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Analyses |
| Piotr Żochowski, Andrzej Wilk
On 15 November, Russia launched its most significant missile attack against Ukrainian infrastructure. The published summary of the Ukrainian Air Force Command shows that it used 96 sea- and air-based cruise missiles (Kalibr, Ch-101, Ch-555…
Analyses |
| Witold Rodkiewicz, Krzysztof Nieczypor
Since September, signals from Russia that the threat of the Russian-Ukrainian war turning into a nuclear conflict have been intensifying. This might happen either through the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine or as a consequence…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 10 November, the Bundestag passed a resolution ordering a partial rerun of the 26 September, 2021 parliamentary elections. It was limited to 431 (of about 2,100) polling stations in Berlin, where significant irregularities occurred…
Analyses |
| Łukasz Kobeszko
The independent candidate Nataša Pirc Musar won the presidential election in Slovenia on 13 November with 53% of the vote. She was supported by two small extra-parliamentary parties, the Pirate Party of Slovenia (PSS) and the Young People’…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
On 11 November, Ukrainian subunits entered Kherson without fighting and, in the following days, continued to take control of areas abandoned by Russian troops. On 13 November, the Operational Command ‘South’ reported the de-occupation of…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
On 9 November, during a meeting between Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu and ‘special operation’ commander General Sergey Surovikin, it was reported that Russian forces operating in the Kherson area would be withdrawn to the left…
OSW Commentary |
| Michał Bogusz
The 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ended with the complete triumph of Xi Jinping and marks the culmination of a process of radical overhaul of the political system created in the 1980s and 1990s. It marks not only the…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
The Ukrainian authorities warn that continued Russian destruction of energy infrastructure will lead to increasingly frequent blackouts. On 5 November, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said that the capital, now home to around 3 million people…
Analyses |
| Michał Bogusz, Lidia Gibadło
On 4 November, Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Beijing, where he met with Chairman of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang. Scholz was accompanied by representatives of German companies, including…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced the adoption of Ukraine’s 2023 budget. It provides for 43% of the total expenditure, or more than 1.1 trillion hryvnias (more than $30 billion), for security and defence. Social payments and benefits…