While all eyes are on the battlefield, without recovery finance and key domestic reforms, Ukrainian resilience is at risk.
During more than two years of full-scale war against Ukraine, Russia has launched 8,000 missiles and 4,630 drones, targeting densely populated cities, energy-generating facilities, large shopping centres, schools, hospitals, railway stations and high-rise buildings.
Chatham House survey of Ukrainian CSOs – 2024 update
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Key takeaways and summary of survey results
Backing down in the face of Russian threats is the worst option. The UK should join France in using strategic ambiguity.
The Kremlin has responded with predictable theatre to comments from foreign secretary David Cameron, after he said Ukraine is free to use weapons supplied by Britain to launch strikes inside Russia.
— Experts discuss the UK’s role in driving forward climate action.
In December 2015, 195 countries adopted the new and historical Paris Agreement on climate change, reinforcing the demand for developing countries to deliver US$ 100 billion towards climate action by 2020, and per year from then onwards.
With a general election imminent, it is already clear that the next UK government will take office in an immensely challenging environment for foreign policy. From wars in Gaza and Ukraine to concerns about climate change, China’s assertive global agenda and the durability of America’s commitment to European security, the next UK government will face many pressing international problems and have limited resources with which to tackle them.
The $300 billion of immobilized assets can only partly address the cost of Ukraine’s survival and reconstruction. There should be no qualms about confiscating it.
It seems odd, considering the scale of destruction caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, that seizing Russian money immobilized in Western clearing houses is as hotly debated as it is.