Dear Editor: The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was one of the most heroic formations in Ukrainian history. It was formed in the middle of the Second World War to fight off the Nazi invaders in Western Ukraine. That specific anti-Nazi…
BERDIANSK TEENAGE EXECUTION: RUSSIANS WILL NOT RELEASE BODIES TO FAMILIES FOR BURIAL
Russians in the temporarily occupied Berdiansk are not giving the parents of the murdered teenagers – Tyhran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanhanov – a certificate of permission for burial. Removing the boys’ bodies from the morgue for burials is impossible without…
True story of the ukrainian insurgent army (UPA) as recorded in the archives
Ukraine’s armed resistance to foreign rule in the 1940-50s has long been a heated topic subject to disinformation, speculation and strong bias. A new study aims to finally set the record straight. by Jason Jay Smart April 22, 2023 Kyiv…
On war and peace: the issue of ukraine-russia “reconciliation”
In some Western media and among some politicians, pundits, religious leaders, cultural figures and et al. there have been frequent calls to settle Russia’s war on Ukraine through some sort of “reconciliation” between Moscow and Kyiv — between the aggressor…
Dear illustrious professors of international relations: stop. Talking. About. Ukraine. Seriously, it’s time to sit down and shut up.
NEIL A. ABRAMS APR 24, 2023 Read the Detox Are you a venerated scholar in the field of international relations? Do you feel compelled to publish an article about Russia’s war on Ukraine? To bring your decades of experience to…
Today’s russia is fascist. It’s time to start calling it that
“We went and killed everyone. There were women, men, seniors, and children.” These were the words of Azamat Uldarov, an ex-fighter of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group who personally admitted to shooting dead a five or six-year-old girl, speaking to Russian…
TODAY'S RUSSIA IS FASCIST. IT’S TIME TO START CALLING IT THAT
by The Kyiv Independent Editorial April 26, 2023 “We went and killed everyone. There were women, men, seniors, and children.” These were the words of Azamat Uldarov, an ex-fighter of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group who personally admitted to shooting…
DEAR ILLUSTRIOUS PROFESSORS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: STOP. TALKING. ABOUT. UKRAINE. SERIOUSLY, IT'S TIME TO SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP.
NEIL A. ABRAMS APR 24, 2023 Read the Detox Are you a venerated scholar in the field of international relations? Do you feel compelled to publish an article about Russia’s war on Ukraine? To bring your decades of experience…
What ukraine means
By George Weigel First Things May 2023 On February 24, 2022, something considered so unlikely in the twenty-first century as to be almost unimaginable happened: A large European state mounted a full-scale, full-spectrum invasion of another large European state. The…
Budanov: “we’re approaching a landmark battle in ukraine’s contemporary history”
In an interview with RBK-Ukraine, the chief of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry’s intelligence said that the current pace of Western weaponry supply does not make him revise his earlier projection – the turning-point battle before the end of this war will…
RUSSIA'S OCCUPATION STRATEGY — THE BIGGEST LONG-TERM THREAT TO UKRAINE'S STABILITY
March 23, 2023 by Maryna Venneri MEI Russia has wielded ethnicity as a weapon repeatedly in its history. The authorities have deliberately employed unlawful occupations, annexations, deportations, filtration, and ethnic dilution through an influx of Russian settlers to control and…