war in Ukraine

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in London on September 9th, ahead of a visit to Ukraine. Photo: Mark Schiefelbein / POOL / AFP 

Ukraine's two fronts

Ukrainians believe they are at war with two different enemies at once – Russian invaders on the one hand, and Western fears, biases and...

Pity for disillusioned invaders

Last week, the film ‘Russians at War’ premiered at the 81st Venice film festival in the category of ‘Out of Competition’. It portrays young Russian...

Families look for Russian conscripts gone missing in Kursk

On August 9, Russian authorities declared a federal-level emergency in the Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces had already...

MH17: ten years after the downing of the flight

Ten years after the downing of flight MH17, Kees Klompenhouwer, then Dutch ambassador in Kyiv, reflects on the crucial diplomatic choices the...

Russia bets it can outlast the attention span of the West to defeat Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin is betting that the war in Ukraine will drag on for years and that Russia can outlast the attention span of the...

Who was Prigozhin counting on to back his failed mutiny?

During his march on Moscow, Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was counting on solidarity from senior army officers. Considering the fact he came close...

At least 47.000 Russian soldiers killed according to Russian media investigation

New data show what the Russian authorities try to hide. A joint investigation by independent Russian news outlets Meduza and Mediazona reveals the...

Sanctions drove oligarkhs home to embrace Putin

Ownership of property has brought serfdom rather than freedom to the super-rich Russians: they thought they were part of the global jet...

Russian threat looms over Moldova

Although Moldova is not directly involved in Russia's war in Ukraine, the war has tremendous influence on the country's position. Moldovan national...

Will the death of a chief diplomat change anything in Belarus?

Even before the Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei’s sudden death, it was hard to see how Minsk could ever return to its multi-vector...

End of the war no longer science fiction

The failure of the Russian armed forces in the Kharkiv region is likely to have far-reaching consequences for the outcome of the war. Defense...

Mobilization causes exodus at Russia's borders

The 'partial' mobilization that Russian president Putin announced on September 21 has caused an exodus of Russian men and women, writes Radio Free...

Some legal advice to escape mobilisation

On 21 September Vladimir Putin declared a 'partly mobilisation' for 300.000 Russian men. In reality the numbers could be much higher. At last the...

Putin cannot sell defeat to his country

How to read Russian society's response to the war? According to sociologist Greg Yudin there are three distinct groups in Russia: 'radicals,...

Introduced: every Monday patriotic education in Russian schools

'Patriotic education' has been a catchphrase in President Vladimir Putin’s Russia since at least 2005. But now, with Moscow’s unprovoked war against...

Kremlin struggles with 'referenda' in occupied Ukrainian land

Once again the Kremlin has miscalculated in the war against Ukraine. The Russians were confident that they would conquer the whole of Donbass this...

Russian army starts lacking soldiers

The Russian armed forces are suffering huge losses in Ukraine. The exact numbers are not verifiable. But the consequences for the Kremlin are rather...

Russia's military grows afraid of the long war

Voices within the Russian military community are beginning to express anxiety about the future course of the war against Ukraine. Military losses...

Why still polling in wartime Russia?

Are opinion polls still useful at all-in a dictatorship or during wartime? The answers differ from fully confidence in this kind of research to...

How the West misunderstood the criminals in the Kremlin

Several months into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the global discussion about the war has divided into two opposing camps. In Ukraine and...

Why Russia needs to be humiliated in Ukraine

The West should take care not to humiliate Russia, since it suffered after the collaps of communism, communis opinio says. The renowned Russian...

An old Soviet tradition makes a comeback: the denunciation

A St. Petersburg teacher had to quit after a student informed on her. Social scientist Maria Rakhmaninova was abhorred by the war with...

Family ties break under the pressure of Russian propaganda

The millions of families separated by the Russia-Ukraine border now find themselves on opposite sides of a war. The Russian website Meduza (based in...
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