Despite being isolated from western suppliers, Russia was not cut off from international markets and its imports have mostly recovered.

All the evidence points to the fact that the Russian leadership is not seriously considering any potential ceasefire or peace ...

Russia wants to discuss opening up Black Sea trade presumably to legalize the export of grain from occupied Ukrainian ...

The strategic wake-up call. As time passes since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, uncertainty has become the de ...

The war in Ukraine has brought back debate on possible new aggression from Russia. But for Central and Eastern Europe, the risk of being annexed and erased from the map is centuries old. Without a ...

Three years ago, Ukrainian forces retook Kherson in what was then hailed as a major turning point in the war. At the time, Professor Andrey Makarychev, a political scientist at the University of Tartu ...

Between 2022 and 2025 Ukraine’s resistance managed to inflict persistent losses and disruption on Russian forces in the occupied territories. The kinds of operation – from bombs and bullets to spies ...

Since 2009 the main EU instrument of engaging and integrating with the region of Eastern Europe has been the Eastern Partnership programme. However, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and ...

The consequences of Russia’s invasion are visible not only in Ukraine. The Kremlin has set off or exploited a series of crises that face most European countries.

While the US tries to present itself as an honest broker engaged in shuttle diplomacy, it is difficult not to perceive its efforts as favouring the Russian side. Even before negotiations with Russia ...