War in Ukraine
The newspapers are filled with reports of an extraordinary victory by Ukrainian forces in the Kharkiv region. As of this writing, over 6,000 square kilometers have been recaptured from the Russians, d
Sep. 18, 2022
War in Ukraine
The EU presidency on Saturday, Sep.17, called for the establishment of an international tribunal for war crimes after new mass graves were found in Ukraine. “In the 21st century, such attacks against
Sep. 18, 2022
War in Ukraine
Key Takeaways Russian forces continue to prioritize strategically meaningless offensive operations around Donetsk City and Bakhmut over defending against continued Ukrainian counter-offensive operatio
Sep. 18, 2022
War in Ukraine
Western leaders voiced revulsion and outrage Thursday after Ukraine found a mass grave outside the formerly Russian-occupied city of Izyum and said that almost all of the exhumed bodies showed signs o
Sep. 17, 2022
The name of Gareth Jones, the journalist who exposed the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33, also known as the Holodomor, in which millions of people died, is well known in Ukraine. Not only does he have a s
Sep. 17, 2022
War in Ukraine
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin hit yet another diplomatic setback at the hands of a supposed friend Friday, Sep. 16, when India’s leader openly criticized his war on Ukraine as harking from another
Sep. 17, 2022
War in Ukraine
The UN General Assembly is back in person after the pandemic disruption but in a world as full of crises as ever, with the war in Ukraine set to pit the West against Russia. Some 150 world leaders wil
Sep. 17, 2022
War in Ukraine
Wars are planned in offices but fought on the ground, and the Russian army’s strategic errors in the Ukraine war point in particular to insufficient oversight of its rank-and-file fighters. After the
Sep. 17, 2022
War in Ukraine
The European Union is “deeply shocked” at the discovery by Ukrainian officials of mass graves in the recaptured city of Izyum, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Friday. His statement
Sep. 17, 2022
Vladimir Putin has suffered a serious military setback in his war in Ukraine in recent days, but China’s Xi Jinping dealt him a second, diplomatic blow on September 13. He “warned” any country against
Sep. 17, 2022
War in Ukraine
Key Takeaways The discovery of mass graves and torture chambers in liberated Izyum confirm previous ISW assessments that the Bucha atrocities were emblematic of Russian activities in occupied areas ra
Sep. 17, 2022
War in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday, Sep. 16, there were no plans to adjust Russia’s military operations in Ukraine despite a counter-offensive, saying Moscow was in no rush to finish the ca
Sep. 16, 2022
Russia
Russia has secretly spent at least £260 million ($US 300 million) since 2014 to try and influence politicians and other executives in more than two dozen countries, according to a diplomatic cable mad
Sep. 16, 2022
War in Ukraine
Russian servicemen, who were conscripted in the spring to the 1st Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Taman Division, are being transferred from the Moscow Region to the Belgorod region “to protect
Sep. 16, 2022
War in Ukraine
Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Private Military Company Wagner PMC, has commented on the recruitment of prisoners to fight in Russia’s war in Ukraine. Prigozhin’s words were published
Sep. 16, 2022
War in Ukraine
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said in an interview Thursday, Sep. 15, she wants Russian President Vladimir Putin to face the International Criminal Court over war crimes in Ukraine. “That Putin must
Sep. 16, 2022
War in Ukraine
EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen was in Kyiv Thursday to work out a roadmap with the war-torn country for its long-standing aspiration of joining the European Union. EU commission presiden
Sep. 15, 2022
Iran has signed a memorandum of accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) at its annual summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The news was reported by the publication CentralAsia on Sep. 15.
Sep. 15, 2022
War in Ukraine
China’s President Xi Jinping was in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan on Wednesday, sep. 14, on his first trip abroad since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, ahead of a meeting with Russian leader Vladim
Sep. 15, 2022
A surprise guest at a book launch on the famine in 1930s Ukraine nearly stole the show in London on Wednesday, Sep. 7. British investigative journalist John Sweeney had just returned from Ukraine, hav
Sep. 15, 2022