Updates from various frontline sectors suggest progress for Ukraine’s counter-offensive. But it’s slow progress.
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Russian and Ukrainian communists who in 1919 mapped out the border between Ukraine and Russia took as their starting point the former Russian empire’s provincial boundaries.
About 100,000 Crimean Tatars died as part of a massive deportation of these people by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin towards the end of the second world war.
A historian explains how Russian President Vladimir Putin, weakened by a short-lived mutiny, might find a path to peace with Ukraine.
Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for the attack on crucial civilian infrastructure. Experts explain what the incident means for future war plans, and for the safety of the affected region.
The destruction of this massive dam is a huge blow to Ukraine’s plans for a counter-offensive in the south.
Ukraine is hinting it may be prepared to talk, with conditions. Here’s what both sides could learn from the Northern Ireland peace process.
A selection of our coverage of the conflict over the past fortnight.
Russia is reportedly preparing massive defences to prevent a lightning offensive to retake the occupied peninsula.
If the west had paid more attention to the Russian invasion of Crimea, it may have avoided a Ukraine war.
Questions about whether warring parties agree about how the war will end and the costs of war or peace are all key factors to help assess when a conflict might end.
Vladimir Putin is playing a long game by not formally declaring war. It may be to avoid international escalation.
The negotiations that finally brought peace to Northern Ireland could provide some useful pointers as to how to end the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine appears to be mounting an operation to retake the tiny headland.
Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
What happens now could dictate the course of the rest of the war.
Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
There are 3 reasons why Russia’s loss of Kherson – if Moscow’s claims are accurate – will likely prove decisive for the future of the war, and potentially Putin’s own fortunes too.
How does Putin extract himself from this mess? The only way to do so is to win the war in Ukraine, or at least to win sufficient concessions that would permit him to spin it as a victory.
Failing on the battlefield, Russia is now concentrating its fire against civilians in Ukraine’s major cities.
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professor of International Security, Jean Monnet Professor of European Security, National University Odesa Law Academy
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Professor of International Security, School of Global Affairs, Lancaster University
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Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science, Penn State
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Associate Professor, School of Geography, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Military Strategy and Law, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Military History, University of Calgary
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Founding Dean and Professor of International Studies, Hamilton Lugar School, Indiana University
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Professor of International Relations and Security, University of Bradford
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