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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Netanyahu is a prisoner of an outdated, deeply flawed understanding of both the psychotic Putin and Russia’s military capabilities.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

 “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

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.

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,

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

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 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

If the West truly wants Ukraine to win, and quickly, it should urgently intensify its supply of weapons to the country Denys Davydenko , Margaryta

Program aims to give Ukraine more manpower along the eastern front with Russia By Isabel Coles July 9, 2022 The Wall Street Journal   Until

Pavel Luzin July 7, 2022 The Jamestown Foundation   After more than four months of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, open-source data confirms that the Russian

Russian forces have taken Luhansk region, but at a very high cost in men and arms. How long can Russia sustain its rate of losses?

JURIST July 7, 2022   The Global Accountability Network (GAN) released a white paper Wednesday carving out a detailed path to prosecute Russia, and even

July 6, 2022 Policy Exchange Edward Stringer   At a recent event at Policy Exchange the Prime Minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas, made an eloquent,

Russian classical literature, chock full of dehumanizing nationalism, reads disturbingly familiar today. By Volodymyr Yermolenko June 25, 2022 Foreign Policy   One of the streets

by Dennik N 07 Jul 2022 TOL   The regime in Minsk is apparently antsy over the growth of a new force: Belarusian volunteers training

During a recent debate among the Republican party candidate and pretenders for Congresswoman Liz Cheney’s seat from the state of Wyoming, Ms. Cheney shone as

July 7, 2022 Diane Francis   The Great Russian Recession looms as Putin intends to cripple Germany, Europe’s engine of economic growth and Russia’s biggest

By Walter Zaryckyj July 2, 2022 Kyiv Post PART ONE During the early hours of the Russo-Ukrainian War, when it became clear that Vladimir Putin

By Howard Altman July 1, 2022 The WARZONE Sometimes they cross the border by helicopter . Other times, by foot.  But the objective is always

As Russia wages a twenty-first-century war against the very existence of a Ukrainian state and nation, reanimating Soviet era propaganda that portrayed Ukrainians as Nazi

At a compound in an undisclosed location in Western Ukraine, trainers with codenames like “Charon” and “Prophet” try to psychologically prepare young Ukrainians for the

Boris Johnson reaffirms commitment to provide long-term ‘strategic resilience’ to help expel Russian troops Tom Ambrose 18 Jun 2022 The Guardian Boris Johnson has reaffirmed

By Dmytro Kuleba June 17, 2022 Foreign Affairs As Russia’s all-out war of aggression in Ukraine drags on for a fourth consecutive month, calls for

The president appeared on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ and didn’t mention Russia’s war against Ukraine in a 23-minute interview. By Garry Kasparov June 17, 2022 The

Cwpro June 16, 2022 Today’s situation report from the UK’s Ministry of Defence (UK) assesses the current state of the Russian reduction of Sieverodonetsk. “All

Walter Zaryckyj June 13, 2022 During the first hours of the Russo-Ukrainian War, when it became clear that Vladimir Putin was mounting a full scale

Why is there no Royal Canadian Navy task force heading in to keep the sealanes in the international waters of the Black Sea open? June

Andrey Shirin June 14, 2022 Washington Examiner The Ukrainian Orthodox Church, heretofore a part of the Russian Orthodox Church, declared its independence last month after

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the limits of military power By Lawrence Freedman July/August 2022 Foreign Affairs On February 27, a few days after Russia

Reuters June 13, 2022 LONDON – The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, has filed an appeal against a Moscow court decision demanding that it remove

Isabel van Brugen June 14, 2022 Newsweek Residents of a Russian town near the Ukraine border reported witnessing a helicopter attack on a military base

When the OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission withdrew from Ukraine in the first days of Russia’s invasion, it left local staff behind — with tragic consequences.

