The Big Exodus: How creating Ukrainian refugees was part of Putin’s plan to destabilize Europe
By Mark A. Grey, Professor of Anthropology, University of Northern Iowa More than 6.3 million Ukrainians have fled their country since Russia first invaded in late February 2022. The European Union has welcomed Ukrainian refugees, allowing them to enter its 27 member...
Attacks on hospitals and maternity wards continue to wreak havoc on Ukraine’s public health system
The Russian invasion of Ukraine epitomizes many of the challenges children face today, by inflicting serious damage to children’s health and quality of life. By the middle of May 2022, more than 6.1 million people had fled Ukraine, half of them children....
A Room to Live: Stories from resettled women and children in a new community of Ukrainian refugees
“Women’s war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes and incredible feats, there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things.” – Svetlana Alexievich, “The Unwomanly Face of...
Why Putin will fail: Former Chinese Ambassador to Ukraine shares views on Russia’s strategic situation
In a now-censored essay, former PRC Ambassador to the Ukraine Gao Yusheng, explained why Russia was losing the war in Ukraine. He also shared his thoughts about the effect that defeat may have on the international order. Gao Yusheng’s article appeared on the website...
How Putin could win: Russia appears to be making progress with its goals for war despite setbacks
The last of the Ukrainian defenders in the port city of Mariupol surrendered at the Azovstal plant on May 20. The fact that at least half of them belong to the Azov regiment, created by far-right militants in 2014, offers the Kremlin a chance to claim major progress...
#ArmUkraineNow: A feminist’s reaction to the senseless anti-war message from feminists
Tamara Zlobina, a philosopher, culturologist and editor-in-chief of “Gender in Detail,” explains why Western “peacekeeping” initiatives in the midst of conflict are a blind and shameful stance. During the two months of the war, I saw four...
What a negotiated peace means for Ukraine as the Russian invasion becomes a war of attrition
Wars often erupt and persist because of the two sides’ miscalculations regarding their relative power. In the case of Ukraine, Russia blundered badly by underestimating the resolve of Ukrainians to fight and the effectiveness of NATO-supplied weaponry. Yet Ukraine and...
Lessons from 1948: How the West should implement a Marshall Plan for Ukraine to aid its reconstruction
Talking up a Marshall plan for Ukraine is a popular sport nowadays. The game starts by tossing out a figure for the cost of reconstructing Ukraine from the ravages of the Russian invasion, from $250bn, to $500bn, or $1tn, depending on assumptions about how much is...
Why the supposedly superior Russian forces have been repeatedly matched by Ukraine’s undersized military
By Liam Collins, Founding Director, Modern War Institute, United States Military Academy West Point Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, many observers looked at Russia’s overwhelming combat power and thought Russia would achieve a quick victory....
A retreat on all fronts: How Putin’s ego instigated the exact outcomes his invasion attempted to prevent
The military, economic, and diplomatic goals of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin stood in ruins after three months of war in Ukraine. Russia’s retreat from Kharkiv in late May, Ukraine’s second-largest city, pushed Moscow’s forces back to their border 25 miles away and...
Crime of Aggression: How Putin could be charged by an international criminal tribunal for the Ukraine War
By Shelley Inglis, Executive Director, University of Dayton Human Rights Center, University of Dayton A 21-year-old Russian soldier pleaded guilty in a trial in Kyiv on May 18, 2022, for shooting a Ukrainian man in the head after Russia invaded Ukraine in late...
Theological Propaganda: Why Orthodox Ukrainians are protesting churches with allegiance to Russia
As war rages across Ukraine, Mykhaylo Tereshchenko is locked in his own spiritual battle that risks tearing his parish apart. The priest is at a loss. He is a cleric of the Moscow branch of Ukraine’s Orthodox Church, which formally pledges allegiance to Russia’s...
