Living on the front line

Despite half-hearted support from the West, Ukraine did not crumble in the face of Russia’s brutal aggression, and its agile defence strategies offer important lessons to other countries facing security threats.

Four years of folly

President Vladimir Putin’s war of choice against Ukraine has failed to achieve any of the strategic objectives he laid out when he began this disastrous folly. Yet he is compelled to persist in his vainglorious pursuit of an unrecoverable imperial Russian past for the sake of his own political survival.

Stand with Ukraine

As a new book on the war by Serhii Plokhy makes clear, Ukraine’s fight against the Russian invasion remains the most important issue of our time. It is the fight of freedom against tyranny, the future against the past and hope verses resignation and despair. As President Trump seems more interested in becoming an imperialist autocrat rather than opposing them, we must all stand with Ukraine.

Shadows of 1795

Proposals for a Ukraine peace deal that reward Russian aggression and do nothing to protect it from further attacks smack of deals and treaties in previous eras which did nothing to prevent further conflagrations.

Ukraine’s harshest winter

Donald Trump’s ‘peace plan’ would reward Russian aggression and emasculate and isolate Ukraine, allowing another Russian attack to absorb the country with little resistance in the future.

Brains v brutality

The brute force nature of Russia’s assault and the West’s refusal to supply the number and quality of weapons required to defeat Putin’s forces has forced Ukraine to improvise a range of innovative ways to protect itself and strike back.

Peace in our time?

“Peace in our time” said Neville Chamberlain on his return from Germany in late September 1938 after signing the Munich Agreement that effectively handed Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany. The circumstances of this “deal” are uncannily like those that Ukraine confronts today.

Ukraine’s nuclear regret

Ukraine bargained away its nuclear weapons in the 1990s in returns for security guarantees from Russia and the West which both sides have broken, leaving Ukraine at the mercy of Vladimir Putin.

Fighting online for Ukraine

Despite the apathy of the major platforms and an American President in the pocket of Vladimir Putin, an army of online bloggers are combating Russian’s propaganda war to support Ukraine.

A tale of two leaders

The contrast between the leadership styles and personal values of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump could not be more stark.

Standing for democracy in an age of rising authoritarianism

On the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion, the fight for Ukraine’s future continues. But so too does another battle: a battle over the direction of the world’s liberal democracies, their institutions and the fragile trust that underpins them.

Made in Ukraine

Western companies and entrepreneurs should invest in the thriving and innovative Ukrainian defence tech industry and take its experience back to their home markets.