A recent report by UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine concluded that it has found evidence of torture and sexual- and gender-based violence. Brutality in these forms is used to suppress and punish resistance in occupied territories, and break the morale of Ukrainian soldiers.
In 2019 Vladislav Surkov, a close advisor to Putin and one of his chief ideologues, wrote: ‘Foreign politicians attribute to Russia interference in elections and referendums across the planet. In fact, the matter is even more serious – Russia is interfering in their brains, and they do not know what to do with their own altered consciousness.’
A protracted conflict works in Russia’s favour. But there is a clear path to bringing it to an early end.
Nobody wanted a long war in Ukraine. Russia didn’t plan for it, and the West wasn’t prepared for it.
Ukraine and its Western partners had dared to hope that the successes of autumn 2022 might cause Russia’s army to implode.
Munich Security Report 2024
Amid growing geopolitical tensions and rising economic uncertainty, many governments are no longer focusing on the absolute benefits of global cooperation, but are increasingly concerned that they are gaining less than others.
Ukrainian clergy of the Moscow Patriarchate continue contacting, traveling, and receiving instructions from their Russian supervisors and implement these instructions through the Church, deliver those messages to the population and spread pro-Russian hostile narratives.
7 лютого високий представник Євросоюзу з питань зовнішньої та безпекової політики Жозеп Боррель відвідав Україну – вже вчетверте від початку великої війни з РФ.
Цього разу, окрім непублічних подій та поїздок (він, наприклад, відвідав два заводи з виробництва дронів), Боррель виступив у Верховній Раді, і його промову точно можна назвати знаковою.