Trump has finally realised he needs economic and military muscle to force Putin to agree a peace deal
There are signs the US president is prepared to follow through on his threats of sanctioning Russia and arming Ukraine.
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Ukraine war: why the Kinburn spit is of vital military significance and opens up the recapture of Crimea
Ukraine appears to be mounting an operation to retake the tiny headland.
Ukraine: most people refuse to compromise on territory, but willingness to make peace depends on their war experiences – new survey
Survey shows that Ukrainians’ attitudes about a peace settlement and any territorial concessions to the Russians differs dependng on their experience of war.
How the loss of its Mediterranean naval base in Syria would weaken Russia as a global power
Tartus is Russia’s only foothold on the Mediterranean coast.
Ukraine war: ten years after Putin annexed Crimea, Russia’s grip on the peninsula looks shaky
While Ukraine’s fortunes on the battlefield have been mixed, its operations in Crimea and the Black Sea have been rather more successful.
Many Russian speakers in Ukraine have switched language – but changing perceptions may be much harder
Many Russian-speakers in the war-torn country are opting to speak Ukrainian instead.
Vladimir Putin has never understood why Ukrainians want to control their own destiny
The Russian president still insists that Ukraine has been taken over by hostile pro-western elites over the past decade.
Moldova: Russia continues its mischief‑making in breakaway Transnistria
Russia has long harboured territorial ambitions in this former Soviet republic.
Ukraine war: why a ceasefire based on partition of territory won’t work
Russian and Ukrainian communists who in 1919 mapped out the border between Ukraine and Russia took as their starting point the former Russian empire’s provincial boundaries.
Why the Caspian Sea has become so important in both the Ukraine and Iran wars
The Caspian Sea has enabled Iran and Russia to supply each other with weapons and trade goods despite western sanctions.
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