Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant attacks raise fears of second Chernobyl
Russia and Ukraine are blaming each other as the battle over who controls the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station escalates.
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The war that changed the world
Six months in, Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has revealed a global order in transition.
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Russia is still underestimating Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has become one of attrition – it’s Vladimir Putin’s only alternative to acknowledging defeat.
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Volodymyr Zelensky is wrong to ask the West to ban Russian tourists
There is a Russia that is not Putin. The West should seek to build bridges with these Russians, not cut…
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What the Crimea airbase attack means for the war in Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to recover the Russian-annexed peninsula as Ukrainian forces ready their counteroffensive.
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Are Russian forces in Ukraine exploiting Western fears of a nuclear disaster?
The IAEA has warned of “potentially catastrophic consequences” after an attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
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Can Ukraine win the war with Russia?
As Russia takes the city of Lysychansk, Ukraine needs to develop momentum with its better, Western-sourced weapons.
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Volodymyr Zelensky behind the mask
Serhii Rudenko’s biography is a portrait of a wartime hero whose troubled past may return to haunt him.
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EU membership for Ukraine will take years – but Kyiv needs weapons now
Promises of eventual membership provide some of the political disadvantages associated with joining but none of the advantages.
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Russia must be offered a way out
Many in the West are championing a Ukrainian victory but the stakes are too high to subject Putin to a…
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Bruno Maçães’s Diary: Kharkiv is shelled, streets are renamed, and soldiers on a break head for the cafés
Since Russian troops retreated from the city, residents have been trying to return to normal life.
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Will the West pressure Ukraine to concede territory?
Ukraine’s war effort is being sustained by its many allies, but that support may not last forever.
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After the Zeitenwende: Jürgen Habermas and Germany’s new identity crisis
The 92-year-old philosopher has warned Germans not to allow anger at Russia and admiration for Ukraine to displace their country's…
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Putin and Zelensky offer contrasting visions of the future
Increasingly, all the Russian president has to offer is the prospect of a never-ending war.
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Russia accused of orchestrating attacks in Moldovan breakaway region
Explosions in the Russia-backed region of Transnistria have prompted fears that it could be drawn into the Kremlin’s war on…
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Putin has little to celebrate in Ukraine as a key anniversary approaches
The horrific scenes in Bucha have brought a moral clarity to strategic calculations, both for Ukraine and its allies.
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Ukraine is better prepared for a long war than Russia
Putin is caught in his own lies and mythology about what is at stake in the war in Ukraine.
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Andrey Kurkov: “It’s impossible to say that all the world is behind Ukraine”
The renowned Ukrainian novelist on Zelensky’s speeches, the role of artists in war and the broken links between his country…
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“A genocide against the Ukrainian people”: former Ukraine PM on Russia’s invasion
Volodymyr Groysman on what the West got wrong about Russia and how it can help Ukraine win its war.
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Mapping Putin’s war on civilians
A collaboration between the New Statesman, the Centre for Information Resilience and Bellingcat tracks assaults on ordinary Ukrainians.
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