War in Ukraine
Ukraine does not need negotiations with Russia until it wins on the battlefield, otherwise there will be no lasting peace and the nation will later have to fight Russia off once again. That is why NAT
Nov. 26, 2022
War in Ukraine
Russian shelling of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson killed 15 civilians Friday, officials said, as engineers across the country sought to restore heat, water and power to major cities. Througho
Nov. 26, 2022
War in Ukraine
Key Takeaways Reports of a group of understaffed and ill-supplied mobilized personnel are dividing the Russian information space. President Vladimir Putin falsely presented a meeting with hand-picked
Nov. 26, 2022
Despite being ravaged by war and Russian aggression, the people of Ukraine will commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor genocide this year on Saturday, Nov. 26. The Holodomor was a man-made
Nov. 26, 2022
War in Ukraine
Read Part 1 of this Op Ed here. Ignorance, Myopia, Pragmatic Self-Interest, or Plain Cowardice? Even after the Russian bear had used its vicious claws in Ukraine’s Crimea and Donbas and displayed its
Nov. 25, 2022
War in Ukraine
Their videos are flooding Russian social media — mothers and wives of soldiers mobilised to fight in Ukraine, urgently demanding that the military make good on promises made by President Vladimir Puti
Nov. 25, 2022
War in Ukraine
German MPs are set to approve a resolution declaring as “genocide” the 1930s starvation of millions in Ukraine under Joseph Stalin, adopting language used by Kyiv, according to a draft text seen by AF
Nov. 25, 2022
Russia
It was 13 years ago this month that Sergei Magnitsky was killed in Moscow’s Butyrka prison. Just seven days before he would have had to have been released if he was not brought to trial after almost a
Nov. 25, 2022
Russia
Russian lawmakers unanimously approved a bill banning all forms of LGBTQ “propaganda” in a final reading Thursday, Nov. 24, as President Vladimir Putin seeks to promote his country as the antithesis
Nov. 25, 2022
War in Ukraine
Two months after President Putin announced a ‘partial mobilisation’, common themes are emerging in the experience of mobilised Russian reservists. Their deployment is often characterised by confusion
Nov. 25, 2022
War in Ukraine
Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has called on President Volodymyr Zelensky to stop the war immediately and enter into peace talks with Russia to avoid further casualties. “Everything is up to
Nov. 24, 2022
War in Ukraine
While Russia has failed spectacularly on the battlefield since reinvading Ukraine, its officials and propagandists have, it seems, absolutely excelled themselves in the sphere of truly delusional moti
Nov. 24, 2022
War in Ukraine
The European Parliament took the very dramatic-sounding step on Wednesday, Nov. 23, of declaring Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism”, accusing its forces of carrying out atrocities during its war on
Nov. 24, 2022
War in Ukraine
Key Takeaways The Russian military conducted another set of massive, coordinated missile strikes on Ukrainian critical infrastructure. Russian politicians continue to promote openly genocidal rhetoric
Nov. 24, 2022
War in Ukraine
Last week, the first Congress of People’s Deputies from Russia was held in historic Jabłonna, Poland, in the very building where the famed roundtable talks between the Solidarity Movement and communis
Nov. 23, 2022
I visited the capital of Romania, Bucharest, on a business trip recently. The city impressed me not only with its architecture, but also with its extraordinary hospitality. It’s also worth mentioning
Nov. 23, 2022
War in Ukraine
Ukraine’s security service said Wednesday it had seized “pro-Russian literature”, cash and interrogated dozens during raids of several Orthodox monasteries that spurred a backlash from the Kremlin. Th
Nov. 23, 2022
War in Ukraine
Russia on Wednesday, Nov. 23 unleashed a new wave of missile strikes at the Ukrainian energy grid and heating infrastructure, cutting power in at least a dozen regions and leaving millions without ele
Nov. 23, 2022
The US is pressuring Ukraine to be open to peace talks with Moscow, with a top Pentagon official saying Kyiv’s forces will find it hard to recover all the territory Russia has captured in the war. US
Nov. 23, 2022
War in Ukraine
The Ukrainian welder pondered the afterlife while whispering wedding vows to the nurse with whom he had three children in just-liberated Kherson. Andriy Krivov was bracing for Russia’s retaliation fol
Nov. 23, 2022