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Ukraine’s New Long-Range Weapon Won’t Be The Wunderwaffe That Some Imagine

The Palianytsia is more of a psychological weapon than a tactical one due to its envisaged role in reshaping perceptions and getting America to lift its restrictions on using the ATACMS to strike deep inside Russian territory.

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The False Promise of Ukraine’s Deep Strikes Into Russia

Hitting Faraway Targets Will Not Tip the Balance of the War

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The Murky Meaning of Ukraine’s Kursk Offensive

A short-term success doesn’t necessarily have any long-term effects.

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How the Russian Establishment Really Sees the War Ending

An inside look at what Russia expects—and doesn’t—in a cease-fire with Ukraine.

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Ukraine’s complicated history with neighbours

A bizarre geopolitical thesis in the Indian media last week characterised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent 7-hour trip to Ukraine via Poland as part of an effort “to plug a missing link — Central Europe — in India’s European policy.” Per this […]

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Ukraine’s Air Defense Success Numbers Are Likely Fake

Whenever the Russian forces conduct mass missiles strikes against Ukraine the Ukrainian air defense troops claim that the shot down a lot of them, often the majority.

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Why Ukraine’s allies are divided over deep strikes into Russia

UK has pressed US to back Kyiv’s use of Storm Shadow missiles on Russian territory

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Ukraine has crossed Moscow’s and Washington’s red lines

Zelenskyy is prepared to ignore Russia’s nuclear threats. But the Biden administration is still wary of escalating the war

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The Folly of Ukraine’s Russia Incursion

Only a few weeks ago, the Ukraine war seemed to be reaching some kind of diplomatic endgame: The war had long settled into what was more or less a bloody stalemate; Washington was distracted by events in the Middle East; and even Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who had long rejected any negotiations if they meant giving up territory, had publicly softened his stance on the idea.

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Breaking with Ukraine Catholics, Pope rejects ban on Russian-backed church

ROME – Though without naming it specifically, Pope Francis appeared on Sunday to criticize a new law in Ukraine restricting the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church, a measure which has drawn support from his own Catholic flock in the country.