Why Putin has resisted using Ukraine’s Kursk offensive to call for greater Russian sacrifices
Jennifer Mathers, Aberystwyth University - Kyiv’s offensive into the Kursk region was a typically bold move by the Ukrainians and one which caught Russia...
Two years in, EU continues to stand firmly with Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, Russian forces began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the face of this unprovoked and unjustifiable aggression, the EU has...
Russia’s economy is now completely driven by the war in Ukraine – it cannot afford to lose, but nor can it afford to win
Renaud Foucart, Lancaster University - Two years after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia is still facing an unprecedented number of economic sanctions. It...
Navalny dies in prison − but his blueprint for anti-Putin activism will live on
Regina Smyth, Indiana University - Long lines of Russians endured subzero temperatures in January 2024 to demand that anti-Ukraine war candidate Boris Nadezhdin be...
More than 4 billion people are eligible to vote in an election in 2024. Is this democracy’s biggest test?
Nicholas Reece, The University of Melbourne - 2024 is going to be democracy’s biggest year ever. In a remarkable milestone in human history, over...
Deepfakes in warfare: new concerns emerge from their use around the Russian invasion of Ukraine
John Joseph Twomey, University College Cork; Conor Linehan, University College Cork, and Gillian Murphy, University College Cork - Visitors to a Ukrainian news website...
Russia’s decision to ditch cold war arms limitation treaty raises tensions with Nato
Kenton White, University of Reading - Russia has pulled out of an important cold war-era treaty which limited categories of conventional military equipment that...
Soviet aggression prompted the birth of the Nato alliance – here’s why that matters now
Jan Ruzicka, Aberystwyth University and Gerald Hughes, Aberystwyth University - As Nato leaders meet in Vilnius, Lithuania, to discuss Ukraine’s future within the alliance,...
Sweden is joining Nato: what that means for the alliance and the war in Ukraine
Simon J Smith, Staffordshire University and Jordan Becker, United States Military Academy West Point - In a surprise move, Turkey has ended its veto...
Finland joins Nato in a major blow to Putin which doubles the length of the alliance’s border with Russia
Simon J Smith, Staffordshire University - In 1948, the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance was signed between the Soviet Union and Finland,...
Almost a year on, Russia’s war against Ukraine could go in three different directions
Florent Parmentier, Sciences Po and Cyrille Bret, Sciences Po The frontline may be frozen but the battle rages on in Ukraine. In Bakhmut, a town...
