Section: The Centre for Eastern Studies (Poland)
Production and export of food from Ukraine during the war with Russia
Despite the war that has been raging for more than two months, Ukraine has managed to start this year’s sowing campaign, although estimates are that the areas cultivated will be up to 30% smaller than in 2021. A fuel shortage could also be a problem during this year’s harvest. Nor is it clear what the harvest will look like in the...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine day 71
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, has reported that the defenders have moved to the offensive in the Kharkiv and Izyum directions, where fierce fighting is ongoing. According to the collective reports of the operational commands ‘East’, Combined Forces Operations (in Donbas), ‘South’ and...
China’s challenges in the Indo-Pacific in the shadow of Russian aggression against Ukraine
The PRC has been in a difficult international position since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The war and the unprecedented sanctions imposed on Moscow are accelerating polarisation in the world. The US global alliance system has worked effectively and there has been not only a consolidation of NATO, but also the establishment of cooperation...
The price of dependence on Russia. The economic consequences of Belarus’s complicity in Russia’s aggression against Ukraine
In Q1 2022, Belarus’s GDP contracted by 0.4% – the first GDP decline since the end of 2020. Being Russia’s closest military ally, Belarus has made its territory available to the Russian Armed Forces, thereby joining Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which resulted in it being targeted by Western sanctions. …read more Source::...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine day 70
Russian troops continue to shell and bomb Ukrainian positions in the combat areas and their deep hinterland. Mykolaiv and Kramatorsk fell victim to a massive rocket artillery strike (multiple launch rocket systems with a range of tens of kilometres). The rocket attack damaged, among others, railway infrastructure in Cherkasy and Dnipro, as well...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine: day 69
The aggressor troops continued to shell and bomb Ukrainian positions, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv, and undertook offensive actions on various sections of the contact line, locally improving the so-called tactical position, but generally failing to achieve success and suffering losses. On 3 May in the afternoon they were to launch a massive assault on...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine: day 64
The area at the junction of the Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts remains the scene of the heaviest fighting, and the positions of the parties have not fundamentally changed. Enemy troops have launched an assault on the village of Velyka Komyshuvakha (at the junction of the roads from Izyum to the west and from the town of Barvinkove to the...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine: day 62
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has confirmed further advances by the aggressor in the areas of the most intense fighting at the junction of the Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. …read more Source:: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine: day 60
The Orthodox Easter did not affect the pace and nature of the military struggle. Minor shifts in favour of the aggressor occurred in the south of the Kharkiv Oblast (Dibrovne in the direction of Barvinkove) and in the north of the Donetsk Oblast (Zarichne in the direction of Sloviansk). However, the positions of the parties in the Donbas and...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine: day 55
The offensive, which began on 18 April, is meeting resistance from Ukrainian forces, preventing the rapid advance of Russian troops. The main objective of the aggressor is to establish control over the whole of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and to maintain and possibly expand the land corridor linking Russia to Crimea. In contrast, the invading...
