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Despite alarming nuclear threats by Moscow, Nato has become bolder March 27, 2023 The Times The weapons supplied by the United States and Nato allies

by Francis Farrell March 27, 2023 The Kyiv Independent In the second year of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, Moscow has shown its intent to

A theoretically and juridically sound methodology exposing the Russian government’s genocidal intent – and its incitement to commit genocide – is urgently needed. By Lada

By Debra Cagan and James F. Jeffrey March 23, 2023 The New York Post   Those who argued adamantly that the death knell for Ukraine

What Sanctions on Russia Can and Cannot Achieve By Peter Harrell March 27, 2023 Foreign Affairs   Over the past decade, economic sanctions emerged as

By Tim Lister CNN March 27, 2023   While the fury of conflict echoes across the eastern Donbas region, a very different war is being

By Jacob Geanous March 25, 2023 New York Post   Russian President Vladimir Putin planned a “total cleansing” of Ukraine with “house-to-house terror” to subdue

A brave group of journalists, lawyers and researchers are amassing evidence to bring Vladimir Putin to justice. Rachael Kerr talks to founder Janine di Giovanni

Marc Bennetts, Didi Tang and Richard Spencer March 22, 2023 The Times Russia has warned that Britain is taking “steps towards a nuclear collision” and

By Reuters March 24, 2023   KYIV (Reuters) – At an unassuming industrial estate in northern Ukraine, two former Microsoft executives and a team of

The children were brought back to Kyiv this week with the help of the foundation Save Ukraine   Briar Stewart CBC News March 23, 2023

To: House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense March 23, 2023 The Friends of Ukraine Network (FOUN) is a non-partisan coalition of former ambassadors, leading

  Russia’s full scale aggression against Ukraine has resulted in several perhaps unforeseen results which have become significant phenomena that should lead to the demise

March 23, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS The most profound outcome of Putin’s war will be the massive redistribution of wealth from Russia to China and India,

UKRAINIANS ARE RIDING TANKS CAPTURED FROM AN ELITE RUSSIAN UNIT INTO BATTLE IN BAKHMUT, BUT THEIR NEW GEAR MAY NOT LAST LONG   Michael Peck

If a new world war is to be avoided, Russia must be stopped now Adam Zivo March 23, 2023 National Post   It’s becoming increasingly

A Ukrainian special operations unit is waging its own brutally effective war against the invaders   Maxim Tucker March 23, 2023 The Times   Even

“They are the best of the best in what they do in air defense for Ukraine,” a U.S. general said. By LARA SELIGMAN 03/21/2023 POLITICO

By Nata Druhak 21.03.2023 ERIC   Throughout the history of Ukrainian-Russian relations, the physical atrocities have always been complemented by eradicating the Ukrainian identity. To

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 03/20/23 The Hill   Decolonization is in the news. Most Ukrainians now view the Russian aggression against their country as the

JIM MITRE March 21, 2023 War on the Rocks   Defense strategists have long held that rigorous — if not ruthless — prioritization is the

 China has shipped more than $12 million in drones to Russia since it invaded Ukraine, in an indication of quiet collaboration between the two.  

Timothy Ash March 20, 2023 I have read such drivel written about the on-going Xi-Summit I thought I would try and delineate what the two

  Ukrainian commanders say they are sapping Russian strength in the city   By Matthew Luxmoore and Ievgeniia Sivorka March 21, 2023 The Wall Street

The M1910 has been used in WW1, the Russian Civil War, and WWII. Now Ukraine is using it to defend Bakhmut. By Matthew Gault March

TIMOTHY SNYDER March 20, 2023 Even as Americans prepare for the spectacle of Donald Trump’s various arrests and trials, his patron Vladimir Putin finds himself

Moscow draws from units in poor condition to backfill heavy losses, Ukrainian officials say By James Marson March 20, 2023 The Wall Street Journal Ukraine

Roman Olearchyk amd Ben Hall March 28, 2023 Financial Times Ukraine’s recent drone attacks on Russian-occupied Crimea highlight the importance of neutralising Moscow’s firepower on

Mariupol resident Yevhen Mezhevyi was determined to find his son and daughters after they were deported to Russia Lorenzo Tondo and Artem Mazhulin 19 Mar

Peter Borisow March 19, 2023   Russia, long condemned for preying on its neighbors, is now indicted by the International Criminal Court for stealing Ukraine’s

General Serhii Holubtsov says his men can learn to fly western jets in months, dismissing Nato claims that training could take years Maxim Tucker March

Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the ICC, has charged the Russian leader with war crimes and describes the case as ‘a defining moment’ for international

Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Ilona Sologoub 18 March 2023 Vox Ukraine   The Russian attack on Ukraine rekindled debates about pros and cons of various economic

This week’s tales of heroism from Mariupol etch into folklore the courage that galvanised global support for Kyiv   Ben Macintyre March 17, 2023 The

By Chris Sununu March 18, 2023 The Washington Post   “America First” does not mean “America Only.” It means putting our interests first — and

A highly symbolic move by the International Criminal Court, which accused President Vladimir V. Putin of war crimes, carries moral weight.   By Mark Landler

Testimony to the United Nations Security Council on Russian hate speech TIMOTHY SNYDER March 15, 2023 This is the text of my briefing of The

March 18, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS The March 20 meeting in Moscow between China’s President Xi Jinping and President Vladimir Putin was upstaged and ruined on

Anna McMorrin March 17, 2023 The Times   The last few days are ones I will never forget. One year on from Putin’s illegal invasion,

15 March 2023 Tim Lister CNN Major museums around the world are quietly recategorizing works from Russian to Ukrainian The Metropolitan Museum of Art in

David  Axe March 16, 2023 Forbes Barring a dramatic reversal—a major commitment of fresh Russian forces or a sudden collapse in Ukrainian morale—the battle could

BY ASKOLD S. LOZYNSKYJ   March 16, 2023   Ukrainian American Republicans need to step up   Governor DeSantis’ recent statement that the Russian aggression

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian forces must be stopped in Bakhmut and other towns in the east. Al Jazeera March 14, 2023   Ukraine’s

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 03/13/23 The Hill   Everybody wants the Russo-Ukrainian War to end, but how, exactly, is such a happy outcome to be

ByAlexander Motyl March 13, 2023 19fortyfive   Some people still believe that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin had no intentions to conquer Ukraine when he invaded

The environmental toll will devastate lives for decades.   By Jeff Stein and Michael Birnbaum March 13, 2023 The Washington Post   KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine

Two war crimes cases to be opened over abduction of Ukrainian children and targeting of civilian infrastructure   Julian Borger 13 Mar 2023 The Guardian

March 13, 2023 Julia Davis CEPA   It occasionally occurs to Putin’s mouthpieces that they may one day face charges in a war crimes tribunal.

Exhausted troops are tired of defending against the Russians without gaining ground. But which side will go first with a big push? Christina Lamb March

  by ROMAN TYMOTSK March 10, 2023 The Ukrainian Weekly   LVIV – Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs said it has formed a new Offensive

Even a city with such an historically pro-Russian outlook has embraced the movement toward Ukrainization. By DAVID KIRICHENKO March 12, 2023 POLITICO   Russia’s invasion

by Anastasiia Lapatina March 10, 2023 The Kyiv Independent   It was another one of those losses. A young, bright Ukrainian who had a long

New energy sources to replace oil and natural gas have been easier to find than kicking the dependency on Rosatom, the state-owned nuclear superstore.  

Lessons from Canada’s Nord Stream-1 Turbine Fiasco: The Importance of Political Accountability and Unity in the Face of Russian Aggression   Daryna Ostrovska March 1,

By Olena Harmash Reuters March 10, 2023   KYIV – Ukraine has decided to fight on in the ruined city of Bakhmut because the battle

Lera Burlakova March 9, 2023 CEPA   The Ukrainian army has evolved from the wreckage of the Soviet military in the 1990s. But its reforms

Lots of Russian soldiers want to surrender. Ukraine makes it easier with a high-tech hotline By LAURA KING March 7, 2023 Los Angeles Times  

March 10, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS The Ukrainian World Congress appealed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences calling for the withdrawal of “Top

IRAN’S ALLEGED AMMUNITION FOR RUSSIA’S WAR IN UKRAINE: THE SECRET JOURNEY OF THE CARGO SHIPS ACCUSED OF SUPPLYING INVASION A security source claims Russian-flagged vessels

The Economist 4 Mar 23 A demographic tragedy is unfolding in Russia. Over the past three years the country has lost around 2m more people

March 8, 2023 NV   International human rights and anti-corruption organizations explain in a new report how the products of major Western microchip manufacturers reach

March 8, 2023 James Horncastle The Conversation   The current focus of the Russian-Ukrainian war centres on Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine. The fight for the

While Trump told Hannity on the radio he could’ve prevented war by negotiating a deal with Russia, that portion was curiously edited out when aired

Senior politicians are demanding action to stiffen the rules after an investigation by The Times and Transparency International revealed details of property owned by families

By David Propper March 7, 2023 The New York Post   Ukrainian officials have launched a probe into horrific footage that purports to show an

The Economist 5 Mar 23 John Foreman   On February 11, 2022, as Russia piled up men and armour along Ukraine’s border, I listened as

March 7, 2023 Timothy Ash CEPA   The West invariably plays by the rules while our enemies break them. It’s time to bend them, a

By Siobhán O’Grady, Robyn Dixon, Anastacia Galouchka, David L. Stern and  Annabelle Timsit March 6, 2023 The Washington Post   DNIPRO, Ukraine — It takes

In Lyman, Captain Andriy Malakhov is watching with concern as invaders’ strategies evolve and Kyiv debates next moves   Mark MacKinnon March 6, 2023 The

Stephen Blank 06/03/2023 Foreign Policy Research Institute   Russia’s aggressions against its neighbours since 2008 – first Georgia, then Ukraine twice – impel the urgent

Ukrainians have many reasons to distrust Navalny and his movement. 4 Mar 2023 Al Jazeera Anton Shekhovtsov   Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year

By Marc A. Thiessen March 6, 2023 The Washington Post   Retired four-star Gen. Jack Keane knows how to win wars. A former vice chief

March 6, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS Economic warfare against Russia includes sanctions, disinvestment, asset seizures, oil price caps, and other measures designed to cripple Putin’s economy

Simon Tisdall 5 Mar 2023 The Guardian   In Vladimir Putin’s book of strategic blunders, a hefty, as yet unpublished tome to which new chapters

Parents were told youngsters were going on school trips — most never returned   Christina Lamb, Kyiv March 04 2023 The Sunday Times   When

Putin’s genocidal war is turning my country into a graveyard. For our sake and for its own future, Europe must defend the revolution he is

March 05, 2023 By Aleksander Palikot RFE/RL For Ukrainian Supreme Court Judge Ivan Mishchenko, the choice to fight on the front line was not a

Ukraine is determined to hold the eastern city as long as it can. How high a price is it willing to pay? What might force

2023/03/03 Euromaidan Press Russian cruise missiles fly under Ukraine’s radars, making them hard to shoot down. During World War I, this problem was solved by

By Mykhailo Fedorov Atlantic Council Feb 28, 2023   For more than a year, Ukraine has been fighting for its life against a military superpower

David Sanderson March 03 2023 The Times   As soon as the 45-strong Royal Opera chorus accompanied by more than 100 Ukrainian singers began the

WE’RE RECYCLING PUTIN’S MISSILES AS ART TO FUND THE WAR EFFORT. Andrey Kurkov 4 Mar 2023 The Guardian   The festival of St Tryphon –

ELLIE COOK March 3, 2023 Newsweek   Since the start of Moscow’s war in Ukraine, Western analysts and Ukrainian sources have pointed to heavy losses

Mark MacKinnon March 1, 2023 The Globe and Mail   Ukraine is set to begin using money seized from Kremlin-controlled banks to rebuild homes that

Investigators say sites set up during occupation of Ukrainian city were part of ‘calculated plan to terrorise’ locals Isobel Koshiw 1 Mar 2023 The Guardian

Ilan Berman March 1, 2023 The Jamestown Foundation   A year into the brutal invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin is giving no signs of abandoning

A three-week fight in the town of Vuhledar in southern Ukraine produced what Ukrainian officials say was the biggest tank battle of the war so

Svitlana Morenets The Spectator Mar 2, 2023   Growing up as a Ukrainian means being acquainted with death when you are too young to know

March 2, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS China and India will dominate this century, economically and politically, and both are subsidizing Putin’s war with massive purchases of

Martin Sandbu Mar 1, 2023 Financial Times President Joe Biden’s speech in Warsaw was thickly coated in the kind of idealistic rhetoric many western Europeans

By VICTOR RUD 03/01/23 The Hill   President Biden recently declared in Warsaw that Russia’s war against Ukraine is a test for America and the

by Askold S. Lozynskyj Mar 1, 2023   The Role of the Ukrainian Bard Taras Shevchenko Every year, Ukrainians observe various historical events and honor

by Anna Badkhen et al. February 23, 2023 Emergence Magazine   How to write about the environmental fallout of an ongoing, active shooting war? In

Professors have been debating how to teach imperialism and colonialism in Russia and the wider region since the invasion By LYDIA TOMKIW 24 February 2023

By David Akin Global News February 25, 2023   When it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, one factor influencing Canadians’ attitudes toward the conflict

Feb 24, 2023 Last March, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy challenged Americans to ensure that Russia receives not a single penny to fund its war.

