The focus of summer vacations in Ukraine in 2026 has shifted toward mountain resorts and city tours, while vacation budgets have increased by 25-40% compared to the previous holiday season, according to... Read more »
A ceasefire with no enforcement mechanism or credible monitoring is unlikely to hold, ISW says. An exchange of 1,000 prisoners from each side is being prepared, Zelenskyi says. It would take Russia... Read more »
According to multiple sources close to US President Donald Trump, the belief driving Trump’s Russia/Ukraine policy is that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a strong leader and can’t be defeated. Trump likes... Read more »
Photo: De Novo Maxim Ageyev, CEO of De Novo, co-founder of the Ukrainian Digital Sovereignty Association (DSUA) In late April, I took part in the Sovereign Tech Europe 2026 conference in Brussels.... Read more »
(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||;w[q].push([“_mgc.load”])})(window,”_mgq”); Ukraine’s $8.1 billion IMF program depends on tax reforms its parliament keeps stalling. Today, 12 May, deputies vote on one—a parcel tax the IMF wanted passed by 31 March. This is... Read more »
Russia held its traditional military parade on 9 May – during a three-day ceasefire – to celebrate the victory over Nazi Germany. President Vladimir Putin gave a speech explaining that the Russian army was... Read more »
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) have served Andrii Yermak, former head of the President’s Office, with a notice of suspicion in a case... Read more »
In short, no actual ceasefire. After Kyiv initially rebuffed Moscow’s unilateral ceasefire over the weekend, it later relented after the US helped secure a major “1,000 for 1,000” prisoner swap. But later,... Read more »
For the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion started in 2022, the initiative appears to be shifting in Ukraine’s favor, according to analysts quoted by The Economist. The Economist said Russian forces... Read more »
(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||;w[q].push([“_mgc.load”])})(window,”_mgq”); Estonia’s government has told Ukraine it expects better control of Ukrainian long-range drones after months of airspace breaches across the Baltic states and Finland, the public broadcaster ERR reports. Ukrainian officials... Read more »