Section: The Centre for Eastern Studies (Poland)
Slovakia: strategic dilemmas after the Russian invasion of Ukraine
The centre-right government in Bratislava decided to discontinue its long-standing policy of avoiding antagonising Russia. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Slovakia has found itself in the vanguard of the countries most involved in providing military and humanitarian aid to Kyiv. …read more Source:: Centre for Eastern Studies...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine: day 75
Russian units attempted to completely cut off the Ukrainian grouping in the Sievierodonetsk area from the rest of the forces. After organising another crossing of the Donets River, they struck along the border of the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts at the height of the villages of Bilihorivka and Shypylivka (west of Lysychansk) in a southern...
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...
