Tag: Russia

Ukraine May Experience a Breakthrough Amidst War with Russia, But Could Struggle Without U.S.-European Support

(Soufan Center) Recent expert assessments indicate that Russia’s slowing battlefield advances, along with Ukraine’s reestablishment of the “overall drone advantage,” may indicate an important...

Russian Authorities Seizing Ukrainian Property to Consolidate Occupation

(Tatiana Vorozhko, Victoriia Novikova - The Jamestown Foundation) Many Ukrainian families have fled the occupied territories of Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion, fearing child...

Moscow Makes a New Step for Annexation of Georgian Territories

(Giorgi Menabde - The Jamestown Foundation) Russia and the de facto government of Georgia’s occupied Tskhinvali Region (South Ossetia) signed the Treaty on Deepening...

Russia ratchets up pressure on Armenia ahead of June election

(Reuters/Al Arabiya) Russia sharply criticized Armenia on Thursday for drawing closer to the EU, saying it was not pursuing a balanced position towards Moscow...

Nearly 500,000 Russian Soldiers Killed In Ukraine Since Start Of All-Out War, British Intelligence Says

(RFE/RL) Nearly 500,000 Russian soldiers are estimated to have been killed in Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine since it began in 2022, a top...

How The Russian Orthodox Church Targets Anti-War Priests

(Valery Panyushkin and Systema - RFE/RL) For more than 20 years, Father Aleksei Uminsky served as the rector of a church in a quiet...

Sevastopol governor says Ukraine used Storm Shadow missiles in attack

(Reuters/Al Arabiya) Air defense units in the port of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea downed over 20 Ukrainian drones early on Wednesday, with Ukraine also...

Kremlin appoints cyber executive with alleged GRU ties to Security Council role

(Daryna Antoniuk - The Record) Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed a former cybersecurity executive with alleged ties to a Russian military intelligence hacking...

Concerned About Army’s Loyalty, Putin Boosts Role of Political Commissars

(Paul Globe - The Jamestown Foundation) Since Russian President Vladimir Putin began his expanded war against Ukraine, the Kremlin leader has dramatically expanded the...

Surge in Nuclear Brinksmanship Cannot Regain Russia’s Position of Strength

(Pavel K. Baev - The Jamestown Foundation) Russia’s setbacks in economic, military, and foreign policies are undermining confidence in its eventual victory, prompting Russian...

Ukraine: Russian attack destroys humanitarian food aid in Dnipro

(UN News) The World Food Programme (WFP) has deplored a Russian attack on a warehouse in Dnipro, Ukraine that destroyed “a significant quantity” of...

Ukraine: Russia Illegally Seizing Property in Occupied Areas

(Human Rights Watch) Russian occupation authorities are seizing civilian property in occupied areas of Ukraine, despite international law prohibiting occupying powers from such conduct....

Ukraine’s latest defense against Russian missiles: Making them miss

(Veronika Melkozerova - Politico) As Ukraine rations its limited air defense missiles, it is increasingly betting on the homegrown Lima electronic warfare system to...

Finland’s Stubb could represent Europe in Ukraine peace talks if asked, he says

(Volodymyr Ivanyshyn - The Kyiv Independent) Finnish President Alexander Stubb could represent Europe in Ukraine peace talks if asked to do so, he told...

France’s Macron issues warning to Belarus in rare phone call with Lukashenko

(Abbey Fenbert - The Kyiv Independent) French President Emmanuel Macron warned Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko not to escalate his country's involvement in Russia's war...

The Russia-North Korea Axis is Here to Stay

(Observer Research Foundation) The Russia-North Korea partnership has deepened significantly in recent years amid a growing contestation with the West. The Ukraine war, in...