Having decided first to recognize the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and then mount a special operation to reverse the pro-Western Maidan revolution of 2014, Russia’s leadership realized that there would be consequences to these actions. As the West made it clear from the outset that its response would …

Following NATO’s announcement that it had no plans to send troops to Ukraine to fight alongside the Ukrainian Armed Forces in repelling a Russian invasion, US President Joe Biden has announced that he will be deploying 7,000 additional US troops to Germany on Thursday. This brings the total US soldiers …

In an interview recorded on February 21 and aired on February 23, 2022 on BBC Arabic (U.K.), former Secretary of State John Kerry, who currently serves as U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, said that he is concerned about the Ukraine crisis because the war would have “massive emissions consequences” …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says “enemy sabotage groups” have entered Kyiv, the capital, as Russian forces close in. Two loud booms were heard from the city at around 4 a.m. local time. A residential building in Kyiv caught fire, sparked by what appeared to be rocket debris, and the capital’s …

Ukrayna’nın Ankara Büyükelçisi Vasyl Bodnar: Saldırıya geçen Rus askerlerinden ciddi kayıplar söz konusu. Ukrayna’yı savunan askerlerimizde de kayıplar var, siviller arasında da kayıplar olduğu bilgisi geliyor. ‘RUS ORDUSUNDA KAYIPLAR SÖZ KONUSU’ Ukrayna’nın Ankara Büyükelçisi Vasyl Bodnar, büyükelçilikte basın mensuplarının sorularını yanıtladı. Büyükelçi Bodnar, saldırıların devam ettiğini belirterek, “Ukrayna topraklarında Rus …

This morning, (February 24, 2022) Russian President Vladimir Putin addressing the Russian public, after having addressed it three days earlier, announced the start of a ‘special operation’ in Ukraine. While still clinging to the narrative that this was a defensive action to protect the self-proclaimed republics in Donetsk the Russian …

Ukraine is about much more than the security of one sovereign nation. The battle for Ukraine is a battle for the new world order. In that battle, Russian President Vladimir Putin is living up to the worst expectations of Western policymakers and analysts. Unlike Chinese President Xi Jinping, Mr. Putin …

The leaders of Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania on February 23 signed a joint declaration in Kyiv on February 23 saying Ukraine deserves to be granted candidate status for membership in the European Union. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the declaration sent an important signal to the people of Ukraine, and …

The current advocates for US aggression against Russia would have us believe that Russia is some sort of peer of the United States and of Western Europe. Tom Rogan at the hawkish Washington Examiner, for example, insists that Russia is a “great power,” presumably comparable to the United States in …

The entry of the Taiwanese delegation in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 4 served again as a reminder of the largest dilemma plaguing international relations in East Asia today. As the Guardian aptly reported, its “athletes had to march under a banner saying Chinese Taipei …