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MOSCOW BLOG: Drone strikes
May 4, 2023
Two drones hit the Kremlin in the wee hours of May 3. Was it an attempt to kill Putin? Or a Kremlin scheme to justify an escalation and recruit more soldiers?
MOSCOW BLOG: A blueprint for a Ukrainian peace deal
April 28, 2023
Talk of peace plans is back in the news after China’s President Xi Jinping and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had a “long and meaningful” telephone call on April 26. But a workable formula still seems a long way off.
MOSCOW BLOG: Did Berlin just escalate the Ukraine war by promising to send tanks?
January 25, 2023
What just happened? Did the war in Ukraine just take a decisive turn? Did the West just change its tactics from helping Kyiv defend itself from the Russian aggressor to committing itself to offensive weapons and ensuring Russia’s defeat?
MOSCOW BLOG: President Duda says Poland will send Ukraine Leopard tanks, but don’t hold your breath
January 12, 2023
More tank news. But this one is actually a bit confusing. Polish President Andrzej Duda was in Lviv yesterday for a summit and announced that Poland will send some of its 250 German-made Leopard tanks to Ukraine. Will it happen?
MOSCOW BLOG: Are sanctions failing?
December 13, 2022
The EU has done a deal with bad-boy Hungary that gets Budapest’s agreement on a global minimum tax and the €18bn Ukraine macro-aid package. In return Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban had the frozen EU funds he wanted released.