International academics and digital imaging experts have spotted a pattern in the theft of valuable historic artefacts Vanessa Thorpe 12 Jun 2022 The Guardian A

By Nolan Peterson June 10, 2022 Coffee or Die An ad hoc US Air Force task force known as the “Grey Wolf Team” is advising

June 7, 2022 Cultural Heritage Newsy Ever since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, the country’s curators and historians have busied themselves moving artefacts and

By Max Boot June 13, 2022 The Washington Post The battle of Donbas — with momentous implications for the future of Ukraine and the entire

Craig Hooper Jun 8, 2022 Forbes In the American Civil War, Southern rebels used all manner of subterfuge to try and break a tight naval

By Pete Shmigel Atlantic Council June 11, 2022 Just a few years ago, Pavlo Kovtonyuk’s goal was to rebuild Ukraine’s health system. Now, his task

Refugees tell of being forced to strip or witnessing beatings as they seek to enter Russia Nadia Beard in Tbilisi 12 Jun 2022 The Guardian

Facing shortages on the battlefield, Ukrainian soldiers are getting supplies they need from those with the printers By Pranshu Verma June 12, 2022 The Washington

Glen Howard The Jamestown Foundation June 11, 2022 The magnificent resistance of the Ukrainian people has drawn the admiration of the whole world, but we

Halya Coynash June 9, 2022 Human Rights in Ukraine Russian media are deleting lists of Russian soldiers killed in Russia’s war against Ukraine following a

June 9, 2022 Twitter Web App  Speaking of the Russo-Ukrainian war, a number of commentators begin from the premise a nuclear power cannot lose a

By Snejana Farberov June 10, 2022 New York Post Russian President Vladimir Putin has compared himself to Peter the Great, comparing his invasion of Ukraine

From artillery strikes to Zoom calls, the tech billionaire’s internet service has become a lifeline in the fight against Russia. By CHRISTOPHER MILLER, MARK SCOTT

The Promethean League, a movement begun in 1925 to rally countries threatened by Moscow, has never been forgotten Lubomyr Luciuk National Post June 9, 2022

Gary Mason June 9, 2022 The Globe and Mail Almost from the outset of the war in Ukraine, fear of the conflict sparking a nuclear

Moscow has a parallel version of events in which Ukraine is responsible for the closure of the port of Odesa.  By Eddy Wax June 8,

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL June 8,2022 EU Observer The US State Department is currently deliberating over this very question. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky thinks the

07.06.2022 Ukrinform Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev once again confirmed Russia’s intentions to commit an actual genocide of Ukrainians under the pretext

UNDERGROUND EFFORTS APPEARING TO SPREAD, SAY ANALYSTS, AFTER REPORTS OF EXPLOSIONS AND ATTACKS ON RUSSIAN BORDER GUARDS Peter Beaumont and Isobel Koshiw 6 June 2022

June 9, 2022 Diane Francis History will show that Vladimir Putin lost the war against Ukraine before it began when he published “On the Historical

By Stephen Blank June 07, 2022 Real Clear Defense Einstein memorably defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a

Marc Santora June 6, 2022 The New York Times The Kremlin-backed mayor of the Ukrainian town of Enerhodar was standing on his mother’s porch when

Establishing evidence of criminal intent “Mens Rea,” criminal intent, is the keystone of any crime, especially, the most serious crime of Genocide. Evidence of criminal

By VICTOR RUD 06/07/22 The Hill Hanna Tverdokhlib holds her 7-year-old son, Volodymyr, after placing candles around a Ukrainian genocide memorial in Los Angeles to

Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Natalia Yermak June 6, 2022 The New York Times KHERSON REGION, Ukraine — Since Russia invaded, NATO nations have upgraded Ukraine’s arsenal

The bloc’s foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell also cast doubt on Russia’s claims that it isn’t hindering the export of grain By Isabel Coles June 7,

Pavel K. Baev June 6, 2022 The Jamestown Foundation Russian military strategists argue that modern wars are decided in the high-intensity initial period; and the

One Russian-born pollster argues that widespread, deep-seated backing for Russia’s imperialist ambitions make the people ‘100-per-cent responsible’ Tom Blackwell Jun 04, 2022 National Post When

