington Post   MOSCOW — Ukraine and the liberal Russian opposition share a common enemy.

Oksana Semenik’s social media campaign both educates the curious about overlooked Ukrainian artists — and pressures global museums to relabel art long described as Russian.

BOB ONYSCHUK THE GLOBE AND MAIL March 8, 2024   As we mark the passing of a remarkable figure in Canadian history, the Right Honourable

BRIAN PETIT March 7, 2024 War on the Rocks   Of all the symbols of American power abroad, the U.S. special operations soldier occupies a

By JONATHAN SWEET and MARK TOTH 03/07/24 The Hill   French President Emmanuel Macron’s diplomatic blunder on the steps of the Élysée Palace put him

Mar 7, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS   “If you look closely, Russians on both sides of the war are remarkably similar in their approach to politics:

One would suggest that time is more critical for the latter. There appear to be more Russian soldiers than Ukrainian bullets. Ukraine is undergoing a

Stephen Blank Mar 7, 2024 The Hill   When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Congress passed a new Lend-Lease Act that President Biden then signed.

Poland blockades its ally Ukraine while buying farm goods from its enemy Russia. Mar 5, 2024 By BARTOSZ BRZEZIŃSKI and VERONIKA MELKOZEROVA POLITICO   In

February 29, 2024, Washington, DC   Why Ukraine’s security matters enough to its neighbors and the world at large to merit serious military assistance in

The Russian military used Chinese-made Desertcross golf carts to storm Ukrainian positions in the Lyman sector. Militarnyi Mar 4, 2024   Recently, soldiers of the

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova shared on her Telegram channel claims by a Russian language Youtube channel that Yad Vashem had been hiding material

Caitlin Doornbos March 3, 2024 Smart News   Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine – One truism repeatedly echoes across the battlefields of the Donbas region of eastern

Mike Johnson’s record as Speaker of the House TIMOTHY SNYDER Mar 3, 2024 In four months as Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson has given

Julian Lee Bloomberg February 29, 2024   Sanctions by the US Treasury are quietly turning up the heat on Russia’s oil exports — to the

March 1, 2024   500 leading North American and European figures from the academic, military, cultural and political worlds are calling on the countries of

The argument that Ukraine cannot win the war against Russia based solely on numerical superiority—more soldiers, weapons, tanks, and aircraft—is challenged by historical and contemporary

By Isabel van Brugen Feb 28, 2024 Newsweek Russia’s Roscosmos space agency plans to sell off assets worth more than 11.4 billion rubles ($124 million)

Supply lists, contracts in cache of data leaked by Ukrainian hacker group Ben Makuch CBC News February 28, 2024 A Russian defence contractor sought to

‘Blinded’: Every A-50 Radar Plane The Ukrainians Shoot Down Opens A Gap In Russian Radar Coverage—A Gap The Ukrainians Can Exploit David Axe Forbes February

Elena Gold Feb 26, 2024 Quora   On February 24, 2024, 18-year-old Daria Kozyreva came to the monument to Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko in St.

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 02/26/24 The Hill   Someone forgot to tell the Ukrainians that they can’t win the war against Russia. According to a

Foreign Policy Feb 24, 2024 Jade McGlynn’s books paint an unsettling picture of ordinary Russians’ support for the invasion and occupation of Ukraine. For years,

One of the most significant problems within the Ukrainian diaspora worldwide and in particular the United States where it matters most is the lack of

Forbes David Axe Feb 23, 2024   Incredibly, the Russian air force has lost another one of its rare Beriev A-50M/U Mainstay radar early-warning planes.

Two years after the Russian invasion, some myths have been dispelled, but new ones have taken hold. By ERIC EDELMAN and DAVID J. KRAMER 02/22/2024

IN ‘FALSE TRANSIT’ LOOPHOLE, RUSSIA’S WAR MACHINE IS SUPPLIED THROUGH KAZAKH COMPANIES AND BELARUSIAN WAREHOUSES by Alexander Yarashevich, Aleksandr Atasuntsev, and Robert Denis OCCRP 21

David Axe Forbes February 19, 2024   The Ukrainian air force is desperately short of its best munitions, including its 90-mile-range, U.S.-made Patriot air-defense missiles.

Footage of strike appears to show drones armed with explosives entering warehouse in Ukraine’s Donetsk region unchallenged Joe Barnes 20 February 2024 Smart News Ukrainian

The Kremlin’s intelligence agencies have learned from their mistakes over the past two years The Economist Feb 20, 2024 It is unusual for spymasters to

by Stephen Collinson CNN February 20, 2024   US politics is now split by a fault line over Russia that could have far graver global

Russia has invited Palestinian groups to Moscow, which could bring together Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, and other terrorist groups By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Feb 19,

February 19, 2024 DIANE FRANCIS Alexei Navalny’s murder on February 16 is precisely why Ukrainians have not, and should never, submit to Russian occupation. His

It means much. It means that Vladimir Putin is an arrogant barbarian with no regard for civility or humanity. It means that Russia considers the

Stuart Anderson Feb 15, 2024 Forbes   When House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) insisted in October 2023 that a border bill be passed in exchange

By ALEX GANGITANO 02/15/24 The Hill   The White House on Thursday bashed Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for starting the House recess without bringing the

Joanna Kakissis and Polina Lytvynova February 13, 2024 NPR   KYIV, Ukraine — Inside a chilly, nondescript warehouse somewhere in Ukraine, young mechanics in hoodies

Kyiv’s tragedy has deepened by becoming a Trump campaign issue. Marc Champion February 14, 2024 Bloomberg   When it comes to aiding Ukraine against its

EUGENE LANG AND VINCENT RIGBY February 12, 2024 The Globe and Mail   “Canada will be there for Ukraine alongside our other allies, with as

Party leaders, national security institutionalists and centrists made up the core of the 22 Republicans who joined Democrats in pushing through the military aid, defying

Michal Kranz Feb 12, 2024 UnHerd   Donald Tusk probably thought the worst was behind him. Just last month, Polish truckers suspended the months-long blockade

Network operating in western Europe is ‘paving way for new wave of online manipulation’ in crucial election year, French agency says   Kim Willsher, and

The U.S. government affirms that Beijing and Moscow are collaborating in the digital war. Ukraine’s secret services say they have dealt with 10,000 major cyberattacks

GLEN HOWARD February 11, 2024 Eye on Eurasia   Introduction On the night of November 30, 2023, Ukrainian saboteurs detonated an explosion in a key

Pyrrhic victory: noun; a victory that is not worth winning because so much is lost to achieve it David Axe Forbes February 11, 2024  

There is little sympathy for them in their society, but rare prison interviews with those convicted of helping the Russians reveal a complex picture of

By David L. Stern, Francesca Ebel, Mary Ilyushina and Serhiy Morgunov February 11, 2024 The Washington Post   Kyiv — Tucker Carlson, the former Fox

Remarks by former president and presumptive 2024 Republican nominee described as ‘unhinged’ by the White House Guardian staff and agencies 11 February 2024   Seeking

In an interview that lasted more than two hours, the Russian President aired well-trod grievances and gave a lecture full of spurious history meant to

The Economist Feb 8, 2024   They are reshaping the balance between humans and technology in war Precision-guided weapons first appeared in their modern form

The Russian leader clearly believes he can now negotiate from strength, but the message in the Tucker Carlson interview was muddled, critics say. By Paul

The current Russian aggression, today’s attempt at Genocide against Ukrainians raises legal issues, although the intentof Putin, his associates Lavrov, Medvedev, Kirill and even ordinary

Man with 12 million followers airs genocidal speech of Russian dictator invading Ukraine By BOHDAN BEN 09/02/2024 Euromaidan Press   Imagine the British Prime Minister

A protracted conflict works in Russia’s favour. But there is a clear path to bringing it to an early end. James Nixey 7 February 2024

A top Ukrainian defense official says the country is awaiting strike weapons with a range of 300-500 kilometers for its future F-16s. THOMAS NEWDICK February

The notorious Walter Duranty of the New York Times and Nazi broadcaster Lord Haw-Haw offer cautionary tales. By JAMIE DETTMER Feb 8, 2024 POLITICO  

That, Plus Some Bad Weather, Was All the Advantage Russian Troops Needed To Breach Avdiivka. If the city falls, it’s because the U.S. Republican Party

The West must sustain support for Kyiv, keep NATO solid, and spurn Putin’s effort to divide us. By Olaf Scholz February 7, 2024 The Wall

The National Interest Feb 7, 2024 Alexander Motyl   Will Tucker Carlson query Putin about the ongoing genocidal war in Ukraine? Will he ask the

Sinéad Baker February 6, 2024 Business Insider   Ukraine is investing millions in new defensive fortifications. That will likely make it even harder for Russia

By Molly Stazicker CNN February 7, 2024   Much like Mark Twain, Russian doping whistleblower Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov says that reports of his death have

Henry J. Cordes February 4, 2024 Omaha World-Herald   On a chilly December evening in Kiev, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a surprise for Howard

PUTIN INTERVIEW WITH TUCKER CARLSON SHOWS KREMLIN OUTREACH TO TRUMP’S GOP By Robyn Dixon and Natalia Abbakumova February 7, 2024 The Washington Post   MOSCOW

In the 1950s European nations tried and failed to build a defence community. They should try again Timothy Garton Ash 6 February 2024 The Guardian

By: Janusz Bugajski February 5, 2024 The Jamestown Foundation   The new Polish government has reaffirmed its commitment to Ukraine’s security in the wake of

The Russian cosmonaut has no space flight experience, having served in technical and operational units of the Russian Air Force before joining the cosmonaut detachment.

