Ukraine’s recent successes at sea and in Crimea create strategic opportunities in the Black Sea and, in the longer term, for the war on land.
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Pressure is mounting on Joe Biden and Nato leaders to supply Kyiv with more – and long-range – weapons.
Two successful operations in and around Crimea demonstrate that, while Ukraine’s ground counteroffensive is moving slowly, Kyiv is expanding the scope of its ambition.
For President Zelenskyy and Ukraine’s citizens, the country’s quest for NATO and EU membership is about security – and identity.
Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner Group, reportedly died when a private jet he was said to be on crashed on Aug. 23, 2023, killing all 10 people on board.
Updates from various frontline sectors suggest progress for Ukraine’s counter-offensive. But it’s slow progress.
Russian and Ukrainian communists who in 1919 mapped out the border between Ukraine and Russia took as their starting point the former Russian empire’s provincial boundaries.
About 100,000 Crimean Tatars died as part of a massive deportation of these people by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin towards the end of the second world war.
A historian explains how Russian President Vladimir Putin, weakened by a short-lived mutiny, might find a path to peace with Ukraine.
Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for the attack on crucial civilian infrastructure. Experts explain what the incident means for future war plans, and for the safety of the affected region.
The destruction of this massive dam is a huge blow to Ukraine’s plans for a counter-offensive in the south.
Ukraine is hinting it may be prepared to talk, with conditions. Here’s what both sides could learn from the Northern Ireland peace process.
A selection of our coverage of the conflict over the past fortnight.
Russia is reportedly preparing massive defences to prevent a lightning offensive to retake the occupied peninsula.
If the west had paid more attention to the Russian invasion of Crimea, it may have avoided a Ukraine war.
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.
Vladimir Putin is playing a long game by not formally declaring war. It may be to avoid international escalation.
The negotiations that finally brought peace to Northern Ireland could provide some useful pointers as to how to end the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine appears to be mounting an operation to retake the tiny headland.
Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professor of International Relations, Jean Monnet Professor of European Security, National University Odesa Law Academy
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Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU, Australian National University
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Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science, Penn State
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Associate Professor, School of Geography, University of Nottingham
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Senior Lecturer in Military Strategy and Law, University of Portsmouth
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Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, Affiliate Professor at the Institute for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies, University of South Florida
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Assistant Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
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Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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Professor of International Relations and Security, University of Bradford
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Associate Professor, International Development, School of Government, University of Birmingham
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Professor of International Security, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University
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Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Military History, University of Calgary
