Between them, Michael Andersen and Brian Bonner have covered Ukraine for 50+ years. This blog is pro-Ukrainian, telling the truth about places, people and the West's role. Neither the war nor Ukraine's other challenges started in February 2022.
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Russia is waging war on Ukraine’s civilians: bombing apartment blocks and threatening to weaponise the coming winter. But Donald Trump insists that “peace” is “much closer than people realise.”
"But every moment is cherished as if it’s the last one," says Olga, who has grown this famous networking event grow into a real international community over the past 8 years - invasion or not.
If someone had written a film script about the summit, Hollywood would have rejected it as too fanciful. Yet this was how the world was being led to a summit that would bring yet more death to Ukraine
(Look, if it makes you feel better, you can pretend that the following is only about Brezhnev and the Soviet Union😉)
In her column, Nataliia Bushkovska compares her childhood – dreams of pizza, tights and leaving Ukraine – with how her kids see their country – Ukraine anno 2026 – as a hero.
Once again, Ukraine is deeply unhappy with a UN agency downplaying the enormous losses inflicted on the country by its Russian invaders.
In this week's guest essay, Alexey Ulko argues that "one cannot claim membership in a culture while selectively disavowing its structural outcomes simply by declaring opposition to Vladimir Putin."
(Uncomfortable news) Western politicians are busy promising "justice for Ukraine." It sounds reassuring. But it's almost certainly a promise they cannot keep. And that may prove dangerous. Here's why.
This week, Nia - a Belarusian lawyer turned Ukrainian soldier - writes about male colleagues sometimes being a bit slow to get used to women flying drones. Just as well as they do. Or better.
It is difficult to understand Russia's war against Ukraine without knowing the history. The same is true of tonight's England-Argentina World Cup match.
