Tag: Ukraine
Remembering the past, looking to the future: how the war in Ukraine is changing Europe
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Both sides in this war have plundered history. Vladimir Putin claims to be replaying the second world war by “denazifying” Ukraine, while his...
Ukraine’s military is outgunned but can still inflict a great deal of pain on Russian forces
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Ukraine’s ramshackle military offered no resistance to the Crimean annexation in February 2014. Since then the poorly equipped but well-motivated Ukrainian Army has taken thousands...
Fake viral footage is spreading alongside the real horror in Ukraine. Here are 5 ways to spot it
Genuine image of an abandoned Russian tank near the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv during this week’s invasion. But social media is rife with fake...
Is international law powerless against Russian aggression in Ukraine? No, but it’s complicated
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The world was treated to a grotesque spectacle this week. Russia, the current president of the UN Security Council, launched an invasion...
How Russia’s recognition of breakaway parts of Ukraine breached international law – and set the stage for invasion
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Before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, it “recognised” two parts of eastern Ukraine as sovereign states: the so-called people’s republics of...