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Analyses |
| Tadeusz Iwański
The meeting between President Volodymyr Zelensky and Chancellor Olaf Scholz, together with Ukraine’s support for Germany’s candidacy to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council (as expressed during the UN General Assembly…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
The situation in the combat areas remains relatively stable, and the attempts both sides have made to break through their opponents’ defences in recent days have been unsuccessful. The area around Avdiivka and Marinka in Donetsk oblast and…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
In the early afternoon of 22 September, the Ukrainians launched another attack on Crimea using Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missiles (launched from Su-24M bombers). Two missiles hit the Black Sea Fleet (BSF) headquarters building, destroying…
Analyses |
| Kamil Całus
Scutul de Foc/Rapid Trident 2023, the annual joint military exercise of American, Romanian and Moldovan forces, in which a total of approximately 500 soldiers took part, ended in Moldova on 22 September. At the same time, on 14–15…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
On 21 September, the Russians launched their largest missile attack in many months; it also represented the first massive strike targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in six months. According to Ukrenerho, facilities in the central and…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
Russian missiles attacked industrial facilities in Kharkiv for three consecutive days starting on 16 September. Their main target was the Kharkovskiy Bronetankovy Zavod (KhBTZ), which repairs heavy armaments and military equipment. The…
Analyses |
| Sławomir Matuszak, Ilona Gizińska, Krzysztof Dębiec, Kamil Całus, Łukasz Kobeszko, Andrzej Sadecki
On 15 September, the European Commission decided not to extend the restrictions on imports of wheat, maize, rapeseed and sunflower from Ukraine which have been in place since May. On the same day, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary unilaterally…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
On 13 September, Ukrainian forces carried out a combined attack on Russian naval facilities in Sevastopol and the missile corvette Vasily Bykov which operates in the Black Sea; the Ukrainians used surface kamikaze drones and Storm Shadow…
OSW Commentary |
| Bartosz Chmielewski, Jacek Tarociński
The migratory pressure on the Polish, Lithuanian and Latvian borders with Belarus which has been ongoing since mid-2021, as well as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, have spurred the Baltic states and Finland to ramp up their…
Analyses |
| Kamil Całus
The first half of September saw two developments in Moldova which have limited Gazprom’s influence in the country. On 3 September, Moldova’s president Maia Sandu announced the completion of the external audit of the so-called historic debt…