What Ukraine needs to win the war
In the six months since Russia invaded Ukraine, the Ukrainian military has conducted a stout and stirring defense, inflicting heavy casualties on Russian units and contesting every foot of ground.…
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Russia’s war in Ukraine: Six surprises six months in
Six months ago, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Since then, Russia has occupied 13% more of the country, killed thousands of Ukrainians, leveled major cities along with countless…
Russia’s Ukraine War is forcing the Belarus opposition to rethink strategy
More than four hundred representatives of the Belarusian opposition gathered in Vilnius on August 8-9 for an event that highlighted a mood of increasing militancy as the movement responds to…
Putin’s Ukraine genocide is rooted in Russian impunity for Soviet crimes
In summer 1941, as the outside world first began to learn of the mass murders accompanying the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill memorably declared,…
Will America designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism?
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches the six-month mark, pressure is mounting on the Biden Administration to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. The move enjoys bipartisan backing…
Russia’s invasion has highlighted Ukraine’s nation-building progress
Ukraine has made tremendous progress during its three decades as an independent state. In recent months, the country’s remarkably resilient response to Russia’s invasion has served to highlight how far…
Guide to wartime Kyiv: City on the frontlines of European history
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has dominated global headlines for the past six months. But beyond the endless harrowing images of death and destruction, a remarkable story of Ukrainian courage…
Generation UA: Young Ukrainians are driving the resistance to Russia’s war
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, analysts around the globe predicted the country would fall in a matter of days. Almost six months later, the…
Putin is running out of excuses as Ukraine expands the war to Crimea
Ukraine appears to have struck deep inside Russian-occupied Crimea for the first time on August 9 with an audacious attack on a heavily defended military base. The explosions at western…
Flawed Amnesty report risks enabling more Russian war crimes in Ukraine
Oksana Pokalchuk, who has spent seven years documenting and investigating human rights abuses as Director of Amnesty International Ukraine, tendered her resignation on Friday as the backlash continued over a…