President Vladimir Putin’s war of choice against Ukraine has failed to achieve any of the strategic objectives he laid out when he began this disastrous folly. Yet he is compelled to persist in his vainglorious …
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Peace talks began slowly at first, then all at once. But a durable peace will require changing Russia’s calculus, not Ukraine’s. A year ago, Kyiv was awash with hope that Russia’s war might finally be …
Editors’ picks for 2025: ‘Ever-faster weapon cycles: innovation and economics in the war in Ukraine’
The rate of innovation and the economics of war in Ukraine are changing almost daily. Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022 expecting a quick victory, with soldiers even bringing parade uniforms and leaving behind …
The notable thing was the timing. In back-to-back strikes on Russian air power from 18 to 20 December, the Ukrainian state security agency, the vaunted SBU, launched long-range attack drones at Russian warplanes at Belbek …
Proposals for a Ukraine peace deal that accept Russian territorial gains repeat the old pattern of great powers dividing weaker states. It is a pattern set in the partitions of Poland in 1795 and revived …