Category: 6. Opinion

On Wednesday, November 20, 2024, the United States announced its decision to supply anti-personnel landmines to Ukraine. Zelenskyy thanked the US for its decision and called these landmines essential for stopping Russian assaults, clearly indicating the intention to use these anti-personnel…

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, numerous reports have shown the widespread use of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against detained civilians and prisoners of war. A significant portion of this SGBV has been directed against men. While efforts for accountability for war crimes have been…

The American people have spoken: Donald Trump won the presidential election in a landslide, securing himself a second term in the White House that is due to begin on January 20^th next year. The Republican nominee’s resounding victory comes with major implications for the war in Ukraine:…

On 3 September 2024, the Russian President Putin, whose arrest is sought by the ICC for alleged war crimes committed during the war in Ukraine (see eg Sergey Vasiliev), made his first visit to an ICC State Party (Mongolia) since the issuance of the arrest warrant. Despite demands for Putin’s…

On the 24th of October, while the President of the ICC expressed their “high appreciation” for the strong cooperative relations with the UN, commemorating the “UN Day”, something even more telling about UN-ICC relationships happened 3000 km from The Hague in Kazan, Russia. The UN…

Reporting over the past few weeks has confirmed the presence of thousands of North Korean troops in the theatre of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, and their imminent deployment on the battlefield. Estimates vary, but the North Korean regime has apparently provided more than ten thousand troops to…

Dr. Anna Tashchenko of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv writes here about her research that identifies dominant visual value patterns in the images that accompany media reports on the Russian war in Ukraine and the media stories of Ukrainian…