By Megan Buskey February 27, 2023 Literary Hub In February 2022, the omicron variant of COVID-19 had shuttered all the places I frequented as an

The eastern city has been the site of some of the fiercest fighting of the war By Matthew Luxmoore Feb. 26, 2023 The Wall Street

A year into the war, tech entrepreneurs in Kyiv are turning their skills to help fight Russia, while still serving civilian clients in the West

RUSSIA HASN’T ‘LIBERATED’ UKRAINIAN JEWS. IT’S UNITED THEM WITH OTHER UKRAINIANS AGAINST THEIR COMMON ENEMY.   Michael Gold February 24, 2023 Forward   KYIV —

In conversation with Michael Church, Evgeny Kissin shares frank thoughts about the invasion of Ukraine and how this relates to his experiences of anti-Semitism while

New York Post John Herbst February 23, 2023   It was hard to imagine one year ago that Ukraine and its allies would be in

Originally published in Ukrainian on the website of Dukhovnyi Front Ukraïny (Spiritual Front of Ukraine) 03.09.2022 Meylakh Sheykhet: “My challenge to Russian propaganda is providing

Feb. 22, 2023 By Peter Warren Singer New America   Wars are not just contests of weapons and will; they are also laboratories of a

LAURA STONE February 24, 2023 The Globe and Mail   Canada is sending more military aid to Ukraine and imposing new sanctions on Russian officials,

The initial reluctance of the U.S. and its allies to help Kyiv fight Russia has turned into a massive program of military assistance, which carries

Nolan Peterson February 23, 2023 Coffee or Die Magazine   On the evening of Feb. 25 last year, I was in a bomb shelter in

PUTIN’S WAR IS DRIVEN BY HIS FEARS OF RUSSIA’S DECLINE. THAT GIVES UKRAINE A PATH TO VICTORY. Driven by ego and historic fears, Putin is

Russia Shouldn’t Get to Veto Western Military Aid By John Herbst, David J. Kramer, and William Taylor February 24, 2023 Foreign Affairs   For Ukrainians,

By LAWRENCE J. HAAS The Hill Feb 23, 2023   President Biden’s surprise trip to Kyiv was gutsy, and he deserves credit for leading the

Training allowed Ukrainian commanders to abandon Russian command-and-control and take the initiative Murray Brewster CBC News Feb 22, 2023 For months after Moscow launched its

Richard Spencer February 22 2023 The Times   The troop unit in the Ukrainian trenches facing the border knew a lot about the Russians on

By Alexander Vershbow Atlantic Council Feb 22, 2023   As Vladimir Putin’s world-altering war against Ukraine enters its second year, any hope of reviving the

As long as Putin wants war, seeking a peace settlement is a fantasy. The Editorial Board The Wall Street Journal Feb. 21, 2023 A year

Feb 21, 2023 Hudson Institute Luke Coffey & Can Kasapoğlu   With Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, there is a new geopolitical

Anthony Loyd The Times February 21 2023   The pilot usually smears lip balm on the rotors of her drone before launch. If none is

Volodymyr Zelensky came into office thinking peace with Putin was possible. He now believes victory is the only answer. By Paul Sonne and  David L.

February 23, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS The last few days has been “Superpower Week” — a lengthy, televised version of geopolitical theater beginning with full-throated support

by Askold S. Lozynskyj Feb 23, 2023  Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine will bring about new theatre in the Russian Empire Two events of recent production,

ATTEMPTS TO INTEGRATE RUSSIA WITH WESTERN COUNTRIES CONTRIBUTED TO THE INVASION OF UKRAINE. Julia Marich Feb 21, 2023 I hesitated for a long time about

Russia’s war in Ukraine is like the United States invading Mexico and, twelve months after initiating the aggression, managing to hold on to a sliver

By Mark Hertling February 20, 2023 The Washington Post   Looks have always been deceiving when it comes to Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression in

Associated Press By KARL RITTER and GEIR MOULSON February 18, 2023 MUNICH — The United States has determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity

Russia’s invasion has unified all Ukrainians, including its ethnic minorities, in the battle for its existence Alex Zeldin February 16, 2023 The Forward Antisemitism in

By Rob Picheta, Olga Voitovych, Vasco Cotovio and Kevin Liptak CNN February 20, 2023   President Joe Biden’s surprise visit to Ukraine sparked anger and

February 20, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS The anniversary of Putin’s invasion looms on February 24, and today U.S. President Joe Biden paid a secret and courageous

Our political editor goes to the heart of Kyiv’s government machine to witness how a country is kept running after a year under attack  

By Robyn Dixon and  Catherine Belton February 19, 2023 The Washington Post   MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin likes to portray himself as a new

President Biden took a nearly 10-hour train ride from the border of Poland to show his administration’s “unwavering support” nearly a year into Russia’s invasion.

When your 13-year-old says something stupid, you can reply, “Emmanuel, please. Think before you speak. Don’t embarrass yourself and allow people to think you are

by Igor Kossov February 15, 2023 The Kyiv Independent   It took a year of pleading to get the Western allies to promise to send

On February 20, 2023, the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC), and Ukrainian communities around the world, join Ukraine in honouring the memory of the brave men

Divergent global priorities and domestic politics could test the closeness on security between the U.S. and its European allies   By Stephen Fidler and Marcus

A year after the invasion, the Russian leader’s aim remains to rip Ukraine apart. His focus now is on exploiting historic enmities in the west

By Anne Applebaum February 14, 2023 The Atlantic   On the night of February 24, 2022, the sound of missiles jolted Viktor Marunyak awake. He

EVIDENCE OF RUSSIA’S WAR CRIMES AND OTHER ATROCITIES IN UKRAINE: RECENT REPORTING ON CHILD RELOCATIONS FPC BRIEFING NATHANIEL A. RAYMOND, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF YALE’S HUMANITARIAN

Vice president’s address in Munich comes days before the one-year anniversary of Russian invasion of Ukraine By Annie Linskey Feb. 18, 2023 The Wall Street

Security conference seen as a key test of west’s resolve to fight out a prolonged, expensive wa Patrick Wintour 17 Feb 2023 The Guardian The

Officials caution that Russia retains significant capabilities despite exposure of multiple operatives in Europe By Greg Miller, Souad Mekhennet, Emily Rauhala and Shane Harris February

By SVITLANA OSLAVSKA Feb 15, 2023 TIME Magazine   Seven days after the invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops entered the village of Yahidne. They forced

By Taras Kuzio Feb 16, 2023 Atlantic Council, Ukraine Alert   As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reaches the one-year mark, the war unleashed by Vladimir

EURACTIV By Artem Shaipov and Yuliia Shaipova Feb 15, 2023 In the wake of Russia’s genocidal war on Ukraine, the world just started to pay

After a year of war, the struggle for cultural sovereignty has triggered complex sentiments. The New Yorker By Jon Lee Anderson Feb 15, 2023   For

February 24th will mark a year since Russia began its further invasion and genocidal war on Ukraine. On Monday, I stood in the House of

David Axe Forbes Feb 14, 2023   The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the Polish army’s tank corps in a precarious position.

By ELLIE COOK 2/15/23 Newsweek   A new video has captured the moment a Russian thermobaric multiple rocket launcher system burst into flames after being

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 02/13/23 The Hill   As if Russian strongman Vladimir Putin didn’t have enough problems with a shrinking economy, restive population, grumpy

Ilan Berman February 14, 2023 Newsweek   Speaking in Moscow earlier this month, a prominent Russian political figure provided a timely reminder of the Kremlin’s

David Axe Forbes Feb 12, 2023   Russian tanks keep running into Ukrainian mines outside Vuhledar. Either the Russians are getting sloppy, or the Ukrainians

‘Almost the entire brigade has already been destroyed near Vuhledar,’ Ukrainian official says. By VERONIKA MELKOZEROVA Feb 12, 2023 POLITICO   KYIV — As Russia

Duncan Campbell 4 February 2023 Byline Times Two and a half years ago, the Columbia Journalism Review refused to publish Duncan Campbell’s investigation into The

Timothy Garton Ash Jan 26, 2023 Tetiana, a young activist I met in Lviv last December, works part-time as a tattooist. People often ask for

February 13, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS Volodymyr Androshchuk grew up in Letychiv, a modest village of 11,000, with a brickworks, a dairy, and a construction materials

Feb 8, 2023 Marco Levytsky, Editorial Writer New Pathway   We have commented about Ottawa Citizen reporter David Pugliese and his continued regurgitation of Russian

Lev Gudkov investigates what makes Russians tick with his independent opinion research institute. In an interview, he discusses the lack of morals in his home

Russia is seeking to break through Ukrainian lines in the east ahead of the war’s first anniversary later this month   By Matthew Luxmoore and

Ukraine president spoke to summit of 35 sports ministers Sean Ingle 10 Feb 2023 The Guardian Russia’s presence at next year’s Paris Olympics would be

Svitlana Morenets The Spectator Feb 10, 2023 Among Ukrainians, there is little debate about how the war will end. The overwhelming consensus is that it

The Budapest Memorandum, a geopolitical cautionary tale for the ages.   George Bogden 01 Feb 2023 American Purpose   On May 10, Ukraine’s current president

Kemal Kirişci and Sophie Roehse January 6, 2023 Brookings   As the war in Ukraine approaches its first anniversary, attention has turned to plans for

By Janusz Bugajski February 9, 2023 Washington Examiner As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine appears set to escalate with an imminent new offensive, Europe remains divided

David Axe Feb 8, 2023 Forbes   Russia’s widely-anticipated winter offensive has begun. Aiming to extend its control over eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, Russian troops

George Grylls February 08 2023 The Times   Rishi Sunak is poised to send longer-range missiles to Ukraine in a move that could mark a

A storied Nazi hunter is used to prosecuting war crimes when the conflict is over “but in this case, the atrocities are being committed every

Russia is repopulating occupied Ukrainian lands with a mixture of the ambitious, the religious, and the well-compensated as it seeks to make stolen territory its

Westerners who seek only to be left in peace are courting an even more deadly war By BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY Feb 9, 2023 Tablet Magazine  

February 9, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS A new book entitled “Invisible Trillions” by anti-corruption activist Raymond Baker warns how unbridled financial secrecy and corruption now threaten

An excerpt from a newly published collection of documents found in Soviet secret police archives concerning Ukrainian underground movements Lubomyr Luciuk National Post Feb 9,

The Kyiv Independent February 8, 2023 First it was the tanks, now it’s the fighter jets. As Ukraine braces for another possible major Russian offensive

By JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIE CORBET Feb 8, 2023 AP   PARIS — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought Western support for his country in surprise

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 02/06/23 The Hill We all know that Russia’s full-scale assault against Ukraine began on Feb. 24, 2022, but when did the

By Stephen Blank February 06, 2023 Real Clear Defense   Russia either has just launched its expected offensive or it is imminent.  Yet Ukraine’s allies

By Mariia Zolkina Feb 6, 2023 Atlantic Council, Ukraine Alert   Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine will pass the one-year mark in the coming weeks

A total of 18 Russian warships and other vessels have been destroyed by the Ukrainian military since the war began on February 24 By MICHAEL

RUSSIA BUILT A DOZEN AIR-DEFENSE VEHICLES FOR WAR IN THE ARCTIC. THEN SENT THEM TO UKRAINE TO GET BLOWN UP. David Axe Forbes Feb 4,

Should the IOC allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete, it should be “absolutely clear” that they are not representing their respective countries, the White

February 6, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS Vladimir Putin’s horrific invasion a year ago took the world by surprise and another attack is expected around its first

‘WE KILLED THREE RUSSIANS’: THE SECRETIVE UKRAINIAN SPECIAL FORCES TAKING THE FIGHT ACROSS THE BORDER   Kyiv and western governments deny they exist, but saboteurs

Despite sanctions, Moscow equips its jet fighters, submarines and soldiers with help of Chinese companies   By Ian Talley and Anthony DeBarros Feb. 4, 2023

2023/01/30 Euromaidan Press   Despite EU sanctions, microchips made by Dutch companies still end up in Russia as many millions of western-made chips went through

By VLADISLAV DAVIDZON Feb 01, 2023 Tablet Magazine The appointment of the controversial Russian film director Ilya Khrzhanovsky as art director of the Babyn Yar

New York Review Jan 26, 2023 Timothy Garton Ash Tetiana, a young activist I met in Lviv last December, works part-time as a tattooist. People

By Michael McFaul January 30, 2023 Foreign Affairs Nearly a year after he invaded Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has failed to achieve any of

February 1, 2023 AFP Bulgaria on Wednesday approved a resolution declaring that the 1930s starvation of millions in Ukraine under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was

By JONAH GOLDBERG JAN. 31, 2023 Los Angeles Times   We are entering the 12th month of a “special military operation” that was supposed to be

By Leon Aron January 26, 2023 Leon Aron is the author of “Roads to the Temple: Truth, Memory, Ideas, and Ideals in the Making of

Ilan Berman January 30, 2023 The Hill How is Russia still fighting in Ukraine? Nearly a year into the “special military operation” against its western

Stavros Atlamazoglou Jan 29, 2023 Insider   Russia launched its attack on Ukraine in February 2022 with plans for a quick victory. Those plans depended

Askold S. Lozynskyj A eulogy for a flawed icon This is not about the war. This is about all of Ukraine’s wars, spanning centuries, and

The Economist Jan 29, 2023 At a recycling plant on the outskirts of Kyiv, a short drive from the site of a helicopter crash that killed 14 people

The Economist 29 Jan 2023   IT IS ALMOST one year since Russian troops invaded Ukraine. In that time thousands of innocent civilians, as well

Mark MacKinnon Jan 27, 2023 The Globe and Mail   “Take cover!” Oleksiy Yukov yells as he prepares to pull at a wire attached to

By Liz Sly January 29, 2023 The Washington Post KYIV — The 25 Russians convicted so far of war crimes in Ukrainian courts include a

 Russia and Kyiv both need a breakthrough but a major offensive will be loaded with risk whoever strikes first   Julian Borger 27 Jan 2023

McGonigal, Trump, and the Truth about America Timothy Snyder January 26, 2023 We are on the edge of a spy scandal with major implications for

After decades of Soviet and Russian smear campaigns, because of Putin’s aggression the post-World War II Ukrainian anti-Soviet nationalist movement is better understood. By Lubomyr

By Alexander Motyl Jan 25, 2023 1945 Why Is Putin Building Correctional Colonies in Ukraine? The Russian government issued an important, though little noticed, decree

by Anders Aslund The Hill Jan 25, 2023   Listening to various discussions here in Washington, D.C., (mostly off the record) I am amazed how

ZELENSKYY URGES WORLD TO BATTLE “HATRED” AS PUTIN WIELDS LIES ON “NEO-NAZIS IN UKRAINE” ON HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY Jan 27, 2023 CBS News   Indifference

David Hambling Jan 24, 2023 Forbes While allies hesitate over donations of multi-million dollar Leopard tanks and other major hardware, Ukrainian soldiers on the front

For far too long, Western academia has ignored the legacies of the Russian Empire and colonisation.   Botakoz Kassymbekova 24 Jan 2023 Al Jazeera  

General Valery Zaluzhny says Ukraine successfully downed 47 of the 55 missiles launched by Russia following west’s offer of tanks Daniel Boffey 26 Jan 2023

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says there is no chance of any fighter jets being sent to Ukraine despite renewed calls for high-end aircraft. Jan 25,

Pressure campaign is a test of whether Washington can enforce sanctions   By Jared Malsin January 26, 2023 The Wall Street Journal   ISTANBUL—U.S. officials

January 26, 2022 DIANE FRANCIS Germany and Russia spent centuries partitioning, exploiting, or destroying the countries between them, disdainfully referred to in German as “inzwischenlander”

Germany has finally agreed to deliver its prized Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. By Mitchell Prothero January 25, 2023 Vice World News Russian pundits and

