A view of Tiraspol, the self-declared capital of Transnistria in April 2022.
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Moldova’s government has said that Russia is trying to overthrow its Western-leaning government and set up its own leaders there.
Estonia’s prime minister Kaja Kallas at the European Union leaders’ summit in Brussels, Belgium, in October 2022.
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Estonia is going to the polls but the Ukraine war casts a long shadow over its politics.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict from the past week.
Pavlovsky as dissident at a rally to commemorate the murdered Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.
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Pavlovsky became the ultimate insider – until he fell out with the boss he had helped make all-powerful.
Peace proposal: Chinese envoy Dai Bing tells the United Nations that a ceasefire is the most urgent priority for Beijing.
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Beijing’s 12-point proposal is a broad-brush plan for an end to hostilities which positions China as a key power broker.
A Ukrainian woman touches the grave of her husband, a soldier killed by Russian troops in August 2022.
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Questions about whether warring parties agree about how the war will end and the costs of war or peace are all key factors to help assess when a conflict might end.
A Ukrainian soldier trains near a front line in the Russia-Ukraine war on Feb. 18, 2022.
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Considered to have one of the most powerful militaries in the world, Russian President Vladimir Putin has little to show for his invasion of Ukraine.
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With no end in site to the Ukraine war, and the UN largely powerless, New Zealand now faces difficult military, humanitarian, diplomatic and legal challenges.
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Over 12 months of conflict, the Kremlin has relied on its tried and tested disinformation playbook.
The Russian use of ‘Z’ for victory has proved somewhat premature.
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Vladimir Putin’s planning for his ‘special military operation’ failed to take into account the Ukrainian people’s staunch defence.
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Whatever the reason for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the west and Russia have been spoiling for a fight for decades. The war must end before it leads to a global conflagration.
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Vladimir Putin is playing a long game by not formally declaring war. It may be to avoid international escalation.
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Russia is walking away from the last remaining treaty designed to limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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Ukraine’s constitutional democracy requires any peace deal to be ratified by its people. If they are ignored, a stable peace deal is far less likely.
A woman in Crimea watches a TV broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech on Feb. 21, 2023.
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Putin’s announcement to Russia will no longer participate in the New START pauses the last remaining nuclear weapons agreement between the U.S. and Russia.
Putin has survived with a little help from his friends.
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The US and dozens of other nations have punished Russia with round after round of sanctions – yet the Russian economy is expected to grow in 2023.
Russian President Putin thought he would overrun Ukraine in a few days. These military volunteers and fellow Ukrainians ‘had other ideas,’ writes the author.
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For a scholar who studies how different generations reacted to the end of the Soviet empire, the war in Ukraine is a collision of the professional and the personal.
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A new book argues the war against Ukraine is an escalation of an ongoing hybrid war of ‘Russia’ against ‘the West’ – and that only ‘real and credible force’ will make Putin step back from aggression.
A Ukrainian boy stands on top of a deserted Russian military vehicle in Kyiv in August 2022.
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Since Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, more and more Ukrainians say that they feel pride for their country.
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One year into a conflict in Europe that many thought impossible, we are likely about to rediscover just how world-shaping wars can be.