Putin’s “Cold Genocide”
This cold winter, almost every day Ukrainians expect new massive Russian strikes on the country’s energy infrastructure. The attacks are carried out methodically and brutally...
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How to Stop Putin
After meeting with advisers to the leaders of countries that support Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky expressed hope for a swift conclusion to peace negotiations...
Putin and the Hunger for War
Putin’s appearance, with hours-long answers to questions from journalists and “ordinary Russians” during his so-called “direct line,” once again demonstrated that the Russian president literally lives by the war and has no intention of ending it...
Why Putin Brought Up “Novorossiya” Again
Against the backdrop of ongoing talks that are supposedly meant to lead to an end of the Russian–Ukrainian war, the Russian president, during a press conference in New Delhi...
New Peace Plan or an Old Plan of Humiliation
Neither the fate nor the final content of the new “peace plan” proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump is clear. Negotiations between American representatives, the Ukrainian delegation, and the Europeans are only just beginning...
The Agony of the Mad Gas Station
After the announcement of the first anti-Russian sanctions of the Donald Trump era, it turned out that many oil-refining enterprises in the so-called “Global South,” which had previously been purchasing Russian oil, began reducing their orders even before the sanctions came into force....
Trump Puts Pressure on Putin
The main event of recent days was U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to impose the first large-scale sanctions against Russia since his return to the White House. These sanctions strike at the interests of oil giants Rosneft and Lukoil and demonstrate to Vladimir Putin that the American president is moving from words to action...
Putin’s Energocide
The Russian president continues his climb up the ladder of escalation, a path that only intensified after his meeting with the American president in Alaska. After the massive strikes against Ukraine, after the appearance of Russian drones and aircraft in the airspace of NATO countries, Russia has moved to attempts at systematically destroying Ukraine’s energy sector...
What Trump Must Do
The change in Donald Trump’s rhetoric regarding the Russian president and his aggression against Ukraine was met in Kyiv with both optimism and concern. Might this rhetoric later turn into the direct opposite, if Trump so easily abandoned his previous approach to Putin and his policies?
“Shaheds” over Europe
On the very day I was working on this text, Poland and Romania declared air raid alerts and scrambled their aircraft. In Romania—because of the appearance of a Russian drone that remained in the country’s airspace for nearly an hour. In Poland—because the drone was already approaching the Polish border, flying over the Ukrainian city of Kovel.