Alexander Martin The Record Feb 1, 2024   Hackers working for Russia’s intelligence services are impersonating researchers and academics in an ongoing campaign to gain

Russia, which boasts of taking in 700,000 children, stands accused of trying to erase their Ukrainian identity Shaun Walker 4 February 2024 The Guardian  

  David Axe Forbes February 3, 2024   Five hundred tanks. More than 600 fighting vehicles. Hundreds of howitzers. Forty thousand troops. According to Ukraine’s

By Peter Dickinson Feb 1, 2024 Atlantic Council, Ukraine Alert   Wartime Ukraine ranks among world’s top performers in anti-corruption index Ukraine recorded solid progress

By Taras Kuzio Feb 1, 2024 Atlantic Council To mark this year’s Ukrainian Unity Day on January 19, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued a decree

David Hambling Forbes February 1, 2024   The Lancet has been one of Russia’s most effective weapons in its war with Ukraine, a small kamikaze

Steven Chase February 2, 2023 The Globe and Mail Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the Canadian government to donate tens of thousands of

David Axe Forbes January 31, 2024   A Russian mechanized assault in the vicinity of Novomykhailivka, 10 miles west of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, should

Overnight drone attack deals another blow to Moscow’s fleet and demonstrates Kyiv’s expanding power in Black Sea Dan Sabbagh, Pjotr Sauer and Luke Harding 1

by Daryna Krasnolutska February 2, 2024 Bloomberg Ukraine’s top general doubled down on a confrontation with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy over military leadership, escalating a power

A recently declassified US intelligence report shows a direct correlation between the current impasse in the US Congress on aid to Ukraine and Russian intelligence

By Edward Lucas January 28, 2024 CEPA Confiscating the Russian Central Bank’s reserves is right. To mark the two-year anniversary of the full-scale invasion of

THEY BLEW THE RUSSIANS BACK TO 1980 The Russian 810th Marine Brigade is back to riding in 70-year-old T-55 tanks David Axe Forbes January 31,

In a case lasting nine years, the ICJ rejected most of Ukraine’s allegations of ethnic discrimination and terrorism financing by Russia. By VERONIKA MELKOZEROVA Jan

All 27 leaders agree deal after 11th-hour meetings with Hungarian prime minister, who had vowed to block the funds Lisa O’Carroll 1 February 2024 The

  Simon Shuster January 29, 2024 Time   This winter, after a protracted impasse along the frontlines, the war in Ukraine began a new phase

01/29/24 Alexander J. Motyl The Messenger   Russia’s paranoia has just reached new heights — unsurprisingly, as all dictatorships always see enemies everywhere. Sergei Naryshkin,

‘If Ukraine’s current bombing campaign continues to gather momentum,’ an analyst reckons, ‘Russian military chiefs will have to decide whether to reduce protection for the

  President Zelensky has announced that Kyiv intends to investigate Moscow’s crimes against Ukrainians on the territory of the Russian Federation, drawing the anger of

Since 1991, Russia has had a seat at the U.N. illegally. It is the only participating country that has neither signed the organization’s 1945 founding

Thibault Spirlet January 27, 2024 Business Insider   Russia is trying to cut off Ukraine’s access to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites, according to space warfare

P&G and 12 other multinationals publicly named by Ukraine as “international sponsors of war”. Who’s next? Jan 27, 2024 Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

Why they won’t rebel against the war that kills their men. January 20, 2024 By Anastasia Edel, a writer and social historian Foreign Policy  

Approaching the third year since the full-scale invasion, Ukraine says over 374,520 Russian soldiers have been “eliminated” – but merely killing more Russian soldiers will

Steve Chase January 25, 2024 The Globe and Mail   One of the most prominent Ukrainian Canadian organizations is blasting Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for

David Hambling Forbes January 25, 2024   Last night the Russian Rosneft oil refinery at Tuapse in Krasnodar Krai was ablaze, cellphone video showing flames

  By Max Boot January 22, 2024 The Washington Post   Whichever genius in the congressional Republican caucus decided to condition aid to Ukraine on

The Academy Award-winning actor and filmmaker visited Stanford last Thursday to screen and discuss his documentary, Superpower, about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his country’s

by Martin Fornusek January 24, 2024 The Kyiv Independent   “Volunteer patriot” hackers of the BO Team launched a cyberattack against the Russian Far Eastern

European countries are starting to realize that they could be next on Vladimir Putin’s hit list Diane Francis January 22, 2024 National Post   On

By DAVID J. KRAMER, JOHN HERBST, and WILLIAM TAYLOR January 21, 2024 The Hill   Ukrainians will continue to fight Russian forces that have been

A group of NATO parliamentarians visited Washington this week to press for more aid. By PAUL MCLEARY January 18, 2024 POLITICO   A group of

Tumaini Carayol 21 Jan 2024 The Guardian   Marta Kostyuk believes that tennis has forgotten the war in Ukraine and she hopes that the success

By Joseph Katala January 20, 2024 Cryptopolitan   Amid an ongoing conflict with Russia that has stretched into its third year, Ukraine has made astonishing

Ukrainian leader invited Trump to Ukraine but says if he returns to White House he could make unilateral concessions to Russia Edward Helmore 20 January

“We understand that there’s concern about the safety, security and sovereignty of Ukraine, but the American people have those same concerns about our own domestic

Britain became the first of G7 nations to commit to a bilateral security agreement with Ukraine. Though lacking firm guarantees, it has enshrined that the

Jan 11, 2024 By Daniel Bush Newsweek   Russia’s latest onslaught of drones and missiles against Ukraine has been made possible by imports of Western

By Stephen Blank and Andrew Fink January 16, 2024 CEPA   Sanctions improve over time, as the US government is now demonstrating. Even so, additional

  By GLEN E. HOWARD 01/17/24 The Hill The Prussian military theorist Carl Von Clausewitz once wrote that “the talent of the strategist is to

Larry Elliott and Graeme Wearden 17 January 2024 The Guardian Britain is ramping up pressure on western governments to use $350bn (£275bn) of frozen Russian

By Lisa Mascaro and Seung Min Kim January 17, 2024 The Washington Post   WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden convened top congressional leaders at the

By Aamir Sheikh January 15, 2024 Cryptopolitan   In a groundbreaking development that could reshape the course of the ongoing conflict, Ukraine has turned to

From:  Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street and The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP Published:  12 Jan 2024    Location: Ukrainian Rada   Delivered on:  12 Jan 2024 (Transcript

Reuters January 15, 2024   KYIV – Ukraine’s military said on Monday its air force destroyed a Russian Beriev A-50 surveillance plane and an Ilyushin

The Ukrainian army’s M-2s have better protection, firepower and optics than Russian vehicles David Axe Forbes January 15, 2024   The steel and aluminum armor

The Russia-Ukraine conflict is taking an increasingly deadly toll on the novelists, poets, musicians and dancers who put their careers on hold to defend their

Washington’s likely failure in Ukraine shows the US needs a new national security strategy. By ANDREW A. MICHTA January 15, 2024 POLITICO The United States

By Svitlana Romanko and Oleh Savytskyi The Moscow Times Jan 15, 2024   As world leaders gather in Davos for the World Economic Forum this

RUSSIA IMPORTS AS MUCH BATTLEFIELD MATERIAL AS BEFORE UKRAINE INVASION Russia’s average monthly expenditure on imports of battlefield goods from January to October 2023 stood

‘Flying radar’ attacked in ‘perfectly executed operation’, says Zelensky’s top general January 15, 2024 The Times   Ukraine has said it destroyed a Russian spy

Oligarchs have lost billions from the shelling of their factories, and the government has used its wartime powers to break their political influence. Constant Méheut

by Martin Fornusek January 12, 2024 The Kyiv Independent A Russian manufacturer of Orlan drones and other military-use equipment dodges sanctions to obtain foreign-made components,

January 15, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS Some people woke up on New Year’s morning with a hangover and some woke up with resolutions they will never

by OREST DEYCHAKIWSKY The Ukrainian Weekly Jan 15, 2024 Rarely has there been such a confluence of American values and interests as there currently exists

By Elina Beketova January 11, 2024 CEPA   Since the annexation of Crimea and then the full-scale invasion, Ukrainian land has been mislabeled as Russian

The Sunday Times January 14, 2024   Today President Zelensky sends a stark message to the world: we need your support now more than ever

AFTER SHOOT-OUT WITH POLICE, SAY REPORTS Alia Shoaib Jan 13, 2024 Insider   Russia security forces attempted to arrest two women suspected of poisoning its

By STEPHEN BLANK 01/12/24 The Hill   The logjam on supplies to Ukraine may be starting to crack. Last week Norway sent two F-16 fighters

By MARK TEMNYCKY 01/12/24 The Hill After Congress opted not to pass a new aid bill for Ukraine last month, and as members enjoyed their

And EU and NATO Membership Are the Only Way to Achieve Enduring Security By Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Andriy Yermak January 11, 2024 Foreign Affairs

by Francis Farrell January 9, 2024 The Kyiv Independent   Acts of resistance come in many shapes and sizes. From a colored ribbon tied to

David Axe Forbes Staff January 12, 2024   Thanks to a huge consignment of shells from North Korea, Russian forces in Ukraine are flush with

James Sherr OBE International Centre for Defence and Security January 10, 2024   When the Kremlin launched its full-scale war against Ukraine, it did so

The war of aggression launched by Russia in 2014 against Ukraine, and continued with a full-scale invasion in 2022, has brought much suffering to Ukrainian

Dominic Culverwell January 11, 2024 The Kyiv Independent On a trip to Mykolaiv in November, I passed an electronics store covered in shrapnel damage. I

Samuel Charap, an influential proponent of Kyiv-Moscow negotiations, who has long been skeptical of Ukraine’s ability to win the war, evidently has an in with

Ukrainian drone swarms and tough infantry defending strategic Krynky village are now topics of open complaint by their opponents. Clumsy Russian army decision-making is a

Waiting Until Russia’s New Strategic Supply Bridge Was Almost Built, Then Blowing It Up With Rockets David Axe Forbes Jan 8, 2024   This weekend,

Why the new conventional wisdom that the war is a stalemate favoring Russia is wrong. By Rose Gottemoeller and Michael Ryan January 8, 2024 Foreign

By Nicolas Tenzer January 8, 2024 CEPA   Journalists, like the West as a whole, are failing to understand what is happening in Eastern Europe,

By BRAD DRESS January 7, 2024 The Hill   Ukraine’s counteroffensive did not go as planned, but 2023 was not entirely a loss in its

The greater danger lies in Putin’s eventual victory January 8, 2024 Written By: Rod Liddle The Spectator World   I have never been one of

Without a grasp of how Russia understands its national destiny, any US attempt to pragmatically manage Moscow’s aggression becomes an elaborate recipe for managing America’s

The drones are more accurate than artillery, but far less powerful. They are helping Ukraine to fend off Russia’s forces, at least for now Ian

Almost two years after its full-scale invasion, Paul Niland examines what Russia claims is the purpose of waging war on Ukraine Paul Niland 5 January

Sasha Lensky 7 January 2024 The Spectator   Following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the calamitous, early missteps of the Russian

Keir Giles January 5, 2024 CNN Russia’s renewed campaign of missile and drone strikes against Ukrainian civilians has begun in earnest. The campaign was long

David Axe Forbes Jan 5, 2024   Ukraine has taught its drones a new skill: minelaying. More and more Ukrainian drone groups are flying their