In towns near Russia’s border, Moscow’s influence was strong and Ukrainian was rarely spoken. The war has changed that Shaun Walker 4 June 2022 The

Simon Tisdall Sun 5 Jun 2022 The Guardian It seems odd, to put it mildly, that Joe Biden is happy to supply Ukraine with advanced

May 13, 2022 Dark Owl On the 24th of February, after months of failed diplomacy, the existing geopolitical landscape of Russia, Ukraine, NATO, the EU,

By Taras Kuzio Atlantic Council May 27, 2022 The biggest European battles since WWII are currently raging in eastern Ukraine. However, while international attention is

While the invasion has tarnished Moscow’s appeal, some in eastern Ukraine still back the Kremlin as Russian forces bombard their hometowns By Yaroslav Trofimov June

 By JOHN HEBST, STEVEN PIFER AND DAVID KRAMER June 1, 2022 The Hill Over the past three months, the Ukrainians have thwarted Vladimir Putin’s effort

Lubomyr Y. Luciuk, Operation Payback: Soviet Disinformation and Alleged Nazi War Criminals in North America. Kingston, Ontario: Kashtan Press, 2021. 244 pp, $40 (includes postage

Kissinger is wrong: surrendering territory to appease Russia would have terrible consequences for the whole world Andriy Zagorodnyuk 3 Jun 2022 The Guardian We Ukrainians

June 3, 2022 by Illia Ponomarenko The Kyiv Independent “Artillery sweat saves infantry blood.” The Ukrainian military has this saying for a reason. It has

ANTHONY DEUTSCH AND STEPHANIE VAN DEN BERG The Globe and Mail June 3, 2022 Prosecutors investigating war crimes cases in Ukraine are examining allegations of

The exhibition, called “Crucified Ukraine,” is one of several ways that the country’s government is highlighting the devastation that its people have endured. By Valerie

OPEN LETTER TO MICHAEL DOWNEY CEO, Tennis Canada: Dear Mr. Downey: Among the values claimed by Tennis Canada are world leadership, integrity and accountability. In

bY OREST DEYCHAKIWSKY MAY 27, 2022 The Ukrainian Weekly It has been my contention for years that Ukraine has had no better foreign friend over the

By Anatoly Motkin May 30, 2022 Atlantic Council The Russo-Ukrainian War is now in its fourth month. While there is currently no end in sight

By Stephen Blank Atlantic Council May 31, 2022 As the Russo-Ukrainian War enters its fourth month, calls are mounting for Ukraine to trade land for

The specter of Russia’s assault on Ukraine haunted the famously politics-averse festival, which featured a spate of gritty, genuine films about the invasion By VLADISLAV

May 31, 2022 Volodymyr Viatrovych On 9 May 2022, the board of the world’s most prestigious journalistic prize, the Pulitzer, announced a decision: “The Pulitzer

“The fight is really shaped by artillery in this phase.” By JEFF SCHOGOL May 26, 2022 Task & Purpose When Russian troops tried to cross

by Oleg Sukhov May 31, 2022 The Kyiv Independent The European Union on May 31 finally agreed on a partial embargo on Russian oil after

Allies are increasingly divided on further heavy-weapons shipments to Kyiv By Bojan Pancevski and Drew Hinshaw May 31, 2022 The Wall Street Journa Cracks are

When Ukraine wins the war, Putin will build his own Timothy Snyder May 30 Some observers of the Russo-Ukrainian war seem to think that its

Putin’s illegal actions are destroying Kyiv’s economy and causing global hunger. The US and allies need to protect grain ships. By James Stavridis May 29,

The New York Review of Books recently published a review of two new publications on language that read: “There are recent reports that Ukrainian defense

Ukraine intelligence showed us lists of mostly U.S.-made microchips it says were found on captured or destroyed Russian military equipment.  By HOWARD ALTMAN May 27,

May 28, 2022 Nazar  Rozlutsky, PhD, author of six books, currently a junior sergeant in the Armed Forces of Ukraine: “I am not a military

To avoid more senseless bloodshed, the Kremlin must lose what empire it still retains. By Casey Michel The Atlantic May 27, 2022 The former national

Headliners from the fields of classical music, jazz and Broadway joined forces to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine and show solidarity with its victims.

