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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As Ukraine prepares a major counterattack to seize back occupied territory, some soldiers are training to launch offensive actions across the war’s most formidable frontline.

UKRAINIAN UNIVERSITIES ENGAGED INTO THE WAR EFFORT BEYOND EXPECTATION May 18, 2023 Forum for Ukrainian Studies   Oleksandr Pankieiev: How has Russia’s full-scale invasion affected

Russia adapted to the game-changing HIMARS, but Ukraine’s new Storm Shadow missiles could put the fear back into its commanders, warfare experts say Jake Epstein

May 22, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS Vladimir Putin wages genocide, not war, against Ukrainians, as he made clear from the outset of his invasion. His hero,

May 11, 2023 Bellingcat The main grain terminal at the Port of Sevastopol in occupied Crimea has fallen quiet in recent years – at least

Anything less will encourage Russian imperialism and embolden autocrats around the world. By Eliot A. Cohen MAY 19, 2023 The Atlantic The United States has suffered

May 20, 2023 Exclusively for The Geopost: Janusz Bugajski   Ukraine’s much anticipated counter-offensive will be a vital stage in expelling Russia’s invasion force from

By Michael Birnbaum May 20, 2023 The Washington Post   Russian airstrikes on Ukraine’s power grid plunged many parts of the country into darkness last

May 20, 2023 The New York Times President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine landed in Japan on Saturday to meet with leaders of the world’s wealthiest

Calling the Russian invasion a counter-insurgency isn’t just inaccurate; it’s also immoral, as it suggests that the Russians were, alas, compelled to engage in atrocities.

May 20, 2023 The Spectator   One of the most appalling and perplexing atrocities committed by Vladimir Putin has been the abduction of Ukrainian children.

By Shannon Vavra May 18, 2023 The Daily Beast A prestigious Kremlin-funded university that trains up Russia’s top civil servants is about to fire all

By Natasha Bertrand, Kylie Atwood and Oren Liebermann CNN May 18, 2023 The Biden administration has signaled to European allies in recent weeks that the

By ILLIA NOVIKOV and VASILISA STEPANENKO May 17, 2023 AP KYIV, Ukraine — As the lead trauma surgeon at a military hospital in Ukraine’s capital,

UKRAINIAN HISTORIAN SERHII PLOKHY: ‘THIS MAY NOT BE THE LAST CHAPTER OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE, BUT IT’S AN IMPORTANT ONE’ Charlotte Higgins 12 May 2023

By Brad Lendon CNN May 17, 2023   It’s the big question that has Russian military commanders scratching their heads: What’s made Ukraine’s air defenses

May 18th, 2023 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ottawa, ON – The Hon. Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the Official Opposition, released

VICE News visited the once sleepy town of Rzeszów that’s now home to 30,000 Ukrainian refugees, rare NATO military planes and Patriot Missile batteries. By

String of bomb attacks on pro-war figures tied to Kremlin Maxim Tucker May 18, 2023 The Times   The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence service

The West cannot go backward and must go forward. by JOHN G. FERRARI and GISELLE DONNELLY May 16, 2023 The Bulwark The Biden administration has

The problems that have hindered Russia’s 15-month war are still festering: stretched resources and disunity in the ranks. Still, Mr. Putin’s resolve augurs a willingness

Kyiv drains Russian troops by doggedly defending Bakhmut in 10-month battle of attrition By Ian Lovett and Stephen Kalin May 15, 2023 The Wall Street

May 15, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS Putin’s army flags, soldiers flee, allies pivot, and the Kremlin’s new narrative signals weakness. The end of this regime is

The fight for Bakhmut is now the war’s single longest and bloodiest battle. Although the Ukrainians are making small gains, Russia still controls about 90

by Askold S. Lozynskyj May 14, 2023 Dealing with Rogue Allies and Making Friends The word politics comes from the Greek word “polis” which refers

Russia’s pro-war bloggers were quick to claim that Ukraine’s long-anticipated counteroffensive had begun, but Ukrainian officials downplayed the advances. By Marc Santora and Andrew E.

