Section: Research Organizations & Think Tanks about Ukraine
Russian “peacekeeping forces” symbol was found on the vehicles in Donbass
The Guardian has found more evidence of Russian military hardware operating inside Ukraine, spotting an armoured vehicle marked with the symbol of the Russian army’s “peacekeeping forces”. Their vehicle was marked in three places with a blue circle and the yellow Cyrillic letters MC – the Russian abbreviation for “peacekeeping forces”, the...
The political fate of Poroshenko will depend on price of the peace in Donbass
The war in eastern Ukraine has quietened, for now. Its disparate factions have as much reason to keep fighting as to put away their guns. But a ceasefire signed on September 5th in Minsk is so far mostly holding, the Economist writes. Deputy director general and director of political and legal programmes at the Razumkov Centre Yuriy Yakymenko...
Ghost Soldiers from Russia
Despite a plethora of irrefutable evidence, Russian president Vladimir Putin continues his steadfast denial of Russia’s military presence in Ukraine. According to writer Alexander Podrabinek, only those interested in propaganda and not facts are capable of disregarding such a cynical lie. …read more Source: Institute of Modern...
Russia’s Baltic War
Having failed to check Russia’s desire to reconstitute its empire in Ukraine, the world now looks on as the Russian campaign in the Baltics picks up steam. The latest news is that of an Estonian agent apparently kidnapped from Estonia and charged with espionage in Russia. The aggregate total of the number of people who believe...
Ukraine News Roundup | September 15
Ukraine President Poroshenko Faces Backlash Over EU Trade Deal Delay via Wall Street JournalBitter Survivors and Caravans of Coffins from Ukraine’s “Eastern Boiler” via Daily BeastAs The Sanctions’ Noose Tightens, China Grabs Russian Energy Assets At Bargain Prices via Forbes5 Ways for NATO, U.S. to Support Ukraine via Washington...
The wall at the Russian border won’t help guarantee the security of Ukraine
The length of the Ukrainian-Russian border is now 2,295km. Given the Russian aggression, Ukraine decided to build engineering structures with concrete fortifications, barbed wire, watchtowers, barriers with motion sensors and infrared cameras along the entire Russian border. The project is called „The Wall“, and it has already been approved in...
The Fear of Responsibility
On September 8, 2014, the preliminary results of the investigation into the recent crash of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 over Donetsk, Ukraine, were published by the Netherlands commission assembled for the task. Moscow-based journalist Olga Melnikova comments on Russia’s reactions to the findings. …read more Source: Institute of...
Ukraine News Roundup | September 11
Russia and the Menace of Unreality via The AtlanticRussian Soldiers Reveal the Truth Behind Putin’s Secret War via NewsweekRussian Nationalists Grasp at Straws with ‘Scottish Solidarity” Campaign via Global VoicesPeace on Putin’s Terms via Foreign AffairsThe Ukrainian Crisis is at a Point of No Return via National InterestCrimean...
Putin took Crimea not without consent of the West
Director of Military Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Mykola Sunhurovskyi explained in his comment to the website Replika why the European Union and the United States of America had ailed to take decisive action so far to stop Russian military aggression in Ukraine. For Ukraine, part of whose territory has been annexed, and on the rest of which...
The volunteers battalions are very strong in Ukrainian society
The patriotic popular mood the volunteers exemplify puts Mr Poroshenko in a tight spot. Parliamentary elections loom in late October. Some Ukrainian experts expect battalion commanders with designs on political power to stand, the Economist writes. The battalions are “very strong in Ukrainian society”, says Mykola Sungurovskyi, director of...