By LOLITA C. BALDOR AND MATTHEW LEE 01/24/23 The Hill   WASHINGTON — In what would be a reversal, the Biden administration is poised to

By Lauren Kent, Mick Krever and Rob Picheta CNN January 25, 2023   Germany is set to send its sought-after Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine

Shannon Vavra Jan. 23, 2023 The Daily Beast   Tens of thousands of fighters rounded up to fight in Ukraine for Wagner Group, the Russian

DIANE FRANCIS January 23, 2023   Germany, the country that ruined the 20th Century, is damaging the 21st. Berlin’s political decisions facilitated Putin’s invasion of

The Economist 22 Jan 23 by Simon Tisdall Europe must fight. The realisation has been slow in coming. Yet almost one year after Russia invaded

Unlike western leaders, the Russian president does not answer to voters or the media. Which means he plays a much, much longer game Olga Chyzh

By STEVEN PIFER 01/23/23 The Hill Eleven months after Russia launched a massive invasion of Ukraine, Washington and Europe continue to pursue two basic objectives:

On a day meant to mark the unification of Ukraine in 1919, the country’s leader said it was vital for Ukrainians of all regions to

by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld January 22, 2023 The Economist For much of the past year, and since his invasion of Ukraine last February, Russian President Vladimir

Kyiv voices frustration at ‘global indecision’ as allies say Leopard 2s needed now to stop Russian assault 21 Jan 2023 The Guardian Germany is facing

A post-Nazi aversion to war and a commitment to promoting peace through engagement combines with an old fixation on Russia and a deep aversion to

By the Editorial Board January 21, 2023 The Washington Post   Vladimir Putin launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine 11 months ago not only believing

By Ira Straus Jan 16, 2023 Atlantic Council Equity is the avowed watchword of the Biden administration on issues of social justice and equalization of

By Garry Kasparov and Mikhail Khodorkovsky January 20, 2023 Foreign Affairs   The regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin is living on borrowed time. The

Over a decade ago, my colleague, Volodymyr Viatrovych, then serving as director of the Ukrainian Institute for National Memory, in Kyiv, laid out a series

By Dan Lamothe January 20, 2023 The Washington Post   RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urged dozens of defense ministers on

A joint statement by the defence ministers of Estonia, the United Kingdom, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania; and the representatives of Denmark, the Czech Republic, the

Tick-a-box tokenism that costs Ukrainian lives has been on display at the Australian Open tennis tournament. By Pete Shmigel January 18, 2023 Kyiv Post  

By JON JACKSON January 18, 2023 Newsweek Retired U.S. Lieutenant General Ben Hodges on Wednesday said that a weapon the United States will reportedly soon

David Axe Jan 17, 2023 Forbes   A deluge of new armored vehicles should allow the Ukrainian army to form three new, NATO-style heavy brigades.

Dan Bilak, 62, formed a volunteer force to protect Kyiv and was recently awarded a medal by Ukraine’s defence minister. Paule Robitaille January 18, 2023

Israeli officials had initially expressed concerns that the move could damage its relations with Russia.   By Eric Schmitt, Adam Entous, Ronen Bergman, John Ismay

By Vladimir Kara-Murza January 17, 2023 The Washington Post Among the most stressful aspects of Russian prison life is exposure to government propaganda. Every cell I’ve

Time to move on from Russia’s collapse, accept Ukraine’s strength and think strategically. By Robert McConnell January 16, 2023 Kyiv Post   When the Soviet

SCEEUS Guest Platform for Eastern Europe Policy No. 1, 2023 Kurt Volker   In 2022, most Western assumptions about Russia’s war on Ukraine proved to

Anastasiya Ringis and Vladyslav Golvin January 16, 2023 The Globe and Mail Tetyana Chubar, an artillery shooter with the Ukrainian army’s 58th Brigade, first saw

David Axe January 15, 2023 Forbes   Just two weeks after the administration of U.S. president Joe Biden announced it would donate 50 M-2 Bradley

Russian forces have looted tens of thousands of pieces, including avant-garde oil paintings and Scythian gold. Experts say it is the biggest art heist since

Mark Mackinnon January 15, 2023 The Globe and Mail   Ukraine is planning to ask Canada for some of its Leopard-2 main battle tanks, as

I am back in Lviv, four days before the observance of the Baptism of Jesus according to the Old Julian Calendar and nine days after

By Taras Kuzio Atlantic Council Jan 12, 2023   As it continues to fight against Russia’s ongoing invasion, Ukraine is often depicted as being heavily

The Ukrainians will win if they keep getting better weapons.   By Phillips Payson O’Brien Jan 14, 2023 The Atlantic   The war in Ukraine began

Fall of saltmining town would be propaganda coup for Kremlin but analysts say scale of casualties make it a pyrrhic victory Peter Beaumont 13 Jan

Heidi Cuda and Matt Bernardini Jan 15, 2023 Byline Supplement   Russia knows it can’t win on the battlefield with the West, so is engaging

PRO-RUSSIAN SLOGANS GROW LOUDER IN FORMER EAST GERMANY AS UKRAINIAN REFUGEES FEAR A FAR-RIGHT RESURGENCE   The Globe and Mail Jan 13, 2023 By Paul

Jan 13, 2023 The Ukrainian Weekly By Orest Deychakiwsky   Throughout my 35 years on Capitol Hill working at the Helsinki Commission (1981-2017) I was

 By Emma Graham-Harrison and Artem Mazhulin 15 Jan 2023 The Guardian   At Kyiv’s Beatnik Bar last spring, the mixologists wrestled with the question of

“VIOLENCE IS PART OF RUSSIAN MINDSET, NOT MANY UNDERSTAND THAT”. INTERVIEW WITH RUSSIAN-GERMAN EXPERT 11 January 2023 SERGIY SYDORENKO European Pravda   Sergei Sumlienny is

The West made a grave mistake when it assumed the collapse of Soviet communism meant the end of Russian imperialism. By JANUSZ BUGAJSKI Jan 12,

A recent attempt by the West to “confine” to Ukraine the current Russian aggression came with a missile strike (15 November 2022). NATO’s official assessment

Emergency teams risk their lives and brave subfreezing temperatures to keep the power on   By Alistair MacDonald Jan. 11, 2023 The Wall Street Journal

Poland answered Kyiv’s pleas for Western-made heavy armor with a plan to get battle tanks to Ukraine, and more could be on the way Jake

January 10, 2023 Olga Lautman CEPA   As Orthodox Christmas passes, it is easy to forget just how intertwined are the interests of the Russian

Ukrainian World Congress Jan 11,2023 Canada is purchasing a NASAMS air defense system and associated munitions from the United States to donate to Ukraine, National

By Max Fisher Jan 9, 2023 The New York Times   A cease-fire proposal seemingly aimed at splintering Western unity has instead been met with

The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Yakutsk is

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 01/09/23 The Hill The recent arrest of a senior German intelligence officer accused of spying for Russia is a timely reminder

UK says most of Ukrainian saltmine town near Bakhmut is in Russian hands after intensive fighting   Peter Beaumont 10 Jan 2023 The Guardian  

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 01/09/23 The Hill   The recent arrest of a senior German intelligence officer accused of spying for Russia is a timely

By Ilia Ponomarenko The Kyiv Independent Jan 9, 2023 BAKHMUT, Donetsk Oblast — It’s the last days of December and the heat of the holiday season.

The RIM-7 Sea Sparrow will be paired with Soviet-era Buk launchers and radar systems in a bizarre but potentially much needed mash-up. By THOMAS NEWDICK

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine held a Christmas Day service in the Assumption Cathedral of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra with almost 1,000 believers attending. by Maryna

David Axe Jan 6, 2023 Forbes   In the space of a few days this week, France, the United States and Germany all announced they

There is a joke going around Ukraine that the Russian-speaking population went to bed on Wednesday, February 23, 2022, saying “good night”  in Russian, and

January 9, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS The war bodes badly for Putin but he cannot remain Tsar if he loses or surrenders. His health deteriorates. Potential

Russia blamed its own soldiers after Zelensky’s devastating new year strike. It exposes the widening weapons gap between the two sides Michael Clarke January 8,

Chechens, Crimean Tatars and people from the former Soviet republics, all with deep historical grievances against Moscow, are eagerly taking up arms for Kyiv.  

Not planning for the possibility of disintegration betrays a dangerous lack of imagination.   By Alexander J. Motyl Jan 7, 2023 Foreign Policy   Ever

An effort is underway to translate Jewish texts into Ukrainian for the first time By Jacob Judah December 7, 2022 Forward   LVIV, Ukraine (JTA)

By Associated Press January 6, 2023 KYIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian government has taken the main cathedral of the revered historic monastery from the church

Peter Beaumont 6 Jan 2023 The Guardian   On the roads leading to Ukraine’s frontlines, a striking change has become visible in recent months.  Where

Nolan Peterson January 5, 2023 Coffee or Die Magazine   KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian officials warn that Russia will continue to launch missile and drone

By VICTOR RUD 01/05/23 The Hill   With the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1918, Ukraine declared independence and was promptly invaded by both

By Alexander Motyl Jan 3, 2023 Atlantic Council   Vladimir Putin has just admitted Russia is in serious trouble. A comparison of his recent New

Budanov was cagey talking about Ukraine’s responsibility for attacks in Russia.   By Britt Clennett, Dragana Jovanovic and Tatiana Rymarenko January 4, 2023 ABC News

January 5, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS   One minute after midnight on January 1, American-made HIMAR rockets obliterated a community college in occupied eastern Ukraine where

The Russians continue to murder both Ukrainians and their own young men for Putin’s mad scheme. By Tom Nichols Jan 3, 2023 The Atlantic  

By YULIA LATYNINA January 3, 2023 The Hill   The long-predicted Ukrainian counteroffensive on the Zaporizhzhia front, or, rather, on Russia’s land bridge to Crimea,

By Andriy Zagorodnyuk January 2, 2023 Foreign Affairs For Ukrainians, 2022 was a year of both tragedy and historic achievements. Russia invaded Ukraine in February with nearly

Netanyahu is a prisoner of an outdated, deeply flawed understanding of both the psychotic Putin and Russia’s military capabilities. Can he now, belatedly, break out

Locals joined territorial defence forces when Russia invaded – and managed to hold the city despite being encircled   Isobel Koshiw 2 Jan 2023 The

He is pure evil. He is a killer. That is all. Contorted or gratuitous explanations are not necessary to explain his behavior. Many in the

MOSCOW’S INVASION OF UKRAINE TRIGGERS ‘SOUL-SEARCHING’ AT WESTERN UNIVERSITIES AS SCHOLARS RETHINK RUSSIAN STUDIES January 01, 2023 By Todd Prince RFE/RL   When more than

The New York Review January 2023 Tim Judah It was dark and getting colder. The four-wheel drive was slipping and straining as we tried to

Eric Reguly Dec 30, 2022 The Globe and Mail   Three days before Christmas, Iryna Hazhev is sitting in a restaurant on the outskirts of

Herman Pirchner, Jr. The Hill December 29, 2022   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s abrupt mid-December visit to Washington dominated U.S. headlines and commentaries ahead of

The Ukraine war is inspired and sustained by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, says his former secretary. By Tunku Varadarajan Dec. 29, 2022

By FRIDRIK JONSSON and ERLINGUR ERLINGSSON 12/30/22 The Hill With less than two months until the anniversary of the Russian reinvasion of Ukraine, it is

December 31, 2022 CHARLES MAYNES NPR MOSCOW — It’s been 10 months since Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he was deploying tens of thousands of

Charlie Faulkner and Artur Chupryhin December 28, 2022 The Times   Two days ago was a good day, Nazarii Kishak boasts as his pickup truck

Craig Hooper December 29, 2022 Forbes   Ukraine is demonstrating that hard-won lessons from old, long-forgotten World War II playbooks remain relevant. Since Russia’s invasion

Belarus toughens its rhetoric, adding to concerns that Moscow wants to draw Minsk more directly into the Ukraine war By Georgi Kantchev Dec. 30, 2022

By Elaine Godfrey The Atlantic Dec 29, 2022 Here is a list of people you should not currently want to be: a Russian sausage tycoon,

by Igor Kossov December 28, 2022 The Kyiv Independent   KHERSON – Kherson was liberated because Ukraine forced Russians to accept they could not hold

Paul Goble Dec 26, 2022 The Jamestown Foundation Staunton – The Putin regime has used a variety of macro-economic indicators to suggest that the war

By Nick Mordowanec Newsweek Dec 27, 2022 Thousands of Russian troops have already died in the continued battle of Bakhmut , according to a Ukrainian

On his seventh visit to the ‘Somme-scape’ of the embattled and besieged eastern Ukrainian city, John Sweeney believes the Russian President has set a military

By Jeff Stein and Ievgeniia Sivorka December 28, 2022 The Washington Post   LYMAN, Ukraine — Tamara Klimashenko stood in what was once her cherished

David Axe Dec 26, 2022 Forbes The Ukrainian army grew fast in the months before, and after, a 200,000-man Russian army rolled into northern, eastern

In an echo of Bolshevik-era atrocities, Russian soldiers now target churches in Ukraine, damaging or destroying houses of worship at the rate of two churches

By the Editorial Board December 27, 2022 The Washington Post War is chaotic, inexplicable and devastating to children caught up in it. But war is

by Ben Cohen Dec 27, 2022 Algemeiner   Ukraine’s air defense forces have destroyed more than 20 percent of the drones supplied by the Iranian

Klaidas Kazak Dec 4, 2022 Euromaidan Press   Dividing Ukrainians into four categories for killing, intimidating, or inducing to collaborate, wargames to hunt down and

Queen Anna’s story reveals how Kyiv has long shaped Europe, and should not be kept on the sidelines. By Christian Oliver Dec 26, 2022 POLITICO

Craig Hooper Dec 26, 2022 Forbes The list of American security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s “unprovoked and brutal invasion” is impressive.

