EPA-EFE/Filip Singer
A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Defiant: Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, at the OSCE ministers’ meeting in North Macedonia on November 30.
EPA-EFE/Georgi Licovwki
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe appears to be on its last legs.
Lest he forget: Vladimir Putin lays flowers at a memorial to the dead of the siege of Leningrad on the anniversary of its end in January 1942.
EPA-EFE/Mikhael Klimentyev/Sputnik/Kremlin pool
The Kremlin’s weapons of mass distraction are designed to keep Kyiv and allies guessing.
Ukrainian soldiers prepare to launch a drone.
EPA-EFE/Hannibal Hansche
The use of unmanned aircraft by both sides has massively increased, changing the nature of the air war.
Key player: Nato secretary-general Jans Stoltenberg at Nato HQ in Brussels, February 2022.
EPA-EFE/Stéphanie Lecocq
Russia insists that there was an agreement not to expand Nato eastwards after the end of the USSR. History begs to differ.
International observers from Canada, India and Jamaica tour the Utah County election facilities on Nov. 6, 2018 in Provo, Utah.
George Frey/Getty Images
Many US states forbid foreign observers to monitor their elections, but as the 2020 presidential election nears, a poll finds broad public support for international election observers.
Volodymyr Zelensky: ready to make concessions.
Stepan Franko/EPA
What is the ‘Steinmeier formula’ for eastern Ukraine and why is it so controversial?
An artillery position of the self-defense army of Nagorno-Karabakh.
EPA/Vahram Bghdasaryan
After more than 20 years of tenuous ceasefire, Nagorno-Karabakh is once again the centre of a violent conflict. And its people haven’t exactly had their say.
Observing the MH17 crash site.
EPA/Alexander Ermochenko
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe is the only hope for neutral information about what’s going on in Eastern Ukraine.
A World War II tank rumbles onto the streets in Lugansk, Ukraine in preparation for Victory Day.
EPA/Igor Kovalenko
Vladimir Putin’s statements giving qualified support for presidential elections in Ukraine on May 25, calling on separatists in eastern Ukraine to postpone their planned referendums and announcing a pull-back…