Press play to take heed to this text Voiced by synthetic intelligence. Maurizio Geri is a former analyst on the Center East and North Africa on the NATO Allied Command. He was additionally beforehand an analyst for the Italian Defence Basic Workers. All through historical past, European powers have typically …
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Press play to hearken to this text Voiced by synthetic intelligence. When a major corruption scandal broke in Ukraine final weekend, reporters confronted an excruciating dilemma between skilled obligation and patriotism. The primary thought that got here to my thoughts was: “Should I write about this for foreigners? Will it …
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Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. It seems it’s solely a matter of time earlier than the Kremlin orders one other draft to replenish its depleted ranks and make up for the battlefield failings of its command. This week, Norway’s military chief mentioned Russia has already suffered staggering …
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Press play to take heed to this text Voiced by synthetic intelligence. In early January of 1984, an aspiring younger West German socialist with a shoulder-length curly mane traveled by practice to East Berlin along with his comrades for an essential assembly. It was a tense time within the …
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Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Western nations started imposing financial and commercial sanctions on Russia immediately after its invasion of Ukraine began. Their goal was to not only punish Russia and disrupt President Vladimir Putin’s war machine, but there was hope that the resulting economic hardship might …
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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. YEREVAN, Armenia — For weeks, there’s been a new sight on Armenia’s dusty mountain roads. Among the ageing Russian Ladas and imported German cars, you’ll spot a fleet of shiny SUVs with the blue and gold-starred flag of the …
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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. KYIV — Before Russia’s full-scale invasion, Oleksandr Chyrva, a 33-year-old entrepreneur from the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, produced designer grills with his former classmate Oleksiy Suslin and business partner Timur Feizulaiev. Now this trio of entrepreneurial dads …
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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Last spring, Ukraine’s army was running desperately low on the fuel and Soviet caliber ammunition it needed to fight the Russians. Salvation came from an unexpected quarter: Bulgaria. Thanks to its fractured domestic politics — and the pro-Russian leanings …
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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. If Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes a quick reshuffle of generals can revive the fortunes of his faltering campaign in Ukraine and quell bitter turf wars among his commanders, he’s likely to be disappointed. After only three months as …
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Janusz Bugajski is a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation. His new book, Failed State: A Guide to Russia’s Rupture, has just been published. We are currently witnessing an unfolding revolution in global security that Western policy makers are clearly unprepared for — the impending collapse of the Russian Federation. …
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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. KYIV — Russia is throwing waves of Wagner mercenaries into mass attacks on the salt-mining town of Soledar in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said, as Moscow looks to envelop the strategic front-line …
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Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. There’s one factor Western and Russian navy strategists agree on — crowding numerous primarily new conscripts inside a constructing inside vary of Ukrainian missiles in order that they might see within the new 12 months was a deadly error. “They need to …
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