By Associated Press January 5, 2024   Russian air defenses downed dozens of Ukrainian drones in occupied Crimea and southern Russia on Friday, officials said,

A bizarre self identified political scientist with no college degree, but manifesting a most aggressive attitude displayed on television is one named Charlie Kirk. Recently

By Ellie Cook January 4, 2024 Newsweek   Russia is attempting to disguise details about its cruise missile production and stockpiles, according to a new

A Ukrainian Saboteur Traveled 900 Miles to A Snowy Russian Airfield And, In The Dead Of Night, Lit A Russian Sukhoi Fighter-Bomber On Fire David

By Michael Poznansky January 5, 2024 Foreign Affairs   One of the chief justifications for sending military aid to Ukraine turns on deterrence. Proponents of

90 years ago the Soviet-engineered Holodomor atrocity came to an end, but its horrific legacy continues Adam Zivo Jan 3, 2023 National Post   ODESA,

Adam Zivo January 3, 2024 National Post The West’s enemies understand that disparate conflicts in Ukraine, Israel, Yemen and Taiwan are just different theatres of

By Timothy Ash January 3, 2024 CEPA   The US, UK and Canada are reportedly set to present proposals to G7 leaders in February to

Tayfun Ozberk 2 Jan 2024 Naval News   On January 1, 2024, Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) shared a video of the Sea Baby unmanned surface

‘Cuckoo’ comes from a proud tradition of Ukrainian snipers —  and Putin is sending poorly trained men into her crosshairs George Grylls January 2, 2024

  By BOHDAN VITVITSKY December 30, 2023 The Hill   Does the U.S. have an obligation to aid Ukraine? The short answer to this question,

By Victor Rud January 2, 2024 CEPA   Western weakness and vacillation over Ukraine is encouraging expansionist despots. They will ensure a cascade of warfare

The President of Ukraine is disappointed with the world’s current attitude to the need for continued support to Ukraine – but is in no hurry

Alexander J. Motyl January 1, 2024 The Messenger   Vladimir Putin, Russia’s illegitimate president, reportedly says he’d consider a ceasefire in his war against Ukraine.

By not arming Kyiv for a long-range campaign against Russia, the U.S. seems to be forcing a deal.   By Phillips P. O’Brien Jan.1, 2024

David Axe Forbes Jan 1, 2024   For 10 weeks, tens of thousands of Russian troops have been trying, and failing, to dislodge a few

Athletes including 1994 Olympic figure skating champion Oksana Baiul have fought sports officials to an uneasy compromise—one ice show at a time Louise Radnofsky January

By the Editorial Board January 1, 2024 The Washington Post   The Soviet Union designed the S-300, a mobile, surface-to-air defense weapons system, during the

By Ellie Cook December 28, 2023 Newsweek   On the cusp of 2024, Russia has made use of nearly two years of patchy air superiority

Predictions for  a new year are like resolutions, rarely measured by success or failure. Generally no one remembers them.  As a society we have short

UKRAINE’S M-2 FIGHTING VEHICLES ARE SHOWING HOW RUSSIA LOSES—AND UKRAINE WINS David Axe Forbes Dec 30, 2023   On Oct. 10, elements of two Russian

By Peter Dickinson Atlantic Council Dec 1, 2023   Vladimir Putin’s Ukrainian Genocide: Nobody can claim they did not know The liberation of Kherson in

Russia’s pro-Palestinian stance has inflamed tensions and underscored shift in relations since invasion of Ukraine Pjotr Sauer 30 December 2023 The Guardian   When Vladimir

The defence secretary said the shipment would help take down Russian drones amid Putin’s ‘murderous’ airstrikes Geraldine Scott December 30, 2023 The Times   Britain

As the world’s attention turns to other conflicts, the onslaught here continues. This is the story of one December day in Kyiv Oleksandr Mykhed 29

Stanislav Haider December 28, 2023 The Kyiv Independent   The Defense Ministry is one of Ukraine’s oldest bureaucratic structures. As such, it has long-established customs

How the Ukraine War Has Changed the Game for the Kremlin’s Operatives—and Their Western Rivals By Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan December 27, 2023 Foreign

By Samya Kullab and Illia Novikov December 28, 2023 The Washington Post   MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — They recognized the TV repairman. The residents of Oleshky

From the start of the invasion, the Russian authorities purposefully removed children from Ukraine, aiming to turn them against their homeland. Some have returned to

Although a Ukrainian counteroffensive has made few battlefield gains, Ukraine has been able to launch a series of attacks on Crimea, the headquarters of Russia’s

THE UKRAINIANS TRYING TO SAVE THEIR ARCHAEOLOGICAL TREASURE AMID WAR In Ukraine’s history-rich east, the war with Russia is hastening both historical discoveries and the

In the course of my personal Christmas introspection  which deals with both my Christian and Ukrainian sour, I recalled an interview with the then just

Washington Commentary by Matthew Continetti Dec 23, 2023 The debate over American military assistance to Ukraine has lost touch with reality. The argument in Washington

Russia is turning to Iran and North Korea for military supplies and diplomatic support. By Yaroslav Trofimov December 21, 2023 The Wall Street Journal  

By Leonid Gozman 22/12/2023 Euronews   Putin’s regime is an existential threat to European civilization. If Russia wins in Ukraine, it will not stop, just

INTERVIEW WITH EWA THOMPSON: THE FIELD ISN’T “SLAVIC STUDIES” AT ALL—IT SHOULD BE CALLED “RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA STUDIES” December 21, 2023 Forum for Ukrainian Studies  

MISSILES AND DRONES WERE TAKING OUT ENTIRE RUSSIAN SQUADS ON THEIR VEHICLES. David Axe Forbes December 19, 2023   Russian forces on the attack in

Using specialized e-commerce sites, secretive shipping workarounds and a constellation of middlemen, Russia has obtained the tech components it needs to keep its economy and

Ukrainians would face terror on a scale not seen in Europe since the 20th-century era of totalitarian rule By Adrian Karatnycky December 19, 2023 Foreign

If the West doesn’t help Ukraine beat back Russia, your lives will not be the same. Opinion by VICTOR PINCHUK 12/13/2023 POLITICO   The White

19 December, 2023 Global Espreso Many units of the Russian army in the Kupyansk direction have recorded an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever, dubbed as “mouse

  He faced a police investigation over an alleged contract killing, but Volodymyr Saldo is now beyond the reach of Ukrainian law Tom Burgis 19

‘If you want to lose a war, lose attention. That’s how that happens, and that is Putin’s end game,’ volunteer Dave Smith says  Mark Mackinnon

After Ukrainian forces pushed back the invading Russians, a few residents returned to their bombed out villages   Marc Bennetts December 18, 2023 The Times

David Hambling December 17, 2023 Forbes   Commentators have long asked where Ukraine’s reply is to the Iranian-made Shahed drones used by Russia . Now

December 18, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS   The West dallies about funding Ukraine’s war effort, but can do so by confiscating all the Russian financial assets

May I begin by expressing my sincerest gratitude to God and all those responsible for this gift of unity, enabling all Ukrainians at long last

  By E.J. Dionne Jr. December 17, 2023 The Washington Post   On Thursday in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin preened before his country’s captive

A military intelligence officer says he is conducting operations against the Putin regime without the knowledge of his superiors   Samantha de Bendern December 17,

  12/16/23 Victor Rud The Messenger   On a recent appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) posited that “What’s in

  The ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent, winner of 51 Emmys, has thrived on showing viewers ‘what they should be paying attention to.’ Emily Bobrow December 15,

Proliferation of small, cheap drones is changing the way militaries think about air defense By Alistair MacDonald and Ievgeniia Sivorka December 15, 2023 The Wall

In televised year-end address, Russian president calls for Ukraine’s unconditional surrender Andrew Roth and Pjotr Sauer 14 December 2023 The Guardian   Vladimir Putin has

December 15, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS From celebration to exasperation in a matter of hours. The gambit to get Putin pal Viktor Orban of Hungary to

Biden and Republicans would co-own a Vietnam-scale debacle. By The Editorial Board December 13, 2023 The Wall Street Journal   Hard to believe, but perhaps

UKRAINE HAS FIGURED OUT A NEW WAY OF WINNING BATTLES: START BY GROUNDING RUSSIA’S DRONES Jam Russian radios, blow up Russian jammers David Axe December

The congressional opposition to the president’s funding request explained—as far as it can be   By David Frum December 12, 2023 The Atlantic   “We’re

The U.S. assesses that more than 13,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in a key eastern Ukrainian battleground since October.   By ALEXANDER

SEXUALLY ASSAULTED BY RUSSIAN TROOPS, SURVIVORS IN UKRAINE BEGIN TO SEEK JUSTICE As hundreds share their stories, investigators work to determine if soldiers are using

Patrol boats are playing a key role in keeping the enemy at bay Maxim Tucker December 12, 2023 The Times   The boat’s engine roars

The Ukrainian leader warned against what he called a potential political betrayal of his military ahead of meetings on Capitol Hill Tuesday By Liz Goodwin,

Kyiv faces challenge of political obstruction in the West, but historian Anne Applebaum is optimistic this will be resolved Diane Francis Dec 11, 2023 Financial

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 12/09/23 The Hill   Are the MAGA Republicans who want to cut off U.S. aid to Ukraine acting ethically? To put

LIFE IN RUSSIAN-CONTROLLED AREAS OF UKRAINE IS GRIM. PEOPLE ARE FLEEING THROUGH A DANGEROUS CORRIDOR By Hanna Arhirova The Washington Post December 11, 2023  

December 11, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS Champagne corks are popping in the Kremlin as Ukraine’s fate becomes entangled in the machinations that plague democracies in America

If Congress forces Kyiv to accept a Russian victory, the result won’t be peace but a new war. By David Satter December 7, 2023 The

David Axe Forbes December 8, 2023   As Russia’s wider war on Ukraine grinds toward its third year, both countries’ tanks mostly aren’t fighting as

By WILLIAM COURTNEY and HOWARD J. SHATZ December 7, 2023 The Hill With no letup in its war against Ukraine in sight, Russia has amassed

Reducing support for Kyiv puts the entire free world at risk Adam Zivo December 04, 2023 National Post   ODESA, Ukraine — Western allies who

UKRAINE GOES TO WASHINGTON WITH A NEW ASK: HELP US MAKE OUR OWN WEAPONS Kyiv has received billions of dollars’ worth of weapons from the

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate (UOCMP) is a geographical appendage or branch  of the Russian Orthodox Church,  Moscow Patriarchate (ROCMP). It takes its directives

