Christopher Walker: Russia’s Shadow War Needs a ‘Sufficiently Disproportionate’ Response
Russia escalates because it isn’t paying a high enough price, Christopher Walker argues. His fix: make Moscow pay far more for its shadow war…
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A Florida Lawyer Lost His Son in Ukraine. Now He’s a Volunteer Cooks 20 Kilometers From the Front
Edward Wilton's son was killed in the Luhansk region at 23. His father answered the loss by coming to Ukraine himself — to a…
Ukraine’s Lyman Counteroffensive Enters Its Final Stage — and Keeps Taking Ground
Four months into Ukraine's once-secret counteroffensive, the corps that stopped Russia's push toward Lyman is now edging deeper into Russian positions. Analysts say the…
The Greenland Deal Changes Little, but NATO Unity Worries Moscow, Former Pentagon Adviser Says
Former U.S. Defense Department policy adviser Imran Bayoumi says the agreement is not “groundbreaking or new,” but could help NATO move beyond a crisis…
Apathy and Great Concern ‘Look Exactly the Same’: Reading Russia After the Duma Vote
Three Russia scholars on what message Putin is sending with his new Duma — and why United Russia's heavily managed election result may mean…
‘We’re Not Prepared for a Potential Attack on the Baltics’ — CIA Veteran on Russia’s Escalation
Sean Wiswesser says the West's response to Russian active measure in Europe has been "empty deterrence" — and Russia may test it further.
‘I Want You to Help Me Sue Putin’: How a Daughter Rescued Her Disabled Father from Occupied Ukraine
A 64-year-old Mariupol man with a disability was forcibly confined to a care facility in the occupied Donetsk region. A year after his daughter…
An Underwater Archaeologist Came Back From War to Discover a Piece of Ukraine’s Lost History
Dmytro Kobaliia left an underwater expedition to fight. The war that interrupted his work also revealed a wreck — and an international mission to…
‘The $300 People’: How Russia Recruits Ukrainians on Telegram — and Throws Them Away
Russian handlers find them on Telegram, pay them $300 and increasingly detonate the evidence. Ukraine fights back with billboards and prosecutions. It also sometimes…
