Two Ukrainian soldiers patrol a street as elderly women walk past a house damaged by artillery shelling in Novoluhanske in eastern Ukraine on Feb. 23, 2022.
(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A new form of conflict resource is real estate — the farms, houses, apartment buildings, villages, towns and cities of any country. Real estate trafficking has a big impact on civilian populations.
Canadian parliamentarians and guests give Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a standing ovation as he.
addresses Parliament on March 15, 2022 in Ottawa.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Canada is arming and supporting Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion. At various points in its history, it’s been everything from an invader to an arms supplier to invaders, not defenders.
Russian soldiers celebrating the annual Victory Day parade in Moscow in June 2020.
EPA-EFE/Dumitru Doru
Refugees must be given the chance to work and make a full life for themselves in host countries.
Several sites, such as this one near Freeport, Texas, store the hundreds of million of barrels in the United States’ Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
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A career soldier and a careful scholar of the military profession, William Tecumseh Sherman knew that wars are part of human nature, and are unavoidably cruel and harsh.
Russia’s bravest and most significant independent media have now been forced to close.
Poetry matters: City workers in Kiev, Ukraine, protect a monument to Italian poet Dante Alighieri from shelling by the Russians.
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What would allow Vladimir Putin to save face in Ukraine in terms of negotiating a ceasefire? Ukraine would likely have to cede its NATO aspirations as well as territory in the east.
A woman with hair dyed bright red wears a mask as she uses her phone in Beijing.
(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
In China, social media is being censored to reflect pro-Russian sentiment, making it impossible to gauge public opinion of Chinese people on the Russian invasion.
EPA-EFE/Ukranian presidential press service handout
If talks succeed in ending the violence, it would cement Turkey’s role as a key regional power broker.
A few visitors and staff at a Moscow bar watch the broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin addressing Russian citizens on a state television channel in March 2020.
(Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)
When Russia invaded Ukraine, its leader was immediately labeled “fascist” by Ukrainians and others. A political scientist explains why that label fits.
It’s evidence of political solidarity and a strengthening of ties between Ukraine and the EU.
Belarusian volunteers receive military training at the Belarusian Company base in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 8, 2022. Despite the Belarus-Russian alliance, hundreds of Belarusian emigrants and citizens have arrived in Ukraine to help the Ukrainian army.
(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
The Belarusian regime is bitterly despised by its people, but it survives through the use of force and Russian support. Belarusians don’t want war, and their country is also under occupation.
Resistance: Ukraine’s forces are putting up a stiffer defence than had been expected.
EPA-EFE/Sergey Dolzhenko