Editor’s Note: This is an analysis by experts from the Center for Defense Strategies: Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Alina Frolova, Oleksiy Pavliuchyk, and Viktor Kevlyuk. It was originally published in Ukrainian by Ukrainska Pravda on Feb. 22. The Kyiv Independent is republishing it with permission. This analysis focuses on the possible
Editor’s note: Editorials are articles that present the opinion of the editorial team of the Kyiv Independent. Yesterday was a one-of-a-kind day in the history of the modern world: 40 million people learned, on live TV, that their country shouldn’t exist. That’s the verdict that Russian President
On Sunday, police brutally dispersed a group of demonstrators who came to Moscow’s Pushkin Square, the traditional site of dissident rallies since the Soviet era, to denounce Vladimir Putin’s presumptive attack on Ukraine. The protesters, who included veteran human rights leader and former member of parliament Lev Ponomarev,
Editor’s Note: This op-ed was published by Atlantic Council. It is republished here with permission. Almost exactly eight years to the day since he first ordered the invasion of Crimea, Vladimir Putin struck another blow in his war against Ukrainian statehood on February 21 by officially recognizing the two
Editor’s Note: This is issue 65 of Ukrainian State-Owned Enterprises Weekly covering events from Feb. 12-18, 2022. The Kyiv Independent is reposting it with permission. Corporate governance in SOEs Ex-CEO Kobolyev says he did not receive full remuneration from Naftogaz – Naftogaz refutes, refers to Hr 600 million paid as
France is now fully mobilized in the fight against impunity for the perpetrators of international crimes committed in Syria and throughout the world. Recent legislative changes strengthen France's cooperation with the United Nations-mandated International, Impartial & Independent Mechanism (IIIM), which aims to gather and analyze evidence of international crimes in Syria
Editor’s Note: The opinions expressed in the op-ed section are those of the authors. It’s important not to lose the battle before it even begins. Right now, the Russia-instigated security crisis in Ukraine is threatening to become an all-out war of occupation. Against all the voices of reason,
Russia’s needless war in Ukraine uncovered the best and the worst sides of international politics and diplomacy. The best produced what looks currently like a win over Vladimir Putin’s war. The worst is that his lunacy against democracy continues. What now? First, the best. Bravo Ukraine! It stands
Editor’s Note: This is issue 64 of Ukrainian State-Owned Enterprises Weekly covering events from Feb. 5 – Feb. 12 2022. The Kyiv Independent is reposting it with permission. Corporate governance in SOEs The Ministry of Energy wants to change Ukrhydroenergo’s CEO. In a letter to the Cabinet of Ministers
On Monday, as Ukraine was bracing for a possible Russian invasion and another punishing Covid-19 wave, President Volodymyr Zelensky held an event on digital transformation which resembled something out of Apple founder Steve Jobs' playbook. Flashy graphics and cool suits framed a presentation which included a pledge to gift heavily
Throughout the eight years that Ukraine has been at war with the Russian Federation, Canada has consistently refused to supply lethal weapons to Ukraine.
I rely on personal connections in my line of work. Since arriving in Ukraine as the United Nations’Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in 2018, I’ve travelled across the country, listening to Ukrainians and hearing about their hopes and aspirations, but also their concerns. This is a troubling time
Editor’s Note: This op-ed was published by Atlantic Council. It is republished here with permission. With more than 100,000 Russian troops currently concentrated on the Ukrainian border and the prospect of the largest European conflict since WWII looming over the continent, Western unity has never been more important.
At the end of the Cold War, the third largest nuclear power on earth was not Britain, France or China. It was Ukraine. The Soviet collapse, a slow-motion downfall that culminated in December 1991, resulted in the newly independent Ukraine inheriting roughly 5,000 nuclear arms that Moscow had stationed
While certain aspects of Russia’s attack on Ukraine have been novel, Moscow’s approach to the conflict echoes a range of far more traditional tactics from the era of Soviet expansionism.