By YULIA LATYNINA 05/26/22 The Hill When the Russian army withdrew from Ukraine’s Kyiv region, the world was shocked by the sheer scale of murder

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 05/26/22 The Hill   Now that the Kremlin’s offensive has stalled and the Ukrainian armed forces appear poised to defeat Russia,

Murray Brewster CBC News May 24, 2022 It made for an extraordinary sight recently on the broken, battered streets of Kharkiv on a warm Saturday

by The Kyiv Independent May 24, 2022 A veiled manifesto of appeasement from a newspaper known for its stellar coverage of Russia’s horrific invasion has

By Victor Rud May 25, 2022 Kyiv Post Western support for Ukraine is fraying. A “diplomatic solution,” a “negotiated settlement,” Putin has “no way out,”

By Anne Applebaum May 23, 2022 The Atlantic The expression off-ramp has a pleasing physicality, evoking a thing that can be constructed out of concrete

By Annabelle Timsit and Sammy Westfall May 23, 2022 The Washington Post Ukrainians lined up by the hundreds at post offices across the country on

After three months, the historical record is now clear By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL May 23, 2022 Tablet Magazine Ukraine’s military intelligence service recently released a

May 19, 2022 By YORUK ISIK Maritime Executive On Feb. 28, Turkey triggered the Montreux Convention, not used since World War II, and closed the

 Top presidential aide calls for ‘complete restoration of territorial integrity’ as Polish president backs stance during Kyiv visit Lorenzo Tondo 22 May 2022 The Guardian

May 21, 2022 by Illia Ponomarenko Kyiv Independent A New York Times editorial article titled “The War in Ukraine Is Getting Complicated, and America Isn’t

by Janusz Bugajski May 20, 2022 Washington Examiner A key reason for Western policy failures toward Russia is not Russophobia but a narrow-minded Russophilia that views Europe’s East

By Jason Horowitz May 21, 2022 The New York Times As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfolded, Patriarch Kirill I, the leader of the Moscow-based Russian

A visit to the town of Maryinka brings a rare close-up look at the nature of the war in eastern Ukraine, described by Ukraine’s president

The strategic port city – synonymous with shattered buildings and thousands of deaths – finally fell under Russian control this week. But that’s not all

19 May 2022 Roman Feshchenko NV Olena Bilozerska, a sniper and participant in the Russo-Ukrainian war since 2014, talks about the tactics of the Russians,

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 05/20/22 The Hill Russian President Vladimir Putin ironically appears to have greatly increased Ukraine’s chances of joining NATO. He has thereby

By STEPHEN BLANK 05/20/22 The Hill From a Western Clausewitzian standpoint, there is no longer any political justification for Russia’s aggression against Ukraine other than

Officials in Kyiv say the weapons could help in the fight against Russia, but the White House is worried about escalating. By PAUL MCLEARY May

Lawrence Freedman May 17, 2022 Comment is Freed From the start of this war there has been natural concern about the difficulties of keeping it

By Taras Kuzio Atlantic Council May 17, 2022 When Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, he envisaged a lightning campaign that

Financial Times Simon Schama May 18, 2022 As Putin appeals to the distant past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, militant nostalgia is on the

May 19, 2022 Diane Francis Cracks appear in Western resolve. Hungary sabotages the EU oil ban against Russia, France suggests a face-saving off-ramp for Putin,

ICC will assist with forensic recording of war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine By Caitlin McFall Fox News May 17, 2022 The International

Russia has planted mines in millions of hectares of the world’s most fertile soil. BY EDDY WAX May 16, 2022 Politico On a 1,500 hectare

Mick Ryan May 17, 2022 The Sydney Morning Herald Throughout their Ukrainian campaign, the Russian military has been continually forced to reassess its strategic objectives.

