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OSW Commentary |
| Sławomir Matuszak
The longer Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine continues, the weaker the oligarchs’ influence on the country’s political and economic life becomes. They have failed to regain control over media coverage and have little to no…
Analyses |
| Jakub Ber, Jacek Tarociński, Piotr Żochowski
Over the past four days, Ukrainian forces have continued their offensive operations on the Zaporizhzhia front. Attempts by mechanised subunits to break through the Russian defences south of Orikhiv (near the village of Robotyne) have…
Analyses |
| Jakub Ber, Sławomir Matuszak
On 6 June, critical elements of the Nova Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power plant were destroyed, probably as a result of the detonation of explosives planted by the Russian army. Only a few fragments of the nearly four-kilometre-long…
Analyses |
| Piotr Żochowski
A Ukrainian subversive and psychological operation has been ongoing on the territory of the Belgorod oblast since 22 May. It is mainly being carried out by Russian volunteer troops of the ‘Free Russia’ Legion and the Russian Volunteer…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
On 7 June, Ukrainian units struck in the Zaporizhzhia oblast, attempting to break through Russian defences in two or three places (depending on the attack wave) south of Orikhiv; the heaviest fighting is taking place over the town of…
OSW Commentary |
| Jacek Tarociński, Andrzej Wilk
The scale of the military support that the West has been providing to Ukraine is unprecedented. Both the type of supplies of arms & military equipment and the needs of Ukrainian Armed Forces have been evolving during the course of the…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
On 25 May, the heads of the Russian and Belarusian defence ministries, Sergei Shoigu and Viktar Khrenin, signed an agreement regulating the stationing of Russian tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs) on the territory of Belarus. This is a…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski, Jakub Ber
On the morning of 6 June, Kyiv reported that Russian troops had blown up the dam at Nova Kakhovka. The road crossing over the River Dnieper and part of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant were destroyed, leading to an uncontrolled…
Analyses |
| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein, Kamil Kłysiński
On 13 May the Belarusian Ministry of Energy announced that the second unit of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) had been connected to the Belarusian electricity grid. It uses a VVER type reactor manufactured by Rosatom. The power…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
Russian volunteer formations fighting on the side of Ukraine are continuing a psychological sabotage operation to confirm that resistance to the regime is growing in Russia. On 31 May, a spokesman for the Free Russia Legion reported that “…