By ANDREW A. MICHTA Dec 26, 2022 POLITICO The war in Ukraine is a decisive battle over the future of Europe, its geostrategic reconfiguration and,

Statement of the MFA of Ukraine on the illegitimacy of the Russian Federation’s presence in the UN Security Council and in the United Nations as

A shared sense of national history is proving to be a crucial weapon, spurring on Ukraine resistance and Russian soldiers by Patrick Wintour 26 December

David Axe Dec 25, 2022 Forbes The 1st Tank Brigade, arguably Ukraine’s best tank formation, didn’t  just survive the brutal bombardment that preceded Russia’s wider

A UKRAINIAN CHRISTMAS GIFT Lubomyr Luciuk Dec 24, 2022 It was masterful. Presented before Congress, and not in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s mother tongue, it

In his celebratory Christmas message, the local Pastor where I reside highlighted the positive,  beginning with how fervently Pope Francis of Rome is praying for

A partisan cell in Kherson spied on, undermined and even hunted down Russian soldiers. Now that Vladimir V. Putin’s forces are gone, people feel free

By Robyn Dixon and Natalia Abbakumova December 24, 2022 The Washington Post   Oleksandr has not seen his mother since Russian soldiers captured the pair

Before Putin’s invasion, Halyna Liutikova worked at a theatre in Kyiv. Now she is an army medic on the front line trying to save Ukrainian

By Oleksii Reznikov Dec 22, 2022 Atlantic Council In an essay for the Atlantic Council published in December 2021, I stated that Europe’s future would

THE UK IS SENDING UKRAINE A NEWER, LONGER-RANGE MISSILE THAT LETS HUMANS GUIDE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE TARGET Michael Peck Dec 23, 2022

The United States is giving satellite-guided bombs to Kyiv for the first time as part of a new $1.85 billion military aid package.   By

BCU FINANCIAL SUPPORTS THE FRIENDS OF UKRAINE DEFENCE FORCES FUND WITH ADDITIONAL $100,000 USD AS NEEDS IN UKRAINE BECOME DIRE IN WINTER MONTHS   Buduchnist

By Quentin Sommerville December 22, 2022 BBC News This is a war where Ukrainian fathers and sons serve on the same frontlines. And this was

By DAVID J. KRAMER December 23, 2022 The Hill While America is not officially a combatant in the ongoing and unprovoked war against Ukraine that

By Taras Kuzio December 21, 2022 Atlantic Council   Ever since Ukraine regained independence in 1991, Western coverage of the country has tended to exaggerate

Exclusive evidence obtained in a monthslong investigation identifies the Russian regiment — and commander — behind one of the worst atrocities in Ukraine. The New

The Erzya National Congress convened in exile in the Estonian city of Otepaa on September 30, 2022  to consider the intensifying repressions in the Russian

Timothy Garton Ash Dec 17, 2022 The Guardian   The Kremlin’s imperial war has made its own culture and language a common enemy for people

My impression then, as now, is that Putin fundamentally views Russian culture as indisputable evidence of superiority. Maya Asha McDonald Dec 22, 2022 Artnet News

David Smith 22 Dec 2022 The Guardian   For a former actor and comedian, it was the curtain call of a lifetime.   His address delivered,

Ukraine’s president vows his country will never abandon resistance to Russian aggression, but said Washington’s support is vital   Guardian staff 22 Dec 2022 The

President Volodymyr Zelensky described military assistance for Ukraine as an investment in global security and democracy in the face of Russian aggression.   By Michael

December 22, 2022 DIANE FRANCIS President Volodymyr Zelensky clearly won the pre-Christmas “shuttle diplomacy” photo-ops that took place this week. The Ukrainian was invited to

By ROB DANNENBERG Dec 19, 2022 The Cipher Brie Earlier this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a video meeting with the Russia Presidential Council

 By GARRY KASPAROV, DANIEL LUBETZKY, and ALEXANDER VINDMAN Dec 16, 2022 TIME Magazine Kasparov, Lubetzky and Vindman launched a Ukrainian Scholarship Program and Student Ambassadorship

‘Relatively speaking, we have sent almost nothing and there is no discernible plan to send more,’ says retired general Andrew Leslie John Ivison December 20,

by Igor Kossov December 14, 2022 The Kyiv Independent The war in Ukraine is being decided on the battlefields in the south and east of

PISM Stephen Blank Dec 13, 2022   Great wars often summon great creativity and imagination from political leaders. Russia’s war against Ukraine is no exception.

The gift funded the acquisition of more than 250 works of art for a 2016 exhibition. Anna Sansom Dec 10, 2022 Artnet News   The

Azov officer Ilya Samoilenko, one of the defenders of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, led the delegation to Israel. By TZVI JOFFRE Dec 20, 2022

By Jared Malsin, Noemie Bisserbe and Ann M. Simmons Dec 19, 2022 The Wall Street Journal Explosions damaged a bridge used by Russian forces, and

December 19, 2022 DIANE FRANCIS The world wants peace, but Putin does not. On November 15, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky presented a sensible 10-point peace

As delivered by Ambassador Michael Carpenter to the Permanent Council, Vienna December 15, 2022 On this final meeting of the Permanent Council this year, I

December 14, 2022 By Alena Grom RFR/RL At 5 a.m. on February 24, Maryna Ganitskaya heard the boom of distant explosions and realized a full-scale

A Times investigation based on interviews, intercepts, documents and secret battle plans shows how a “walk in the park” became a catastrophe for Russia.  

Eric Reguly December 16, 2022 The Globe and Mail   The lobby of the handsome Ministry of Finance building in central Kyiv does not have

David Hambling Dec 16, 2022 Forbes Ukraine’s locally-made anti-tank missile has been praised for its effectiveness from the start of the invasion. Now the Stugna-P

‘Losing brothers is a tough thing to do – they were my family down there and it’s always going to be at the back of

One of the most important suppliers to Russia’s drone program is an Russian expat and resident of Toronto By Stephen Grey, Maurice Tamman and Maria

by Ciaran McGrath Dec 15, 2022 Daily Express   Russian soldiers have raped children as young as four, and grandparents as old as 85, in

The Whig Standard 17 December 2022 by Lubomyr Luciuk   I’m offended. My mother was a teenager when the Nazis kidnapped her, one of millions

  Kharkiv was Ukraine’s science hotbed until Russia attacked. The crippled city refuses to give up 7 DEC 2022 By RICHARD STONE Science   Kharkiv,

Winter may slow down Ukraine’s advances, but Kyiv is better prepared than Russia’s ragtag forces. By Amy Mackinnon Foreign Policy Dec 2, 2022   While

Dec 12, 2022 The Conduit   Jean Oelwang, Founding CEO of Virgin Unite, recently travelled to Ukraine with organisations HelpUkraine and SuperHumans, alongside a group

The bloody fate of the 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade is emblematic of Vladimir Putin’s derailed invasion plans By Greg Miller, Mary Ilyushina, Catherine Belton,

At our apartment complex there was no electricity, water, heating, Internet, and mobile phone connection for almost 48 hours. Since we don’t use gas and

Locals helped Ukraine target troops occupying Kherson, highlighting one of Kyiv’s advantages in the war   By Matthew Luxmoore Dec. 14, 2022 The Wall Street

How Moscow Is Trying to Learn From Its Mistakes By Mick Ryan December 14, 2022 Foreign Affairs   Christmas Day will be a grim milestone

Navigation system monitors have seen a recent uptick in interruptions since Ukraine began launching long-range drone attacks.   MATT BURGESS Dec 15, 2022 WIRED  

Anastasiya Ringis and Vladyslav Golovin The Globe and Mail Dec 14, 2022   In a large basketball auditorium in Kyiv, on a dark December evening,

The makeshift production unit takes orders from front-line commanders as the conflict of electronic warfare heats up Ben Farmer 13 December 2022 The Telegraph  

by Ben Cohen Algemeiner Dec 15, 2022   Russia is returning to the days of the former Soviet Union when it comes to antisemitism, fired

Dec. 14, 2022 Nicholas Kristof The New York Times “We will beat the Ukrainian out of you so that you love Russia,” a Russian interrogator

The Bashkirs are an ancient people of Eurasia, formed in the Southern Urals as an independent ethnos in the first half of the I millennium

By Eliot A. Cohen Dec. 13, 2022 The Wall Street Journal On Feb. 24, Russia invaded Ukraine on multiple fronts, launching the most violent phase

 “We will bury you”   Leader of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev threatening the West in a Moscow speech, 18 November 1956   “Don’t be

“…THE LIBERATION OF UKRAINE IS NEAR AND THE TRUTH WILL DEFEAT LIES. GOD WILL DEFEAT THE DEVIL!” – Avraam Shifrin. Dedicated to the 50th anniversary

Security, Freedom, Democracy, Courage, Pluralism, Perseverance, Generosity Timothy Snyder December 11, 2022 Debts are awkward, especially debts of gratitude.  When we owe others too much,

The Kyiv Independent December 14, 2022 Ukrainian authorities discovered a room that Russians used to detain and torture children during the occupation of Kherson, Dmytro

By Julia Horowitz CNN Business December 5, 2022 Most Russian crude oil exports to Europe are now banned, marking the boldest effort yet by the

Luke Harding 5 Dec 2022 The Guardian Ukrainian officials have recently been hinting at developments in the country’s grinding war with Russia. A long-range rocket,

Deadly explosions rocked two bases deep inside Russia in a blistering new setback for Putin, who is already sustaining huge losses on Ukrainian territory. Barbie

By SCOTT MCDONALD 12/3/22 Newsweek The war between Russia and Ukraine is entering some blistering cold months ahead as it enters the fourth quarter of

December 5, 2022 DIANE FRANCIS Ukraine’s foe is Russia, but its allies face political and funding fatigue as billions flow to stop Putin. Feeding concerns

The Kalmyks (Oirats) are a western Mongol people who settled in the Volga region in the early 17th century. They are mostly Buddhists by religion.

By David Brennan Newsweek Dec 2, 2022   Troops from several elite Russian military units based along NATO ‘s borders have suffered casualty rates of

By Isabelle Khurshudyan, Mary Ilyushina and Kostiantyn Khudov December 2, 2022 The Washington Post   KHARKIV, Ukraine — A war that began with Russian tanks

Zelensky seeks to weaken a key source of Russian influence as heavy fighting continues By Yaroslav Trofimov Dec. 2, 2022 The Wall Street Journal KYIV,

By Peter Dickinson December 1, 2022 Atlantic Council   The liberation of Kherson in early November sparked a wave of euphoria as Ukrainians celebrated a

When Russia invaded Ukraine, a key part of its strategy was to destroy historic libraries in order to eradicate the Ukrainians’ sense of identity. But

TEXTY Dec 3, 2022   At the beginning of March, right after the full-scale invasion, Russian information troops targeted regional centers of Ukraine by creating

PREPARING FOR VICTORY: A LONG-HAUL STRATEGY TO HELP UKRAINE WIN THE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA—AND SECURE THE PEACE By Stephen J. Hadley, William Taylor, John E.

Members of the Shchedryk Children’s Choir have emerged from conflict determined to sing, including at Carnegie Hall this weekend. By Javier C. Hernández Dec. 1,

Reuters Dec 2, 2022 KYIV/MADRID – Ukraine’s embassy in Madrid received a parcel containing animal eyes on Friday, the latest in a series of similar

The Economist 30 Nov 22 “In battle nothing is ever as good or as bad as the first reports of excited men would have it,”

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN November 30, 2022 AP BRUSSELS — The European Union proposed Wednesday to set up a U.N.-backed court to investigate possible war crimes

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 11/30/22 The Hill   Three European institutions have called Russia a “terrorist state” in the past few weeks. Although all three

Partisans are mobilizing, and Russians are trying to sell their holiday homes — as fear grows that the war is closing in on the peninsula.

France is first major western country to publicly support proposal for special court to try for crime of aggression   Isobel Koshiw and Jennifer Rankin

December 1, 2022 DIANE FRANCIS Putin’s failure in Ukraine is rooted in his flawed belief in Russian military superiority and that Russia defeated Hitler. But

Iryna Ukhina Nov 29, 2022 DW   Liubov Yarosh survived Soviet dispossession, the Holodomor famine and World War II. At 102, she is living through

by Amed Khan November 29, 2022 CNN The contrast couldn’t have been more stark. Last week, as fires crackled in homes across America and families

By Samantha Schmidt and Serhii Korolchuk November 29, 2022 The New York Times   ORIKHIV, Ukraine — It was the only time of day when

Frank Ledwidge 29 Nov 2022 The Guardian In a 1941 speech on a Royal Navy ship, Winston Churchill directed his final comments to the US:

Nolan Peterson November 29, 2022 Coffee or Die Magazine   Regime-challenging protests in China and Iran threaten to become a problem for Moscow’s war against

By Daniel Bilak November 25, 2022 Atlantic Council On November 23, I sat huddled with my terrified children in a bomb shelter near Kyiv as

German Bundestag                           Printed paper 20/[…] 20th electoral term                                              [Date]   Motion tabled by theSPD, CDU/CSU, Alliance 90/The Greens and FDP parliamentary groups THE HOLODOMOR IN UKRAINE:

STEFAN MEISTER Nov 29, 2022 EU Observer   The EU must build a new set of ambitious policies that treats Russia as a major threat

By Mike Stone Nov 28, 2022 Reuters WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is considering a Boeing proposal to supply Ukraine with cheap, small precision bombs fitted

David Axe Nov 28, 2022 Forbes The Ukrainian army‘s newest howitzers also are among its oldest. On Sunday, the first video appeared online depicting ex-Lithuanian

By Zhanna Bezpiatchuk BBC News November 28, 2022 From the start of the war, a military airfield and village just outside Kherson city achieved legendary

By Michael E. Miller and Anastacia Galouchka November 28, 2022 The Washington Post   MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — The pickup truck bounced along a rutted dirt

Ukrainian official says 10 people killed and dozens injured in Russian attacks on recently recaptured city of Kherson. 25 Nov 2022 Al Jazeera The Ukrainian

Mark Mackinnon November 27, 2022 The Globe and Mail   Ihor Lozenko can’t keep warm. Half his house is missing after being hit by a

by Francis Farrell November 26 The Kyiv Independent   KHERSON — Housed in a grand imperial building with a view out onto the Dnipro River,

Nov 27, 2022 The NATO Parliamentary Assembly just finished its fall session in Madrid. For those not familiar with the NPA, it is an assembly

by Brendan Cole Nov 26, 2022 Newsweek   Ukraine’s defense intelligence (GUR) has said it has managed to detect thousands of pieces of Russian military

Michael Bociurkiw Nov 25, 2022 The Globe and Mail   During the 1970s, while my non-Ukrainian friends headed for the hockey rink or football pitch,

I write this memoir about an extraordinary person, not to retell his biography, but rather to pay tribute and express my personal feelings about him 

Like people in other states, Mainers want to show their solidarity with Ukraine. But it’s more than that.   By Hannah Beech Nov. 26, 2022

A better future requires Putin’s defeat—and the end to imperial aspirations. By Anne Applebaum Nov 14, 2022 The Atlantic   During the quarter century of

Foreign companies help guide Russian missiles to Ukraine November 25, 2022   Foreign companies help guide Russian missiles to UkraineOver the past two weeks, Ukraine

David Axe November 23, 2022 Forbes   It‘s official: Ukrainian commandos riding in small boats have infiltrated the Kinburn Spit, a three-mile finger of sand

By JOHN HERBST, STEVEN PIFER and DANIEL FRIED 11/22/22 The Hill   Leaders of a number of prominent organizations such as Americans for Prosperity, the

Bianca Chan November 24, 2022 Insider   Yandex, Russia’s biggest tech giant, wants to cut ties with the country, according to the New York Times.

