Amy B. Zegart
The Netherlands plans to continue military and financial support for Kyiv over the next several years and will push for the use of frozen Russian assets.
The incoming Dutch coalition government plans to provide Ukraine with €3 billion in military aid …
Ukraine’s power system is teetering on the edge: for the first time since the war began, subways in Kyiv and Kharkiv halted due to electricity disruptions. French outlet Le Monde calls it “a sign of an energy catastrophe” triggered by Russia’s …
Murmansk and Severomorsk have suffered another blackout, leaving residents of the two strategic Russian cities without electricity and heating once more.
Governor Andrei Chibis reported the outages on January 31. He said the failure occurred on a …
The situation in the town of Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region - declared captured by Russia on January 27 - remains fully under the control of Ukraine’s Defense Forces, the Ukrainian outlet DeepState said Saturday, January 31, on its …
Russian “shadow fleet” tankers transiting the Black Sea have begun hugging Turkey’s coastline to avoid attacks by Ukrainian unmanned surface vessels, according to Militarnyi, which cites maritime traffic analysts and OSINT projects.
Militarnyi …
Ukraine’s military carried out a strike on a base used by Russia’s elite “BARS-Sarmat” special forces on January 29, using five attack drones near the settlement of Kyrylivka in the Zaporizhzhia region, according to RIA Pivden, which cited the “Spy …
On the morning of January 31, a large-scale failure in Ukraine’s power system triggered emergency electricity shutoffs across much of the country - and beyond.
A serious disruption in the Ukrainian grid left Kyiv, the Kyiv region and several other …
Russian oil company Lukoil has reached a preliminary agreement to sell its overseas assets to U.S. investment firm Carlyle, RIA Novosti reported, citing Lukoil.
The deal covers LUKOIL International GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of PJSC Lukoil that …
Ukraine introduced emergency electricity shutdowns across several regions on January 31, with effects felt in the capital. Voltage problems in Kyiv prompted water supply disruptions and a temporary suspension of the metro.
Regional utilities reported …
Moldova suffered a major power outage on Jan. 31, leaving most of its capital without electricity in the morning and halting trolleybuses and traffic lights.
Parts of Moldova experienced power disruptions when Ukraine reported "a cascade shutdown" in …
The liquid assets of Russia’s National Wealth Fund (NWF) could be fully depleted within the next year if current oil prices persist.
Experts at the major state-owned lender Gazprombank have warned the Kremlin that the NWF is being “zeroed out” at a …
In Olha Kobylianska's 1891 novella "A Human Being," the heroine Olena defies societal norms with a transgression that challenges the very fabric of her world: the pursuit of intellectual freedom. She is a woman who thinks for herself and, far worse …
