Long-reads

Ukraine's survival as a country and as a nation depends on its ability to secure US support. But the upcoming US election will usher in a new era in American politics...

US President Joe Biden has dedicated over 50 years of his life to politics and cares deeply about his legacy. That is why the idea of inviting Ukraine to join NATO emerged…

Ukraine needs to have an effective national justice system that can investigate all 4 types of international crimes: aggression, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

John Healey: "Ukraine has the right to defend itself against Russia’s illegal attacks, including the option to carry out incursions within Russia."

The stance of the Global South remains a significant obstacle in the matter of confiscating the frozen assets of the Russian Central Bank.

Karel Hirman: "What we’re seeing now is a theatre or even a circus around Lukoil, and behind it are financial flows bypassing our countries’ budgets."

What will happen to NATO if Trump returns to power in the US? After all, Orbán's resistance to Ukraine's accession has stalled, leaving only a show of bravado...

Hungary, which has blocked Ukraine's path to NATO for years, has agreed to a decision that has made Ukraine's accession irreversible...

Despite successes in the matter of frozen Russian assets, the issue of compensation for victims of Russian aggression is still unresolved.

The outlines of the agreement are known: it includes both concessions from Ukraine and "compensations" from Hungary... Orbán plans to remain in the Russian orbit in the future…

If the reason for Hungary's absurd demands is a poor understanding of Ukraine, then a compromise is possible. But it is likely that Budapest is preemptively set on derailing Ukraine’s path to EU accession.

There are exactly two weeks to go to the NATO summit, and we can certainly predict the agreements that will be reached in Washington

Switzerland has changed the troublesome provisions of the final document of the Peace Summit, which could have had undesirable consequences for Ukraine. Public outcry has improved the possible outcome of the Peace Summit.

The boundaries between today's Russia and five NATO states are not established in accordance with international law. The same problem exists with Ukraine...

Making such a decision will send a powerful signal to the world that Ukraine has compromised on key principles...

Tomáš Kopečný: "Today, the pace of deliveries depends on a single factor: the availability of financial resources. And very often we have to compete with the Russians." 

Even the US – famously Iran’s No. 1 enemy – has made gestures of respect for the politician who was rightly dubbed "the Butcher of Tehran"… 

Some Western countries, due to constant threats from Moscow, are afraid to acknowledge that Russia is an enemy that must be defeated. In doing so, the West harms itself…