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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…
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…
Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak, Sławomir Matuszak, Iwona Wiśniewska
During the summit in Apulia from 13–15 June, the G7 group decided to launch a mechanism to aid Ukraine, effectively offering it $50 billion by the end of 2024. The Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration Loans for Ukraine (ERA) involves…
Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak
Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidential term came to an end on 20 May. According to the Ukrainian constitution, the head of state holds office for five years and performs their duties until a newly elected successor takes office. Elections are…