Nov 26, 2022 Alik Gomelsky Astonished by the irresponsible and superficial approach taken in several recent articles, I felt it necessary to respond. The articles

Top security official says Tehran military personnel in occupied areas will be ‘targeted’ Julian Borger 24 Nov 2022 The Guardian Ukraine’s top security official has

By Euronews  with AFP 25/11/2022   Germany will recognise the 1930s famine in Soviet Ukraine under Joseph Stalin as a “genocide”, according to a draft

In occupied Kherson, Tropinka staffers outwitted—and outwaited—the invaders, as they fought over hallway posters and the flag out front   By Ian Lovett Nov. 25,

By Nicholas Kristof Nov. 16, 2022 The New York Times   IZIUM, Ukraine — Inna Osipova pointed to the 30-foot pile of rubble that is

Charles Jay Daily KOS November 24, 2022   During the Battle of Britain, Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force pilots

By Nicholas Kristof, Opinion Columnist Nov. 23, 2022 The New York Times   BALAKLIYA, Ukraine — The children left this town in August for a

Kyle Orton Nov 20, 2022 Substack Since Russia began its attempt to eliminate Ukraine in February, there have been some very strange reactions in the

There will come a time for negotiations – but calls to reach a deal with the Kremlin now are more wrong-headed than ever Timothy Garton

Ukrainian official says suspected Russian citizens and pro-Russia literature found in raids on Orthodox sites Julian Borger and Lorenzo Tondo 23 Nov 2022 The Guardian

Moscow is trying to freeze out civilians, but Ukrainian soldiers will have some advantages fighting through the cold season.   By JAMIE DETTMER Nov 23,

Nov 22, 2022 On Monday, November 21, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) passed a resolution declaring Russia a terrorist regime. The resolution also calls for

David Axe Forbes Nov 22, 2022 When Ukrainian brigades launched twin counteroffensives in eastern and southern Ukraine back in late August and early September, most

For immediate release (Toronto, ON, November 22, 2022) The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation (UCCLF) on Saturday officially unveiled Canada’s latest educational and commemorative plaque

Michael Peck November 21, 2022 Insider   In the first days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian jamming disrupted Ukraine’s air-defense radars and communications links.

By Samantha Schmidt and Serhii Korolchuk November 20, 2022 The Washington Post   STEPANIVKA, Ukraine — Fifteen-year-old Katia remembers rushing out of the orphanage just

Both sides have suffered heavy losses of men and materiel, but Moscow is more dependent on its shrinking economy to replenish supplies By Stephen Fidler

By Danylo Lubkivsky Nov 16, 2022 Atlantic Council   Almost nine months since his tanks first rolled across the border, it is now clear that

Kaitlin Lewis Newsweek Nov 20, 2022 Ukrainian armed forces have reportedly destroyed part of Russia’s key “life force” on the Kinburn Spit, according to the

Turns out Elon Musk isn’t a dependable ally. Nov 20, 2022 Foreign Policy Olga Boichak and Tetyana Lokot   On Oct. 3, tech billionaire Elon

UKRAINIAN TERRITORIALS ARE WEARING DOWN RUSSIAN DEFENSES IN ZAPORIZHZHIA. ARE THEY PREPARING FOR A COUNTEROFFENSIVE?   David Axe Nov 16, 2022 Forbes   A few

By Mary Ilyushina November 17, 2022 The Washington Post   AMSTERDAM — A Dutch court on Thursday convicted two Russians and a Ukrainian of murder

Millions of Ukrainians were starved to death by Soviet authorities in 1932-33. Then as now, Kremlin leaders seized grain as a means of crushing resistance.

From director general on down, workers say they were kidnapped and held in underground cells, often to be beaten or tortured; ‘some people’s spirits were

When Putin’s forces approached a tiny Black Sea outpost, demanding its Ukrainian defenders surrender or die, their expletive-laden response became a symbol of resistance. How

By Isabelle Khurshudyan and Kamila Hrabchuk November 18, 2022 The Washington Post   KHERSON, Ukraine — Ihor didn’t even know the first name of the

by Clare Fitzgerald Nov 16, 2022 MSN| Video has emerged showing what are believed to be Ukrainian commandos planting explosives on Russian attack helicopters, ultimately

By YASMEEN SERHAN Nov 16, 2022 TIME Magazine   This has been an unseasonably warm autumn. In parts of North America and across Europe, temperatures

Anton Filatov was pulled into a theater he never expected or wanted to enter: the front lines of war, where he now writes movingly of

By Marco Hernandez and James Glanz Nov. 17, 2022 The New York Times   The attack severed a crucial Russian supply line and triggered a

By Jonathan Landay and Tom Balmforth Reuters Nov 16, 2022 KHERSON, Ukraine – Residents in Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson call the two-storey police station

THE ZAPORIZHZHIA LEFT HOOK—HOW THE UKRAINIAN ARMY COULD GET BEHIND THE DNIPRO RIVER AND ROLL UP THOUSANDS OF RUSSIAN TROOPS David Axe Forbes Staff Nov

by Francis Farrell November 16, 2022 The Kyiv Independent When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky proposed his 10-point peace plan to G20 leaders in Bali on

Soviet authorities built the transit system to withstand a potential NATO attack. Now, stations are shielding Ukrainians from Russian missiles. Nov 12, 2022 By Fabrice

By Jonathan Landay and Tom Balmforth Reuters Nov 15, 2022 KHERSON, Ukraine -After recapturing Kherson from Russian forces and assured of unstinting U.S. support, Ukraine

By Julia Kesaieva, Vasco Cotovio, Tim Lister and Sana Noor Haq CNN November 15, 2022 Russia launched its biggest wave of missile attacks on Ukrainian

Steven Pifer Atlantic Council Nov 10, 2022 Ukraine is the victim of an unprovoked and unjustified war launched by Vladimir Putin’s Russia more than eight

For several years now I have been a prisoner of a cult operating on the Internet as a Ukrainian American email thread, primarily for political

By James Waterhouse and Elsa Maishman BBC News Nov 14, 2022 A “long and difficult path” lies ahead despite the liberation of Kherson from Russian

On the ground for nine months in Ukraine, where the conflict is far from over and the worst could still be to come By MAC

By Michael E. Miller and Anastacia Galouchka November 14, 2022 The Washington Post   KHERSON, Ukraine — Few people paid attention to the drab concrete

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL November 14, 2022 The Hill   Nov. 6 may go down in history as one of the most important dates in

Any compromise would be unjust, and Vladimir Putin would be sure to violate an agreement anyway. By Boris Johnson Nov. 14, 2022 The Wall Street

British prime minister says Russia leaving Ukraine would make ‘the single biggest difference’ to world affairs and calls for end to grain crisis Jessica Elgot

Crowds gathered to meet Zelensky’s soldiers after the Russians retreated but traps and tensions remain Marc Bennetts, Kateryna Malofieieva and Louise Callaghan November 12 2022

Nov. 13, 2022 The New York Times Lynsey Addario KHERSON, Ukraine — Ukrainian officials were preparing on Sunday to race food, water and medicine to

November 14, 2022 DIANE FRANCIS Ukrainians just recaptured Russia’s biggest war prize, the City of Kherson, and by so doing took a major step toward

Small town a kilometre from army’s positions in southern Ukraine was retaken on Thursday  Isobel Koshiw 13 Nov 2022 The Guardian Southern Ukraine in November

Jack Watling Nov 13, 2022 The Guardian   The Russian decision to withdraw from the Ukrainian city of Kherson to defensive positions on the left

Timothy Snyder Nov 12, 2022 Yesterday I was asked by Christiane Amanpour on live television how it felt to be sanctioned by Russia.  I hadn’t

By ZOE STROZEWSKI 11/9/22 Newsweek   Russia has purportedly lost hundreds of men and dozens of military vehicles and pieces of equipment in the span

By Robyn Dixon and Catherine Belton November 11, 2022 The Washington Post   RIGA, Latvia — Ukrainian forces raising their flag in central Kherson city

Peter Beaumont, Luke Harding, Pjotr Sauer and Isobel Koshiw 11 Nov 2022 The Guardian   In extraordinary scenes, crowds of jubilant residents greeted Ukraine’s armed

David Axe Forbes Nov 10, 2022   The air war over Ukraine could have gone either way in the first few weeks of Russia’s unprovoked

David Axe Forbes Staff Nov 10, 2022 The Kremlin has ordered its forces to withdraw from the city of Kherson on the Black Sea coast

Ukraine’s advance in the south has Moscow’s forces on the run. But Russian fortifications and the Dnieper River will slow a push on Crimea.  

Pjotr Sauer 10 Nov 2022 The Guardian As has often been the case, Vladimir Putin was not present to deliver the bad news. On the

By ANDREW RETTMAN Nov 10, 2022 EU Observer Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put it on an “irreversible” path toward a clash with the “collective West”,

By Alexander Motyl Nov 9, 2022 1945 General Sergei Surovikin, the commander of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine, has just announced that Russia is

The recommendation from RUSI reopens debate around Western fighter jets being sent to Ukraine, with the Swedish aircraft being tipped to provide exceptional operation value,

Francis Farrell November 9, 2022 The Kyiv Independent In the early hours of Oct. 29, the famous naval harbor of Sevastopol in occupied Crimea, home

by Igor Kossov November 7, 2022 The Kyiv Independent  MYKOLAIV OBLAST — The low November sun slips in and out of the clouds near the

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 11/07/22 The Hill Back in 1961, when Hannah Arendt, the German-Jewish philosopher, reported on the trial in Israel of Adolf Eichmann,

For many in Ukraine, this is a war of ‘decolonisation’ – and that includes Russia’s celebrated artistic heritage Charlotte Higgins Nov 7, 2022 The Guardian

Pushing for negotiations could undermine the morale of the Ukrainians fighting in the field. by ERIC EDELMAN and DAVID J. KRAMER Nov 7, 2022 The

2021/11/20 Euromaidan Press Article by: Bohdan Ben Edited by: Michael Garrood Baturyn, a small northern Ukrainian town of 2,500 people, looks like a village with

PUTIN OPENED THE DOOR FOR MASS LOOTING OF UKRAINIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE WITH HIS RECENT DECLARATION OF MARTIAL LAW Ukraine’s culture ministry declared that the “evacuation”

Israel and Ukraine are inherently less safe if the Russia-Iran alliance continues to deepen. By VICTOR PINCHUK November 7, 2022 The Jerusalem Post As I

John Haltiwanger Nov 5, 2022 Insider  Russian President Vladimir Putin has the world on edge. He’s waging the first major war in Europe since 1945

Nolan Peterson November 3, 2022 Coffee and Die Magazine   KYIV, Ukraine — On the morning of Oct. 10, right before the Russian missiles hit,

By ERIKA KINETZ, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and VASILISA STEPANENKO November 3, 2022 Associated Press   BUCHA, Ukraine — The first man arrived at 7:27 a.m. Russian

A federation is a group of states with a central government in which, in theory, those states may maintain independence in internal affairs. The Russian

04.11.2022 Halya Coynash Human Rights in Ukraine McCue Jury & Partners call this a landmark action, and it is certainly breaking new ground.  Even if

Ukraine’s military and Western analysts say Russian forces are making fruitless attacks in eastern Ukraine and taking heavy losses after a hastily arranged draft added

The Kremlin Won’t Go Down Without a Fight By Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Michael Kofman November/December 2022 Foreign Affairs At a White House ceremony on August

Tracy Thayer Bandera Bulletin Nov 3, 2022 The Bandera County Library is the first library outside of Florida to host an exclusive exhibit on the

Mia Jankowicz Nov 2, 2022 Inside Any use of nuclear weapons by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine would result in “the end of the

Nov 1, 2022 Lubomyr Luciuk Being craven he crept in just after midnight. It was Tuesday, 10 August 2021. As a trespasser he was clever

By Taras Kuzio Nov. 1, 2022 Atlantic Council For centuries, Russia has seen itself as one of the world’s great powers. This superpower status was

By Stefan Korshak Nov. 1, 2022 Kyiv Post   Ukrainian commandoes blew up three helicopter gunships at a Russian military airfield close to the Latvian

By Michael E. Miller November 3, 2022 The Washington Post   KHERSON REGION, Ukraine — Here in the muddy coastal region of Kherson, which sits

By Neil Hauer Nov 2, 2022 Military Times   MYKOLAIV/KHERSON FRONTLINE — It’s now been over eight months of full-scale warfare since the Russian invasion

Years investigating Holocaust atrocities and ISIL war crimes are helping researchers uncover possible Russian abuses in Ukraine. By Micah Reddy 30 Oct 2022 Al Jazeera

Many citizens thought the occupiers were there to stay. Some fought back, others actively supported them, while the majority just tried to survive. By Yaroslav

The commander of a Ukrainian reconnaissance unit spearheading the counterattack in the southern region of Kherson explained how his team helped breach defenses he described

By Dennis Soltys and Alexander Motyl Oct 31, 2022 Atlantic Council, Ukraine Alert Vladimir Putin’s recently launched campaign of targeted airstrikes against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure

November 1, 2022 by Oksana Bashuk Hepburn The Kyiv Independent   Like other good friends and allies of Ukraine, Canada has contributed considerably to military

Ukraine conducted a new surprise attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet on October 29, 2022. This time, it targeted naval combatants at the Russian

Admiral Makarov possibly disabled by Ukraine as investigators say frigate one of three Russian ships to be hit in Sevastopol Luke Harding and Isobel Koshiw

October 31, 2022 DIANE FRANCIS Russia tried to destroy Ukraine’s internet access at the outset of the war until Kyiv’s IT experts did a workaround

By the Editorial Board October 29, 2022 The Washington Post In a Thursday speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s voice dripped with resentment and grievance against

For countless Ukrainian children, the war has brought long-term physical and psychological injuries. Those who have suffered serious physical harm or the loss of a

Vladislav Inozemtsev 26 Oct 2022 Insider Over the last few years, everyone and their mother has made use of the cliché phrase: “We woke up

By JARED GANS 10/28/22 The Hill Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an address on Friday that Russia is virtually “dismantling the entire health care