UKRAINIANS, IN A TRANSCONTINENTAL WAR OF SABOTAGE, REACH ACROSS RUSSIA TO BLOW UP TRAINS TO STOP MILITARY CARGO FROM CHINA AND NORTH KOREA Kremlin calls

The Wall Street Journal Dec 6, 2023 Tunku Varadarajan Every isolationist American politician who would turn his back on the Ukrainians should be made to

By Lee Hockstader December 5, 2023 The Washington Post PARIS — There are various paths to the conclusion that U.S. taxpayers are getting a bargain

By Herman Pirchner Jr. December 4, 2023 Washington Times   Since the start of the latest Israel-Hamas war, coverage of the conflict between Russia and

By Taras Kuzio November 30, 2023 Atlantic Council   As the year draws to a close, there is a growing sense of Ukraine fatigue in

Francis Farrell November 28, 2023 The Kyiv Independent   To end the war with an independent Ukraine, the West must provide honest answers to two

Amid passionate accusations of hypocrisy, the U.S. and allies have struggled to persuade the world that they are defending the moral high ground in both

UKRAINE CAPTURED A RADAR DURING A DARING OIL PLATFORM ASSAULT THAT IT’S NOW USING TO TRACK RUSSIAN WARSHIPS, COMMANDOS SAY Chris Panella November 29, 2023

By Kristina Hook November 25, 2023 Atlantic Council   As Russia’s full-scale invasion approaches the two-year mark with no end in sight, Ukrainian resolve remains

November 29, 2023 By Carl Schreck, Maja Zivanovic and Riin Aljas RFE/RL   VIENNA — Just two days before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of

Contrary to the doom-mongers, there is no rationale for Ukraine to make concessions and, in effect, agree to capitulation. by Alexander J. Motyl and Dennis

Ukraine’s war aims are designed to guarantee a lasting peace, not a reprieve before another Russian attack. DAVID J. KRAMER, JOHN HERBST and WILLIAM TAYLOR

Ukrainian History Global Initiative brings together 90 academics to put the country’s historical contributions on the map Charlotte Higgins 29 November 2023 The Guardian The

November 24,2023 Ukrainian World Congress   Russians destroy Holodomor monuments in south of Ukraine The Russians are destroying monuments to the victims of the Holodomor

UKRAINIAN CHILDREN ABDUCTED TO RUSSIA FORCED TO GLORIFY CONVICTED CRIMINALS PARDONED FOR FIGHTING AGAINST UKRAINE 24.11.2023 Halya Coynash Human Rights in Ukraine   Russia is

Tom Ball November 24, 2023 The Times There was a time when Maria Berlinska was simply Masha, a Kyiv university student studying for a master’s

DIANE FRANCIS November 23, 2023   Volodymyr Zelensky delivered grim news on November 21, the tenth anniversary of Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity. He said in

Eric Reguly November 22, 2023 The Globe and Mail   Pope Francis has repeatedly called for peace in Ukraine and asked Catholics to pray for

I last met this friend of the Ukrainian people on a cold December afternoon in 2013 on the Maidan in Kyiv as he was about

Vladimir Putin’s pals have been boasting about Russia’s backing of Hamas; critics say they are one of a number of notorious anti-Western allies being used

Nov 20, 2023 UCCA On 18 November, hundreds of Ukrainian Americans gathered before St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church in New York City to embark on

By Olga Bertelsen AIHPS Nov 12, 2023   In 2016, I published an article about Russian memory politics and disinformation in the sphere of history,

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 11/20/23 The Hill This Thanksgiving, you may want to thank whichever God you pray to that you’re not Ukrainian. For chances

President points to ties between Kremlin and Iran and also thanks ‘brave men and women’ putting themselves in danger to report the war at a

‘Russian Military Is Shooting Its Soldiers Who Retreat’ – Ukraine Counteroffensive Update for Nov 20 by John Moretti November 19, 2023 Kyiv Post   According

A 60-Year-Old Russian Tank Apparently Tried Attacking The Ukrainian Marines’ Dnipro Bridgehead. The Tank Didn’t Survive. David Axe Forbes November 19, 2023   On Oct.

VoxCheck’s Investigation into Russian Falsehoods in Europe VoxCheck Team 16 November 2023   VoxCheck has been monitoring Russian disinformation in six European countries for almost

By Will Tizard Variety Nov 18, 2023   Sean Penn says the cost in human lives of Russia’s continuing war on Ukraine is on “all

The true depth of our obligation to Kyiv is only now becoming clear Dominic Lawson November 19, 2023 The Sunday Times   As winter falls

By Stephen Blank The Central Asia-Caucasus November 15, 2023 Russia has recently announced that it has obtained a new naval base on the Black Sea

Russian propaganda has a strong influence around the world, and unfortunately, the United States is no exception. For Washington, Russian propaganda has long been a

  What happened during the Holodomor is cause for lessons to be learned now. By Bohdan Nahaylo November 19, 2023 Kyiv Post   The 90th

From WW I until the present, the US has underestimated and mishandled Moscow repeatedly to Ukraine’s detriment and its own. Simply put, America lacks a

By CARL GERSHMAN Nov 16, 2023 Tablet Magazine Hamas’ barbaric attack on Oct. 7, when the terrorist group gruesomely slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and seized over

EVIDENCE SUGGESTS STARVATION OF UKRAINE WAS PRE-PLANNED Purchases by Russian defence contractor suggest Moscow was planning to steal vast quantities of Ukrainian grain months before

We must inoculate the world’s nations as to the Moscow-origins of the recent spike of antisemitism and make clear that only our enemies win through

Eurasia Daily Monitor By Ksenia Kirillova November 13, 2023 Life at home is not always peaceful and full of glory for Russian soldiers returning from

UKRAINE’S FOREIGN MINISTER DMYTRO KULEBA ON X: TO THOSE WHO HAVE MISSED THE PREVIOUS 30 YEARS, HERE IS A SHORT LIST OF THE RESULTS OF

Nov 15, 2023 ISW By Frederick W. Kagan The positional war in Ukraine is not a stable stalemate. It is not the result of fundamental

About 100 Ukrainians a day travel back into Ukraine at an unofficial border crossing, bringing tales of repression and fear about life in Russian-controlled territories.

THE UKRAINIANS USED A CLASSIC TACTIC TO DEVASTATE A RUSSIAN AMMO CONVOY Russian forces aren’t safe anywhere in Kherson Oblast David Axe Forbes November 14,

By VERA BERGENGRUEN November 14, 2023 TIME Magazine   Leonid Tymchenko spent the first month of Russia’s invasion sitting in his dark government office after

TELLS US SOMETHING IMPORTANT ABOUT UKRAINE Russia once controlled 20 percent of U.S. territory. That legacy helps explain its aggression against Ukraine. By CASEY MICHEL

By Mykola Bielieskov November 13, 2023 Atlantic Council   Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny is not known for seeking the limelight, but his recent interview and

Ukrainian toeholds across the Dnipro River in the south are a rare bright spot amid glum By Matthew Luxmoore November 15, 2023 The Wall Street

Influential author and broadcaster Hubert Seipel received financial support for his work on two books described by many as sympathetic to Russian president Kate Connolly,

UKRAINE PLANS TO USE WINTER TO CUT OFF RUSSIA’S MILITARY SUPPLY CHAINS AND ‘FREEZE THEM OUT’ OF THE COUNTRY, OFFICIAL SAYS Sinéad Baker Nov 13,

By Brendan Cole ISW Nov 9, 2023   The Russian General Staff is making decisions based on maps that do not reflect the battlefield reality,

By Pavel Luzin November 10, 2023 CEPA   The Kremlin makes remorseless efforts to achieve a ceasefire on its own terms. Agreeing to this would

by Anastasiia Lapatina November 4, 2023 The Kyiv Independent   Russia is infamous for its malign influence in Latin America – from pouring billions of

Mariya Chukhnova 9 November 2023 VOX News   Corruption is usually believed to be the problem of less developed countries. However, while it originates in

By Anne Applebaum November 10, 2023 The Atlantic   They planned to take Kyiv in three days, the rest of Ukraine in six weeks. More

Desperate parents regularly write to the first lady, pleading for help. ‘As a mother, I don’t know how I would cope,’ she says of the

Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Sweet and Mark Toth November 9, 2023 The Messenger   Reports that the United States and European Union (EU) are initiating peace

Washington needs to quickly ramp up defense production, especially munitions. Peter Rough and Mike Watson Foreign Policy Nov 8, 2023   Now that the war

By Peter Dickinson Atlantic Council Nov 7, 2023   On the very first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, a Russian warship approached

MPs heard from children who were shipped to Russia or occupied Ukraine and forced to renounce their Ukrainian identity John Ivison November 07, 2023 National

Ethnic minorities volunteer for long trek from far east to oppose Putin’s regime Marc Bennetts November 9, 2023 The Times The men left Siberia separately,

A question for American lawmakers about Ukraine TIMOTHY SNYDER Nov 8, 2023 Imagine that freedom was in decline around the world.  Imagine that things had

By Max Boot November 6, 2023 The Washington Post   In warfare, attacking has always been harder than defending. The war in Ukraine demonstrates that

Amid ceaseless bombardment, Kherson residents shop at the market, clean their homes, and document the horrors of war by Tom Burgis 7 Nov 2023 The

Israel-Gaza and Ukraine-Russia conflicts part of world war started by Vladimir Putin in 1999 Diane Francis November 6, 2023 Financial Post   The Israel-Gaza and

By George F. Will November 1, 2023 The Washington Post   Explaining his support for U.S. aid to Israel but not Ukraine, Sen. J.D. Vance,

By Fatima Hussein November 2, 2023 The Washington Post   WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday imposed a new round of sanctions on 130

November 01, 2023 By Kyrylo Ovsyaniy RFE/RL   An analysis of satellite images by Schemes, RFE/RL’s Ukrainian investigative unit, suggests that Russia is actively building

November 2, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS In most developed nations, Donald Trump would be nearly broke or in jail by now — not because of the

By Greg Miller and Catherine Belton October 19, 2023 The Washington Post   KYIV, Ukraine — In the final days before the invasion of Ukraine,

Goltsev, one of the accused, allegedly sent a message to a co-conspirator, stating: “We need to figure out why they keep holding the package. I

By David L. Stern and Kostiantyn Khudov November 1, 2023 The Washington Post KYIV — A rousing action drama set in 18th-century Ukraine about a

Mother tells of Ukrainian civilian’s torture, starvation and despair at the hands of a cruel enemy Marc Bennetts The Times October 30 2023 After months

‘Russia’s church’ is about to be banned as art and religion also come into conflict in Ukraine. By Andriy Kurkov October 29, 2023 Kyiv Post

Is Ukraine the winner? By VLADISLAV DAVIDZON October 24, 2023 Tablet Magazine The Hamas massacres in the Israeli south that killed more than 1,400 Israeli

James Sherr OBE ICDS Oct 30, 2023 The Russians have long understood that to win a war, you must utilise an enemy’s forces as skilfully

Soldiers who don’t follow the suicidal Kremlin orders now risk gunfire from both sides of the war by Askold Krushelnycky The Independent Oct 28, 2023

By DOUG KLAIN 10/30/23 The Hill Congress is open for business again, and the first order of business for new Speaker of the House Mike

Analyzing this subject it is compelling to take into account lapse of time, lack of legislation at the time, the weakness of international law and

Ukraine inflicted unprecedented damage on Russia’s armored forces in October, destroying over 400 Russian tanks, according to the General Staff. By SERGE HAVRYLETS 28/10/2023 Euromaidan

October 30, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS Ukraine’s war against Russia has been bumped off front pages by Israel’s conflict, leading to concern that U.S. financial support

Never-before-released archival files reveal Washington’s error in cudgeling Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons despite the risk of a Russian invasion. by George E.