By UkrInform. May 18, 2022 Kyiv Post The decision has just been made by the Alliance’s General Assembly in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.  Earlier, on

Odette Yousef May 10, 2022 NPR   Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a Christmas liturgy at the Transfiguration Cathedral in St. Petersburg early on Jan.

French satellite operator Eutelsat has refused to stop Russia from using satellites it controls to broadcast state-run programming into the country. Wired May 13, 2022

 Mark Mackinnon May 16, 2022 The Globe and Mail Captain Volodymyr Kiselov had a choice: He could retreat with his unit of Ukrainian special forces

Germany, France and Italy are making overtures to Moscow. By MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG May 16, 2022 Politico BERLIN — In the latest installment of the Eurovision

As Russia celebrated May 9 with pomp and parades, Ukrainians began reclaiming a ruined city By DANNY GOLD May 16, 2022 Tablet It’s fine, don’t

After WWII, officials in Washington sent scores of agents to their deaths in a misguided effort to create an uprising against Moscow. By CASEY MICHEL

The relative trickle of advanced weapons to Kyiv suggests Western leaders would be fine with a stalemate. BY KEVIN BARON May 11, 2022 Defense One

2022-05-13 Serhiy Kvit Stop Fake Ukraine’s struggle for independence from Russia has become truly global from the perspective of mass communications. This war is universally

Leaders of Dnipro’s thriving Jewish community speak out about their history, their country, and their rejection of Vladimir Putin’s lies about “denazification” By NATALIYA GUMENYUK

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 05/13/22 The Hill It’s 1991 again and, now as then, Western policymakers and analysts are terrified of confronting the two big

Russian President Vladimir Putin warns Finland against joining NATO as GOP senators visit Kyiv By Yaroslav Trofimov and Mauro Orru May 15, 2022 The Wall

Gordon Corera BBC News May 14, 2022 The decades-long spy conflict between Russia and the West is intensifying over the Ukraine war. But what are

Pete Shmigel 13 May 2022 The Spectator The Russians may well love their children too, but many of their views about their war on Ukraine

It’s Time to Move Past Washington’s Cautious Approach By Alexander Vindman May 11, 2022 Foreign Affairs For years before Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the

As Western nations place sanctions on people close to the Russian leader, including family members, the strict secrecy surrounding his private life is being punctured.

Guerrilla movement on rise in occupied Crimea May 12, 2022 Ukrinform In the temporarily occupied Crimea, the guerrilla movement against the Russian invaders has reportedly

By Victoria Arnold Forum 18 May 13, 2022 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in even stricter censorship and control of Russian religious communities, other

Julia Davis Mon, May 9, 2022 The Daily Beast In his speech preceding the Victory Day celebrations across Russia on Sunday, President Vladimir Putin continued

Analysts say the outcome of fighting now is riding on the accuracy, quantity and the striking power of long-range weapons. Ukraine is pleading for more.

Russia has failed to understand the importance of airpower. By Phillips Payson O’Brien and Edward Stringer May 9, 2022 The Atlantic Airpower should have been

By Mykhailo Fedorov May 11, 2022 Kyiv Post The world remembered for long those who made SS uniforms, assembled tanks at their factories and made

By Andrew Jeong and Kim Bellware May 11, 2022 The Washington Post Russian President Vladimir Putin is prepared for a prolonged conflict in Ukraine, betting

Ukrainian intellectuals are beginning to look beyond the country’s mere survival as an independent state to chart a new path for it in Europe. By

Todd South Defense News May 9, 2022 ARLINGTON, Va. ― Marines in the middle of recent experiments, unit and equipment changes can look to the

Diane Francis May 9, 2022   Putin in his speech today did not announce an escalation of his war, Jill Biden spent Mother’s Day in

Ukraine’s Territorial Defense forces, steeled in battle, try to make up with motivation what they lack in experience   By Yaroslav Trofimov May. 9, 2022

Ukrainian intellectuals are beginning to look beyond the country’s mere survival as an independent state to chart a new path for it in Europe. By

By Jonathan Landay May 8, 2022 Reuters FASTIV, Ukraine  – A salvo of missiles brought the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine to Fastiv, a quiet town

May 8, 2022 NPR DAVID FOLKENFLIK   The New York Times is looking to add to its list of 132 Pulitzer Prizes — by far the

Talks with Poland and Lithuania come as U.N. warns of worst global food crisis since World War II By Drew Hinshaw and Alistair MacDonald May.

