Can Zelensky hold back his hawks?
Enthusiasm for Kyrylo Budanov is often tempered by a certain wariness
Ukraine invasion
Thursday
Saturday
Kyiv wants to make it untenable for Russia to hold Crimea
Kyiv’s strategy is more likely to be to make its retention untenable
Tuesday
Beijing is already bankrolling Putin’s war
China simply cannot be taken seriously as a peacemaker
Monday
Is Putin struggling to maintain his strongman image?
The Russian president increasingly needs to shore up justification domestically for an unjustifiable war
Saturday
What has Putin done with Ukraine's missing children?
Russia has said the abductions are, in fact, ‘voluntary evacuations’ of children
Monday
My case against Russia’s war criminals
We are starting to fight back against the mountains of Russia’s murders and lies
Tuesday
A Cold War mindset is thriving in Beijing
In the CCP’s world view, deteriorating relations are always somebody else’s fault
Monday
Should Hungary be punished for its stance on Ukraine?
EU leaders have responded to his stance on Ukraine with hostility
Sunday
Is Putin winning? The world order is changing in his favour
Moscow presents itself as a bastion of stability in a world gone mad, even as it seeks to make the world madder
Sunday
Biden’s muddle on Chinese arms for Russia
This episode looks less like strategic ambiguity and more like amateurish incoherence
Friday
The need for speed in Ukraine: the West must be bold
Most of Ukraine’s tanks are post-Soviet models. Without ammunition, these are ‘not tanks but tractors’
My meeting with Europe’s new Iron Lady
She is now one of the most powerful advocates for the need to fight for freedom and democracy
Putin's fatal miscalculation over Ukraine
For now, he remains unchallenged at the peak of Russian power
Tuesday
China is playing the long game over peace in Ukraine
There are hints that the CCP would like to drive a strategic wedge between Europe and the US
Tuesday
Europe’s centre of gravity is shifting towards Poland
Russia’s war against Ukraine has exposed the impotence of the western-European establishment
Saturday
One year on: how will the Ukraine war end?
Each side is still either trying to win outright, or at the very least enhance its position on the battlefield
Thursday
The looming battle for Chasiv Yar
Ukrainian authorities fear that this small town is next on the Kremlin’s target list
Wednesday
Tank warfare: why the West is worried about arming Ukraine
The war’s next stage is likely to be a hard-fought struggle of attrition
Tuesday
Why Putin needs Prigozhin
His Wagner Group’s competition with the defense ministry could get more vicious
Saturday
Boris Bondarev: Why more Russians aren’t defecting
‘Putin needed the war to distract people from the fact that they had no future’