By Peter Dickinson Oct 26, 2023 Atlantic Council How much longer can the West afford to continue supporting Ukraine? As Russia’s invasion enters its twenty-first

RUSSIAN SOLDIER SAYS 8 UKRAINIAN FIGHTERS FENDED OFF HUNDREDS OF ENEMY TROOPS FROM THEIR FORTIFIED POSITION, PER LEAKED AUDIO By Alia Shoaib Insider Oct 27,

By MARK TEMNYCKY October 27, 2023 The Hill   “In my state, people want to be helpful to Ukraine, but they also want to be

By ALEX GANGITANO 10/26/23 The Hill White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said Thursday that the Russian military is executing soldiers who aren’t following

He says American politicians don’t realize much of the funding actually stays in the US. Charles R. Davis October 25, 2023 Insider WASHINGTON, DC —

Vasileios Karagiannopoulos October 25, 2023 The Conversation Ukraine’s recently formed “IT army” is playing a crucial role in the war with Russia, launching disruptive cyber-attacks

HAMAS’S ATTACK HAS OPENED UP ANOTHER FRONT IN THE GROWING WAR AGAINST LIBERAL DEMOCRACY: CHRIS ALEXANDER IN THE GLOBE AND MAIL Liberal democracies need to

The issue of the Galicia Division, which fought in German uniforms against the Soviets, has long been officially closed in the UK and Canada. Yet

Kyiv is converting US missiles for new uses and prioritising joint ventures with western companies. Twenty months since Russia‟s full-scale invasion, Ukrainian officials know how

Inasmuch as the Russians could not eradicate the national characteristics of the non-Russian nations in the USSR, they had to grant some concessions and to

David Axe Forbes Oct 23, 2023   Four months after Ukrainian forces launched their long-anticipated counteroffensive in southern and eastern Ukraine, Russian forces tried to

by Seth Mandel Oct 23, 2023 Commentary The headline on ABC News’s Chicago affiliate was: “Chicago protest today: Hundreds of Palestinians march downtown as death

UKRAINE BREAKS THROUGH ENEMY LINES IN RUSSIA-CONTROLLED SOUTH: ‘RUSSIAN LOSSES ARE REALLY STAGGERING’ By Matthew Sedacca Oct. 21, 2023 New York Post   Ukrainian forces

The lightning assaults are part of a larger campaign using drones and missiles to degrade Russian forces and demoralize the public. By Carlotta Gall and

As prosecutors prepare war crimes case, victims reveal how they were beaten and made to dig own graves in Balakliia   Lorenzo Tondo 23 October

Ukraine in recent months jumped in with two feet on developing “FrankenSAM” missile systems to fill its air defense gaps. The Russian Air Force recently

JANICE DICKSON October 20, 2023 The Globe and Mail Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been raging for more than 600 days, and as the

Report points to ‘wilful killing, torture, rape and other sexual violence, and the deportation of children to the Russian Federation’ Pjotr Sauer 21 October 2023

REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BIDEN ON THE UNITED STATES’ RESPONSE TO HAMAS’S TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAEL AND RUSSIA’S ONGOING BRUTAL WAR AGAINST UKRAINE WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING

By Jeff Stein, Nick Miroff and Jacob Bogage October 20, 2023 The Washington Post President Biden on Friday unveiled a $106 billion proposal that primarily

“The war will end for us when we enter Kuban.” So said a disabled Ukrainian soldier with a missing left arm above the elbow. He

Stephen Blank October 19, 2023 The Hill   Recently Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) said Israel is our “single most important ally in the Middle East,”

President links the two conflicts as he makes a sweeping argument for America’s global role By Marisa Iati and Yasmeen Abutaleb October 19, 2023 The

From improvised “wedding drone” bombers to long-range kamikaze drones, Ukraine’s rapid drone innovation has given it a tactical edge against Russia’s forces. But can it

By Mykola Bielieskov October 16, 2023 Atlantic Council The current fighting season is still far from over in Ukraine, but it is already clear that

There can be no capitulation to Russia or to Hamas. ERIC S. EDELMAN and DAVID J. KRAMER Oct 18, 2023 The Bulwark The world’s attention

By Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Daniel Hodge and Kostyantyn Gak CNN October 18, 2023 A swarm of Ukrainian jet skis races across the ocean under

October 19, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS President Joe Biden went to Israel and threaded the needle. He repeated America’s full-throated support for Israel, sympathized with Gaza’s

Ukrainian forces attacked two key Russian air bases behind enemy lines on Tuesday, using American-made long-range missiles known as ATACMS, a U.S. official said. By

Glenn Corn Oct 16, 2023 The Cipher Brie EXPERT PERSPECTIVE / OPINION — Prior to the horrific events of 7 October 2023, the issue of

10/16/23 Alexander J. Motyl The Messenger Ukraine, the West, and Israel will face some tough choices in the days, weeks and months to come. It

Major assault in Donetsk launched on Tuesday said to have resulted in serious losses for Moscow’s forces Luke Harding 15 Oct 2023 The Guardian  

By Andrew E. Kramer and Matthew Mpoke Bigg October 15, 2023 The New York Times   Ukraine, still locked in fierce combat with Russia along

By Alex Horton and Serhiy Morgunov October 12, 2023 The Washington Post   DONETSK REGION, Ukraine — The Ukrainian soldier was alone on the road

After the recent visit to Canada of Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky, interested parties renewed worn out claims about the presence of “Ukrainian Nazis” in Canada.

By Kurt Volker October 7, 2023 CEPA We should not overdo the current sense of doom on Ukraine aid. There are good reasons to believe

October 12, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS The assault by Hamas against Israel happened on October 7 which is Vladimir Putin’s birthday. It may be coincidental, but

Kyiv aims to destroy Russia’s logistics routes, command centers and ammunition depots, weakening enemy forces so it can slice through them By Daniel Michaels October

Author: Hryhorii Rii Translated by: Marta Olynyk President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Canada and his speech in Parliament blew up into a scandal. The world’s

Marc Santora traveled with Ukrainian air assault brigades in eastern Ukraine. Tyler Hicks has documented the war from locations all along the front line. Tyler

At this critical moment, now is not the time for the US to sell out Ukraine and effectively capitulate on the world stage. By Victor

League of Ukrainian Canadians National Executive   Media Release 10 October 2023 THE LEAGUE OF UKRAINIAN CANADIANS CONDEMNS TERRORIST ATTACK ON ISRAEL   The League

David Axe Forbes October 9, 2023 It’s apparent that, in the months and weeks leading up to the Ukrainian armed forces’ 2023 counteroffensive, which kicked

And could we be making the same mistake with China?   By Timothy Ash October 7, 2023 Kyiv Post   Why did the West get

Ukraine’s Quest for Mature Nation, Statehood Roundtable XXIV: Forging A Strong Yet Forbearing National Identity – Future Initiatives, October 05, 2023, University Club, DC  

The Russian dictator believes himself to be above international law but there are many ways to make him pay for his war crimes Peter Pomerantsev

Declan Power October 8, 2023 Sunday Times   The tanaiste’s  (The Tánaiste is the deputy head of the government of Ireland ) visit to Kyiv

By JOSH RUDOLPH 10/06/23 The Hill   Russian President Vladimir Putin caught a lucky break this week. Just when he was planning to use his

By David Brennan Newsweek Sept 6, 2023 Ukrainian forces pushing their counteroffensive in the southeast of the country are “neutralizing” Russia’s numerical advantage, a retired

By DIANE FRANCIS October 5, 2023 Evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin is in trouble grows. He imposed an October deadline on his generals to

Kyiv has turned the region into a no-go zone for Moscow’s bristling warships Luke Harding 5 October 2023 The Guardian   It was a moment

Canadian scholar and historian of Ukraine during the Soviet era discusses the Kremlin’s “Operation Payback” propaganda campaign accusing Canada and the US of harboring Nazis

October 5, 2023. OTTAWA, ON. Today at approximately 1:15 pm Kyiv time, Russia carried out a missile strike on a grocery store near Kupyansk, Kharkiv

by Nataliya Bugayova, Frederick W. Kagan and Kateryna Stepanenko October 3, 2023 The Kyiv Independent   Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t invade Ukraine in 2022

By Max Boot October 2, 2023 The Washington Post   The good news is that Congress, at the last minute, averted a government shutdown, at

By Paul Krugman October 2, 2023 The New York Times   So the federal government wasn’t shut down over the weekend, although we may have

One Bucha resident, who chose to remain anonymous, decided to put his experience as a materials scientist to develop an “invisibility cloak” known as “Phantom

We Are Ukraine Sept 29, 2023 Russia utilizes a robust propaganda machine to advance its political and foreign policy goals globally. We at We Are

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Chair of Ukrainian Studies 100 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario M5S3G3 Tel. 416-978–3332 Fax 416-978-4960 September 25, 2023   “Canada’s Parliament applauds

Marcus Kolga breaks down how foreign influence operations are spreading disinformation and jeopardizing our democracy By ALI AMAD April 17, 2023 Toronto Life Human rights

In a war built around artillery, tanks, drones and cruise missiles, the role of the sniper, unseen and lethal, occupies an often overlooked but essential

Marcus Kolga breaks down how foreign influence operations are spreading disinformation and jeopardizing our democracy By ALI AMAD April 17, 2023 Toronto Life   Human

by Lindsay Maizland Council on Foreign Relations Sept 29, 2023   How is the Ukrainian counteroffensive faring so far? The Ukrainian military has been doing

