Section: The Centre for Eastern Studies (Poland)
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...
The BSW campaign against US intermediate missile systems and a NATO HQ in Germany
For several months, the far-left Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) has been waging a campaign challenging the German government’s security policy decisions. It aims to halt military support for Ukraine, initiate dialogue with Russia, and curtail Germany’s collaboration with the United States and its engagement in NATO. The BSW...
Winning the war with Russia (is still possible)
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine aims to subjugate or destroy Ukraine, overturn the current political and security order in Europe, and fundamentally revise the global order. The conflict is systemic in nature and will continue as long as the dictatorial Putin regime operates in Moscow. Although Russia has not achieved its strategic...
Massive drone attacks on Ukraine. Day 971 of the war
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Zelensky unveils the Victory Plan
On 16 October, during his address to the Verkhovna Rada, President Volodymyr Zelensky unveiled the principles of the so-called Victory Plan, which aims to persuade the West to increase military and financial support for Ukraine in its war with Russia. The plan has five points, and its implementation requires support from Western allies,...