By Ruby Mellen, Zoeann Murphy, Kostiantyn Khudov and Kasia Strek May 11, 2023 The Washington Post   In one of the most profound examples of

How European Trainers Have Transformed Kyiv’s Army and Changed the War By Alexandra Chinchilla and Jahara Matisek May 11, 2023 Foreign Affairs In the 14

By SÉBASTIEN ROBLIN MAY 11, 2023 Popular Mechanics Despite extensive military assistance to Ukraine, transfers of two types of military hardware have remained taboo for

By Lera Burlakova May 11, 2023 CEPA Oksana Korchynska volunteers at a frontline medical post for wounded troops. A renowned activist and former MP, who

No city in Ukraine has suffered the reversal of fortunes that Kherson has. Liberated in the fall, it was a symbol of hope. Now it

By Peter Dickinson May 9, 2023 Atlantic Council   It would be hard to image a more fitting symbol of Russia’s declining military fortunes than

May 9, 2023 The Jamestown Foundation By Vadim Shtepa   In early April 2023, the authorities in a few Russian regions bordering Ukraine—Belgorod, Bryansk and

RUSSIAN SECURITY AGENTS HAVE BEEN USING A SECRET NETWORK OF CORRUPTED COMPUTERS TO SPY ON NATO FOR DECADES, BUT THE US JUST BUSTED IT OPEN,

Running short of food, fuel and cash, and with a Ukrainian counteroffensive imminent, many civilians are defying occupation forces’ directive, unsure where they would go.

by Taras Tarasiuk May 8, 2023 The Kyiv Independent Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in the op-ed section are those of the authors and do

By Gleb Garanich and Valentyn Ogirenko May 8, 2023 Reuters Russia launched its biggest swarm of drones for months against Ukraine on Monday, the eve

This magisterial book by a leading historian explains how long-held Russian imperial delusions lay behind the attack on Ukraine. Review by David Patrikarakos May 08

As in the weeks before the Ukraine invasion, the U.S. is sharing what it knows about Putin and his paramilitary force. By ERIN BANCO and

Claims Ukraine violated international law were always phony and Amnesty International tried to suppress criticism of its research By Adam Zivo May 07, 2023 National

by Askold S. Lozynskyj   The Russian culture of empire versus the Ukrainian culture of defending its own   This a personal perspective by a

THERE ARE BIG PROBLEMS WITH THE WAY THE KREMLIN DRONE INCIDENT WENT DOWN, AND WAR EXPERTS SAY RUSSIA ‘LIKELY STAGED’ IT Mia Jankowicz May 4,

By Miriam Berger and Adam Taylor May 5, 2023 The Washington Post   Yevgeniy Prigozhin, head of the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group, a network of private

by Janusz Bugajski May 04, 2023 Washington Examiner   Russia’s war in Ukraine is taking a major toll on its military, finances, and resources. It

Interview with Agnieszka Legucka | The Russo-Ukrainian war is a clash between two national armies and two global world views Agnieszka Legucka May 4, 2023

UKRAINE’S 82ND AIR ASSAULT BRIGADE IS RIDICULOUSLY POWERFUL—AND COULD LEAD THE COMING COUNTEROFFENSIVE David Axe Forbes May 3, 2023   The Ukrainian air-assault force’s new

May 4, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS Developments rapidly unfold as Ukraine prepares its counterattack. On April 20, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen offered an olive branch

By Connor Surmonte, May 3, 2023 Radar Online   Vladimir Putin is preparing Russia for the possibility of defeat in Ukraine, RadarOnline.com has learned. In

by Francis Farrell May 3, 2023 The Kyiv Independent   Editor’s Note: Some of the soldiers interviewed in this piece declined to give their last

Putin’s decision to invade has triggered many unintended consequences. By JAMIE DETTMER MAY 3, 2023 POLITICO   “We were invisible before, and to become visible

