Putin is using fear to mobilise the masses
There was nothing subtle about it, as cranes lifted truck-based Pantsir-S1 air defence systems onto the roofs of the sprawling…
Will Putin’s latest general escalate the war in Ukraine?
So, one granite-faced general has been replaced by another. The announcement that, after just three months in post, General Sergei…
The age of AI diplomacy
The age of AI diplomacy
Putin’s hollow dream of a mightier army
Who needs Santa when you have Vladimir Putin? Just in time for Christmas, the Russian president has promised his military…
Putin’s hawks are turning on each other
Feathers are flying and divisions are widening among Russia’s hawks as the degree to which the invasion of Ukraine was…
Ilya Yashin is in jail, but his words will sting Vladimir Putin
Fewer than one in 100 defendants in the Russian court system get acquitted. Even in the best of circumstances then,…
The Viktor Bout hostage swap is a victory for the Kremlin
After a quiet swap in the United Arab Emirates, the American basketball star Brittney Griner is out of a Russian…
Putin’s peace talks bluff has been called out
It is almost as if Vladimir Putin doesn’t mean it when he claims to be open to peace talks with…
Is Putin really to blame for this Belarusian minister’s sudden death?
Saturday’s news of the sudden death of Belarusian foreign minister Vladimir Makei, as well as the rather terse nature of…
Why Ukraine raided a Kyiv monastery
Perhaps it should not have been a surprise to see the camouflaged special forces of the SBU, the Ukrainian Security…
A worrying lesson from the Polish missile tragedy
When what seems to have been a Ukrainian S-300 air defence missile accidentally hit the village of Przewodów in Poland,…
The decline and fall of Sergei Lavrov
First came the claims that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was admitted to hospital in Bali on arriving for the…
Russia will be sweating over its withdrawal from Kherson
Almost everyone has known that the city of Kherson, stranded on the right bank of the Dnipro River, was all…
Is Russia preparing to surrender Kherson?
Will they stay or will they go? The southern Ukrainian city of Kherson has become the current focus of the…
Ukraine is becoming a showroom for modern weaponry
Ukraine is becoming a test ground for other countries’ weapons
Is Putin preparing a nuclear strike?
Russia is peddling implausible tales of Ukrainian ‘dirty bombs’. Kyiv and the West are embarked on a campaign to counter…
Tsar Vladimir brings in martial law
Martial law can arrive with a bang: tanks on the streets, Swan Lake on the TV. It can also creep…
The misconception about Putin's big red nuclear button
There is a common misconception that the leaders of nuclear states have a ‘red button’ that can unleash Armageddon. As…
Putin's attack dog brings a terrible type of warfare to Ukraine
The Crimean Bridge bombing was an unwelcome gift to both Vladimir Putin – who had celebrated his 70th birthday the…
How should the West respond to Putin’s threats?
How should the West respond to Putin’s threats?
Even Putin’s minions are turning against him
Sergei Melikov, head of the Dagestan Republic within the Russian Federation, is hardly a dissident. As Colonel General Melikov, he…
The Nord Stream blasts are Putin's warning shot to the West
While the Ukrainians are fighting a conventional war on their own territory, Russia and the West are engaged in an…
Even Putin knows he is losing
Vladimir Putin’s latest escalation over Ukraine not only demonstrates that even he doesn’t think he’s winning the war but what…
The Queen’s funeral and Russia’s post-modern propaganda state
Modern Russia is a propaganda state, but not in the same way as the Soviet Union. The Kremlin has squeezed…
How will Putin respond to his latest defeat?
Russia is retreating at speed along the Kharkiv front, leaving behind burnt-out tanks and, even more tellingly, undamaged ones, too.…
