Putin is running out of options – and shopping for more
While the Russian president may claim that victory is assured, he is also saying that Russia is fighting for its survival
Ukraine invasion
Friday
Saturday
Wasted energy: Putin’s plan to freeze Europe has failed
The gas war of 2022 has been won only at a serious cost to Europe’s economies
Friday
Are we kidding ourselves over Ukraine?
Outright defeat in Ukraine would finish Putin. He will throw the kitchen sink at this war
Tuesday
Losing Crimea would condemn Putin
The battle for Crimea may decide the fate of the conflict
Monday
How to avoid another world war
Ukraine has become a major state in Central Europe for the first time in modern history
Wednesday
Zelensky’s Congress address was a triumph
His address was designed to ensure the permanent defeat of Putin’s aims and to explain why that matters so much to America
Friday
Putin’s hawks are turning on each other
There is a growing fraction of nationalist opinion that is coming to see opposing Putin as a patriotic duty
Saturday
How the West misunderstood Russia’s military capabilities
Putin’s Wars by Mark Galeotti and Overreach by Owen Matthews reviewed
Saturday
Where will Kherson’s freedom fighters go next?
‘It’s smiles like ours which cause empires to collapse’
Monday
Life among the Russian refuseniks
Meeting the men fleeing Putin’s mobilization
Saturday
What’s on Ukraine’s new school syllabus
Most schools have had to fit bomb shelters at their own expense and parents have been asked to chip in