BY ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 05/01/23 The Hill   We can now say with near certainty that Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine had nothing to

Vatican working ‘behind the scenes’ to end war as spring offensive looms Marc Bennetts May 2, 2023 The Times   A secret Vatican peace mission

Foreign Policy May 1, 2023 BYSTRETS, Ukraine—In a pine-forested valley, by a spring-melt rushing river, Hanna Potiak enters the village church to mark Orthodox Easter

Ukraine needs fighter jets to counter Russia’s changing military approach. The US should learn from last year’s delay over tank deliveries and approve their release

By Elena Davlikanova May 1, 2023 CEPA   On the 78th anniversary of Nazi defeat, Ukraine will once again be at war with fascism, this

May 1, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS Allowing Russia to be on the United Nations Security Council and assume its presidency in April is equivalent to placing

Late Sunday, a day after the Crimea blast, explosions rocked Pavlograd in central Ukraine, and air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg

Weapons makers boost output, dispersing production to avoid attacks By Alistair MacDonald May 1, 2023 The Wall Street Journal For Ukraine’s largest weapons maker, the

By Max Boot May 1, 2023 The Washington Post The fate of Ukraine’s coming counteroffensive will hinge on the capabilities of its armed forces, but

Long at odds with the E.U. over its domestic policies, the right-wing government is winning allies with its staunch defense of Ukraine. Which battle matters

  Mia Jankowicz April 28, 2023 Business Insider   Ukrainian officer Olga Bigar will not tell anyone how she received the callsign “Witch” until the

The Economist 26 April 2023 As Ukraine prepares its forces for a crucial counter-offensive, the argument among its Western allies about what equipment to provide

Kyiv Needs the Alliance and the Alliance Needs Kyiv By Dmytro Kuleba April 25, 2023 Foreign Affairs   On April 4, I sat at the

Seriously, it’s time to sit down and shut up. NEIL A. ABRAMS APR 24, 2023 Read the Detox   Are you a venerated scholar in

“If our tanks don’t get there until August or September, it may well be too late,” said Sen. Angus King. By CONNOR O’BRIEN 04/27/2023 POLITICO

David Axe Forbes Apr 27, 2023   Ukraine’s newest marine brigade is firing Ukraine’s newest precision weapon: a 70-millimeter laser-guided rocket. A video that circulated

 by The Kyiv Independent Editorial April 26, 2023   “We went and killed everyone. There were women, men, seniors, and children.” These were the words

April 18, 2023 U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Citizens and Russian Intelligence Officers Charged with Conspiring to Use U.S. Citizens as Illegal Agents of the

Save Ukraine’s mission includes reuniting families victimized by Russia’s deportations in occupied areas.   By Julian E. Barnes April 25, 2023 The New York Times

Church alleged to be arm of the Kremlin – disguising Russian propaganda as religious teachings Isobel Koshiw 25 Apr 2023 The Guardian Father Mykola Danylevych,

By JUDY DEMPSEY Carnegie Europe April 25, 2023   Ukrainians from all walks of life have been resisting Russia’s attack. They will not accept any

By David Hambling April 22, 2023 19fortyfive   In Ukraine as in previous major conflicts artillery is the biggest killer on the battlefield, accounting for

16 April 2023 By Vitaly Shevchenko BBC News   While Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine drags into its second year, its athletes are hoping to

There is no need for a diplomatic solution. Russia’s war could soon be brought to a humiliating end By BEN HODGES 21 April 2023 Daily

Kharkiv on country’s eastern border has long had Russian-speaking majority but things are changing fast By Charlotte Higgins and Artem Mazhulin 24 Apr 2023 The

Carol Schaeffer The New York Review April 21, 2023 Across Ukraine, libraries devastated by the war are culling their collections of Russian-language books and Russian

by Askold S. Lozynskyj April 24, 2023 A cemetery is often more than a burial place. It is many times a museum and monument to

