It has been over a year since Suomi (the Finnish name for Finland) became the 31st member of NATO. After joining the North Atlantic Alliance, threats were made against Finland, including by Putin himself, who said that there had been no problems, but now there would be. In response, Russia created the Leningrad Military District…
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Russia is delaying the exchange of prisoners of war and using it as a tool for internal destabilization and pressure on Ukraine
On July 17, Russia released 95 Ukrainian prisoners of war in exchange for 95 Russian soldiers. Since the beginning of the full-scale war in 2022, Ukraine has managed to conduct 54 prisoner exchanges, freeing 3,405 Ukrainians held captive. Unsurprisingly, the prisoner exchanges are of particularly high salience for Ukrainians because the lives and safety of…
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In Europe, Russian aluminum earns the Kremlin money for the war in Ukraine
Full version of the article is published on Dagens Nyheter Despite the introduction of 14 packages of sanctions against Russia, the restrictions have not yet affected its aluminum production. As a result, the Russian aluminum giant Rusal not only has not been subject to any sanctions, but also continues to have subsidiaries in the EU….
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Deep strikes into Russia: a partner’s decision for Ukraine’s strategic success
Two years ago, on May 31, 2022, President Joe Biden announced in his New York Times op-ed that the United States would provide Ukraine with high-mobility artillery rocket systems. The op-ed noted that the White House neither encourages nor allows Ukraine to launch strikes outside its borders. “We don’t want to prolong the war just to hurt Russia,”…
The Finnish capital Helsinki hosted the Nordic Ukraine Advocacy Summit, which was attended by Olesia Horiainova, co-founder and deputy head of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation, and Solomiya Khoma, an expert on hybrid warfare and head of the USCC’s International Cooperation. The summit participants, representing civil society organizations from Ukraine, the Nordic countries and the…