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Analyses |
| Katarzyna Chawryło
On 3 March, the editor-in-chief of the radio station Ekho Moskvy, Aleksei Venediktov, announced that the managing directors of the station had decided to shut it down and close its website. The same day, the editorial staff of the TV…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
On the sixth day of the operation, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation intensified their attacks on units of the Ukrainian army, and – especially during the night of 1/2 March – continued their air and missile strikes on cities…
Analyses |
| Maria Domańska
The military aggression against Ukraine has not provoked significant protests in Russia. Since 24 February, small anti-war demonstrations have been held in dozens of Russian cities; these have largely been spontaneous in nature, including…
Analyses |
| Piotr Żochowski
On 28 February Ukrainian-Russian talks took place. President Volodymyr Zelensky initially rejected the Russian side’s offer to meet in Belarus, which is a participant in the aggression and is allowing Russian troops to strike from its…
Analyses |
| Iwona Wiśniewska
On 26 February, the West’s economically strongest states (the US, Canada, Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy) and the European Commission announced an extension of the sanctions package against Russia. In the coming days, they plan…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
During the fourth day of the fighting, the Ukrainian side began to expand its embargo on information about the current situation (Russia has given no information about the course of the fighting from the very start).
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
On 25 February, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree entitled ‘On universal mobilisation’, which will cover males aged 18 to 55, to be carried out within 90 days. This is due to the country’s deteriorating military…
Analyses |
| Michał Kędzierski, Szymon Kardaś, Agata Łoskot-Strachota
On 22 February, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that he had instructed the economy minister Robert Habeck to withdraw the positive assessment of the impact of launching the Nord Stream 2 (NS2) gas pipeline on the security of gas…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Maria Domańska
On the night of 23/24 February, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a message to the nation, during which he announced the beginning of a special military operation aimed at defending the people of Donbas against ‘genocide’, and at…
OSW Commentary |
| Michał Kędzierski
The German economy is heavily dependent on natural gas, almost all of which it purchases from foreign suppliers. More than half of this is from Russia. For years, Germany underestimated the dangerous degree of its gas dependence on Russia…