Section: The Centre for Eastern Studies (Poland)
Trump’s further appointments: a peace plan for Ukraine and the threat of a tariff increase?
In the last days of November, Donald Trump tapped further candidates for positions in his new administration. The nomination of retired General Keith Kellogg as US special envoy for Ukraine and Russia suggests that although the new president’s goal will be to seek an end to the war in Ukraine, this does not necessarily involve far-reaching...
Equipment problems in the Ukrainian army. Day 1014 of the war
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The Gordian knot of mobilisation: Ukraine balancing the needs of the military and business
The increasing number of men who have been granted deferment from military service in recent months and the problems in the implementation of mobilisation plans have urged the Ukrainian authorities to carry out an audit of companies deemed strategically important for national defence. The decision to revise the list of these companies is aimed at...
Russia strikes Ukraine with strategic missile. Day 1007 of the war
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Ukraine: another difficult wartime budget
On 19 November, the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) adopted (by a majority of 257 votes) the 2025 budget law, specifying that the country’s spending will amount to 3.94 trillion hryvnias (approximately $95.5 billion) and its revenues to 2.34 trillion hryvnias (approximately $56.7 billion). The vast majority of expenditures –2.2...
Kremlin escalates threats against the West
On 21 November, Russia launched a medium-range ballistic missile of a new type, identified by the US as a modified version of the prototype RS-26 Rubezh intercontinental ballistic missile, which targeted the Yuzhmash/Pivdenmash plant in Ukraine’s Dnipro. On the same day, Vladimir Putin declared that the attack was a response to Ukrainian...
Ukraine gets ‘green light’ to attack Russian territory with Western-made missiles
On 17 November, Western media outlets including The New York Times and Le Figaro reported that Ukraine had received approval to use US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles and British/French-made Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missiles against targets on Russian territory. …read more Source:: Centre for Eastern Studies...
The Russians are again destroying Ukraine’s energy sector. Day 1000 of the war
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Pivot to the east
As a result of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, which has been ongoing since 2014, and the ensuing Western sanctions, Russia has reoriented its foreign trade towards the East. This is a permanent shift which stems from Russia’s security objectives. Therefore, the Kremlin aims to further reduce Russia’s dependence on economic...
Ukraine: corruption scandal over fake disability certificates
On 4 October, Ukraine’s secret services detained Tetiana Krupa, the head of the Medical-Social Expert Commission (MSEK, a body responsible, among other tasks, for issuing disability certificates) in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast and a deputy to the oblast’s council representing the Servant of the People party. Cash in various currencies...
