Category: Vitaly Portnikov

Russian officials have stopped being ashamed. Just a few weeks ago, we could still hear the familiar rhetoric about liberating Ukrainians from Nazis, about the dominance of the West supposedly waging war against Russia...

It seems that four and a half years of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine and 12 years of conflict between the two countries provide a clear answer to this question...

Russia continues to exploit Ukraine’s shortage of missiles for Patriot batteries, which are needed to intercept ballistic missiles...

Perhaps July 2026 will go down in the history of the Russian-Ukrainian war as the moment when Ukraine managed to find yet another way to weaken the Russian economy – despite the brutal ballistic attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities...

The image of “Crimea Island,” of course, is associated with the famous anti-Soviet dystopia by Russian writer Vasily Aksyonov. It was actively used during the occupation...

Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed reports that Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich came to Kyiv for talks with the Ukrainian president and other members of the country’s leadership — the same Abramovich who was already involved in the negotiation process in 2022...

Many explain the latest Russian attack on Kyiv and the Kyiv region as Putin’s desire to take revenge for the humiliation he felt during the preparations for the May 9 parade in Moscow...

The 45 minutes of the parade that took place in Moscow on May 9 will go down in history with far greater significance than the ceremonies held on the cobblestones of the main square of the Russian capital in recent years, if not decades...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s trip to Cyprus for an informal summit of European Union leaders was associated with an obvious victory....