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      Torture, pain, and despair: how Russia kidnaps Ukrainian civilians and why it’s so difficult to liberate them
      Aug27

      Torture, pain, and despair: how Russia kidnaps Ukrainian civilians and why it’s so difficult to liberate them

      Hundreds, if not thousands, of Ukrainian civilians are still held hostage in Russian captivity. Retrieving such individuals is indeed quite difficult, and the mechanism for doing so has not yet been established. Furthermore, Russians often classify civilians as prisoners of war. How to repatriate them to Ukraine and why this process is dragging...

      Moods in the USA. Who and how supports Ukraine, and why are Trumpists against?
      Aug25

      Moods in the USA. Who and how supports Ukraine, and why are Trumpists against?

      Protest near the White House Detroit is helping Kyiv Attention is waning Trumpists Mayor Journalist Yuriy Lukyanov spent nearly three weeks in the United States, traveling through Texas, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New York, and Washington. He presented the English translation of his war-themed book Reporter Volkovsky there. He gave...

      How much more weapons does Russia have? Calculation of enemy losses and capabilities
      Aug24

      How much more weapons does Russia have? Calculation of enemy losses and capabilities

      “Protracted” War “Canned” Reserves from Storage How Much and What Russia Has Lost The 180,000-strong Russian military group that invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, consisted of the most highly trained units equipped with the most modern weapons. Russia lost all of this but unpacked its almost bottomless stockpiles of...

      A sanctions bag full of holes: what the West must do to stop Russia
      Aug23

      A sanctions bag full of holes: what the West must do to stop Russia

      The Russian economy is rapidly declining, and the ruble is one of the weakest currencies. Why is this not enough? How Russia manipulates data and fabricated figures Russia’s economy plunging into the abyss The cost of war for Russia and whether China will save It How Russia evades sanctions and how the West can stop It “No Money, No...

      General Staff operational report August 22, 2023 on the Russian invasion of Ukraine
      Aug22

      General Staff operational report August 22, 2023 on the Russian invasion of Ukraine

      Russian troops’ attacks on the civilian infrastructure in Ukraine List of the Russian Federation’s attacks on the Ukrainian territory The Ukrainian troops’ strikes on Russian equipment The 545th day of the Russia-Ukraine War: official operational information by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on 22.08.2023. Russian troops’...

      The threat of the Nord Stream level: why the EU should stop purchasing Russian liquefied gas
      Aug22

      The threat of the Nord Stream level: why the EU should stop purchasing Russian liquefied gas

      Spain Belgium France On August 18, the European Commission announced that the gas storage facilities of the EU are filled to 90%, significantly ahead of the schedule of previous years, allowing for a reduction in the import of Russian gas. Is the EU capable of now refusing Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG)? By the end of the first half of the...

      Hundreds of spies, antennas, and the Russian Orthodox Church: how Russia сreated a network of agents in Brussels for years
      Aug22

      Hundreds of spies, antennas, and the Russian Orthodox Church: how Russia сreated a network of agents in Brussels for years

      Over 200 diplomats and spy antennas: What is the Russian Embassy in Belgium hiding? Expulsion of Russian diplomats due to espionage “Russian House” and the Moscow Patriarchate in Belgium Representation of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in Belgium How “useful idiots” in Europe play into the hands of the...

      Problem for Putin: What consequences does the ICC order to arrest the President of the Russian Federation already have?
      Aug20

      Problem for Putin: What consequences does the ICC order to arrest the President of the Russian Federation already have?

      Immunity and Impunity of Heads of State Isolation on the International Stage Destruction of Putin’s Narratives Justice and Political Will What consequences did the sensational decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin have? The relevant ICC decision was made on March...

      About the fear and hatred of Navalny. What is the common trait between Putin and the so-called main Russian opposition figure?
      Aug18

      About the fear and hatred of Navalny. What is the common trait between Putin and the so-called main Russian opposition figure?

      Navalny’s reflections on the legacy of Yeltsin’s era The complex views of Navalny and Putin on Russia’s past and present On August 11, an article titled “My fears and hatred” appeared on the website of the purported main Russian opposition figure, Alexei Navalny. He referred to this article as a sort of...

      “No kurgan, no problem”. A thousand-year-old grave in the middle of a parking lot was razed to the ground in the Dnipropetrovsk region
      Aug17

      “No kurgan, no problem”. A thousand-year-old grave in the middle of a parking lot was razed to the ground in the Dnipropetrovsk region

      No one’s kurgans The “Beliukhova Mogyla” is not the Beliukhova Mogyla To take care of a kurgan means simply not to touch it Activists are awaiting a report on the excavations In Ukraine, kurgans are disappearing quietly. In a matter of a few years, under the plow of a modern tractor, such burial mounds are leveled into ridges....