Items tagged with: Crimea

Sanctions extended eight times over four-year period despite repeated speculation over alleged divisions within the EU and calls for a new approach to Russia ties from individual EU members

New legislation rebrands the conflict in eastern Ukraine unambiguously as a confrontation with the Kremlin and marks a deliberate shift away from earlier euphemistic talk of an Anti-Terrorist Operation

European politicians who call for pragmatic thaw in ties with Russia need to think carefully about the nature of the international crimes they would be condoning

New book aims to return Ukrainian narratives to the center of international debate over Putin’s hybrid war in Crimea and the Donbas

Recently unveiled Dnipro museum leads the way in chronicling Ukraine’s ongoing resistance to Putin’s hybrid war

The spring 2014 invasion and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula placed Russia on the wrong side of international law and set the country on a path towards escalating hybrid hostilities with the entire Western world

Many of the Russian tactics currently being deployed to destabilize the EU were first honed in Ukraine but European leaders remain stubbornly slow to appreciate the scale of the danger they face

Once one of Putin’s key hybrid war objectives, the capital of east Ukraine survived the Kremlin’s insurgency attempts and is now learning to live without Russia

For the past three years, Russia has been waging an increasingly audacious hybrid war against the entire Western world. The end goals are to fatally undermine Western institutions and reverse the verdict of the Cold War. So far, the Kremlin is...

Residents of Ukrainian frontline towns like Svitlodarsk do not qualify as IDPs but they continue to feel the full brunt of ongoing conflict with Russian hybrid forces

Former Estonian FM Marina Kaljurand on Donald Trump, EU sanctions, NATO military spending, and the Russian hybrid war in Ukraine

International Criminal Court acknowledges Russian military aggression in Ukraine but any talk of future war crimes trial remains premature

Russia’s hybrid war tactics in Ukraine depend on a smokescreen of ambiguity. All too often, the international media has been happy to oblige

Ukraine’s 2013-14 popular uprising has become synonymous with the European Union Association Agreement that helped spark initial protests – but the demands voiced by millions of Ukrainians focused on basic human rights not EU integration

Russian political analyst Andrey Piontkovsky says Putinism will collapse if Kremlin retreats from Ukraine

Russia will never accept loss of Ukraine but examples of Israel and South Korea show hostile neighborhoods are no barrier to progress

Moscow must explain why Russia’s elaborate MH17 theories went so far beyond mere denials

“The illegal annexation of Crimea and the unlawful Russian actions in eastern Ukraine represent the greatest challenge to the European security architecture since the end of the Cold war.”

The Kremlin relies on force because it has no answer to the historic rejection of Russia that began with the fall of the Soviet Union