By Hans Binnendijk, Alexander Vershbow, and Julian Lindley-French Oct 28, 2022 Atlantic Council   Escalation is a cornerstone of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strategy in

By Mark Temnycky Oct 27, 2022 Atlantic Council, Ukraine Alert A group of 30 progressive Democrats in the US Congress sent a letter to US

“We are currently doing our best in a difficult situation, preserving humanity and valuing every human life.” By HALEY BRITZKY Oct 27, 2022 Task and

By David Clark Oct 27, 2022 Atlantic Council, Ukraine Alert Ukraine’s Western allies adopted a new round of sanctions earlier this month in response to

Allison Quinn October 27, 2022 Yahoo News Russian’s Vladimir Putin sparked the wrath of his own people by drafting hundreds of thousands to join the

On November 7, 2003, Valeriy Kuchinsky, the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN, sent a cover letter to the UN Secretary General with a

David Axe Forbes Oct 24, 2022 A brief glimpse of an old, ex-Soviet amphibious tractor, hauling a Ukrainian army platoon across a river, is a

Jake Thomas Oct 26, 2022 Newsweek As Ukraine retakes large swaths of the country from Russia, a government ministry says it has unearthed the bodies

That same gutsy leadership in foreign policy shown by former prime ministers is needed now Diane Francis Oct 25, 2022 Financial Post In 1985, former

UCCLF WELCOMES ANNOUNCEMENT OF INTERNMENT STATUE AT ALBERTA LEGISLATURE For immediate release (Calgary, October 26, 2022) The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation (UCCLF) welcomes news

THERE’S A GOOD REASON THE RUSSIAN AIR FORCE IS FALTERING. UKRAINIAN AIR-DEFENSE CREWS HAVE BETTER APPS. David Axe Forbes Oct 18, 2022 It’s not for

Part 3 CEPA October 20, 2022 By Kurt Volker In the long run, the West must have a constructive relationship with Russia. But many of

By Peter Dickinson Oct 25, 2022 Atlantic Council In Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine, rolling power blackouts are now the new normal. With Russia’s

Oct 26, 2022 On 14 October 2022, Duncan Kinney of Edmonton was charged by the Edmonton Police Service with mischief. Kinney is the editor of The

October 24, 2022 Edmonton In the midst of the accusations and hate vandalism, the Ukrainian community has endured Nazi labels, and has repeatedly said this

Bloomberg By Serene Cheong October 22, 2022   Traders, tanker companies and the world’s most powerful governments are becoming increasingly fixated upon one question in

FINANCIAL TIMES October 24, 2022 Max Seddon and Roman Olearchyk Russia’s defence ministry has “readied forces and capabilities” to deal with radioactive contamination, in the

With an intense, hastily assembled effort, the Ukrainian military is pioneering successful techniques in the difficult art of anti-drone warfare. By Andrew E. Kramer Oct.

By Ian Lovett and Bojan Pancevski Oct. 25, 2022 The Wall Street Journal BERLIN—Ukraine is stepping up its requests for economic and military support from

Constantine Atlamazoglou Oct 23, 2022 Insider   At dawn on October 8, an explosion shook the bridge between mainland Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, which

Many said they would not vote for Vance. In a tight contest, such sentiments could have far-reaching implications. By Cara McGoogan October 23, 2022 The

PAUL WALDIE October 23, 2022 The Globe and Mail At first glance, it’s hard to imagine that anyone could live in the building at 80

October 24, 2022 DIANE FRANCIS Putin is a dictator with staggering riches and a nuclear arsenal. In February, he audaciously started “World War III”, and

THIS TEACHER WAS TORTURED BY THE RUSSIANS AND HELD FOR SIX MONTHS BEFORE RETURNING TO HER TOWN IN UKRAINE IN A PRISONER SWAP By Clarissa

By ISABEL VAN BRUGEN October 22, 2022 Newsweek Russia likely plans a mass withdrawal from vulnerable positions in the southern Kherson region to avoid a

October 20, 2022 by Nataliya Bugayova The Kyiv Independent Editor’s Note: This is an analysis by Nataliya Bugayova, a Russia Research Fellow at the Institute

By COLIN MEYN 10/21/22 The Hill Ukraine appears poised to deliver another crucial blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war effort with a counteroffensive to

Tens of thousands of ordinary citizens from computer wizards to pensioners are intrinsic to Kyiv’s war effort John Paul Rathbone and Christopher Miller October 21,

Iranians brought trainers and technical support to Crimea to help Russians use drones ‘with better lethality’, White House says Julian Borger and Dan Sabbagh 20

The next six weeks, before fall mud spreads, could allow Ukraine’s military to press forward in the Donbas and potentially retake Kherson, American officials said.

October 20, 2022 The Washington Post   Iran is now helping train Russian operators of the Arash-2 drones, which the country may soon send to

By Taras Kuzio October 17, 2022 Atlantic Council Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine invasion is rapidly unraveling, but most Ukrainians are well aware that Russia will continue

Newly mobilized recruits are already at the front in Ukraine, a growing chorus of reports says, fighting and dying after only days of training. By

Diplomacy isn’t working and Putin doesn’t want peace. Western countries should close their embassies and send Russia’s envoys packing Simon Tisdall 16 Oct 2022 The

By Robyn Dixon and Natalia Abbakumova October 16, 2022 The Washington Post Police and military officers swooped down on a Moscow business center this past

Once in NATO, Ukraine will repay the free world by continuing to defend the gates of Europe Lubomyr Luciuk National Post Oct 18, 2022 Ukraine

Nolan Peterson October 13, 2022 Coffee or Die Magazine KYIV, Ukraine — Winter in Ukraine is notoriously tough. Russian missiles could make this one much

Oct 14, 2022 On Wednesday, I was in Ukraine with Minister Harjit Sajjan. We were there in the aftermath of Russia’s horrific missile strikes on

 By Taras Kuzio October 13, 2022 Geopolitical Monitor A bizarre factor in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is that most Western experts on the Russian military

How the Country Can Take Back All Its Territory By Andriy Zagorodnyuk October 12, 2022 Foreign Affairs For too long, the global democratic coalition supporting

By Emily Rauhala October 13, 2022 The Washington Post BRUSSELS — Outraged over Russia’s recent strikes on civilian infrastructure targets, which disrupted power supplies in

By Stephen Fidler, James Marson and Thomas Grove Oct. 12, 2022 The Wall Street Journal Eight months into Ukraine’s war with Russia, its emerging strategy

Indiscriminate violence reveals Putin’s powerlessness to overcome Ukrainian resistance. By Phillips Payson O’Brien Oct. 12, 2022 The Atlantic On Saturday, Ukraine showed why it is

By Mike Ives Oct. 11, 2022 The New York Times   The Russian missile and drone attacks that killed at least 19 people across Ukraine

By Giulia Carbonaro 12/10/2022 Euronews Amid the war-scarred streets of the Ukrainian city of Lviv, which has been heavily bombed by the Russians, the foundations

By VICTOR RUD 10/12/22 The Hill Strategic sagacity in dealing with Russia is not our strong suit. After the dissolution of the USSR in 1991,

“There hasn’t been a special operations international military that I have dealt with since the Ukraine crisis that has not talked to us about expanding

RUSSIA COULD LAUNCH NUCLEAR STRIKES USING BELARUS FOR COVER FROM WEST AS WORLD NOW IN FIRST DAYS OF WW3, WARNS PUTIN FOE Adrian Zorzut Oct

Ukrainian officials have asked for a weapon that can strike targets 190 miles away. But the Pentagon — wary of widening the war — says

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press Oct. 9, 2022   KYIV, Ukraine — The exquisite golden tiara, inlaid with precious stones by master craftsmen some 1,500

David Axe Forbes Oct 7, 2022   In late 2014, the Kremlin organized a new army brigade for a new kind of war. Anticipating escalating

For an unconventional former Marine colonel, Ukraine represents the morally just war that eluded him his entire career. But how much can he and his

By Stefan Korshak. October 8, 2022 Kyiv Post   A Ukraine Armed Forces (AFU) Saturday morning attack devastated a logistically-critical bridge connecting the Crimean peninsula

The Associated Press By ADAM SCHRECK and VASILISA STEPANENKO October 8, 2022 KYIV, Ukraine — An explosion Saturday caused the partial collapse of a bridge

William Courtney October 7, 2022 The Hill   On September 30, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan deflected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s request for accelerated

By Thomas S. Warrick Oct.7, 2022 Atlantic Council, Ukraine Alert For all the recent talk that Russian President Vladimir Putin might use nuclear weapons to

By Isabelle Khurshudyan and Kamila Hrabchuk October 8, 2022 The Washington Post KHERSON REGION, Ukraine — The discovery was made by two Ukrainian soldiers staring

The mobile, high-precision U.S. rocket system is thwarting Russia’s invasion as it revolutionizes military strategy By Stephen Kalin and Daniel Michaels Oct. 8, 2022 The

Support for Vladimir Putin’s regime is narrowing fast Oct. 6, 2022 The Economist “RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA,” chanted Vladimir Putin on September 30th, as he announced

By Isabelle Khurshudyan, Paul Sonne and Kamila Hrabchuk October 5, 2022 The Washington Post   MYKOLAIV REGION, Ukraine — The drone operator ignored the occasional

By PETER POMERANTSEV October 4, 2022 TIME Magazine As Putin gave his latest rant of resentment in the Kremlin, hinting at Cold War style nuclear

Kyiv says hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been forcibly transferred to Russia, echoing Soviet practices By Matthew Luxmoore Oct. 4, 2022 The Wall Street

Confusion and recriminations marked the Russian efforts to call up draftees and claim sovereignty over Ukrainian territory, as well as the Russian response to battlefield

By Herman Pirchner Jr. October 3, 2022 1945 “Go down gamblin’, say it when you’re running low. Go down gamblin’, you may never have to

Attacks reportedly carried out by Ukrainian partisans as Kyiv pledges ‘intensification of special saboteur operations’ Isobel Koshiw 4 Oct 2022 The Guardian At least 18

Even as Russia’s Federation Council ratified the illegal annexation of four Ukrainian regions, Moscow’s military setbacks continued. By Mary Ilyushina, Emily Rauhala and Isabelle Khurshudyan

Sept. 29, 2022 DINA KHAPAEVA Project Syndicate There is no question that Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats must be taken seriously. But if the West gives

Harvard International Review 2022-10-03 By Andreas Umland Many West European public debates about help for Ukraine juxtapose feelings of solidarity for Ukrainians with concerns about

Tom Balmforth October 3, 2022 The Globe and Mail Ukrainian forces achieved their biggest breakthrough in the south of the country since the war began,

A major Russian newspaper said the Russian troops, facing defeat in Lyman, had fled with “empty eyes” after barely escaping with their lives. By Andrew

By Zhanna Bezpiatchuk and Sofia Bettiza October 1, 2022 BBC News In the past two weeks, Ukrainian forces say they have taken back 6,000 sq

October 3, 2022 Diane Francis   On September 30, Vladimir Putin strode into St. George’s Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace in Moscow through 30-foot-high

September 29, 2022 Natasha Lindstaedt The Conversation Arriving in the middle of the night at my Tbilisi hotel recently for a research project, I was

His baldly illegitimate claim to four Ukrainian provinces shows contempt for the global order—and his own subjects. By Anne Applebaum Sept. 30, 2022 The Atlantic

29 September 2022 Official Website of the President of Ukraine The International Working Group on Russian Sanctions has developed the fifth Paper of the Working

By Jared Malsin Sept. 30, 2022 The Wall Street Journal Russian forces around a crucial eastern Ukrainian city faced defeat Friday, even as their president

Canada, U.S. and Europe direct more sanctions at Putin’s annexation of Ukraine’s eastern territories as Russian threats escalate. By Tonda MacCharles Toronto Star September 30,

ANASTASIYA RINGIS September 30, 2022 The Globe and Mail It’s safe to say that Vladimir Putin’s announcement of “partial mobilization” in Russia to bolster its

As delivered by Karen Donfried, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, to the Reinforced Permanent Council, Vienna   September 29, 2022  

By SIMON SHUSTER and VERA BERGENGRUEN Sept. 26, 2022 TIME Magazine It would be easy to underestimate Valeriy Zaluzhny. When not in uniform, the general

September 29, 2022 Diane Francis On September 26, Putin’s war escalated after explosions disabled gas pipelines beneath the Baltic Sea linking Russia to Germany and

Zelenskiy’s chief of staff says sanctions should go further as international group concludes Russia’s actions pass terrorism threshold Patrick Wintour 29 Sept. 2022 The Guardian

More than 400 bodies were found in a mass burial site when Ukrainians took back a town that Russians occupied By Stephen Kalin Sept. 28,

The RF is not a member of the UN China (Republic of China) was charter member of the United Nations from 1945. It was not

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 09/27/22 The Hill The first step in Russia’s disintegration was Vladimir Putin’s painstaking construction of a fascist political system centered on

September 26, 2022 The Kyiv Independent by Igor Kossov   Ukraine’s successful counterattack in Kharkiv was important in many ways. The armed forces liberated a

Wrecked Russian armor and corpses of Russian troops line the roads in northern Donetsk as Ukraine pushes deeper into Donbas By Yaroslav Trofimov Sept. 27,

Part 2 September 26, 2022 By Kurt Volker CEPA Thanks to the courage and determination of the Ukrainian people, the country’s future as a sovereign,

Moscow’s new troops are unlikely to be fully integrated for several months, giving Kyiv time to press its offensive By Thomas Grove Sept. 23, 2022

September 26, 2022 Diane Francis   A mass exodus afflicts Russia because few believe that only 300,000 men with military experience will be called up.

The age of “victims of sexual and gendered-based violence” in Ukraine by Russian forces “ranged from 4 to 82 years,” an independent commission has found.

By Sam Skove Sept. 22, 2022 Military Times   IZYUM, Ukraine —Standing on Liberation Square in the city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian military officer Antolii Sidorenko

Fresh wave of protests across Russia on Saturday after Putin’s ‘partial mobilisation’ of civilian men  Shaun Walker and Pjotr Sauer 24 Sept. 2022 The Guardian

Ukraine’s president has urged citizens to resist the Russians in occupied territories, where voting is underway in what Western officials have called “sham” referendums on

by ASKOLD KRUSHELNYCKY Sept. 23, 2022 The Ukrainian Weekly IZIUM, Ukraine – A dreadful, gruesome smell of death now hovers here. It clings to clothes

The Russian president has rejected requests from commanders in the field that they be allowed to retreat from Kherson, a vital city in Ukraine’s south. 

