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Russian hackers have been attacking Ukraine for years, but with help from US government agencies, businesses and universities, Ukraine’s cyber defenses have grown stronger.
Putin’s rationale for invading Ukraine wasn’t built over just a few months in 2021. Putin and high-level Russia government staff have been trash-talking Ukraine for more than a decade.
Sanctions take time to bite, and Putin has time on his side.
President Biden said that Vladimir Putin had committed war crimes, after news emerged of mass civilian murders in Bucha, Ukraine. Three stories from our archive explain what this means.
Where it’s risky for aid workers to be on the ground, technology could help.
The transmission of truth about the war against Ukraine is a criminal offense in Russia. Without access to the complete information about the war, Russian population continues to support it.
Cyberattacks can be devastating, just not on the battlefield, according to researchers who looked at 10 years of armed conflicts around the world.
The US frequently chooses to put its own interest ahead of its professed values. That approach to foreign policy is called ‘realpolitik’ and it may lead to an unsatisfying peace deal in Ukraine.
Estimates of casualties from the war in Ukraine have varied widely. Some of this is due to genuine difficulty counting the dead, but there are also strategic reasons to put out misleading death tolls.
Nearly all of the 129 aid workers killed on the job in 2021 were from the countries where they lost their lives.
Did Russian intelligence mislead Putin about Ukraine’s capabilities or did they just tell him what he wanted to hear?
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.
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.
There are reports of very low morale among Russian troops in Ukraine.
Refugees must be given the chance to work and make a full life for themselves in host countries.
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.
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.
The Conversation’s weekly round-up of some of the best articles about the war in Ukraine.
The warring countries have a long way to go before a credible peace settlement can be signed.
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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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Professor of International Relations and Security, University of Bradford
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Senior Lecturer in Military Strategy and Law, University of Portsmouth
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, University of Bath
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Professor of Military History, University of Calgary
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Assistant Professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations, Simon Fraser University
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Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Aberystwyth University
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Teaching Fellow, School of Strategy, Marketing and Innovation, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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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 Intelligence and National Security, University of Hull
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Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
