Long-reads

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…

As a full EU member, Ukraine will undoubtedly become stronger. But its integration will also strengthen the European Union itself.

Although the adoption of the REPO is a powerful signal, we can predict that the most realistic decisions on the future of Russian assets will be made at the June G7 summit in Brindisi, Italy.

Everyone agrees that a special tribunal for Putin is of the utmost importance, but they cannot agree on how it should look. But now, Kyiv has  new hope...

The Serbian government generates conflicts that give an opportunity to shout to the whole world about human rights violations of minorities in Kosovo and the undemocratic nature of the Kosovar government.

What Ukraine needs is not a leadership by restraint but a coalition of the determined. The United States of America can still join.

Greene's views on the war in Ukraine have been consistently anti-Ukrainian, causing even her fellow party members to sometimes lose patience...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, commented: "The survival of our country is at stake. If the price of survival is to take friends outside their comfort zone, then it must be done..."

Bernard-Henri Lévy: "Europeans have a tendency to put everything on Putin's head. I hear all this bullshit. The real dictatorship is never one man imposing his will on passive people."

Support and reconstruction are two sides of the same coin. The UK's private sector can play an important role in Ukraine’s recovery.

Volodymyr Ohryzko: "It was mainly about economic bribery. The West continued to see Russia as its partner, so they forgave it everything."