The West’s narrative on Ukraine hasn’t convinced the rest of the world
While the public in western countries firmly supports Kyiv, views in other parts of the world are more ambiguous.
ByVladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia and has been the country’s leader, with an interlude as prime minister, for more than 22 years. Putin was born in 1952, studied law at Leningrad State University and served for 15 years as a KGB officer before becoming a politician in 1991.
Will China stop Russia going nuclear?
When Chinese diplomats say they want the war to end, they undoubtedly mean it – but not at any cost.
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This is how Putin loses the war
In an exclusive interview, Volodymyr Zelensky’s adviser Mykhailo Podolyak lays out how a Ukrainian victory would unfold.
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Vladimir Putin still thinks the West will blink first
In his state of the nation speech the Russian leader spouted the same delusions about Ukraine as he did a…
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Ukraine Diary: A year on, Russia’s war has failed to break our spirit
We started the Kyiv Independent as the horror of war loomed – and now Biden and Zelensky walk through the…
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The Zelensky myth
Why we should resist hero-worshipping Ukraine’s president.
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No, Russia isn’t about to break apart
Coexisting with a hostile, nuclear-armed power requires deeper thinking than predicting the end of Russia itself.
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How Putin lost the energy war
European gaspolitik has defeated Russia this winter.
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Is Ukraine prepared for the coming offensive?
Ahead of the war’s first anniversary this month, Russia wants a victory.
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Will Zelensky’s anti-corruption drive help Ukraine join the EU?
Public opinion and Kyiv’s international partners are demanding action on graft in the country.
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Will Rishi Sunak send fighter jets to Ukraine?
The PM has committed to training Ukrainian pilots, but Zelensky’s visit was really to ask for the planes themselves.
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PMQs: Sunak and Starmer unite in solidarity with Ukraine
There was a remarkable show of bipartisanship from both leaders.
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Where have BP’s Russian profits gone?
The oil giant no longer reports income from its stake in Rosneft, but is yet to sell it. Where is…
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The West is betraying Armenia
A humanitarian catastrophe will result unless the US and EU change course.
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Asia’s dangerous new arms race
Russia’s war and China’s military build-up are provoking an unprecedented change in Japan’s approach to its defence.
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The war in Ukraine will go on for years – and so will its consequences for Britain
We need to change our thinking: this may become an unresolved global conflict of a kind we haven’t seen before.
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Boris Johnson has the ultimate case of main character syndrome
In recounting Vladimir Putin’s supposed missile threats, the former prime minister totally misses the point.
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How a bestselling novel reveals French sympathy for Putin
The Wizard of the Kremlin has provoked fierce debate in France, where support for Russia lingers on both the right…
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Oleksiy Danilov: “Weak people always come up with excuses not to act”
Ukraine’s national security adviser on German betrayal, the coming Russian onslaught and why the West is scared.
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The brutal methods of Russia’s Wagner Group
The group’s founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has used the Ukraine war to establish himself in Russian politics.
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