By Oleksandr Moskalenko October 1, 2023 Kyiv Post Ukraine’s counter-offensive has not swept the Russian occupiers from Ukrainian territory, but it has made some things

New systems eliminate surprises, make it harder to gain ground in armored assaults By Yaroslav Trofimov September 28, 2023 The Wall Street Journal   CHASIV

A century-old institute that used to focus on criminal cases is studying Russia’s weapons, and where parts are coming from Shaun Walker 27 September 2023

Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov is spearheading the use of sea drones against the Russian fleet Financial Times Sept 27, 2023 At first glance,

September 28, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS Putin realizes he is running out of time, according to a high-level leak. “He has given his defence minister Sergei

On Friday, 25 August 2023, in comments made by video to Roman Catholic youth in St. Petersburg, Russia, Pope Francis made the following comments: “Never

by Francis Farrell September 26, 2023 The Kyiv Independent ZAPORIZHZHIA OBLAST– Even months before it started, just the idea of Ukraine’s large-scale counteroffensive in 2023

The territory of today’s Ukraine in the XX century inter World War period was split essentially between a repressive Polish dictatorship and a savage and

By LAURENCE H. TRIBE and RAYMOND P. TOLENTINO Sept 26, 2023 TIME Magazine With each passing day, Ukraine continues to struggle under Russia’s illegal war

To waver in our support now would be tantamount to saying that this war is not our business Magnus Linklater September 26, 2023 The Times

Maxim Tucker September 25, 2023 The Times The Kremlin is implementing a carefully choreographed “state policy” of torture in occupied Ukraine, the leading United Nations

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy joins Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a historic second parliamentary address. Al Jazeera Staff Sept 22, 2023 Al Jazeera   Ukrainian

In the spring of this year, parishes of several Orthodox churches in the United States received a warning from the FBI that Russian special services

America will supply the ATACMS weapons, enabling Ukrainian forces to target Russian military logistics way beyond the frontline Emma Graham-Harrison 23 Sep 2023 The Guardian

Human rights lawyers are working with Ukraine’s public prosecutor to prepare dossier to submit to the international criminal court Dan Sabbagh 24 September 2023 The

David Axe Forbes Sep 20, 2023   Albania is donating to Ukraine 22 of its American-made MaxxPro armored trucks. It’s one small arms transfer among

UKRAINE’S LEOPARD 1A5 TANKS ARE EXCELLENT SHOOTERS—BECAUSE THEY HAVE EXCELLENT FIRE-CONTROLS David Axe Forbes Sep 22, 2023 Yes, Ukraine’s 1980s-vintage, German-made Leopard 1A5 tanks are

Bogdan Maftei Medium Sept 20, 2023   Imagine a historic parallel, one that harks back to the iconic events of World War II – think

by Igor Kossov September 20, 2023 The Kyiv Independent The past month has not been kind to Russia’s forces in occupied Crimea. In a span

By Jim Geraghty The Washington Post Sept 21, 2023   KYIV — “Before the war, I was a quiet man,” Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman tells

UKRAINE BREACHED RUSSIA’S FEARSOME DEFENSES WITH VEHICLES FOR THE FIRST TIME, ANALYSTS SAY — A MAJOR MILESTONE IN ITS FIGHTBACK By Sophia Ankel and Jake

The Editorial Board The Globe and Mail September 22, 2023   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will be in Ottawa on Friday to meet the Governor-General,

By Jesse O’Neill Sep. 19, 2023 New York Post   Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called on world leaders to “act united to defeat the aggressor,”

September 19, 2023 By Aleksander Palikot RFERL NEAR VELYKA NOVOSILKA, Ukraine — “We planned the offensive, went in, crushed two Russian brigades, and battered them

Painting Vladimir Putin’s Russia as a nation that seeks to dominate others, President Volodymyr Zelensky cast his appeal for broad support as a matter of

By Bret Stephens September 19, 2023 The New York Times Volodymyr Zelensky will visit Washington this week to give thanks to the United States for

On the eve of a trip to the United States, Ukraine’s president is eager to demonstrate that the billions of dollars Washington is spending to

By Mikhail Zygar September 19, 2023 The New York Times   Starting this month, all high school students in Russia have a new history textbook.

If a negotiated settlement gave Moscow rights to any land it seized, it would claim success and invade again Derek H. Burney September 19, 2023

By Yaroslav Yurchyshyn The Hill Sept 16, 2023   Last month, Ukraine’s parliament established a special committee to formulate a legal framework for interactions with

Luke Coffey September 13, 2023 Hudson Institute   Since Russia invaded Ukraine for the second time in eight years, Russian troops have ravaged Ukraine’s cities,

September 18, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS The phrase “Potemkin village” refers to a series of fake town facades built in 1783 by Catherine the Great’s lover,

Gina Christian OSV News 15 September 2023   PHILADELPHIA — Jewish leaders in Ukraine have issued a letter of support for the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy

I’ve seen the bravery and resilience of the Ukrainian people. At this week’s UN general assembly, world leaders must help them David Miliband 18 September

by Stephen Blank 09/14/23 The Hill Garry Kasparov, the renowned Russian dissident, recently observed that the Biden administration may be covertly negotiating with Russia to

Sept. 15, 2023 By Thomas L. Friedman The New York Times While visiting Kyiv last week, my first trip to Ukraine since Vladimir Putin’s invasion

Lucia Schulten Sept 17, 2023 DW Ukraine and Russia are set to face off in the International Court of Justice in the Hague over violations

Ukrainian leaders are trying to shore up support from dozens of countries and hope in-person talks will make a difference. By NAHAL TOOSI 09/14/2023 POLITICO

David Axe Forbes Sep 12, 2023 Ukraine’s German-made Leopard 2A6s—arguably its best tanks—operate at night and dawn, striking at long range while on the move.

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon The Telegraph September 13, 2023   The war in Ukraine appears on the surface like no other, with small flying drones attacking

The former Polish foreign minister on democracy in Poland, European security and what he meant by that Nord Stream tweet. By Katie Stallard The New

September 12, 2023 Janusz Bugajski The Geopost Ukraine’s counter-offensive is not only the enormous military effort to regain all of its occupied territories from Russian

10 September 2023 OHCHR KYIV – Russia’s armed aggression is becoming synonymous with torture and other inhuman cruelty, a UN expert said today. “The volume

09/11/23 Alexander J. Motyl The Messenger Astoundingly, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine “has not concluded at this stage that genocide

By Brendan Cole Newsweek Sept 11, 2023   Kyiv has said that it has reclaimed control of strategically vital gas and oil drilling platforms in

11 September 2023 SERGIY SYDORENKO European Pravda Timothy Snyder is a renowned historian whose name needs no introduction, especially in Ukraine. Last year, his lectures

The Biden administration, paralyzed by its desire to appease Russia, is refusing to enable a win for Ukraine – only that Russia does not lose.

Josuha C. Huminski The Hill Sept 10, 2023 Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s recent foreign policy statements about Ukraine and Taiwan, and his seeming isolationist inclination,

By Olena Harmash and Tom Balmforth September 9, 2023 Reuters KYIV – Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russian forces will continue through the onset of cold and

American officials defended the agreement, saying it built on the statement released last year and that the United States was still pressing for peace in

David Axe Forbes September 8, 2023 The German-made Flakpanzer Gepard is a pair of radar-guided 35-millimeter autocannons in a two-person turret mated with a Leopard

Bohdan Klid September 8, 2023 Forum for Ukrainian Studies   Since at least 2008 but especially in the period leading up to and following Russia’s

By Brian O’Toole and Daniel Fried Atlantic Council Sept 8, 2023   On Wednesday, Russia’s central bank announced new measures to speed up its sale

By Howard Altman The Drive Sept 8, 2023 Ukraine continues to expand the salient it has created in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, pushing closer toward the small

Ukrainian presidential adviser says deaths of civilians ‘the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego’  Pjotr Sauer 8 September 2023 The Guardian  

Yahoo Finance RICK NEWMAN September 8, 2023   He’s an egomaniacal man-child, but is Elon Musk really the dark lord? Twitter seems to think so.

By Richard Cashman The Atlantic Council Sept 7, 2023 In the weeks following the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, many Western

George F. Will September 6, 2023 The Washington Post   Like stones pitched into ponds, wars cause radiating ripples. Russia’s war of attempted annihilation of

Its agents have become expert in dark revenge. But some worry a clear strategy is absent September 5, 2023 The Economist The operation was a

DIANE FRANCIS Sept 7, 2023   Ukraine’s war effort following a full-on Russian invasion and saturation bombing campaign for 20 months is remarkable and has

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 09/05/23 The Hill Einbeck is a city in Germany with about 31,000 inhabitants. It survived the Thirty Years’ War, lived through

David Axe Forbes Sep 4, 2023   After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, newly-independent Ukraine scrambled to provide for its own defense.

Foreign and Security Policy 05.09.2023 Ruslan Suleymanov Russia is keen to cooperate with anyone with anti-Western policies – including the Taliban – just to claim

Elite Ukrainian troops tell Anthony Loyd the terrible price they are paying to break through Russian lines during the summer counteroffensive   Anthony Loyd September

UKRAINE’S CHALLENGER 2 CAN SHOOT AT THE RUSSIANS FROM MILES AWAY. David Axe Forbes Sep 3, 2023   The 82nd Air Assault Brigade, arguably Ukraine’s

Arrest of one-time ally of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy comes as Kyiv attempts to crack down on corruption Reuters 3 September 2023 A Ukrainian court has

Environmentally, economically and in terms of pure human suffering, the destruction of the Kakhovka dam unleashed untold damage. Months later, many communities are still reeling.