The tide of international opinion appears to have decisively shifted against Russia, as a number of non-aligned countries joined the United States and its allies

by James Stavridis Bloomberg Sept. 23, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin tripled down on the war in Ukraine in a short but defiant televised speech

A tour of frontlines and liberated cities during Zelensky’s great counteroffensive revealed a country ruined, ravaged, and on the brink of victory By BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY

Polls asking residents to vote for independence and join Russia condemned in west as illegitimate Shaun Walker 23 Sept 2022 The Guardian So-called “referendums” are

Putin’s erratic actions are not those of a secure leader. By Anne Applebaum Sept 21, 2022 The Atlantic If an American president announced a major

By Taras Kuzio September 17, 2022 Atlantic Council As Vladimir Putin’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine continues to unravel, growing numbers of Western experts are predicting

ByAlexander Motyl Sept 21, 2022 1945 Vladimir Putin’s speech announcing a partial mobilization of Russian reservists contains nothing we haven’t heard before. It’s an exercise

Ukraine asks world leaders to say ‘very firmly’ that nuclear strike would have catastrophic consequences for Russia Shaun Walker and Luke Harding 21 September 2022

By Peter Dickinson September 21, 2022 Atlantic Council Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the international community with a nuclear ultimatum on September 21 as he

The Editorial Board September 21, 2022 The Globe and Mail The Kremlin’s puppet leaders in occupied regions of four Ukrainian provinces tried to reverse Moscow’s

Some of Russia’s “worst criminals” are among the inmates recruited to fight Putin’s war, the country’s top prison-monitoring organization told The Daily Beast. Anna Nemtsova

Moscow is frantically pushing through an “incoherent” plan to curb the onslaught of humiliating Russian losses in the war. Allison Quinn The Daily Beast Sep.

Much has been written about the atrocities at Irpin and Bucha, two cities in the Kyiv region of Ukraine, and what was discovered there after

Russian forces are in retreat yet Nato still holds back for fear of what a humiliated Kremlin might do. But now is precisely the time

By ZOE STROZEWSKI 9/19/22 Newsweek Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Black Sea Fleet has been a “total waste” as his forces struggle on land and in

September 19, 2022 The Transatlantic Task Force for Ukraine strongly urges the U.S. Congress to swiftly pass additional military and economic aid for Ukraine to

Dan Sabbagh 17 Sept 2022 The Guardian The Ukrainian video begins with the Dunkirk beach scene from the film Atonement, the soldiers’ stirring rendition of

Staff forced to choose between collaborating or fighting against Russian takeover of schools Shaun Walker and Pjotr Sauer 18 Sept 2022 The Guardian At the

Sept. 19, 2022 When Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukrainian put Stanislav Aseyev in prison in 2017, other inmates warned him to beware of the warden,

The exposure of his country’s weaknesses by a smaller adversary could threaten the Russian president’s influence abroad and even his hold on power. By Yaroslav Trofimov

Chelsea Kemp CBC News Sept 17, 2022   The traumatic legacy of Canada’s Ukrainian internment camps is being commemorated in a new permanent exhibit in

For months, Russian propaganda was this city’s only connection to events outside. When Ukrainian forces came, they had to convince locals they were friends and

The situation in Ukraine is now at an unsettling crossroads we should all be watching carefully. Backed into a corner, Putin is more dangerous than

Explosions kill senior officials installed by Moscow; mass grave is uncovered in recaptured territory By Matthew Luxmoore Sept. 16, 2022 The Waall Street Journal Explosions

16.09.2022 Halya Coynash Human Rights in Ukraine Ukrainian Armed Forces reinstated the Ukrainian flag over Vysokopillia in Kherson oblast on 4 September, after six months

Ukraine’s friends should reinforce its success by sending more and better weapons The Economist Sept 15, 2022   One of the many excuses Vladimir Putin

September 15, 2022 Diane Francis Vladimir Putin has suffered a serious military setback in his war in Ukraine in recent days, but China’s Xi Jinping

By Francois Murphy Sept 15, 2022 Reuters VIENNA – The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors on Thursday passed a resolution demanding that Russia

by Ishaan Tharoor September 15, 2022 The Washington Post The war in Ukraine may be entering a decisive new phase. The past week saw the

Yurii Shchyhol gives WIRED a rare interview about running the country’s Derzhspetszviazok and the state of the online conflict with Russia. Chris Stokel-Walker Sеpt 14,

13.09.2022 Halya Coynash Human Rights in Ukraine Documents uncovered after the Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated Balakliya (Kharkiv oblast) show how the occupation regime swiftly took

David Axe Forbes Sept 13, 2022 The Ukrainian army’s counteroffensive around the city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine starting on Sept. 6 destroyed half of

By Paul Sonne, Dan Lamothe and Mary Ilyushina Sept 14, 2022 The Washington Post Moscow’s rapid loss of more than 2,300 square miles of territory

By ELENA BECATOROS and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press Sept 13, 2022 KHARKIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian troops piled pressure on retreating Russian forces Tuesday, pressing deeper

September 13, 2022 Kyiv Post Garry Kasparov, considered to be one of the greatest chess players in history having held the number one spot for

By Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt and Helene Cooper Sept. 13, 2022 The New York Times WASHINGTON — The strategy behind Ukraine’s rapid military gains

Philippe Naughton Sept 13, 2022 The Daily Beast Picture this: You’re a Russian soldier, stuck in Kherson, waiting for a Ukrainian assault. Your supply route

The first in a four-part series on Western strategy for Ukraine. By Kurt Volker Aug 31, 2022 CEPA Of course, Ukraine must win the war.

Mark Mackinnon September 10, 2022 The Globe and Mail The Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been put into a cold shutdown after a warning

Mark Mackinnon September 11, 2022 The Globe and Mail Ukrainian troops continued their weeklong push in the eastern Kharkiv region on Monday, liberating more villages

The liberation of Russian-occupied territory might bring down Vladimir Putin. By Anne Applebaum September 11, 2022 The Atlantic Over the past six days, Ukraine’s armed

September 12, 2022 Diane Francis There’s reason to be optimistic that Ukraine will kick out Russia, but also to be wary of military talking heads

By Daniel Michaels and James Marson Sept. 11, 2022 The Wall Street Journal Ukraine seized the initiative in its war against Russia, claiming to have

By Ivana Kottasová, Tim Lister, Yulia Kesaieva, Denis Lapin, Josh Pennington and Victoria Butenko CNN September 10, 2022 When Ukrainian forces entered the city of

By Marc Champion September 9, 2022 Bloomberg A Ukrainian counteroffensive appears to be progressing in the north, but less so in the southern Kherson region

Julia Davis Sept. 9, 2022 The Daily Beast In the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin’s top propagandists predicted a swift victory and

By John Hudson and Missy Ryan September 8, 2022 The Washington Post KYIV, Ukraine — Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged lasting U.S. support for

by Phillips Payson O’Brien Sept. 8, 2022 MSN Ukrainian officials, defending their country against Russian aggressors, began doing something in July that seemed odd, even

James Marson Sept. 8, 2022 The Wall Street Journal Ukraine’s military advanced as much as 30 miles in the country’s east and liberated more than

By David L. Stern September 8, 2022 The Washington Post KYIV, Ukraine — For anyone contemplating a top administrative position in the Russian-occupied territories in

By MICHAEL WASIURA 9/1/22 Newsweek As Ukrainian forces continue to use Western-supplied weaponry to execute precision strikes on Russian military targets, the Russian response remains

by Janusz Bugajski September 07, 2022 Washington Examiner September is a crucial month. If Ukraine’s counteroffensive along the southern front is successful, then Moscow will

Ukrainian forces threaten key Russian supply route as well as pressing forward in the south By James Marson Sept. 7, 2022 The Wall Street Journal

David Axe Sept. 7, 2022 Forbes The Ukrainian armed forces are attacking along three fronts in the south, east and north, reversing some of the

Rebels are stepping up their resistance movement amid Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the south. By Thomas O Falk 6 Sept 2022 Al Jazeera From blowing up

Ukraine and Ukrainians worldwide marked 31 years since the Declaration of Independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. This year’s celebration took on a new

By Taras Kuzio Atlantic Council Sept 2, 2022 Russia’s genocidal invasion of Ukraine was meant to extinguish Ukrainian statehood and eradicate Ukrainian identity. Instead, it

September 5, 2022 Diane Francis The slow-motion nuclear disaster underway now is part of Vladimir Putin’s war against Europe. The Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in

2022/09/01 Euromaidan Press Several foreign journalists in Ukraine are promoting Russian narratives on the war. Although portraying themselves as independent reporters in search of truth,

A string of small fights is more likely than a massed attack as Kyiv protects its troops By Daniel Michaels and James Marson Sept. 3,

The destruction of Ukrainian farm land, machinery and infrastructure is not collateral damage. It is a core part of Russia’s military strategy. by Susanne A.

Euractiv By Orhan Dragaš Sept 1, 2022   The Russian invasion of Ukraine is so brutal and ruthless because this is where the fate of

Aug. 30, 2022 By Artem Chekh The New York Times IVANKIV, Ukraine — Recently, one of the companies in our battalion returned from a mission in

By David Ignatius August 31, 2022 The Washington Post   “We will oust them to our border,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky proclaimed about Russian troops in

September 1, 2022 Diane Francis Mikhail Gorbachev’s death marked the passing of a significant figure in the 20th century who lifted the Iron Curtain and

Alexei Ratmansky, one of the most important figures in ballet, is supporting Ukraine by staging “Giselle” with a company made up of Ukrainian refugees. By

 By Elisabetta Povoledo Aug. 30, 2022 The New York Times The Vatican on Tuesday for the first time said that Russia was the aggressor in

We have persisted against Russia for generations, and we will forever persist — individually and collectively, both in our homeland and in the diaspora. By

By OREST DEYCHAKIWSKY August 26, 2022 The Ukrainian Weekly In thinking about Russia’s war against Ukraine, it is a mistake to equate the Belarusian people

Office of Congressional and Public Affairs Bureau of Industry and Security August 29, 2022 Washington, D.C.—Since the start of Russia’s unjustified and horrific assault on

Ukrainian officials announced the operation to liberate Russian-occupied territories in the country’s south on Monday, following weeks of counterattacks on towns in the Kherson region.

A long-awaited counter-offensive appears to have begun The Economist August 29, 2022 In August, 2014, Ukraine’s army suffered one of the greatest tragedies in its

Anti-Putin media network February Morning has become a central player in the underground fight against the Kremlin. WIRED August 29, 2022 On the evening of

How Distortions About the Past Feed Delusions About the Future By Fiona Hill and Angela Stent September/October 2022 Foreign Affairs Vladimir Putin is determined to

Hlib Parfonov The Times August 27, 2022 Since 2014–2015, Russia has built dozens of ammunition depots hidden in civilian buildings near railway stations in the

Images have identified 21 facilities that are forcibly detaining thousands of Ukrainians, as well as possible mass grave sites. WIRED August 26, 2022   A

It was different. 80 years ago was indeed David against Goliath. David was all alone facing more than one Goliath. No one supplied lethal weapons.

Defense News Catherine Buchaniec and Joe Gould August 25, 2022 The U.S. is sending Ukraine “Vampire” kits that transform pickup trucks and other non-tactical vehicles

August 25, 2022 MSN The largest power producer in Ukraine, which operates four nuclear power plants, last week survived what officials described as the most

Archbishop Gabriel of Montreal and Canada referred to Ukrainian forces as ‘neo-Nazi’ and inspired by ‘demonic’ forces Tom Blackwell Aug 24, 2022 National Post As

Marc Champion August 24, 2022 Bloomberg   Six months into President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the war has upended fundamental assumptions about Russia’s military

Emma Brazell 24 Aug 2022 Metro A Ukrainian soldier says it feels like Russian troops have little interest in seizing land, but instead want a

August 23, 2022 by Luke Coffey Inside Sources   On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine for the second time in eight years. While Russian President

It has been six months since Russian forces swept into Ukraine. This is what the conflict looks like for the combatants, and to a worried

Tom Balmforth Reuters August 24, 2022 Ukraine was “reborn” when Russia invaded six months ago, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday, marking 31 years of

For Aleksandr Dugin, the most influential thinker in Russia, the war in Ukraine is a historic moment that will usher in a new world order

By Alex Horton August 22, 2022 The Washington Post The Pentagon is sending new weapons and equipment to Ukraine that will better prepare its military

Expert: “Russia’s security services claim that Ukraine is behind the assassination. But that makes absolutely no sense.” By Alexander Motyl Aug 23, 2022 1945  

The biggest issue for the Russian forces seems to be the mass refusal of the command staff of VDV units to participate in the fighting

The Harvard historian says governments should agree to protect them in war The Economist Aug 21, 2022 Serhii Plokhy Russia’s invasion of Ukraine came as

August 22, 2022 Diane Francis The most audacious attack in this war against Vladimir Putin personally took place on August 20 in Moscow when the

By FATMA KHALED 8/20/22 Newsweek Retired U.S. Army General Mark Hertling said Saturday that Russia is currently on “defense” while Ukraine is able to “pick

David Axe Forbes Aug 19, 2022 Explosions erupted across Russia and Russian-occupied Ukraine on Thursday night as Ukrainian forces escalated their weeks-long campaign of deep

A new strategy of attacks on logistical targets in Russian-held territory is having an impact, analysts say, symbolically as well as militarily.  By Marc Santora,

By HERMAN PIRCHNER, JR. 08/18/22 The Hill   In Vietnam, Afghanistan and many other conflicts, the stronger power lost because it could not win, and

WHY KYIV’S ‘THOUSAND BEE STING’ STRATEGY IS COSTING RUSSIA DEARLY By Max Boot August 17, 2022 The Washington Post   If you want to understand

EVEN ‘GOOD RUSSIANS’ SHOULD STOP BEING INVITED TO DISCUSSIONS ABOUT UKRAINE AND, IF INVITED, SHOULD SHUT UP, ‘GRANI’ EDITORS SAY Paul Goble Window on Eurasia

By DEBRA CAGAN, JOHN HERBST AND ALEXANDER VERSHBOW 08/17/22 The Hill   Nearly 20 of our fellow experts and national security professionals — whose digital

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 08/16/22 The Hill The conventional wisdom has it that Vladimir Putin must not be humiliated, lest he do something crazy. The conventional wisdom

Rory Sullivan Aug 16, 2022 MSN Russia’s attempt to capture more Ukrainian territory is being “undermined” by its inability to exert control over the Black

THE UKRAINIAN RESISTANCE IS KILLING PRO-MOSCOW POLITICIANS, BLOWING UP TRAINS, AND PROVIDING INTEL FOR DEVASTATING ATTACKS AGAINST RUSSIAN FORCES Alia Shoaib Aug 14, 2022 Business

Victor Zhora, head of Ukraine’s defensive cybersecurity agency, visited one of the biggest hacking conferences in the world this week. By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai August 15,

BBC News Aug 16, 2022 Ukrainian artillery has struck a headquarters of Russia’s shadowy Wagner paramilitary group of mercenaries in eastern Ukraine, reports say. The

The shelling is a deliberate step in Russia’s aim to steal Zaporizhzhia’s power by severing its connection to Ukraine’s remaining territory By Joe Parkinson and

by Alexander Query August 13, 2022 The Kyiv Independent   MYKOLAIV — Nights are short in the southern embattled city of Mykolaiv.   Since Russia took

A foreman at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power complex died after a shell struck his home, officials said. More than 1,000 cars were lined up in

August 15, 2022 Diane Francis Yellow ribbons painted on poles or walls suddenly appear in Kherson, the only regional capital city that Russia has captured

Simon Tisdall The Guardian August 14, 2022 Locking up Putin is the only hope of a resolution. It’s a strategic aim the West should energetically

While Russia lacks an effective long-range strike drone, Ukraine’s experimentation has produced an array of inexpensive, plastic aircraft, jury-rigged to drop grenades or other munitions.

