Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister, has described the European Union as “the first ever attempt to build a liberal empire,” contrasting it with Putin’s attempt to restore Russia’s colonial empire… Read more »
Moscow’s aim in Ukraine continues to be that of “eliminating anti-Russian elements” and eventually imposing a “Chechen solution” on the country, a former Russian colleague tells Nathalie Tocci, Director of… Read more »
The actions taken and the lessons learned in Ukraine will inform larger efforts to reinforce democracies against external aggression, argues Iulian Romanyshyn, a senior fellow at the University of Bonn’s Center… Read more »
The “realists” who want to pressure Ukraine to trade territory for peace are wrong to believe that doing so would work, according to Syracuse University’s Renée de Nevers and Brian… Read more »
Putin’s regime cannot win the war in Ukraine, but it may put its own future at risk, says Jan Kallberg, an Assistant Professor at the U.S. Military Academy and a… Read more »
The U.S. has imposed sanctions and visa restrictions on five Russian officials and an expert witness involved in the incarceration of opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has been imprisoned in… Read more »
The anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “stands as a grim milestone – for the people of Ukraine and for the international community,” said António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United… Read more »
Teaching a lecture class on Ukrainian history last fall, I felt a touch of the surreal, says Yale historian Timothy Snyder. A nuclear power had attacked a state that had given… Read more »
Eleven months ago, President Joe Biden came to Poland to denounce a war he’d hoped to avoid. On Tuesday, he returned having fully embraced the mantle of wartime leader, boasting… Read more »
Russia‘s conduct of the war in Ukraine flouts the most basic international laws and conventions, posing a fundamental threat to the global order. As such, it offers a textbook example… Read more »