Opinion

Preparations are underway for the Swiss Peace Summit, which will take place in mid-June. The collective Western countries are improving their negotiating positions, as everyone is aware that although the pseudo-empire is not invited, negotiations with it will inevitably follow the Summit. And since these negotiating positions cannot yet be strengthened on the battlefield, Ukraine’s partners are resorting to military-diplomatic […]

In Oleksandr Kochetkov’s opinion, the intention to raise electricity tariffs is an undisguised sabotage against Ukraine. And if we had a truly independent SBU, it would have to investigate such actions under the article “treason”. And it doesn’t matter if it’s malicious intent or just the usual stupidity. I will explain why.  1. Our international partners allocate targeted funds to support and restore […]

In the spring of 2014, we surrendered Crimea without a single shot. Of course, we had almost no loyal troops, the police switched sides to the enemy, the intelligence services stabbed us in the back, the local “elite” sold out completely, and the Kyiv government was shocked, weak, and confused, like a young girl before her wedding. Could we have […]

50,000 books were destroyed by russia in Kharkiv just in one strike yesterday. First, they will kill your artists. They will beat the painters to death behind garages, drive the poets to suicide, rot the journalists and historians in camps, shoot the priests, and force the musicians to sing their songs. Then they will open cinemas, literary schools, and conservatories. […]

Why is the Ukrainian defense industry not taking off? Yuriy Kasyanov‘s opinion on the example of drone production.

Demobilization law does not exists. Ukrainian soldiers may return home dead or heavily wounded. Tim Zlatkin‘s analysis. So, what’s up with the demobilization law? Have they forgotten and blew off it? You, guys, just fight, and don’t talk shit on social media??  We will not give you a vacation, and if we will, then for two weeks, no more, because there is no one to fight,we have fucked up mobilization. Regular rotations? Don’t buy that […]

To Ukrainian soldiers’s opinion, this DeepState analysis is the most sane about the situation with the russian offensive in the Kharkiv border region and the actions of the 125th Brigade command. Ukrainian brothers from battalion are of the same opinion. About the 125th Territorial Defense Brigade and the fighters’ contribution to the maintenance of the Hlyboke-Zelene area. We in no […]

The situation around potential Russia – Ukraine peace talks— of course, through mediators and following the conference in Switzerland — consists of many pieces. But if you start to put everything together, you get a recognizable picture. According to information leaks, the visit to Kyiv of the American guitarist and acting US Secretary of State E. Blinken was devoted to […]

Suddenly, Putin has started talks about peace. Or was it quite expected? It was and here’s why. In an interview with China’s Xinhua news agency, Putin highly praised China’s peace plan, which consists in starting negotiations on the current front line and without withdrawing Russian troops. So, this is actually what Russia needs – to preserve the occupied territories and […]

Lesya Lytvynova: “I don’t even try to imagine what it’s like to be a mother in Ukraine,” an old friend from another continent writes to me. She has two children, and she worries about them all the time. They appeared in her life quite late, when she no longer expected it. And the whole world seems hostile and dangerous to […]

Budapest memorandum: how legal security guarantees for Ukraine turns to global security system destabilisation. Andrii Bezsmertnyi put the story of the Budapest Memorandum on the shelves. Or, as it is more accurately called, the Memorandum on Security Assurances in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. It was signed on December 5, 1994, in […]

“I am not inspired by posts of outrage.” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was right to suspend the provision of consular services to draft dodgers abroad – interview with Volodymyr Ohryzko.