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What are Russia’s real goals: “denazification” of Ukraine or destruction of the Donbas?

3 days ago
Russia seems to have completely given up on its ambitions to “denazify” Ukraine. The Kremlin’s actions in the Eastern European country can only lead to the demoralization of the Russian population in the Donbas and the additional radicalization of the Ukrainian society. By Nikola Mikovic After Russia released Yulia Payevska, more widely known to the […]
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Empty threats behind Russian escalatory rhetoric

2 weeks ago
Almost four months after Moscow launched its so-called special military operation in Ukraine, Russia still cannot protect the Donbas cities of Donetsk, Horlivka, and Makiivka from Ukrainian shelling. Unable to defeat the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the region, the Kremlin, through its propagandists, gripes about Western media ignoring Kyiv’s actions in the Donbas. By Nikola […]
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Sooner or later Ukraine will capture Russian territories

2 months ago
The Ukraine war is gradually spilling over into the Russian Federation. Unwilling to declare a nationwide mobilization and utterly unprepared for a prolonged military confrontation against Western-backed Ukraine, the Kremlin has demonstrated that it cannot protect the Russian territory from the Ukrainian attacks. By Nikola MikovicOn April 13, weeks after the Ukrainian Armed Forces started […]
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Is NATO to blame for the Russian invasion of Ukraine?

2 months ago
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. A similar situation occurred in the past decennia: years of flirting with NATO and growing anti-Russian rhetoric from Kyiv towards Moscow […]
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What if Russia gets defeated in Ukraine?

3 months ago
Russia is not winning the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin seems to be trying to end the conflict but at the same time to save face. What would happen if Russia gets defeated? By Nikola MikovicFour days after Moscow launched its “special military operation” in the Eastern European country, Russian officials started negotiations with Ukraine. […]
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Planet Earth shall Not be the same after the crisis in Ukraine is over

3 months ago
Russian President Vladimir Putin (69) was inaugurated in the Kremlin on May 7 2012. I recall media coverage talking about how busy he was on his first day as president. Putin served in the KGB; FSB; Russian Armed Forces. Meaning that he was anything BUT a diplomat. By Mohammad Ibrahim FheiliAs a political economist and […]
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Turkey and the Donbass war: Balancing between Russia and Ukraine

1 year ago
Ukraine is actively preparing for a potential conflict escalation in the coal-rich Donbass region that is currently controlled by the pro-Russian forces. Kiev sees Turkey as a strategic partner and is purchasing Turkish-made Bayraktar drones. What is Ankara’s position in this proxy-war? By Nikola MikovicAfter Western-backed opposition overthrew allegedly pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yaunukovych in […]
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Putin's proposed U.N. Ukraine peacekeepers must have full access: Merkel

5 years ago
Any United Nations peacekeepers sent to eastern Ukraine must be granted access to the entirety of the region held by Moscow-backed separatists, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said. Russian President Vladimir Putin floated the idea of deploying U.N. troops to eastern Ukraine in a Monday call with Merkel, suggesting that the U.N. mission could protect observers […]
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Kremlin hopes US will take hard look at Ukraine’s civil war in talks on weapons supplies

5 years ago
Moscow hopes that Washington will take into account that civil war is ongoing in Ukraine during the discussion on supplies of lethal weapons to Kiev, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. "We hope that Washington (while deciding on supplies of lethal arms to Kiev) won’t forget that Ukraine is a country where civil war […]
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Putin: more U.S. sanctions would be harmful, talk of retaliation premature

5 years ago
Russian President Vladimir Putin said new sanctions under consideration by the United States would damage relations between the two countries, but it was too early to talk about retaliation, state news agency RIA reported on Saturday. The U.S. Senate voted nearly unanimously earlier this week for legislation to impose new sanctions on Moscow and force […]
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Ukraine crisis: Minsk talks’ outcomes are controversial, fighting intensifies

7 years ago
THE LEVANT EXCLUSIVE –KIEV - By Julia Lugovska* - As the situation in Eastern Ukraine remains extremely tense and continues deteriorating, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, Russian President Vladimir Putin and representatives of OSCE met in Minsk, Belarus, for the decisive negotiations. The talks […]
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