Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. He served as the Economic Counsellor at the British Embassy in Moscow from July 2014 to February 2019.

Two steps forward, one step back on negotiations, while Biden plows more weapons into Ukraine

As Russia gains ground on the battlefield in high-attrition combat, Zelensky is facing increased pressure to deploy younger people to the front lines.

On the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Roman Solomonyuk shocked his family when he volunteered to fight. But over two-and-a-half years later, he’s joined the growing number of Ukrainian soldiers who’ve called it quits.

The list of Trump’s team members is long, so let’s concentrate on a short list of “troika” candidates who deal with foreign affairs and national security, starting with secretary of state Marco Rubio.

NATO knows it has lost its proxy war, but many of its members will still try to prevent a genuine peace

“Whilst I applaud the efforts of Hungarian leader Viktor Orban and his attempts to bring the Ukraine military action to a close, I’m afraid that I still shudder when I hear the word ‘negotiations’ come from his, or indeed anyone’s mouth, in connection with how this will end.

And it has been a strategic boon to the far right at home and abroad.

Below is my exclusive interview with a Russian war reporter who grew up in Donetsk and lived in Kiev until 2018. She tells the truth that western regimes are trying to hide.

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Advisers to Donald Trump publicly and privately are floating proposals to end the Ukraine war that would cede large parts of the country to Russia for the foreseeable future, according to a Reuters analysis of their statements and interviews with several people close to the U.S. president-elect.