On March 4, Breaking Defense correspondent Reuben Johnson was captured by Russian soldiers outside of Kyiv and taken prisoner. This is the story of what

May 5, 2022 By Serge Schmemann The New York Times If the first casualty of war is truth, then the corollary in Ukraine is that

Melanie Phillips May 5, 2022 Algemeiner Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, caused outrage earlier this week after he was asked on Italian TV how Russia

Kyle Mizokami May 5, 2022 Popular Mechanics As Western countries ship increasingly heavy arms to a beleaguered Ukraine, one of the most important transfers so

May 5, 2022 Diane Francis On May 9, Putin will host his big annual Victory Day shindig in Moscow to celebrate Russia’s defeat of Germany,

A website entitled “Law 360” characterising itself as a “one step source for legal news and analysis” recently published an article about donating to Ukraine

04 May 2022 CYMRU The National Library of Wales will hold a special event in the Senedd next week to mark the contribution of the

3 May 2022 Classic FM By Sophia Alexandra Hall The opera star replaced Russian soprano, Anna Netrebko, in the lead role of Turandot which opened

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 05/03/22 The Hill The striking similarities between Vladimir Putin’s Russia and Adolf Hitler’s Germany are not accidental. Both regimes had —

Alexander Motyl May 3, 2022 19fortyfive After weeks of uncertainty, Western policy has now become clear. As U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it while

William M. Arkin May 3, 2022 Newsweek A Top Secret report delivered to President Joe Biden says that Vladimir Putin’s top general was in southeastern

May 2, 2022 Diane Francis President Joe Biden asked Congress for $33-billion to help Ukraine and stock markets tanked because the allocation indicates that Russia’s

April 29, 2022 By OREST DEYCHAKIWSKY The Ukrainian Weekly Since Russia’s full-fledged war on Ukraine began on February 24, we have seen a transformation of

Gary Robbins The San Diego Union-Tribune April 30, 2022 SAN DIEGO — The Ukrainian military will soon begin tracking and attacking Russian forces with a

By AILA SLISCO 4/29/22 Newsweek   Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Ukraine’s courage in the face of invading Russians is a historic showing of resistance.

By Volodymyr Vakhitov, Natalia Zaika April 27, 2022 Atlantic Council Since the invasion of Ukraine began two months ago, Western leaders including US President Joe

Pete Shmigel 29 April 2022 Spectator Putin’s right-hand man and Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu, has publicly described propaganda and disinformation as weapons of equal standing

Wired April 29, 2022 When Russian president Vladimir Putin launched his full invasion of Ukraine in February, the world expected Moscow’s cyber and information operations

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and YURAS KARMANAU AP KHARKIV, Ukraine — Viktor appeared nervous as masked Ukrainian security officers in full riot gear, camouflage and weapons

By Michael Birnbaum and Mary Ilyushina April 28, 2022 The Washington Post RIGA, Latvia — The Kremlin has sought to minimize discussion of Russian war

Diane Francis April 28, 2022 This week, Russia’s war against Ukraine became Russia’s war against Europe and NATO. America declared unequivocal support and major allocations

By LEXI LONAS 04/27/22 The Hill   The U.S. has credible evidence Russia executed Ukrainians who tried to surrender in the Donetsk region, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large

In the May 12, 2022 edition of “The New York Review of Books,” Gary Saul Morson reviewed two recent translations of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novels, “The

The waters that poured into Demydiv were one of many instances of Ukraine wreaking havoc on its own territory to slow Russia’s advance. Residents couldn’t

Non-binding motion lays out acts of rape, murder, abduction and desecration of corpses Peter Zimonjic CBC News Apr 27, 2022   The House of Commons

