While the Russian army is bombing Ukraine and massacring civilians, the EU keeps transferring half a billion to a billion euros to Russia on a daily basis, paying for oil and gas supplies. But the US Congress has voted to embargo imports of Russian oil gas and coal. The European Parliament has similarly voted in…
The Russian Ministry of Defense has claimed that all photographs and video materials published by the authorities in Kyiv, giving evidence of the atrocities committed by the Russian forces in the town of Bucha, are false and a “provocation” on the part of Ukraine. In the statement, Russian military officials cynically noted that in the…
After a resounding defeat in their first clash with the Ukrainian army, the Russian military leadership has significantly revised their war strategy. Now Russia, with the help of remote missile strikes, is systematically destroying oil depots and granaries throughout Ukraine. The tactical and technical characteristics of Russian ballistic missiles make it possible to hit a…
“We have entered a new era in global security, where authoritarian powers, like Russia and China, are openly contesting core principles for our security, and seeking to re-write the entire international order on which our peace and prosperity depend. Moscow is using force to pursue its objectives, as we are seeing in Ukraine. At the…
On February 24, Russia announced the start of a so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine. Any sane person understands that what’s happening in Ukraine is a full-scale war, but not a classic, conventional war where one country’s army fights another one’s. Russia’s aggression against the sovereign state of Ukraine is a new type of warfare…
In its war against Ukraine, the Russian army is suffering unprecedented losses. In the wake of this, Putin’s regime is inventing different ways to conceal the true number of soldiers killed in action and dispose of their bodies. The Russian army is suffering more and more losses every day. According to the General Staff of…
US President Biden has proposed a budget increase of $ 5.8 trillion in the military expenditure of the USA. The plan includes a 9.8% increase in Pentagon funding, which includes support for Ukraine. The USA considers Ukraine to be an integral part of the Western community’s common security system. The Russian invasion of Ukraine and…
“Persistent PR warrior” Ramzan Kadyrov, from being Putin’s odious herald against the background of the war in Ukraine, is becoming a serious threat, in fact a “time bomb” for Russian Islam. While Kadyrov staged horse races in Chechnya, fought bride abductions and apologised to local elders for negligent youngsters, he was perceived as a somewhat…
Russian propaganda is trotting out the tired old idea of “Novorossiya” again, which was last talked up when Russia invaded Donbass in 2014. The concept of “Novorossiya” is now being used to justify the second phase of the Russian aggressive war in Ukraine, a kind of “cultural and historic cover” for barbaric actions on the…
The war unleashed by Russia on 24 February is likely to become a future model for the academic analysis of situations in comparative political science and practical geopolitics. This war has proved that even in the 21st century, classic “real politic” concepts can be applied and may determine the contours of the future world. Putin…
