Surprise visit: Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, welcomes the US president, Joe Biden, to the presidential palace in Kyiv.
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The message is clear: this war must end in Ukraine and the west will do all it can to ensure this outcome.
Putin’s decision to go to war has seen great geopolitical ripples.
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A year into the war in Ukraine, a historian reflects on how it has affected the geopolitical environment.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past week.
A Ukrainian mother sobs at the funeral of her son in Irpin, near Kyiv, on Feb. 14, 2023. He was a civilian who was a volunteer in the armed forces of Ukraine and died fighting in the Bakhmut area of the country.
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Calls for peace that suggest Ukraine should give up territory simply to end the war will condemn some Ukrainians to unspeakable horrors and provide a precarious foundation for lasting peace.
Russian soldiers have sometimes had to provide their own medical kits.
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Russian soldiers are often barely trained and are not the highly trained operatives that some experts expected.
Washington has pledged to supply Ukraine with its sophisticated Patriot surface-to-air missile systems.
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Because of the west’s fear that the war might escalate, it is effectively forcing Ukraine to fight with one hand tied behind its back.
Being seen: Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has maintained a constant stream of appearances to press home his country’s narrative.
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The two sides have used media very differently during the conflict: Zelensky has inspired support, Putin has stifled dissent.
A Ukrainian serviceman of the artillery unit of the 80th Air Assault Brigade walks near Bakhmut on February 7, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Political scientists weigh in the factors that could see a Ukrainian or Russian win. The war could also become protracted.
Coup worries: Moldovan president Maia Sandu.
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Reports of a planned coup in Moldova have revived fears about the Kremlin’s intentions for Ukraine’s pro-European neighbour.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past week.
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Ukraine’s summit with EU will be all about avoiding mixed messages on both sides.
Russian nuclear missiles are paraded in Red Square in Moscow in 2020.
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Russia’s refusal to allow the US to inspect its nuclear arsenal could reignite pressure for the US to develop new nuclear weapons.
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In war, each side tends to minimise its own losses and overestimate the enemy death toll – Ukraine is no exception.
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Ukrainian women have signed up for service on the frontlines, breaking down stereotypes of who can serve.
US Abrams and Polish-owned German Leopard 2 tanks in exercises in Oland, May 2022.
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If the west fulfils its promise to supply 300 modern main battle tanks to Ukraine, it could be a gamechanger.
Ukraine has a mixed human rights record over the past several decades, new data shows.
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New data from 2000 through 2019 shows that Ukraine’s human rights record is better than Russia’s – but worse than that of its Western European neighbors.
M1 Abrams, a third-generation American main battle tanks, are seen in Poland in September 2022.
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The US tanks could give Ukraine an advantage in pushing back Russia from its territory – but no amount of money alone is enough to win a war.
Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, sees it as vital to demonstrate to Ukraine’s western allies he is tackling corruption in government and the armed forces.
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The Ukrainian president’s corruption purge will be important both for public morale and for reassuring his western allies.
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov meets with his South African counterpart Naledi Pandor, in Pretoria. Russia provided valuable support for the ANC during its struggle against apartheid.
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The relationship between Pretoria and Moscow was forged in the apartheid era with the then Soviet Union giving support to banned ANC fighters.
Recruits attend military training at a firing range in the Krasnodar region in southern Russia in October 2022, eight months into Russia’s war in Ukraine. The mobilization of recruits was a sign of Russian acknowledgement that it was engaged in full-fledged war, not a ‘special military operation.’
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Russia’s army in Ukraine is fighting a much more artillery-intensive and methodical war than it was almost a year ago.