August 12, 2022 by Illia Ponomarenko The Kyiv Independent   Russian heavy artillery — the Kremlin’s deadliest weapon against Ukraine — is still a superior

August 12, 2022 “On 9 August 2022, explosions occurred at the Russian-operated Saky military airfield in western Crimea,” the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said in

Yet plenty of Western intellectuals and politicians still ignore what Moscow is saying loud and clear. By Alexey Kovalev August 12, 2022 Foreign Policy  

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 08/11/22 The Hill The Putin regime has made it all the way down the rabbit hole. Nonsense is now the name

Michael Weiss and James Rushton August 11, 2022 Yahoo News How did Ukraine blow up Russia’s Saki Air Base in southwest Crimea on Tuesday? Was

David Axe Forbes August 10, 2022 The Ukrainian attack on a Russian airfield in occupied Crimea on Tuesday apparently destroyed a lot of aircraft. It

by Anne Applebaum August 10, 2022 The Atlantic History has turning points, moments when events shift and the future seems suddenly clear. But history also has

By VICTOR RUD 08/10/22 The Hill For those who dismiss aid to Ukraine as pivotal to our security, at home and abroad, perhaps 9/11 will

American Communist and later chief witness for the prosecution, Whitaker Chambers, explained his disillusionment with communism and remorse by comparing Russian communism with German fascism.

By Bojan Pancevski and Brett Forrest Aug. 9, 2022 The Wall Street Journal Explosions at a Russian air force base on Crimea triggered an evacuation of local

By Liz Sly The Washington Post August 8, 2022 BUCHA, Ukraine — After months of meticulous, painful and at times gruesome investigation, officials in Bucha

By Alexander Motyl August 9, 2022 1945 It seems Russia appears to be willing to blow up Europe’s largest nuclear power station in Zaporizhzhya in

By Brett Forrest and Bojan Pancevski Aug. 9, 2022 The Wall Street Journal KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine is pressing on with a counteroffensive aimed at liberating its

Announcement comes as Ukrainian forces seek to retake southern city of Kherson By Karoun Demirjian August 8, 2022 The Washington Post The Pentagon on Monday

It Is Time to End Washington’s Decades of Deference to Moscow By Alexander Vindman Foreign Affairs Aug 8, 2022 For the last three decades, the United

August 8, 2022 By Frank Gardner BBC News   Russia’s military could be unable to operate the high-tech weapons and communications systems it has been

David Axe Forbes August 8, 2022 The Russian army in Ukraine apparently is shifting a third of its forces in eastern Ukraine to southern Ukraine

By Bohdan Nahaylo Aug. 8, 2022 Kyiv Post Agnes Callamard: Madam Secretary General, I am writing an open letter to you calling for your immediate

‘For more than a dozen years I had been teaching students what civic duty is. For me, those words mean something,’ said Maksym Gon, 56.

Ukrainian president and British and US ambassadors criticise report that says soldiers should not be based in empty schools Isobel Koshiw August 5, 2022 The

Entrepreneur Anna Vorosheva accuses Moscow of murder after spending 100 days in the Olenivka detention centre Luke Harding August 6, 2022 The Guardian   Screams

Severe equipment and manpower problems could slow President Vladimir V. Putin’s mission as the war enters its sixth month. Aug. 4, 2022 The New York

by Janusz Bugajski August 04, 2022 Washington Examiner Successive U.S. administrations have failed to develop an effective policy approach toward Russia. Decisions have not been

225 personnel expected to be deployed for four months starting in August Murray Brewster CBC News Aug 04, 2022 Canada will commit a contingent of

 Russia hasn’t given the International Committee of the Red Cross access to the site where more than 50 Ukrainian soldiers were killed By Oksana Grytsenko

A deranged “filtration” system gives Ukrainian civilians—including young children—the illusion of choice but, in reality, they are being kidnapped en masse by the Russian state.

By Peter Dickinson August 4, 2022 Atlantic Council   New polling data from Moscow indicates that Russian public support for the country’s invasion of Ukraine

John Psaropoulos MSN August 4, 2022   Ukraine has deepened a counteroffensive in the south of the country in the 23rd week of the war,

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 08/04/22 The Hill   Remember the bombing of the theater and hospital in Mariupol? Or the destruction of Severodonetsk, Lysychansk and

August 2, 2022 The Jamestown Foundation By Yuri Lapaiev   On July 20, Sergey Lavrov, minister of foreign affairs for the Russian Federation, declared that

August 4, 2022 Diane Francis History will show that Vladimir Putin’s fatal miscalculation was his belief that Europe would buckle if he invaded Ukraine because

by Jonathan Sweet and Mark Toth MSN August 3, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin and his military forces in Donbas and Kherson are running on

By Dmytro Kuleba July 29, 2022 The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine — Russia, apparently, is ready for a cease-fire. The door to negotiations, the

By Yaroslav Trofimov Aug. 3, 2022 The Wall Street Journal KYSELIVKA, Ukraine—When Ukrainian troops deployed in Kyselivka on the Kherson front line in April, the

Taras Kuzio August 2, 2022 1945 Six months into the invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin’s terror campaign against Ukrainian civilians continues unabated. Putin, who

By VICTOR RUD 08/02/22 The Hill   NATO’s soon-to-be 32 countries comprise three nuclear powers, half the world’s economy and a billion people. Then add

Moscow is shoring up the southern portion of its front line, Ukraine says, in advance of a Ukrainian counteroffensive By Brett Forrest Aug. 1, 2022

RUSSIA MAY HAVE USED THERMOBARIC WEAPONS IN OLENIVKA TO BURN UKRAINIAN POWS IN THEIR SLEEP, SAYS INFORMNAPALM 31 July 2022 NV Russian authorities may have

As I get older wisdom remains neutral as experience broadens and brain cells wither. Irony and paradox are the hallmarks of septuagenarians. Pure unadulterated idealism

THAT IS WHY HIS COUNTRY IS SUCH A THREAT TO UKRAINE, THE WEST AND HIS OWN PEOPLE The Economist July 29, 2022   What matters

July 28, 2022 BBC News By Sarah Rainsford As Ukraine’s military steps up its strikes on Kherson, hinting at a new offensive to recapture the

Mychailo Wynnyckyj National Post July 29, 2022   KYIV — Russia has been waging full-scale war in Ukraine for five months. Media attention remains high,

Russia accuses Ukraine of targeting its own prisoners of war as two sides trade blame for killings By Matthew Luxmoore July 30, 2022 The Wall

Lubomyr Luciuk July 29, 2022 The Whig   When Ukrainians first began arriving in Canada, 131 years ago, they weren’t recognized for who they were,

Footage shows soldier with knife and surgical gloves mutilating prisoner as he lies down with hands bound Peter Beaumont 29 July 2022 The Guardian Horrific

Not Just a Land Grab, but a Bid to Expunge a Nation By Kristina Hook July 28, 2022 Foreign Affairs With every passing day, it

July 28, 2022 Diane Francis Europe’s been asleep until February when Putin said he wouldn’t invade Ukraine and launched Stalingrad-like sieges of cities the size

Ukrainians say the pontiff should ‘take a more clear and unequivocal position’ on the Russian invasion. By NICK TAYLOR-VAISEY 07/27/2022 POLITICO EDMONTON, Alberta — Pope

By RACHEL DONADIO July 26, 2022 Vogue Magazine There is no script for first ladies in wartime, and so Olena Zelenska is writing her own.

July 27, 2022 by Alexander Khrebet The Kyiv Independent   Editor’s Note: The names of the people interviewed by the Kyiv Independent have been changed

The agile, precision-launch rocket systems are helping Ukraine fend off Russian artillery attacks in the east By Isabelle Khurshudyan, Karen DeYoung, Alex Horton and Karoun

By Virginie Ann The Canadian Press July 25, 2022   Émile Antoine Roy-Sirois, a 31-year-old Quebecer who recently died in Ukraine fighting Russian forces, volunteered

UN ‘unequivocally condemns’ Russia’s strikes on Odesa port By Caitlin McFall Fox News July 22, 2022 U.S. and Ukrainian authorities on Saturday accused Russian forces

Timothy Snyder July 23, 2022 It’s been a while since I’ve been able to write about this awful war, but I think now, five months

July 21, 2022 Human Rights Watch (Kyiv) – Russian forces have tortured, unlawfully detained, and forcibly disappeared civilians in the occupied areas of Kherson and

Footage emerges of Ukrainian citizens in occupied Donbas being press-ganged to fight for Moscow  Peter Beaumont and Artem Mazhulin 20 July 2022 The Guardian Pro-Russia

July 22, 2022 Reuters U.S. Air Force leaders have raised the possibility of training Ukrainian pilots in the United States and giving Ukraine the American

Zoe Strozewski Newsweek July 22, 2022 Ukrainian forces have destroyed a Russian artillery division that included howitzers, troops and other equipment, according to the Command

Few know the financial system behind the Russian president as well as British journalist Catherine Belton. In a rare interview, she discusses Putin’s game with

By ZOE STROZEWSKI  7/19/22 Newsweek NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg reportedly urged a legislative body of the European Union to “stop complaining” and take action to

United States Senate July 20, 2022 RISCH, CARDIN, COLLEAGUES INTRODUCE RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING RUSSIA’S ACTIONS IN UKRAINE AS A GENOCIDE WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch

July 21, 2022 Diane Francis This newsletter is about an obscure country to most people, but represents a significant geopolitical development in the war against

The Ukrainian president was justifiably livid after Canada agreed to send Russian gas turbines back to Germany. But betraying our principles is a part of

On Thursday, July 14, “The New York Times” (NYT) carried a relatively even story about the recall of Ukraine’s Ambassador in Berlin, Andrij Melnyk for

The country has been given multiple complex systems with not much in common By Stephen Fidler July 19, 2022 The Wall Street Journal Western weapons

Vladimir Putin claims time is on his side, but he will have only one shot at making a gas cutoff count Patrick Wintour 18 July

By Julia Payne July 18, 2022 Reuters LONDON – Russia’s Gazprom has told customers in Europe it cannot guarantee gas supplies because of “extraordinary” circumstances,

By Diane Francis July 18, 2022 Atlantic Council Canada’s government is under pressure at home and in Ukraine to reverse its decision to waive sanctions

2022/07/13 Article by: Pavel K. Baev The Jamestown Foundation   Russia’s attack on Ukraine has clearly lost momentum, but the intensity of its multi-prong confrontation

By Jason Lemon Newsweek July 16, 2022   Russia apparently has failed to fix its “ad-hoc” command structure amid an “operational pause” in Ukraine, a

Simon Tisdall July 17, 2022 The Guardian Time to wake up and smell the cordite. Like shockwaves from an exploding missile, Vladimir Putin’s war on

Beyond the frontlines, academics are fighting to counter the fake tales of their country’s past that are peddled by the Kremlin Peter Beaumont 16 July

With Russia trying to erase Ukraine’s national identity, the fight to preserve, and build upon, Ukraine’s artistic heritage has taken on new urgency. July 15,

By Robert Kelly July 14, 2022 1945 Revanchism Drives Putin’s Ukraine War: Last week, as Finland and Sweden joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),

by Anne Applebaum July 13, 2022 The Atlantic   Red Cross packages are lined up along the sidewalk in Serhiivka, a small town in the

VOLODYMYR RAFEYENKO interviewed by MARCI SHORE Project Syndicate   According to the writer Adam Gopnik, “We breathe in our first language and swim in our

A grassroots effort is offering mental-health care to Ukrainians who’ve faced sexual violence at the hands of the Russian invasion force. By Joshua Yaffa July

The Fellas, or NAFO, are a loose cadre of extremely online shitposters who are raising money for Ukraine and fighting Russian disinformation. By Matthew Gault

By SIMON SHUSTER July 7, 2022 TIME Magazine   Olena Zelenska, the First Lady of Ukraine, got to bed late on the eve of the

July 14, 2022 Diane Francis President Donald Trump and his cabal attempted a coup d’etat on January 6 by concocting voter fraud, then organizing and

Presented with the opportunity to exercise unprecedented pressure on Russia, Ottawa instead did the opposite Tristin Hopper July 13, 2022 National Post   For a

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL July 12, 2022 The Hill   It’s time for policymakers to start imagining the unimaginable with regard to the Russo-Ukrainian war. 

ROBERT FIFE and STEVEN CHASE July 11, 2022 The Globe and Mail   The Canadian government’s deal to allow the repair of Russian-owned turbines covers

RUSSIA ‘EXPLOITING’ HOLOCAUST, PUSHING ANTISEMITISM TO JUSTIFY UKRAINE INVASION, NEW US STATE DEPARTMENT REPORT PROTESTS by Ben Cohen July 11, 2022 Algemeiner   A new

The fate of the West increasingly depends on our own fickle, fleeting attention By BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY July 11, 2022 Tablet Magazine When asked in 1917

By Tim Lister and Petro Zadorozhnyy CNN July 11, 2022 Across Ukraine, in the shimmering heat, one sight is becoming familiar this summer: Combine harvesters

I want to talk to Ukrainians about their fight to prevent Russian aggression against their country and the West. by Trudy Rubin July 10, 2022

To start, it is important to note that Congresswoman Victoria Spartz while in fact having been born in Ukraine and currently serving as a member

Euromaidan Press 2022/07/07 Article by: Zarina Zabrisky Edited by: James Hydzik The West should stop worrying about provoking Russia because Russia just does whatever it wants