• Counterstrike

    Matthew Sussex     |      May 5, 2023

    Russia’s blundering and brutal assault on Ukraine has ground to a halt, but the West must keep arming Ukraine to ensure its plans to counter-attack succeed and drive the Russians from their country.

  • Russia’s shadow war

    Matthew Sussex     |      April 7, 2023

    The leak of 5,000 documents from Russia’s Vulkan group has exposed the ways Vladimir Putin’ wages cyber-war against the west.

  • The West dithers while Ukraine burns

    Matthew Sussex     |      January 25, 2023

    While nations like Estonia and Poland have been generous with their military support of Ukraine, larger NATO countries have dithered about sending the heavy weapons required to repulse the Russian invasion.

  • Putin’s toxic legacy

    Matthew Sussex     |      December 6, 2022

    While Russia’s beleaguered dictator amuses himself by lobbing rockets at Ukrainian civilians, his country has become an international pariah and is falling apart around him.

  • Putin limps away from Kherson

    Matthew Sussex     |      November 12, 2022

    Russia’s humiliating retreat from Kherson – the only regional capital it ever captured in nine months of war – is yet another body blow for Vladimir Putin.

  • Get out

    Matthew Sussex     |      October 18, 2022

    Russia’s military position in Ukraine is looking hopeless so how will Vladimir Putin worm its way out?

  • Downfall

    Matthew Sussex     |      October 5, 2022

    Forcing untrained, unwilling conscripts to fight in Ukraine and shifting the blame for failure onto his subordinates is uniting both the Russian people and elites against embattled dictator Vladimir Putin.

  • Russia’s winter of discontent

    Matthew Sussex     |      September 29, 2022

    Putin’s decision to force droves of unwilling and undertrained reservists to the front line in Ukraine is a desperate move which will achieve nothing but more pointless slaughter.

  • Ukraine’s heroes push Putin to the brink

    Matthew Sussex     |      September 13, 2022

    Ukraine’s stunning counter-attack has forced Russian forces to flee from Kharkiv and Putin is now cowering in his mansion to avoid his military officials. Staring defeat in the face, what might his next desperate move be?

  • The battle for Russia

    Matthew Sussex     |      August 27, 2022

    Russia’s thuggish dictator seems determined to wage war against the world, but may soon face a battle for personal survival himself.

  • We must all step up to save Ukraine

    Matthew Sussex     |      July 9, 2022

    Putin cares nothing for the ire of the West, the lives of Ukrainians or even his own soldiers as his monstrous army slowly grinds over Eastern Ukraine, crushing everything in its path. The West cannot let this catastrophe fall out of the headlines, we must all step up and fight for Ukraine.

  • Putin waits for the West to get bored

    Matthew Sussex     |      June 24, 2022

    The West is growing weary of Russia’s war in Ukraine, despite leaving Ukraine to do all the fighting, and Vladimir Putin is counting on the free world’s short attention span and lack of moral fibre to grind his way to European domination.