Eastern Europe
Putin
There are none so blind as those who will not see – English proverb. In President Putin’s case he can’t or won’t see anything beyond his hatred for all things Ukrainian.
Mar. 28
War in Ukraine
In Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv, which has been reeling from power outages due to the strikes, officials said aerial bombing and shelling killed at least one person and injured 16 others.
Mar. 27
Putin
A recent inquiry by the UK’s Commons Defense Committee revealed that its Armed Forces are “increasingly overstretched” and not adequately prepared or equipped for a war with Russia.
Mar. 27
Poland
The border blockades and grain dispute have strained ties between the neighbors, even as Poland has shown staunch support for Ukraine since the Russian invasion.
Mar. 27
Ukraine
Bloomberg, citing sources “with knowledge of the situation,” said even Putin’s inner circle does not believe that Kyiv was involved in the Moscow attack.
Mar. 27
Belarus
The dust has yet to settle, and we are still no wiser as to what happened and why. Particularly puzzling is the absence of Moscow’s normally stringent security measures, before, during and after.
Mar. 26
War in Ukraine
According to a Ministry of Defense official, new recruitment efforts are getting a huge response, with over 11,000 people applying to 1,000 vacancies in one week.
Mar. 26
Ukraine
Zelensky appointed Oleksandr Lytvynenko, the former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, to replace Oleksiy Danilov as Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
Mar. 26
Estonia
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the break-up of the USSR led Western countries to largely forget Plato’s dictum that he who “desires peace must prepare for war,” that may soon have to change.
Mar. 26
Moscow
Two weeks after the US Embassy in Moscow warned of an anticipated terrorist attack a gun and explosives assault took place on the evening of Friday, March 22.
Mar. 22
US
Roman Grishchuk, co-head of the Verkhovna Rada group on parliamentary relations with Turkey, spoke to Kyiv Post on Ankara’s peace efforts and its relationship with Kyiv during the full-scale war.
Mar. 22
Ukraine
The Dnipro Hydroelectric Station “was hit eight times,” said Yury Belousov, head of the Prosecutor General's war crimes department on Ukrainian TV.
Mar. 22
Ukraine needs more soldiers, but Russian propaganda, high casualties, and systemic issues stoke fears about signing up, while bad statistics and political reluctance are only exacerbating the problem.
Mar. 21
Kyiv Post sources in HUR confirmed that nearly all of the cruise and ballistic missiles targeting Kyiv Thursday morning were aimed at the HUR facilities of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
Mar. 21
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The pilot forwarded documents to Ukraine related to the activities of his military unit as well as private photos of the command staff of the 22nd Heavy Bombing Aviation Division, HUR said.
Jul. 11