International Committee of the Red Cross workers prepare bags with bodies of government soldiers to be handed over in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, in 2015.
AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov
Nearly all of the 129 aid workers killed on the job in 2021 were from the countries where they lost their lives.
Ruling clique: Putin with some of his top military and intelligence officers in Crimea in 2014.
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Did Russian intelligence mislead Putin about Ukraine’s capabilities or did they just tell him what he wanted to hear?
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.
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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
There are reports of very low morale among Russian troops in Ukraine.
EPA/Miguel A Lopes
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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The total release could reach 180 million barrels over six months, which would make it the biggest in the history of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Gen. William T. Sherman on horseback at fortifications near Atlanta in 1864.
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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.
EPA-EFE/Turkish president press office
The Conversation’s weekly round-up of some of the best articles about the war in Ukraine.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan welcomes delegates to peace talks in Istanbul, March 29 2022.
EPA-EFE/Turkish president press office
The warring countries have a long way to go before a credible peace settlement can be signed.
A closed Moscow branch of McDonald’s.
EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOV
Major companies are re-assessing their role in society.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov has announced his news operation in Russia is closing.
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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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In the middle of a brutal war, poetry asserts its value, challenging the darkness and inhumanity.
A woman walks past a ‘No War’ sign stuck on a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, Russia, on March 29.
(AP Photo)
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)
Russia’s propaganda signalled a full-scale invasion of Ukraine a long time ago.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on stage during a rally in Moscow on March 18, 2022.
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When Russia invaded Ukraine, its leader was immediately labeled “fascist” by Ukrainians and others. A political scientist explains why that label fits.
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The policy introduced the chilling concept of ‘escalate to de-escalate’.
Mykola Tys / Sipa / Alamy
It’s evidence of political solidarity and a strengthening of ties between Ukraine and the EU.