Ukraine: The front line remains frozen. The war is escalating again.
Why Ukraine and Russia are trading long-range strikes instead of making ground gains, and what that means for the winter ahead.
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Passports and propaganda: how Russia manufactures its next conscripts from Ukrainian children
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An Independent Chair Answers the Wrong Question
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Ukraine's defence shake-up exposes rift in Zelensky's inner circle
Five defence ministers in five years — what Fedorov's dismissal reveals about the cracks in the president's war cabinet.
OSCE Moscow Mechanism Mission Finds Accelerating, Systematic Russian Campaign to Militarize and Indoctrinate Ukrainian Children
Independent experts report to the OSCE Permanent Council
US-Iran Truce: Pause, Not Progress?
The 60-day window for a final peace deal seems less realistic than ever.
The Rot Was Always There: FIFA, Trump and the Myth of Reform
FIFA wasn’t Trumpified — it was ever thus: the corruption is structural, not Trump-made, and the reforms never touched the money.