April 24, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS As Ukraine prepares its counter-offensive, the ground beneath the war shifted last week in a positive way. On April 20,

Published in “The Ukrainian Weekly”, No. 15, April 9, 2023, p. 5. by Volodymyr Mezentsev, Ph. D. CIUS Toronto It is with great sorrow and

The action late Friday was the latest in a series of steps by Ukraine to distance itself from a long legacy of Russian domination. By

In looming offensive, Kyiv will want Western backers to see it can maintain pressure on Moscow’s forces By Daniel Michaels and James Marson April 23,

by Janusz Bugajski April 21, 2023   A growing movement among Russia’s captive nations will be holding its first forum in Washington next week. Representatives from over a dozen republics and

David Axe Forbes Apr 20, 2023 The Ukrainian air force had around 72 Buk surface-to-air missile systems when Russia widened its war on Ukraine back

By George Weigel First Things May 2023 On February 24, 2022, something considered so unlikely in the twenty-first century as to be almost unimaginable happened:

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

April 20, 2023 This July NATO’s summit will be held in Vilnius and there are emerging any number of articles addressing what might and/or should

By Mariia Zolkina Atlantic Council, Ukraine Alert April 20, 2023   As the world waits for Ukraine’s widely anticipated spring offensive, debate continues to rage

Alex Shprintsen and Terence McKenna CBC News Feb 19, 2023   As Alex Ovechkin closes in on the NHL’s all-time scoring record, there are questions

April 20, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS What does Europe want to be when it grows up? Rich or safe or both? Hopefully, Europe will decide to

By Victor Rud April 19, 2023 CEPA   Wars end with agreements, we are repeatedly told. But they also need goodwill and a desire to

THIS RUSSIAN GROUP SAID IT WANTED TO FOSTER TIES WITH THE WEST. INSTEAD, U.S. AUTHORITIES SAY, YOUNG CANADIANS AND OTHERS WERE BEING SPIED ON  

It would be a just outcome and serve America’s interests. By Luke Coffey April 17, 2023 The Wall Street Journal   As Russia’s war against

Western technology goods are winding up in Russian missiles, raising questions about the efficacy of sanctions.   Ana Swanson and Matina Stevis-Gridneff April 18, 2023

Alex Horobets The Jamestown Foundation April 19, 2023 In September 2023, Russia and Belarus are scheduled to carry out the joint military exercises Union Shield

Former convict tells of torturing troops and says he does ‘not regret a single thing’  Pjotr Sauer 18 Apr 2023 The Guardian A former Wagner

By HANNA ARHIROVA April 17, 2023 AP KYIV, Ukraine — A top Ukrainian official said Monday that Ukraine will launch its counteroffensive against Russian troops

The Washington Post Editorial April 17, 2023 Information is the world’s lifeblood. It pulsates in torrents of facts and images. We are swamped with it.  But

Re-education camps are part of Vladimir Putin‘s mission to eradicate Ukrainian identity Apr 14, 2023 The Economist Russia is led by an alleged war criminal.

By John Wawrow April 16, 2023 The Washington Post   BRAMPTON, Ontario — Russia and Belarus won’t be allowed to compete in International Ice Hockey

An American administrator of the Donbas Girl blogger network uses a pro-Russian persona across online platforms   By Yaroslav Trofimov and Bob Mackin April 16,

Group also made up of former high-level military advisers say ‘actions still fail to match the rhetoric’ Patrick Wintour 17 Apr 2023 The Guardian  

16 April 2023 Volodymyr Zelenskyy Official Website of the President of Ukraine Dear great people of our great country! At the end of last winter,

Putin signed a foreign-policy strategy document last month that signals Russia’s troubling return to Soviet-era rhetoric and objectives. By Maksym Skrypchenko April 15, 2023 The

Mikhail Reva has used shrapnel and missile parts to recreate the nightmare world of the conflict Luke Harding 15 April 2023 The Guardian   He

By Diane Francis April 14, 2023 Atlantic Council   Ukraine could become the next European energy powerhouse, with enough natural gas reserves to replace Russian

