Category: 1. Ukraine

Ukraine has significant deposits of rare earths. In 2022, the Russian-language service of UN News reported that Ukraine’s deposits of rare earths accounted for approximately 5% of the world’s reserves. These materials are key in the…

The full-scale war has pushed an entire generation of Ukrainian women backwards: they are facing heightened exposure to gender-based violence; rising unemployment; decreased decision-making power; greater domestic burdens; and a severe mental…

President Donald Trump on Wednesday repeated a claim that the United States has spent $350 billion on Ukraine’s war — a figure that far eclipses the amount recorded by the Department of Defense and the interagency oversight group that tracks…

Desperate times call for desperate measures. And as my geopolitical gurus taught me, one must always think the unthinkable, as Europe must do now.

It’s too early to tell who the real winners and losers from the second Trump…

Summary

• With EU consensus becoming increasingly harder to achieve, Ukraine needs to explore more opportunities for bilateral cooperation.
• The Nordic-Baltic 8 (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia,…

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Senior American and Russian officials, including the countries’ top diplomats, will hold talks on improving their ties and negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin said Monday, in…

“No Country for Love,” Yaroslav Trofimov’s new book and his first work of fiction, is a family saga like no other. And it is, in part, non-fiction: In the preface, the author notes that although fictional, the novel is based on…

It was exactly eight years ago when Ukrainian political elites faced a similar question to today: What to do if the United States elected a president who wants a deal with Russia on Ukraine?

At the time, I proposed ideas including a…

Americans remain largely divided along partisan lines over U.S. aid to Ukraine, nearly three years after…

Ukraine might be fending off a full-scale Russian invasion but a brand new holiday resort is taking shape in the western Carpathian Mountains.

It will offer 25 hotels with more than 5,000 rooms, in a ski area kitted out with lifts and a range of…