Dmytro Kuleba: “Russian victory will ruin everything the West stands for”
The Ukrainian foreign minister on China, Donald Trump and how the war ends.
ByVolodymyr Zelensky
Discover all of the New Statesman’s latest news, comment and analysis on Volodymyr Zelensky, the current president of Ukraine.
How long will the war in Ukraine go on for?
The prospect of a prolonged stalemate is taking hold.
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There are cracks between how Ukraine and the West see the war ending
Kyiv wants to fight until Crimea is returned, but the US has doubts.
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Ukrainians’ stories of war
Four Ukrainians and one foreigner describe how Russia’s invasion upended their lives.
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In the face of Russia’s aggression, global alliances have proven their indispensability
In 2019 Emmanuel Macron declared that Nato had suffered a “brain death”, but in Munich world leaders showed otherwise.
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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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“Too many people are only here for the politics”: Alicia Kearns on leading foreign policy from the backbenches
From Brexit to TikTok, the youngest chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee is making sure her voice is heard.
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How Putin lost the energy war
European gaspolitik has defeated Russia this winter.
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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 Volodymyr Zelensky secure British jets for Ukraine?
Ukraine’s president visits the UK, and the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict intensifies.
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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Enraptured MPs put aside their squabbles for Volodymyr Zelensky
A packed Westminster Hall greeted the Ukrainian president’s call for fighter aircraft with whoops and cheers.
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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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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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Ukraine deserves better than Boris Johnson
No, the former prime minister should not be appointed special envoy to Ukraine.
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The first signs of Ukraine war fatigue in the West are starting to appear
Yet pressure is increasing on Germany to send Kyiv tanks.
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Why Ukraine’s designs on Crimea could split the West
Some allies fear threatening to retake the peninsula could provoke a nuclear attack.
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Ukraine’s problematic nationalist heroes
Kyiv’s lionisation of 20th-century nationalists linked to atrocities is alienating allies and playing into Russian propaganda.
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The Ukraine war has made predictions futile
Russia can’t win its self-evidently stupid war – and working out what will happen next is almost impossible.
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