White House spokesman John Kirby also said reports quoting anonymous US officials criticising Ukrainian effort were ‘not helpful’   Guardian staff and agencies 2 September

By PHILIP ELLIOTT August 28, 2023 TIME Magazine   To appreciate the power of a myth, let’s take a quick visit to post-Soviet Russia. In

By David L. Stern and Serhiy Morgunov September 1, 2023 The Washington Post   MUKACHEVO, Ukraine — Ukrainian officials say their military is now using

Maritime drones are a hot topic in many navies, but Ukraine has become the first to form a specialist unit using explosive-armed ones. The recently

By Kurt Volker August 30, 2023 CEPA There is good reason for optimism about Ukraine’s fight for freedom. In Philadelphia, on July 4, 1776, Americans

An elite team of Ukrainian snipers dubbed ‘Devils and Angels’ is taking out top Russian commanders to demoralize troops: ‘We work quietly, we are invisible’

Author: Alik Gomelsky August 30, 2023   The ‘word’ is not a bird, and the word has always been a weapon. And in the modern world,

After three months of grinding advances in Western-backed operation, Kyiv accelerates thrust along main line of attack   By James Marson August 31, 2023 The

By Samuel Ramani August 29, 2023 The Moscow Times The 11th Moscow Conference on International Security brought together leading figures of the Russian security apparatus

RUSSIA IS THROWING AWAY ELITE FORCES IT WILL LIKELY NEED LATER, LIKE PARATROOPERS, TRYING TO BLUNT UKRAINE’S COUNTEROFFENSIVE Jake Epstein Aug 29, 2023 Insider  

In June 1963, sixty years ago, President John F. Kennedy travelled to Berlin, almost two years after the Communists had constructed the Berlin wall separating

The Pope’s latest comments about the “great Russian Empire” have caused “great pain” and “deep disappointment” throughout Ukraine. Even Catholics have doubts about whether it

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 08/29/23 The Hill   Is the pope a Russian imperialist? The answer, alas, may be yes, at least if Pope Francis’s

“Never forget the legacy,” Francis said in a video speech on Friday to young Catholics in St. Petersburg. “You are the heirs of Great Russia:

David Axe Forbes Aug 23, 2023   After capturing Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in February 2014, the Russian armed forces established a major missile base on

By Jan Kallberg August 23, 2023 CEPA Ukraine’s counteroffensive is making substantial progress. Russia’s generals will know this, even if the West doesn’t. The bleakness

DIANE FRANCIS Aug 28, 2023   News of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death in a plane crash generates more questions than answers. Is he really dead? Was

By the Editorial Board August 23, 2023 The Washington Post   Nearly half a million casualties, including almost 200,000 dead — that is the staggering

More than 2,000, including some orphans, have been transported from Russian-occupied areas By Karolina Jeznach and Thomas Grove August 21, 2023 The Wall Street Journal

Moscow plots mass migration to ‘Russify’ port city Aliide Naylor August 21, 2023 The Times   Ukraine says it has uncovered a Russian plan to

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 08/21/23 The Hill   Stalemate, stalled, sputtering — these are the words that increasingly find their way into commentaries about the

August 21, 2023 Diane Francis China slumps. Its currency falters, as does its trade, stock markets, real estate prices, foreign investment, tech sector, and economic

Despite tough fighting and heavy casualties, Ukrainian commanders say their forces are in better shape now than just months ago, while Russian troops appear worse

Former French president criticises EU and US support for Ukraine in his latest memoirs   Kim Willsher 19 August 2023 The Guardian   More than

An attempted Ukrainian drone strike on Moscow resulted in damage while a Black Sea Fleet corvette came under attack by a drone boat. THOMAS NEWDICK

August 18, 2023 By Lauren Jackson and Ian Prasad Philbrick The New York Times   Ukrainian forces have been fighting a brutal counteroffensive for the

 Could it really be that simple?   SÉBASTIEN ROBLIN August 18, 2023 Popular Mechanics   “Spider boots” may sound like one of the cool magic

HOW UKRAINE’S SAVVY OFFICIAL SOCIAL MEDIA RALLIED THE WORLD AND RAISED THE BAR FOR NATIONAL PROPAGANDA Brandon Boatwright August 18, 2023 The Conversation   Just

 George Grylls August 17, 2023 The Times   An international cargo ship carrying Ukrainian grain has defied Russian threats of a naval blockade in the

By Igor Khrestin and David J. Kramer August 17, 2023 Chicago Tribune   The sound of Russian bombs, along with celebratory fireworks, will mark Ukraine’s

by Asami Terajima August 16, 2023 The Kyiv Independent   DONETSK OBLAST – With its sirens blaring through the narrow and bumpy road, an ambulance

David Axe Forbes Aug 17, 2023   When Ukrainian brigades rolled out across the south and east on the night of June 4, kicking off

DIANE FRANCIS Aug 17, 2023   On the morning of June 2, 1979 church bells pealed across Poland as Pope John Paul II stepped from

By STEPHEN BLANK 08/16/23 The Hill For some time, we have known that European weapons supplies to Ukraine have been insufficient for its task of

Trio used forged press cards to carry out surveillance, police claim David Brown, Fiona Hamilton, and Shayma Bakht August 16, 2023 The Times   An

 Commodity merchants are pumping natural gas into Ukrainian reservoirs, hoping the war doesn’t disrupt potential profits   By Joe Wallace Aug. 16, 2023 The Wall

Behind the thousands of troops fighting the counteroffensive are engineers and technicians who perform an essential, and often dangerous, job. By Oleksandr Chubko and Carlotta

By Glenn Chafetz, John Sipher Atlantic Council Aug 15, 2023   To understand Russia’s current obsession with Ukraine, it is important to recognize that Russia

By Garry Kasparov August 14, 2023 Kyiv Post   Eighteen months into Russia’s all-out invasion of their nation, the Ukrainian people continue to resist. The

By Mariana Alfaro August 15, 2023 The Washington Post In response to the growing fissure within the GOP over support for the war effort in

In 1708, Peter the Great destroyed Baturyn, a bastion of Cossack independence and culture By DANIEL WEISS September/October 2023 Archaeology Magazine   On November 2,

David Axe Forbes Aug 1, 2023   Ukrainian tanks have barreled into Urozhaine, the next obstacle between free Ukraine and Russian-occupied Mariupol. A drone video

Vladimir Putin denounces Western colonialism while bringing back its most atrocious practices. By Bernard-Henri Lévy Aug. 1, 2023 The Wall Street Journal   I knew

DIANE FRANCIS Aug 14, 2023 On July 15, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol visited Kyiv for the first time to pledge support for Ukraine’s

Western weapons mean the Russians are outgunned and Putin is dithering but Zelensky’s counteroffensive remains grindingly slow   Mark Galeotti August 12, 2023 The Sunday

Kyiv wants U.S.-made fighter jets as fast as possible, but the first pilots to undergo training probably won’t be ready to fly them until next

A trail of evidence on social networks and state media detail Minsk’s role in a potential war crime August 11, 2023 AP   Alexei Talai

On August 24, Ukrainians throughout the world will celebrate thirty two years of independence. Independence anniversaries are celebrated annually in many countries with much fanfare,

By Ellie Cook Newsweek August 9, 2023   Russian forces have lost more than 5,000 artillery systems in the almost 18-month-long war, according to Kyiv’s

Baturyn, the erstwhile capital of Ukrainian hetmans, was razed to the ground by Russian troops in 1708; 314 years later, the Russian boot trampled it

Ukrainian special forces take no prisoners in cross-border raids — and have grown only more ambitious   Maxim Tucker August 8, 2023 The Times  

Women allegedly shared attack vehicle routes Joshua Thurston August 8, 2023 The Times   Ukraine says it has exposed a spy network of local women

David Axe Forbes Aug 6, 2023   The Ukrainian air force wasn’t supposed to last more than a few days in a wider war with

Re-reading the memoirs of a top US diplomat who now heads the CIA, one understands how badly Washington, Berlin and France got Russia wrong –

August 7, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS   A meeting in Jeddah among the world’s most powerful nations on August 5 and 6 represents a paradigm shift

Kyiv’s Soviet-era Motherland Monument is finally being converted from imperial symbol imposed by Moscow to that of the patriotic and defiant Mother Ukraine. By Lubomyr

Kyiv and Zelensky HQ were on the brink of evacuation due to airstrikes in December   Maxim Tucker August 4, 2023 The Times   With

By SIMON SHUSTER August 4, 2023 TIME Magazine   One day last fall, Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, came across a clip from Russian

by Oleksiy Sorokin August 4, 2023 The Kyiv Independent   For Ukraine’s main cybersecurity agency, Russia’s full-scale war began over a month before Russian tanks

By Jeff Semple Global News August 3, 2023   ‘I cannot be quiet’: Ukraine’s chief rabbi calls out Putin’s lies Since Russian President Vladimir Putin

The Russian Wagner Group’s boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has hailed the coup as a move towards independence from the West.   1 Aug 20231 Al Jazeera

By Taras Kuzio Atlantic Council August 1, 2023   The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine has highlighted the very different developmental paths the two countries

Blindness to Russian colonialism distorts Westerners’ view of the Ukraine war   By ALARIC DEARMENT July 31, 2023 Salon   “Fucking shit Russian car,” my

Now, some 17 months after Russia’s full invasion, the use of expendable, unmanned systems on Ukraine’s battlefields has exponentially expanded on both sides, replacing many

By Elina Beketova July 27, 2023 CEPA   In November, in Washington, I met a family from Novotroitske, a small settlement in the occupied part

DIANE FRANCIS July 31, 2023   Last week, mutineer and “traitor” Yevgeny Prigozhin of the Wagner Group mercenary army, showed up at Vladimir Putin’s lavish

Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Africa as a rising center of power in the world. 07/30/2023 POLITICO   NAIROBI, Kenya — African leaders are leaving

Ukraine is hoping that mile-by-mile gains could bring its weapons closer to Russian supply lines, if its forces can overcome Russia’s heavy defense.   By

What Ukraine Revealed About Military Power   Phillips O’Brien July 27, 2023 Foreign Affairs   The Russian military was fast. So fast, analysts said, that

The road to Mariupol could be lined with western missiles. Instead each village brings another bloody fight Maxim Tucker July 29, 2023 The Times  

By VICTOR RUD 07/27/23 The Hill   Why did the most powerful military alliance in world history fail to prevent Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine,

July 24, 2023 As technology progresses, warfare is also becoming different. Now one of the most important targets in Ukraine is actually electronic warfare systems,

July 25, 2023 Author: Thomas Hughes The Conversation   The decision by the United States to donate DPICMs (dual-purpose improved conventional munitions) — known as

July 24, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS The Prigozhin affair in June provides a glimpse into the workings of the criminal organization that calls itself the Russian

Kyiv says it needs ATACMS, but the Pentagon says it doesn’t have enough to spare and Ukraine doesn’t really need them By Karen DeYoung and

Those who lived with Russian terror understand Ukraine must become a NATO member, because Ukraine is all that stands between them and a murderous despot.

