Survivors of a Russian Armed Forces mass execution of Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol taken prisoners of war, along with their family and friends, have been fighting to establish a day memorializing their sacrifice and the sacrifice of others victimized by these war crimes, set on the date of the Olenivka Prison Massacre. On the night…
The following opinion piece accompanies the Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigations Unit’s newly released documentary, “Shadows Across the River.” Watch the documentary by clicking here.“Let Russia retain control over occupied Ukrainian territories to finally freeze this war!” This refrain, repeated in media and political discourse worldwide, has become a popular “peace plan” for Russia’s war…
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ decision to attend the BRICS summit in Kazan, Tatarstan, is a glaring example of diplomatic stupidity that should alarm anyone concerned about the principles of human rights and international law. This collection of authoritarian regimes is hardly the place for the leader of a global institution that claims to…
If you needed just one fact to show that in the world’s greatest democracy one of the two major parties is perversely devoted to suppressing and even subverting the vote, you couldn’t do better than this: The senior counsel for the Republican National Committee’s “election integrity team” — Orwellian doublespeak come to life — is…
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have made a daring advance into Russia’s Kursk region in August 2024, as part of Ukraine’s overall self-defense strategy. Ukraine’s successful military incursion into Russia has not only amazed the West, but also stunned the Kremlin by exposing its actual vulnerability, both to NATO and Russia’s oligarchic elite, particularly when the…
For years, Russia has employed an escalating language of force, creating faits accomplis, waging hybrid warfare against Poland, the Baltic states, and other countries on NATO’s eastern flank, and regularly engaging in nuclear blackmail. In contrast, much of the Western political class has acted in the opposite manner, opting for de-escalation. But is this approach…
War is never pretty. It wallows in blood, gore, and pitiful lamentation. Perhaps that is why the most common appeal globally in all cultures, times, and religions has been for “peace.” And that is why Even the most cynical and power-craving “warlords” – such as Putin – have justified and initiated wars for some ostensibly…
Ukraine has stunned the world with its resilience to Russian aggression over the last ten years, especially since the all-out invasion of February 2022. Provided the West stands firmly behind Ukraine, it looks highly unlikely that Vladimir Putin will be able to conquer Ukraine militarily. That would mean Ukrainian statehood is here to stay and,…
Let me briefly comment on some things that have happened during the last few days – the good, the bad, and the not-so-pleasant. So here goes, re: Kursk, Putin, Lukashenko and Belarus. And I’ll leave Kamala Harris’s impressive progress in challenging Donald Trump, the continuing bloody deadlock in the Middle East conflict, and the struggle…
With Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine now well into its third year, there are mounting questions about whether any sort of peace or victory is possible.Much depends, of course, on how one defines those terms. For Putin, the explicitly stated objective is to eliminate Ukraine as an independent nation-state and subject…
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