Europe
War in Ukraine
As the Kremlin said President Putin had no plans to visit either the site or the victims of Friday’s attack, the actor who is one of his admirers did.
Mar. 28
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
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
War in Ukraine
French President Macron's statement that under certain conditions French troops could be sent to Ukraine has sparked controversy. Do you support the idea of European troops being deployed to Ukraine?
Mar. 25
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
Budanov
The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence comments echoed earlier reports that Moscow was using commercial satellite imagery to coordinate its strikes on Ukraine.
Mar. 21
NATO
While NATO has conducted monitoring and surveillance missions for decades, with increased attention over the Black Sea since February 2022, recent weeks show a spike that peaked sharply on Wednesday.
Mar. 21