The threat of a Kremlin revival hung over Ukraine’s 2019 election cycle but ultimately failed to materialize. After five years of Putin’s war, has Russia disenfranchised itself from Ukrainian democracy?
Ukrainian state-owned bank Oschadbank has set a legal precedent with a billion-dollar international arbitration court victory over the Kremlin related to the 2014 Russian seizure of 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
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
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
“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.”
