Leader: The Kremlin’s theory of victory
Despite repeated military failures, Vladimir Putin is signalling that he is prepared to destroy Ukraine rather than back down.
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Despite repeated military failures, Vladimir Putin is signalling that he is prepared to destroy Ukraine rather than back down.
ByYet pressure is increasing on Germany to send Kyiv tanks.
ByWhile the Tories say “try not to need an ambulance”, Labour says “don’t expect us to fix everything”.
ByRussia is stuck with a form of warfare that depends on artillery barrages and indifference to casualties.
ByThe Ukrainian novelist writes about ringing in 2023 amid drone attacks.
ByKyiv’s lionisation of 20th-century nationalists linked to atrocities is alienating allies and playing into Russian propaganda.
ByThe New Statesman’s writer at large identifies important global trends for the year ahead – and makes some predictions.
ByRussia can’t win its self-evidently stupid war – and working out what will happen next is almost impossible.
ByThe New Statesman’s Writer-at-Large reviews what he got right and wrong about the past year.
BySanctions have not achieved their stated goal: to deny Vladimir Putin the resources to fight a prolonged war.
ByThe Russian president has embraced the Soviet cult of fear and control. His invasion of Ukraine is a colossal gamble…
ByPeople deny me credibility because I am female, young, east European. They have treated my country the same way.
ByA security guarantee could be the only way the Kremlin would be persuaded to end its war on Ukraine.
ByWith his war against Ukraine foundering, the Russian president is unable or unwilling to explain himself.
ByThe former prime minister’s pledge to take in 200,000 people fleeing war was not backed by any planning or data.
ByAs temperatures plunge and Russia attacks, Kyiv is fighting to keep the lights on.
ByLatvia has shut down TV Rain, accusing it of being a security threat.
Moscow’s full-scale war did not come as a surprise to us, but we didn’t believe it would so closely replay…
ByThe independent Russian TV channel’s demise shows how even anti-Putin Russians are unable to completely align with hawkish Western states.
ByFailures in corporate oversight have let Russians bypass attempts to stop them moving their wealth and their families to Britain.
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