In August 2024, Ukraine initiated a military offensive in the Kursk Oblast. As of mid-October, Ukraine controls a larger portion of Russian territory than Russia managed to capture in Donetsk Oblast during their summer offensive campaign.
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Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 27 EU states have imposed 13 rounds of sanctions on Russia. Since then, restrictions have been imposed on trade in oil, coal, timber, and many other resources. However, a serious loophole in the sanctions regime remains: European industry continues to buy raw materials classified as “critical” or “strategic”, such…
On May 9, Russia celebrated the victory over Nazism in World War II. The message of the victory over Nazism is one of Russia’s fundamental state-building messages. In Russian ideology, the “Russian nation” is seen as almost the sole victor over the Third Reich, while the term Nazism is demonized to the maximum extent possible….
Immediately after the start of the full-scale war, Ukraine showed Russia that it could not hope to limit the theatre of operations to the territory of our country. And today, Russians should probably no longer be surprised by the arrival of Ukrainian drones in Tatarstan, where the drones struck at important to the military-industrial complex…
Russia intensifies statements about alleged Western and Ukrainian threats while continuing its terror in Ukraine Having suffered a terrorist attack and declaring its readiness to “fight terrorism” on all platforms, Russia itself continues to kill. A clear indication of this is at least the missile attack on a residential area in Kharkiv on March 27,…