By SAMYA KULLAB and HANNA ARHIROVA April 13, 2023 AP KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine launched an investigation Wednesday into a gruesome video that purportedly shows

It looks like the Russians have finally outdone themselves and reached the pinnacle of savagery. A just-released video shows a Russian soldier decapitating a living

By Andrew E. Kramer April 12, 2023 The New York Times After 10 months of one of the longest and bloodiest battles in Russia’s war

A Successful Offensive Could End the War With Russia By Rajan Menon April 12, 2023 Foreign Affairs   Before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s army invaded

Ksenia Kirillova April 11, 2023 Eurasia Daily Monitor   While, according to sociological data, approval for the war against Ukraine in Russian society remains at

The prime minister also dismissed cyberattacks by a pro-Russia group that took down several Canadian websites   Lee Berthiaume Apr 11, 2023 National Post  

RUSSIAN JETS, SOME FLOWN BY WAGNER MERCENARIES, ARE MAKING RISKY ATTACKS TO TEST UKRAINE’S DEFENSES AROUND BAKHMUT Michael Peck Apr 10, 2023 Business Insider Ukraine

By ALEXANDER J. MOTYL 04/10/23 The Hill   A recent RAND Corporation paper, “Avoiding a Long War,” has caused a stir in the policy community,

By ELLIE COOK 4/10/23 Newsweek   Russian President Vladimir Putin was waiting on a “wink” from former U.S. President Donald Trump to seize parts of

Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky visited Bakhmut on Sunday and said the situation is difficult but under control. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg April 10, 2023 The New

A POLITICO investigation shows that the tough sanctions put in place starting in 2014 suffered from weak enforcement at the Department of Justice and a

The Putin regime’s abduction of Ukrainian children demands justice   April 10, 2023 The Times   Russia’s assault on Ukraine is not an arcane border

By Tom Mutch April 9, 2023 The Daily Beast   Kramatorsk, Ukraine—The horrors of Ukraine are an eerily familiar sight for Maga, a 30-year-old Chechen fighter who spoke with

April 10, 2023 DIANE FRANCIS Putin is an absolute dictator and recluse who is paranoid, reportedly healthy, and whose advisors are “Ivan the Terrible, Peter

Making a nerve-wracking 3,000-mile journey from Ukraine, into Russia-occupied territory, and back again, a group of mothers managed to recover their children from the custody

After the death last year of children’s author Shirley Hughes, her son took hundreds of her books, including the award-winning Dogger, to libraries in Ukraine,

Ochakiv was ‘paradise’ before unwelcome visitors began raining down missiles from spit of land nearby by Luke Harding 9 Apr 2023 The Guardian The view

Ukraine attacks Russian positions in occupied south By Matthew Luxmoore April 9, 2023 The Wall Street Journal KYIV, Ukraine—Russia is deepening a crackdown on dissent

March 23, 2023 by Maryna Venneri MEI   Russia has wielded ethnicity as a weapon repeatedly in its history. The authorities have deliberately employed unlawful

When strict sanctions were imposed on Russia at the start of its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian economy was expected to plunge by some 10-15%

Resurrection and salvation are special phenomena for Christians of any denomination. All the more, they are significant for Ukrainian Christians. Christianity is not just a

By Vasilisa Stepanenko April 8, 2023 The Washington Post   Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine — Deep underground in southeastern Ukraine, miners work around the clock extracting

Mia Jankowicz Apr 7, 2023 Insider   Russian soldiers calling a Ukrainian hotline that allows them to surrender are also offering to hand over equipment

Simulator allows Ukrainian soldiers to learn how to use weapons before being deployed to the battlefield   Anton Skyba April 6, 2023 The Globe and

By Anna Husarska April 6, 2023 The Washington Post   The U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide is crystal

