War in Ukraine

Putin escalates the war on Ukraine as blitzkrieg calculations fail

Moscow has put its nuclear deterrence forces on high alert in an extreme form of brinkmanship.

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My brother has picked up a gun to defend Kyiv, but my uncle in Moscow has been poisoned by propaganda.

By Olia Hercules

Ukrainians are showing Vladimir Putin, and the world, what nationhood should mean.

By Jeremy Cliffe

Russian forces have entered the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.

The Russian president is trying to create a new geopolitical order, with him at the top.

By Bruno Maçães

The Ukraine that Russia may be planning to create will need to maintain power with Alexander Lukashenko’s near-totalitarian methods.

By Ido Vock

We must now ensure that Putin’s foreign adventurism has such painful consequences for Russia that it results in his downfall.

By David Gauke

Russia’s president has attacked not just on Ukraine’s 41 million people but on the entire system of international law.

By Paul Mason