Europe & Eurasia

Chief of Russian-Backed Militia: Yes, Rebels Actually Had That Missile

By James Rupert

Khodakovsky Blames Ukraine for Provoking What He Says Indeed May Have Been a Rebel Shootdown of MH-17 A senior commander of Russian-backed proxy forces fighting in southeast Ukraine confirmed today that the separatist militias indeed have been armed with the model of medium-range anti-aircraft missile that the US and Ukrainian governments say was used last […]

DIRECT TRANSLATION: Russian Army Gunner Brags, ‘All Night We Pounded Ukraine’

By Irena Chalupa

Russian Soldiers and Paramilitaries Post Stories and Pictures of Their War on Ukraine Perhaps he was bragging, perhaps he thought he was doing his job and being patriotic. Whatever the reason, Russian army soldier Vadim Grigoriev recently piled on further evidence of Russia’s escalating – and increasingly direct – attacks on Ukraine. Using Russia’s version […]

Putin’s Crime, Europe’s Cowardice

By Bernard-Henri Lévy, New York Times

Faced with this new Lockerbie, will we in the West do no more than beg Mr. Putin to provide “free and complete” access to the crash site and offer “full cooperation” in the recovery of remains?

President of Poland Calls for Strengthening NATO’s Eastern Flank

By Office of the President of Poland

The Ukrainian-Russian conflict is the biggest challenge for European security since the time of the Cold War, according to President Bronislaw Komorowski. The Polish president is in favour of strengthening NATO’s eastern flank.

Roadmap for Ukraine

On Tuesday, July 22nd, the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center hosted a public forum on the Atlantic Council’s latest report, A Roadmap for Ukraine. The panelists included the Hon. John Herbst, Director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council; Mr. David Koranyi, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Deputy Director; and Ms. Irena Chalupa, an […]

Amid All the Bad News, Ukraine Is Fighting Back: With Reforms

By Sabine Freizer

President, Prime Minister and Civil Society Groups Push for Transparency; Parliament and Bureaucracy Will Be Obstacles The past week’s news from Russia’s mad proxy war in southeast Ukraine has been brutally shocking: the shooting down of Flight MH17, the remains of passengers left in wheat fields and train cars as investigators negotiated with separatist thugs, […]

Members of Congress Urge Obama to Make Personal Appeal to Stop Mistral Sale to Russia

By Mark R. Warner, Mark Kirk, Adam Kinzinger, and William R. Keating

Text of letter to President Barack Obama from US lawmakers.

Special Summit Series: The United States and NATO

By James Joyner

In the run-up to September’s NATO summit in Wales, the Obama administration is sending decidedly mixed signals to its European allies, simultaneously demanding that they contribute more to their own security and signaling that they needn’t bother.