Stefanie Babst, who held senior posts in the alliance for 22 years, says there is a lack of strategic foresight among some of its most

by Janusz Bugajski April 04, 2023 Washington Examiner   The assassination of a prominent Russian propagandist in St. Petersburg exposes the growing confusion in Moscow’s

“Our research suggests that this looting is state-sponsored by Russia,” said a researcher at the Smithsonian Institution, which is preparing a report on the massive

Don’t believe the pro-Kremlin propaganda in Canadian social media, including claims that arrested U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich is actually a spy Terry Glavin Apr 05,

Mark Mackinnon April 2, 2023 The Globe and Mail It has been a year since the world first saw the bloated bodies in the streets

Support to rebuild devastated agriculture sector flows as fighting rages   By Patrick Thomas and Alistair MacDonald April 4, 2023 The Wall Street Journal  

April 3, 2023 BBC News   Plastic windows designed by a PhD student are helping transform uninhabitable houses in war-torn parts of Ukraine into liveable

A year after Putin’s invasion, the award-winning novelist reflects on the silence of his compatriots, the betrayal of his mother tongue, and his hopes for

Historians aren’t supposed to make predictions, but Yale professor Timothy Snyder has become known for his dire warnings – and many of them have been

Pair of suspected ‘illegals’ are thought to have been a married couple living separate lives in Brazil and Greece Shaun Walker, Pjotr Sauer and Tom

With powerful Western weapons, newly formed assault units and even a reconstituted Azov battalion, Ukraine is poised for a critical spring counteroffensive. But overcoming casualties

Researchers found that on Twitter, members of Canada’s far left joined those on the far right in embracing pro-Russian messages created by a two-year Russian

by Mariia Zolkina and Petro Burkovsky April 1, 2023 The Kyiv Independent   Putin’s threats to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus reflect his goal

  By Svetlana Stephenson March 28, 2023 The Moscow Times   In early March, a video made the rounds in which an elderly Russian woman

The Kropyva (Nettles) system for calculating artillery strikes makes Ukraine’s artillery one of the most accurate ones in the world   Olena Mukhina March 31,

31 March 2023 By ANNA BABINETS and YULIYA KHYMERYK SLIDSTVO.INFO   Two girls from occupied Kherson were taken far from home and kept for months

By JEFFREY SONNENFELD , RICHARD BLUMENTHAL AND JON HUNTSMAN March 28, 2023 TIME Magazine   It seems like the worst April Fools’ joke in history,

Ukrainian commanders said that Russia exhausted all its reserves on the eastern city, though soldiers said the cost in lives had been steep. By Carlotta

By Diane Francis March 30, 2023 Atlantic Council   In a rare public admission, Russian President Vladimir Putin told government officials in Moscow this week

No one knew how Oleksandr Matsievskiy died until a video showed his final seconds By Isabel Coles and Ievgeniia Sivorka March 31, 2023 The Wall

 Russia’s unprovoked invasion is impossible to justify. Now is not the time to relent in helping Ukraine. By David J. Kramer, John Herbst and William

By Kateryna Panasiuk and Mykyta Vorobiov March 27, 2023 CEPA   The response of Ukraine’s railroads to the all-out invasion has been a tale of

As a member of the International Criminal Court, Canada has a legal obligation to act on the warrant against Russia’s leader in any way it

More than 5,000 pages of documents from a Moscow-based contractor offer unusual glimpses into planning and training for security services, including the notorious hacking group

Viktor Orbán benefits from EU and NATO membership while undermining these organizations’ core values. Hungary’s allies must find ways to restrain Budapest and not be

The iron- and steel-producing factories of Ukraine’s rust belt have made body armor, helmets and armored plates for vehicles — and steelworkers risked their lives

By Alex Horton and Anastacia Galouchka March 28, 2023 The Washington Post   LYMAN, Ukraine — Before this city was occupied by Russian soldiers and

Remarks delivered by Prof. Emeritus Bohdan Kordan at the opening of the travelling exhibit Doors: Through the Horror of War at Ukrainian Museum of Canada

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 “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