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Analyses |
| Jakub Ber, Piotr Żochowski
At dawn on 17 July, the Crimean Bridge was attacked, resulting in damage to pillars of the bridge and the span adjacent to them, which slid into the water. Only one of the two carriageways of the bridge’s road section was damaged, while…
Analyses |
| Filip Rudnik, Sławomir Matuszak, Adam Michalski
On 17 July, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov announced that the Russian Federation had withdrawn from the Black Sea Grain Initiative; on the same day, the Russian foreign ministry also conveyed this decision to Turkey, Ukraine and the UN…
Analyses |
| Sławomir Matuszak
Two years ago, on 1 July 2021, a law on the land market came into effect which enabled trade in arable land for the first time in the history of independent Ukraine. Over these 24 months, more than 400,000 hectares of land have been sold,…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
Russian forces pushed the Ukrainian defenders out of more positions on the forest massif south-west of Kreminna, an area bounded by the River Donets to the south and the Zherebets river to the west. They also approached the village of…
OSW Commentary |
| Justyna Gotkowska, Jakub Graca
The main topics of the NATO Vilnius Summit held on 11–12 July were deterrence and defence, Ukraine’s future membership of NATO, and deepening relations with partners in the Indo-Pacific. The Alliance is partly returning to the defence…
Analyses |
| Marcin Popławski
On 9 July, the incumbent Shavkat Mirziyoyev won the early presidential election in Uzbekistan. According to the official results, he received 87% of the vote. He defeated three other candidates, none of whom were widely known to the public…
OSW Commentary |
| Iwona Wiśniewska
The Kremlin has made further attempts in recent months to use the food market to intensify pressure on the West, primarily in order to ease the sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation. For example, Moscow is again threatening to pull…
Analyses |
| Jakub Ber, Jacek Tarociński, Piotr Żochowski
Ukrainian troops are continuing their offensive operations on the Zaporizhzhia front. In recent days, fighting has been concentrated around the village of Robotyne, where subunits of the 47th and 65th Mechanised Brigades have been…
OSW Commentary |
| Jadwiga Rogoża
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has aggravated the country’s already extremely difficult demographic situation, creating the prospect of a demographic catastrophe. Over the course of its three decades of independence, Ukraine has…
OSW Commentary |
| Łukasz Maślanka
On 26 June the Council of the EU raised the ceiling for the financing of the European Peace Facility (EPF) for the second time this year, this time by €3.5 billion. It will now total €10.5 billion at 2018 prices or around €12 billion at…