Ukraine willing to be neutral, says Russia wants to split nation
Lviv, UkraineReuters Ukraine is willing to become neutral and compromise over the status of the eastern Donbass region as part of a peace deal, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, even as another top Ukrainian official accused Russia of aiming to carve the country in two. Zelenskiy took his message directly to Russian journalists in […]
Russia reframes war goals as Ukrainians advance near Kyiv
Bucha/Lviv, UkraineReuters Moscow signalled on Friday it was scaling back its ambitions in Ukraine to focus on territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists in the East as Ukrainian forces went on the offensive to recapture towns outside the capital Kyiv. In an announcement that appeared to indicate more limited goals, the Russian Defence Ministry said a […]
Essay: Russia’s recent invasions of Ukraine and Georgia offer clues to what Putin might be thinking now
In an article first published on The Conversation, LIAM COLLINS, founding director of the Modern War Institute, United States Military Academy West Point, looks what previous events may reveal about what a Russian invasion of Ukraine would look like…
Ukrainian artist couple turns military ammo boxes into Christian icons
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Visiting a military base in 2014, Ukrainian artist and icon painter Oleksandr Klymenko was struck by how much the bottom and cover of a wooden ammunition box could resemble a Christian icon panel. He borrowed one of the boxes from the base and painted a Byzantine icon featuring the Virgin Mary holding the […]
Thousands rally in Kiev to protest autonomy plan for eastern Ukraine
Kiev, UkraineReuters Thousands of people gathered in Kiev’s main square on Sunday to protest against President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s deal with Moscow to grant autonomy to Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebel-held east as part of efforts to end a five-year conflict there. In the first breakthrough towards a possible peace deal in years, envoys from Moscow and Kiev […]