By Yurii Marchenko    What happens when an empire tries to outrun history? Historian Serhii Plokhy explains how Russia’s attempt to preserve its imperial reach through war...

By Philip Malzahn    With drone swarms and real-time satellite feeds, how do you hide an army? How do you cross a border that the enemy spent months fortifying? Ukraine...

By Audrey MacAlpine    In an exclusive interview, US General David Petraeus warns of a new era of warfare defined by software, drones, and relentless innovation, driven by...

By Vlada Toporkova    Russia is rebuilding fast, while Europe may have only five years to stop another war. Former Slovak defense minister Martin Sklenár lays out the...

By Zhenia Melnyk    How does Ukraine plan to counter Russia’s numerous Shahed drone attacks? From co-developing next-gen AI weapons with the EU to developing its own...

By Vlada Toporkova    Andrii, a paratrooper from Ukraine’s 79th Air Assault Brigade, spent over a year in Russian captivity. Tortured, starved, and left with scars both...

By Yurii Marchenko    More than a decade after Russian troops stormed Crimea, the question remains: Why do Russians insist Crimea belongs to them? Professor of Ukrainian...

By Illia Kabachynskyi    Gathering to pray could mean a knock at the door, a midnight raid, or never coming home this is the new reality for Protestants in Ukrainian...

By Audrey MacAlpine    Nobel Prize-winning economist James Robinson visited Kyiv in March for his first trip as a laureate. Invited by Investment group ICU and the Kyiv...

By Audrey MacAlpine    We asked German Designer Frank Peter Wilde for his thoughts on the symbolic importance of fashion during war.

By Zhenia Melnyk    The UK is ramping up military aid to Ukraine, but could British troops follow? As the West debates its role in the war, British MP Sir Iain Duncan...

By Vlada Toporkova    Three years into the largest war since World War II, Europe stands divided: those bordering Russia and Belarus see the threat firsthand, while others...

By Audrey MacAlpine    From Ukraine’s first independence days to today’s global diplomacy, one of Ukraine’s most prominent diplomats, Volodymyr Yelchenko, offers his view...

By Vlada Toporkova    Never lose hope, says Sara, a 28-year-old pharmacist from Hama, Syria. Years of war under Russian bombs, Syrians now watch with a unique perspective,...

By Yev Kopiika    For over a century, Russia has followed a brutal colonial script: gaslight, invade, exterminate. With 48 invasions in the last 100 years alone,...

   Professor Francis Fukuyama is a prominent American scholar, political scientist who has written widely on development and international politics. He...

   Renowned American historian Timothy Snyder shared his insights on the Ukrainian victory, the dangers of nuclear bluffing, and why Russia’s defeat is...

   Many Russians, even among those who oppose Russia’s war against Ukraine, still hesitate to take responsibility, blaming the invasion on NATO...