April 25, 2022 By Abraham Mahshie Air Force Magazine   KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany—In the months leading up to Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian government

By WILLIAM COURTNEY AND PETER A. WILSON April 26, 2022 The Hill After two months of fighting in Ukraine, some longer-term geostrategic consequences are coming

By Nolan Peterson April 25, 2022 Coffee or Die KYIV, Ukraine — Two months into Russia’s full-scale war, Ukrainian forces have won the Battle of

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 04/26/22 The Hill While Russian men have been killing, raping and pillaging in Ukraine, their families have been no less busy

First comes the dehumanization. Then comes the killing. By Anne Applebaum April 25, 2022 The Atlantic   In the terrible winter of 1932–33, brigades of

By Toby Luckhurst & Olga Pona BBC News April 25, 2022 “You can’t imagine how horrible the conditions were.”  Oleksandr and Olena are two of

NATO must supply Ukraine with the arms it needs to defeat Russia. As Mariupol is destroyed, the stakes are higher than ever. Wesley K. Clark

by Janusz Bugajski April 23, 2022 Washington Examiner   NATO faces a historic opportunity to defeat the last imperial power threatening European security. A strategic victory

By Anonymous April 22, 2022 The Economist   One thing I’ve learned about Russian businessmen from teaching their children is that they don’t give much

Gerhard Schröder, who is paid almost $1 million a year by Russian-controlled energy companies, has become a pariah. But he is also a symbol of

US-based lab documents destruction of churches and theatres   Vanessa Thorpe 24 April 2022 The Guardian   Satellite scrutiny of Ukraine is not just focused

By Peter Dickinson April 21, 2022 Atlantic Council   Vladimir Putin has signaled his tacit approval for further Russian war crimes in Ukraine by publicly

Kate Conger and David E. Sanger April 22, 2022 The New York Times   Hackers claim to have broken into dozens of Russian institutions over

By Maria Korenyuk and Jack Goodman April 22, 2022 BBC News Serhiy Starushko and his journalist colleagues had just finished their morning editorial meeting in

by  Illia Ponomarenko April 21, 2022 The Kyiv Independent Ukraine and the world have spent weeks in anticipation of the Battle of Donbas, “the second

By AMIE FERRIS-ROTMAN April 20, 2022 TIME Rape as a weapon of war may date to the dawn of conflict. But in Ukraine, female lawmakers

Holly Ellyatt April 21 2022 CNBC When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, its military commanders were widely seen to have discounted one very unconventional but

From driving ambulances on the eastern front to defending Kyiv, Israeli-Ukrainians, some of them with little training, take part in country’s defense against Russia By

A Russian defeat could reshape the security landscape to U.S. advantage in Europe and beyond. Andrew A. Michta April 20, 2022 City Journal On April

Neil MacFarquhar and Alina Lobzina April 21, 2022 The New York Times Russia’s biggest military loss so far in the Ukraine war is also becoming

An opaque market is forming to obscure the origin of Russia’s oil as more tankers are loaded without a precise destination By Anna Hirtenstein April

The war on Ukraine “changes the history of our continent,” the ambassador said. By JACQUELINE FELDSCHER April 19, 2022 Defense One Though France has been

April 20, 2022 The Economist The battle of Kyiv may be over, at least for now, but the battle of Donbas is becoming more intense.

April 21, 2022 Diane Francis This week Russia launched its full-scale offensive to take the portions of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region that it didn’t conquer

Mychailo Wynnyckyj April 17, 2022 Today is a very holy day for Christians throughout the world. In the West, today is Easter Sunday. In the

The good news for Ukraine is that sanctions are hurting Russia’s arms suppliers. The bad news is the effects aren’t immediate, for the most part.

