Section: The Centre for Eastern Studies (Poland)
Russia shows its frustration – 15 attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure
Russia has carried out a total of 15 large-scale missile attacks on energy facilities across Ukraine since October 2022. The most recent one, on 9 March, targeted infrastructure such as electricity transmission and district heating in eight regions, including Kyiv, Kharkiv and the Zaporizhzhia, Zhytomyr and Odesa oblasts. In total, the invaders...
A new stage in Ukraine’s fight against corruption
On 6 March 2023, the Ukrainian government appointed Semen Kryvonos for a seven-year term as director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), the most important institution involved in fighting corruption among senior state and local administration officials. He was one of the three candidates put forward by a selection board...
Lukashenka’s threats. Day 377 of the war
Russian forces have pushed the rest of the defenders out of the eastern part of Bakhmut and have established a line of contact on the Bakhmutka River. They also control the only undestroyed bridge in the southern part of the city. Fighting continues in the northern and southern parts of Bakhmut and on its south-western outskirts. Ukrainian troops...
An (un)reliable partner. Scholz’s visit to Washington
Chancellor Olaf Scholz met with US President Joe Biden in Washington on 2 March during a working visit to the city. The head of German government was not accompanied by journalists or representatives of German companies. The talks were preceded by a brief statement from both politicians, in which they thanked each other for their...
The Ukrainians are not surrendering Bakhmut. Day 375 of the war
Russian forces continue offensive operations to the northeast and south of Chasiv Yar, through which some of Bakhmut’s defenders are being withdrawn and supplies are transported for the Ukrainian soldiers remaining in the town. Moving along dirt roads, Ukrainians are being fired upon with virtually all weapons. …read more Source::...
The German perfect model… on credit
Germany is slowly recovering from the shock caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It has defined the processes that will help it to revise what had once appeared to be the perfect model of policy making and doing business. So far, it has launched reforms in the areas in which these became necessary due to the new circumstances and in which...
Ukrainians signal their withdrawal from Bakhmut. Day 372 of the war
Ukrainian forces are signalling the possibility of an evacuation from Bakhmut. The order to withdraw was to be given to a unit providing tactical aerial reconnaissance to the defenders using drones (the so-called Magyar’s Birds). On the morning of 3 March, Ukrainian soldiers began blowing up crossings on the Bakhmutka River which runs...
China’s diplomatic game over the ‘peace plan’
On 24 February 2023, the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China revealed a twelve-point document entitled ‘China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis’. …read more Source:: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Western sanctions against Russia on the first anniversary of the Ukraine invasion
On 25 February, the European Union adopted its tenth package of sanctions against Russia (and Iran), consisting of: …read more Source:: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Removal of the commander of Ukrainian forces in Donbas. Day 368 of the war
The Russians continue their advance north-west of Bakhmut, pushing the defenders towards the junction in the village of Chasiv Yar. Russian troops most likely already have full fire control of the last Bakhmut supply line running through it. Fighting is ongoing in the northern, eastern and southern parts of the town and south-west of the town,...
