On 24 Feb, I was honoured to give a talk for The Hansard Society at the House of Lords on Ukraine's parliament during full-scale invasion. A bittersweet privilege afforded only by the fight of the Ukr armed forces & society. Without them there would be no democratic parliament in Ukraine.
Thank you - an excellent case study in English just in time for my final year class on governance in Russia!
Kyiv and the region are under intense drone attacks today. russians seem to have changed tactics — dispersing drone strikes throughout the day & night to paralyze daily life and disrupt businesses. They also resumed targeting our energy infrastructure, hoping to freeze us into surrender. Terrorists.
A NEW THREAT TO FREEDOM? ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2025/09/07/a...
In a depressingly familiar story, deputy Zhelezhniak explains how the schemers in Poltava produced decorations not fortifications and got promoted for their trouble
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPuD...
Indeed! And I covered this in a talk I gave in Helsinki in [checks notes] 2015!
Failure to learn the lessons from Afghanistan has profound consequences, including for the UK's commitment to support Ukraine, according to this damning RUSI commentary www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
What did the US get in return? Why now? What did Kremlin do to earn this? So many questions.
I'm currently reading @shaunwalker7.bsky.social's account of the scrupulous recruitment, years of training and diligent handling of the USSR's 'illegals'. The contrast with the crude FSB op detailed here couldn't be more striking. www.reuters.com/investigates...
Huge congratulations Artur! I heard you passed without corrections too. Looking forward to reading the publications from the thesis.
As the diplomatic theater drags on, I'm here to remind you that nothing has changed politically/militarily to move the status quo. Ru wants capitulation, Ukraine won't surrender, Europe is w Ukr rhetorically but is unable to step up big time, Trump wants a quick end but perhaps not at any cost.
A chilling story about my ex colleague, journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, detained by Russia on the occupied territories of Ukraine while reporting. She was tortured and killed, her body returned to Ukraine several months later with missing organs, as brain www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Yesterday we published our investigation into torture & death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna.
Now, what I & several Guardian colleagues have been working on for past few months: inside one of Russia's worst torture prisons for Ukrainians
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
speakers: @olgatokariuk.bsky.social @simonpirani.bsky.social Kateryna Busol, Anastasia Riabchuk, Andrew Wilson
War and Peace in Ukraine
🗓️Weds 7 May, 3pm-5pm
Join us for a discussion on possible peace deals & plans for post-war reconstruction in Ukraine, featuring exhibit posters from Yurko Gutsulyak’s ‘Blue-Yellow Series’ 🇺🇦
Tea/coffee & Ukrainian snacks provided!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1259287907...
Moscow killed Mike Yohansen in 1937 and banned his books. I never expected Washington to try to kill my translation of his best novel in 2025. Read @katetsurkan.bsky.social's latest for @kyivindependent.com on Trump's attack on Ukrainian literature in translation. kyivindependent.com/publishing-h...
No longer hiding behind nonsense propaganda about NATO or "protecting Russian speakers" or "nazis", Russians now admit that their aim in Ukraine is merely genocide.
Russia's Lieutenant Colonel Selivanov lays out the core of Russian culture.
@kcraik1.bsky.social @drsarahwhitmore.bsky.social
Sorry, it's in-person only this time
Europe is about to commit its greatest strategic mistake. on.ft.com/4bVGZZ9
Join us in Oxford for a timely public roundtable on 7/5 w/ leading Ukr experts, plus poster exhib. Pls register via link
Spkrs:
Kateryna Busol
@simonpirani.bsky.social
Anastasiia Riabchuk
@olgatokariuk.bsky.social
Andrew Wilson #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/war-and-pe...
Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov asserted that there will be no ceasefire and peace will happen only on Russia's terms. He mocked American politicians who pledged to stand with Ukraine, but now their support is nowhere to be seen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QyO...
During a meeting with Putin, the mother of a deceased Russian soldier openly admitted to abducting a child from the occupied Kherson region and taking them to Russia. Another example of a heinous violation of human rights by Russia and its people.
Some scattered thoughts after the most shocking and horrible moment of US diplomacy most of us have ever seen. Not even sure what the point of writing anything about this is, but here goes. 1/
America’s withdrawal from Ukraine appears to be moving to warp speed now.
Voting with Russia, Trump has placed the US together with Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Nicaragua & rogue African military dictatorships friendly with Russia.
Trump has taken the US out of the family of democratic countries.
Even China, Cuba & Iran abstained.
Shame!
New: Russia’s executions of Ukrainian prisoners point to systematic policy.
Investigation with @christopherjm.ft.com @joesinft.ft.com @alisonkilling.bsky.social @digitalcampbell.ft.com @peter.andringa.me
Lots of talk about "spheres of influence" in the context of the Trump admin's novel approach to foreign policy and their apparent plan to hand some/all of Ukraine to Russia, which is very keen on the "spheres of influence" idea. It's a non-starter for both Russia and the US 🧵
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/w...
Belarusians march against #election2025 in Warszawa
“We will take back our country and we will definitely return home!”
“What is happening in Belarus today has already been called different words. Farce, comedy, special operation.”
Taken from Tsikhanouskaya’s telegram