Some families report sailors dead or missing in Moskva sinking despite Defense Ministry claim that all were evacuated By Jeanne Whalen and Mary Ilyushina April

Canada has a stockpile of light armoured vehicles that could be deployed, says former Chief of the Defence Staff, Rick Hillier. ‘It would make a

Juraj Mesik 07.04.2022 Geostrategy In 1969, the young Russian historian Andrei Amalrik wrote his famous essay “Will the Soviet Union Survive until 1984?” This happened

By Mychailo Wynnyckyj. April 16, 2022 Kyiv Post Since independence, whenever Ukrainians have quarreled publicly, their most emotional disagreements have focused on differing interpretations of

By Taras Kuzio April 17, 2022 Atlantic Council When Vladimir Putin first came to power at the turn of the millennium, one of the main

Patriarch Kirill has angered many priests by echoing the language Vladimir Putin uses to justify the Ukraine invasion By Jeanne Whalen April 17, 2022 The

By Adam Taylor and David L. Stern April 14, 2022 The Washington Post Ukrainian authorities announced Thursday that they had seized a sum of 154

Widespread violations of international humanitarian law appear to be part of the Russian way of war. The international response to such crimes could have severe

One long-running rivalry shows how Kyiv has withstood major cyber attacks Mehul Srivastava and Anna Gross April 14, 2022 FT For years, a small and

This is both a blessed and difficult time for me as a Ukrainian Catholic. I feel the overwhelming victory of my Lord and Saviour. This

The 20th century left a bitter taste in the mouth about nationalism. But the Ukrainian-style nationalism on display today is not only compatible with, but

By Laurence H. Tribe and Jeremy Lewin April 15, 2022 The New York Times As Vladimir Putin vows to continue his genocidal invasion of Ukraine,

By Bohdan Vitvitsky April 11, 2022 Atlantic Council On the US Senate floor on the evening of April 6, US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer

How lies bring wars Timothy Snyder April 12, 2022 The saying goes that truth is a casualty of war. That is so. Thus when Russia

A loophole in U.S. law makes it possible to bring diamonds originating in Russia into the Gur Megiddo April 12, 2022 Haaretz A week ago,

By Greg Hadley and John A. Tirpak April 12, 2022 Airforce Roughly eight to 10 flights full of supplies and equipment for Ukraine are landing

April 13, 2022 Meduza On March 18, Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon published a video message addressed to Ukrainians living in territories occupied or surrounded by

April 14, 2022 Diane Francis Russia’s war has mobilized the West. Military equipment floods Ukraine, draconian sanctions crater Putin’s economy, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet

The United States and its allies can tip the balance between a costly success and a calamity. By Eliot A. Cohen April 12, 2022 The

Sophia Ankel April 12, 2022 The Insider Russia plans to send nearly 100,000 Ukrainians as far as Siberia and the Arctic Circle, UK newspaper The

Importing Russian oil and gas is immoral Diane Francis Apr 12, 2022 National Post The next three weeks are critical for Ukraine as Vladimir Putin

The Republican lawmaker said European nations should understand they are funding a “genocidal campaign” by continuing to import Russian energy. By Sanjana Karanth Apr. 10,

Salmaan Farooqui April 11, 2022 The Globe and Mail Poems, sheet music, historical images, oral history recordings and music performances. They’re all vulnerable pieces of

by Janusz Bugajski April 09, 2022 Washington Examiner Winston Churchill famously called Russia a “riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” A more accurate

At the beginning of the modern Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate from the Bryansk Metropolitan-ate issued an unambiguous

Diane Francis April 7, 2022 Russia’s war against Ukraine has divided the world geopolitically into three main blocs: pro-Ukraine, pro-Russia, and fence-sitters. The United Nations

By Andrew E. Kramer April 9, 2022 The New York Times CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — As the staging ground for an assault on the Ukrainian capital

Allies are gearing up for long haul — but want to send heavy weaponry quickly. By LILI BAYER, HANS VON DER BURCHARD AND CRISTINA GALLARDO

April 7, 2022 Diane Francis Imagine a legal system where the accused sits on the jury? That’s the UN Security Council. Or imagine a police

German intelligence has reportedly intercepted messages by Russian troops discussing murders in the Ukrainian town. Citing the report, and other atrocities, two German ex-ministers are