Editor’s Note: This is issue 63 of Ukrainian State-Owned Enterprises Weekly covering events from Jan. 29 – Feb. 4 2022. The Kyiv Independent is reposting it with permission. Corporate governance in SOEs Ukraine has too many SOEs with unconventional legal forms. The State Statistics Service of Ukraine reported changes in
All the questions that repeatedly arise about a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, the one that gets the least satisfactory answers is this one: Why?
Editor’s note: Editorials are articles that present the opinion of the editorial team of the Kyiv Independent. As a Ukraine-based newsroom, we don’t pretend to be neutral when it comes to covering Russia’s war against Ukraine. For us, the threat hanging over Ukraine isn’t just a
The change in Belarus’s geopolitical status over the past 18 months represents one of the most dramatic shifts in the security calculus in Eastern Europe since Russia’s illegal 2014 annexation of Crimea.
'The lack of recent reliable nationwide data has opened a gaping hole into which misinformation can proliferate.'
'The threat of Russia’s invasion might be new for most of Ukraine. To millions of natives of eastern Ukraine and Crimea, it is a flashback to what we went through eight years ago.'
'One expert described anti-corruption institutions in Ukraine as an isolated island in a hostile sea. I believe this is an appropriate illustration.'
Last July, Vladimir Putin supplied the mythical basis for Russian war propaganda in an essay titled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians.” The essential idea is that Russia has the right to Ukraine because of things that happened a thousand years ago in Kyiv. At the time, the
Editor’s Note: This op-ed was published by Macdonald-Laurier Institute. It is republished here with permission. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced the extension and expansion of Operation UNIFIER, the Canadian Armed Forces’ military training and capacity-building mission in Ukraine. With the mission now running until March 2025, 60 troops
Editor’s Note: This op-ed was published by Atlantic Council. It is republished here with permission. With Russian troops massed along Ukraine’s borders and Vladimir Putin threatening a potentially devastating new invasion of the country, the drumbeat of Kremlin propaganda is also becoming noticeably louder. This is no surprise.
Editor’s Note: This is issue 62of Ukrainian State-Owned Enterprises Weekly covering events from Jan. 22 – Jan. 28, 2022. The Kyiv Independent is reposting it with permission. Corporate governance in SOEs The Verkhovna Rada establishes a Temporary Commission of Inquiry for State Audit Service, State Customs Service, and Naftogaz. On
Editor’s Note: This op-ed was published by Atlantic Council. It is republished here with permission. With Russia threatening a new invasion of Ukraine, US and EU officials have been working on contingency plans to identify alternative energy supplies for European consumers in case Moscow disrupts westward deliveries of oil
Perhaps the greatest indictment that could be made against Ukraine’s pre-Maidan President Viktor Yanychovych who fled to Rostov, Russia under armed guard, was the evidence of how ill prepared the Ukrainian military was when Vladimir Putin invaded and then illegally occupied the sovereign lands of Ukraine, specifically parts of
As my home country of Ukraine once again finds itself caught in the glare of the international media spotlight during its tense standoff with Russia, something catches my eye lately: The seeming inability by some respected news outlets to correctly name Ukraine. Specifically, the addition of that pesky definite article:
On Wednesday, January 26, the United States’ ambassador in Moscow, John Sullivan, personally delivered a memorandum to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs containing the official US reply to earlier Russian demands on security guarantees. Simultaneously, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) handed over to Moscow its separate written response.
Ukraine is about to become the burial ground for the western rules-based global order, NATO, and the EU. The world’s dictators are watching. Vladimir Putin is at the top of his power with Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine about to fall in his order. Iran is about to cross
Editor's Note: This op-ed was published in Ukrainian by RFE/RL. The Kyiv Independent has translated it and is republishing it with permission. The opinions expressed in the op-ed section are those of the authors. Joseph Stalin made a huge mistake when he didn’t believe Soviet intelligence on Adolf
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