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  • Jul 09, 2026 — When people look at this war from the outside, they often ask one question: When will it end? Many assume that if a ceasefire is reached, the war will be over and life will return to normal. But we should not confuse a ceasefire with a lasting...

    What Are the Hidden Risks of a Ceasefire? We Asked Chatham House Experts
  • Jul 02, 2026 — Many things have changed this year. Ukraine is now striking targets deep inside Russian territory on a regular basis. Russia’s traditional strengths—its vast territory and abundant resources—are increasingly becoming liabilities. The war may be...

    Is the War Approaching a Turning Point? - with Tetyana Ogarkova
  • Jun 10, 2026 — I read this book with absolute passion. While it is a novel, it is truly an epic—the story of a family told through the greatest upheavals and disasters of the 20th century. Although it is set in Greece, we Ukrainians can deeply relate to this story: a...

    Greece, Ukraine, Communism, War, Europe - with Christos Chomenidis
  • May 28, 2026 — Although Russia claims to be waging a war against the so-called West, no other country has officially deployed its military to fight alongside Ukraine. Instead, thousands of individuals from across the globe have made the personal choice to join the...

    Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: What Are Their Stories? - with Colin Freeman
  • May 21, 2026 — On March 16, 2022, the Russian army committed one of the gravest war crimes of its invasion of Ukraine. It dropped air bombs on the Mariupol Drama Theatre, knowing that around a thousand civilians were sheltering inside, seeking refuge from Russian...

    Mariupol: Inside Russia’s Massive War Crime - with James Verini
  • May 13, 2026 — The Russian army is hunting people in Kherson, a major city in the southern part of Ukraine. It is estimated that 700 Russian drones attack Kherson region every day. Russian soldiers are targeting Ukrainian civilians, their cars, and their homes, as if...

    How Russians Are Erasing Life in Ukraine’s South - with Zarina Zabrisky
  • May 07, 2026 — Ukraine has won time for Europe. A vast amount of time. But the price of this time has been tremendous. It is measured not in money, but in human lives. Dozens of towns and hundreds of villages have been destroyed. Occupied territories, occupied...

    Why Europe must fix its defence now - with Moritz Schularick
  • Apr 29, 2026 — In recent months, Ukrainian deep strikes into Russia have outnumbered Russian strikes on Ukraine. Ukraine has managed to build its military capacities practically from scratch, while Russia has made very little technological progress since 2022....

    How Russia can be defeated - with Lesia Ogryzko
  • Apr 23, 2026 — Let’s travel for a moment. Imagine you are on the shore of the Black Sea, in Odesa—one of the most beautiful cities in Eastern Europe. Odesa possesses multiple identities and refuses to be trapped by a single definition. It is Jewish, French, Italian,...

    Odesa in love and war - with Julian Evans
  • Apr 15, 2026 — Can Europe become a genuine security union? Is it truly aware of the 21st-century geopolitical dangers that threaten its very existence? How central is Ukraine to Europe’s self-defense, and does the continent understand—and adapt to—the changing nature...

    Can Europe become a security union? - with Borja Lasheras
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