What happens if the Russian state collapses?
The West yearns for Vladimir Putin to fall – yet this could trigger mayhem in Russia, and instability throughout Europe.
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The fake tsar
The truth is out there: there is no Russian state.
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The Kakhovka dam attack is just the beginning
As Kyiv launches its counter-offensive, both sides are escalating.
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The month of two D-Days
History will record this deed as an achievement of the highest order.
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Ukraine reveals the rise of the non-aligned state
Zelensky left the G7 to a chorus of renewed Western support, but failed to convince the other leaders to choose…
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Brain surgery in a warzone
For Ukrainians, victory is inevitable – but in the country’s hospitals, it is clear that winning the war will come…
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Soldiers in love
Men at War, Luke Turner’s tender account of servicemen’s transgressive private lives, transforms our understanding of the Second World War.
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The politics of the new space race
Tim Marshall’s The Future of Geography shows how great powers – and Elon Musk – are looking to the stars…
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Putin digs in for a forever war
New conscription rules signal that the Kremlin has no intention to give up on its war effort.
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The meaning of the battle for Bakhmut
Without taking the city Vladimir Putin cannot achieve his war aims.
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The history of the American South is as contested as ever
In the home of both the Confederacy and the civil rights movement, the past is never dead.
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Artwork from a nation under attack
Whether sketching in bomb shelters or escaping the capital with unruly pets, Ukrainian illustrators and artists bear witness to the…
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Oleksiy Danilov: “Weak people always come up with excuses not to act”
Ukraine’s national security adviser on German betrayal, the coming Russian onslaught and why the West is scared.
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Germany has become the roadblock at the heart of Europe
Berlin is consciously and deliberately stalling on sending Kyiv battle tanks.
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What we know about the helicopter crash that killed three Ukrainian officials
They are the first senior government figures to be killed or injured since Russia’s brutal invasion began.
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From the NS archive: Back to all that
11 January 1958: Robert Graves and the writing of the two world wars.
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What politicians get wrong about war
From Kosovo to Ukraine, Lawrence Freedman’s book Command explores the catastrophes that occur when state and military strategy collide.
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Russia has forgotten history’s lessons about waging war in winter
The Russian president wants to draw this war out; the West must help Ukraine retain its current momentum.
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How much territory does Ukraine control? Use this interactive map to find out
The New Statesman's interactive map shows the size of Ukraine's occupied territory when compared to other countries
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The war in Ukraine is reaching a critical moment
Kyiv’s counterattack in the Russian-occupied city of Kherson could push the war into a much more dynamic phase.
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