The Telegraph Hamish de Bretton-Gordon July 22, 2023   It is often said that “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for

By SIMON SHUSTER and SAM JACOBS July 19, 2023 TIME Magazine   Ukraine is ready to restart grain exports despite Russia’s naval blockade of the

Former Special Forces engineer says Russian minefields are unlike anything he has ever seen and battling these hidden death traps is ‘exhausting’   Ryan Pickrell

Mark MacKinnon July 21, 2023 The Globe and Mail   As a reporter, Anastasiya Garagulya understood that the news being published and broadcast in her

  Bridge is only direct link to mainland Russia from Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014   Andrew Roth 17 July 2023 The Guardian  

By Dylan Malyasov July 12, 2023 Defense   France has donated SCALP cruise missiles to the Ukrainian Air Force, a move that allows Ukrainian forces

June 14, 2023 PAUL JOSEPHSON Engelsberg Ideas The Russians are pursuing a scorched earth policy in Ukraine as they did in the War of 1812

In March 2022, as the Russian army closed in, one sleepy farming town in southern Ukraine sprang into action. By Roger Boyes July 14, 2023

Settlements along Ukraine’s eastern steppe were reduced to wreckage as the war passed through them. Now choked with weeds and with few residents, they are

Mark MacKinnon, Kyiv July 12, 2023 The Globe and Mail   When is a security guarantee not a security guarantee? The answer, Ukrainians know all

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 07/11/23 The Hill   When a Russian missile struck a pizzeria in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, killing 12, including 14-year

By Kurt Volker July 9, 2023 CEPA Taking Ukraine into NATO is the best way to avoid future European wars. It is not often that

A robust fund-raising operation has been critical in supplying Ukraine’s military. But as the war drags on, contributions have lagged.   By Megan Specia and

Evidence builds that Moscow is violating the Geneva Conventions. The Editorial Board July 7, 2023 The Wall Street Journal Ukrainian soldiers fought hard to defend

July 4, 2023 New Voice   Why the Russians, according to UK publicist and propaganda researcher Peter Pomerantsev, could not imagine themselves without Putin, but

As the counteroffensive slowly advances, those doing the fighting call for more arms from the west   by Luke Harding in Velyka Novosilka 7 Jul

by Askold S. Lozynskyj July 7, 2023 No more appeasement The recent “almost civil war” and “imminent coup d’etat” in the Russian Federation has caused

Only the West can guarantee victory for Ukraine By BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY June 19, 2023 Tablet Ukraine cannot lose this war. I’ve said it since day

Now is not the time for an armistice in Ukraine.   DAVID J. KRAMER AND ERIC S. EDELMAN June 19, 2023 The Bulwark   JUST

David Axe Forbes Jun 16, 2023 Ukrainian troops are taking control of the darkness along the southern front in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk Oblasts. As Ukraine’s

Orest Deychakiwsky June 16, 2023 The Ukrainian Weekly   Soon after Russia’s initial invasion back in 2014, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

Lada Kolomiyets Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College Professor at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv   With the expansion of Russia’s war on February 24,

The Kyiv Independent news desk June 17, 2023 The African leaders’ delegation that came to Kyiv on June 16 to present a peace plan was

by Sean Previl June 14, 2023 Global News Days after Canada said it is seizing a Russian-registered cargo aircraft, Moscow is warning that ties between

American and Ukrainian defense officials said the fight to dislodge dug-in Russian forces occupying southeastern Ukraine was expected to be brutal. By Marc Santora June

Kyiv says components including microchips supplied for civilian purposes are sent to Russia through countries such as China   Dan Sabbagh 14 June 2023 The

Britain can lead the way in forcing frozen state and private assets into a reconstruction fund Roger Boyes June 13, 2023 The Times   When

14.06.2023 GWARA Media   The Parliament of Luxembourg declared the Holodomor of 1932-1933 a genocide of the Ukrainian people. The resolution was adopted on 13

David Axe Forbes June 13, 2023   Ukrainian forces are advancing along three or four axes in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk Oblasts. On the

At a bar in a once-occupied Ukrainian village, dehumanizing messages on the walls were a stark reminder that the Kremlin wants to stamp out Ukraine

By Ben Hodges June 11, 2023 CEPA   The social media channels are alive with grainy footage of tanks and explosions in Southern and Eastern

Peter Pomerantsev June 11, 2023 The Guardian The blowing up of a Ukrainian dam echoes a traditional cycle of destruction and self-destruction marking the country’s

By Isaac Callan Global News June 10, 2023   The Canadian government has ordered the seizure a Russian aircraft that has been grounded at Toronto

The Jamestown Foundation 8 June 2023. By Paul Goble   In recent days, the world has been focusing on Ukrainian-backed incursions into some Russian regions

by Askold S. Lozynskyj June 11, 2023 Remembering my father on Father’s Day When my parents and my one-year-old sister came from Germany to America

Ukraine is using its new arsenal of Western tanks and armored vehicles in what is expected to be one of the largest military operations in

By ISABEL VAN BRUGEN June 9, 2023 Newsweek   A Russian law passed days before the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine

Kyiv needs to show Russians that the war is not worth fighting. Anne Applebaum June 8, 2023 The Atlantic   Groups calling themselves the Free

By John E. Herbst and Daniel Fried June 6, 2023 The Washington Post   In the coming weeks and months, Ukrainian forces have a real

June 8, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS On June 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gave the go-ahead for D-Day and 155,000 Americans, British,

Negotiating with a mass murderer is impossible. Putin Russia’s barbarism will end only when Russia is defeated and Putin ends. ByAlexander Motyl June 6, 2023

By Frederick Kempe June 4, 2023 Atlantic Council   The air raid siren sounded at 3:00 a.m. on Thursday morning, several hours after the Atlantic

The broader consequences of the Ukrainian counter-offensive TIMOTHY SNYDER June 6, 2023   Wars are won and lost as politics.  Ukraine wins its war when

David Axe June 5, 2023 Forbes Ukrainian forces are on the move in southern Ukraine. On June 4 and June 5, the army’s 23rd and

The organization also claims that the schools destroyed were not collateral damage, but “likely to be the main target of specific strikes.” By JERUSALEM POST

By Isabelle Khurshudyan and Kamila Hrabchuk June 4, 2023 The Washington Post   When Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive finally begins, the fight will be led by

By Marc A. Thiessen June 4, 2023 The Washington Post   As Ukraine begins its spring counteroffensive, a 60 percent majority of Republicans say we

RUSSIA’S USE OF TORTURE IN OCCUPIED UKRAINE – DELIBERATE AND INCREASINGLY SYSTEMATIC, WITH MANY CIVILIANS TORTURED TO DEATH 05.06.2023 Halya Coynash Human Rights in Ukraine

June 5, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS In January, most Canadians were embarrassed after their federal government announced that four Leopard tanks would be given to Ukraine

Putin is the heir to Soviet tyranny, and Ukrainians understand from bitter experience the nature of their enemy CHARLES MOORE 2 June 2023 The Telegraph

In some Western media and among some politicians, pundits, religious leaders, cultural figures and et al. there have been frequent calls to settle Russia’s war

  Chris Alexander June 2, 2023 The Globe and Mail   Russia’s neo-colonial war of conquest in Ukraine constitutes an extreme form of genocide –

Charles Wyplosz 29 May 2023 Vox Ukraine   I grew up during the Cold War and, as a teenager, I spent many a night grappling

KATERYNA ZAREMBO June 01, 2023 Carnegie Europe   For over a year now, since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian society has yet again been

By Jonny Walfisz 02/06/2023 Euronews   After all the fighting dies down, Ukrainians will have to deal with untold numbers of deadly mines. United24’s latest

June 1, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS The annual NATO Summit takes place on July 11-12 in Lithuania, one of Ukraine’s staunchest allies. By then, the re-elected

By Kurt Volker May 30, 2023 CEPA   Russia’s unilateral Black Sea blockade violates freedom of navigation, threatens global food supplies, and is costing Ukraine

Ukraine will emerge as a formidable force in Europe—and one aligned with the U.S.   Walter Russell Mead May 29, 2023 The Wall Street Journal

Ukraine’s armed resistance to foreign rule in the 1940-50s has long been a heated topic subject to disinformation, speculation and strong bias. A new study

May 30, 2023 Semafor Security Jay Solomon Ukrainian officials confronted Beijing’s special envoy this month over the surge of Chinese electronics and semiconductors being shipped

Sabine Oelze May 28, 2023 DW   Art curator Yuliia Berdiiarova is among over one million people who have fled to Germany from Ukraine. She’s

May 29, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (MBS) has made himself a major player on the world stage. In

Western countries are beginning to be alarmed by the growing ambition of Ukrainian military intelligence   Mark Galeotti May 27, 2023 The Sunday Times  

Mark MacKinnon May 28, 2024 The Globe and Mail   After a largely sleepless night listening to the sounds of the largest Russian drone attack

By the Editorial Board May 28, 2023 The Washington Post   In addition to weapons, tactics and fighting spirit, time is the key variable that

by Askold S. Lozynskyj May 28, 2023 The End of Empires Many proposals have been made regarding ending Russian aggression in Ukraine. Many have offered

Heidi Siegmund Cuda interviews Pekka Kallioniemi, the Finnish creator of ‘Vatnik Soup’ – a Twitter series and website where he identifies pro-Russian actors and propagandists

Serhiy Prytula once waited tables in London — now he’s buying combat drones, satellites and armoured vehicles for Kyiv Maxim Tucker May 25, 2023 The

How Putin Revived Stalinist Anti-Americanism to Justify a Botched War By Andrei Kolesnikov May 25, 2023 Foreign Affairs   When two drones crashed into the

by Illia Ponomarenko May 25, 2023   When the Kremlin says something, it should always be taken with a grain of salt. When it says

May 25, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS Ukraine’s counteroffensive is underway. President Volodymyr Zelensky just completed a charm offensive by meeting leaders in Britain, Germany, France, Italy,

By STEPHEN BLANK 05/24/23 The Hill   From the moment Putin attacked Ukraine, first in 2014 and then in 2022, Russia’s nuclear endowment has stood

A new generation of Russians glorifies war, death, and Vladimir Putin. Foreign Policy May 24, 2023   In April 2022, Alina re-shared a video of

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 05/23/23 The Hill   Some truly bad ideas have remarkably long shelf lives. One such idea is the claim that NATO

By BRENDAN COLE 5/16/23 Newsweek   Ukraine says it shot down six Kinzhal missiles over Kyiv fired by Russia, demonstrating the effectiveness of Western air

A lightning raid that stuns Moscow. Michael Weiss and James Rushton May 22, 2023 Yahoo News   KYIV — Russia may have taken the Ukrainian

May 20, 2023 By Aleksander Palikot RFE/RL   KYIV — Intensified air attacks on the Ukrainian capital following a drone strike on the Kremlin that