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Jennifer MathersIndependent |
Crimea has been the symbol of the success of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But now the peninsula is becoming isolated as Kyiv intensifies its attacks.
The war is increasingly becoming a public humiliation for Russia.
Russia’s annual Victory Day parade is traditionally a show of military might. But things were different this year.
There are several credible candidates who might emerge to rival the wartime president.
In 1994 Russia and Kyivs western allies signed the Budapest Memorandum guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty. It wasn’t worth the paper it was...
Moscow is recruiting African women to assemble drones for its war against Ukraine.
Control of the Black Sea coast would threaten neighbouring Moldova.
Ukraine’s former prime minister thinks there is too much western involement in its institutions, but is that justified?
Volodymyr Zelensky has promised to reverse a crackdown on Ukraine’s anticorruption agencies following street protests.
Public opinion is split in Russia over a new move to pay schoolgirls who have babies.
Russia has made advances into eastern Ukraine, but the human cost is an estimated 53 casualties per square kilometre seized.
Russian political figures are worried that young people nowadays are disconnected from their heritage.
Negotiations for peace in Ukraine are struggling to get off the ground, despite numerous meetings between US and Russian officials.