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Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak
On 3 December, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine appointed Oleksiy Chernyshov as Deputy Prime Minister and head of the newly established Ministry of National Unity, which was formed through the reorganisation of the former Ministry of…
Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak
On 4 October, Ukraine’s secret services detained Tetiana Krupa, the head of the Medical-Social Expert Commission (MSEK, a body responsible, among other tasks, for issuing disability certificates) in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast and a deputy to…
OSW Report | | Jakub Ber, Tadeusz Iwański, Marcin Jędrysiak, Sławomir Matuszak, Krzysztof Nieczypor, Piotr Żochowski
The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine has continued for over 30 months, without a clear outcome in si
Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak
On 9 October, Ukraine’s leading news portal, Ukrayinska Pravda (UP), reported that it had been under continued pressure from the Office of the President of Ukraine (OPU). UP issued a statement complaining about its journalists being denied…
Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak
On 5 September, Ukraine’s parliament (Verkhovna Rada, VR) appointed 10 new ministers, including two deputy prime ministers (see Appendix 1). The previous day, six ministers and the head of the State Property Fund (SPF) had tendered their…
Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak, Krzysztof Nieczypor
On 20 August, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed amendments to laws regulating the activities of religious communities, and thus made it possible to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP), the largest…
OSW Commentary | | Marcin Jędrysiak
A peculiar political system has emerged during the five years of Volodymyr Zelensky’s rule in Ukraine, with virtually all power concentrated in the hands of the head of state and the Office of the President of Ukraine (OPU) which he…
Analyses | | Andrzej Wilk, Marcin Jędrysiak
Within six days of their military action, after initially encountering no serious resistance, Ukrainian forces have succeeded in occupying Russian territory in the Kursk Oblast, having advanced more than 20 km to the north and up to 10 km…
Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak
On 25 June, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg unanimously ruled that during the period between February 2014 and August 2015, in occupied Crimea, Russia had violated numerous articles of the European Convention for…
Analyses | | Sławomir Matuszak, Marcin Jędrysiak
20 June saw another combined rocket and UAV strike on energy infrastructure facilities. Since March 2024, when Russia resumed its massive shelling campaigns, Ukraine has lost around half of its installed capacity, resulting in power…