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Nov 18, 2024 | 
thebulletin.org | Mariana Budjeryn |François Diaz-Maurin
Ukraine started using the older, shorter-ranged US-supplied ballistic missiles, known as the Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, in October 2023. The Biden administration has now allowed Ukraine to use long-range ATACMS to help defend its forces in the Kursk region of Russia.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
thebulletin.org | Mariana Budjeryn |François Diaz-Maurin
Illustration: Thomas Gaulkin / Daria Chekman / depositphotos.com Recently, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky alarmed international audiences by alluding to the prospect of Ukraine’s nuclear rearmament.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
thebulletin.org | Mariana Budjeryn |François Diaz-Maurin
A Russian missile explodes on Kyiv in Ukraine on June 26, 2022. With victory in sight but not yet in hand, Russia may be tempted to launch a nuclear-armed missile on a secondary Ukrainian city and demand Ukraine’s immediate and unconditional surrender. (Photo by uwstas / depositphotos.com) Russia’s war against Ukraine has been a conventional conflict. But it is very much a nuclear crisis, too.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Mariana Budjeryn
Summary and What You Need to Know: Ukraine's August incursion into Russia's Kursk region was a surprise move, occupying 1,200 square kilometers and taking hundreds of Russian soldiers prisoner. While the operation's significance is still unfolding, its implications are complex. Militarily, it may have preempted a Russian offensive, forcing Moscow to divert resources.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Mariana Budjeryn
On May 30, 2024, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s five-year term in office expired. Seven months earlier, in October 2023, the date for the regular elections to the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, passed by. Zelenskyy and the Rada deputies will remain in office as long as the war continues: The suspension of regular elections in wartime is mandated by Ukraine’s constitution.
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May 1, 2024 | 
kyivpost.com | Mariana Budjeryn
“If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls." – Czechoslovakian foreign minister Jan Masaryk to Lord Halifax, in response to announcement of allies' decision in Munich in 1938 to cede Sudetenland to Hitler. 2024 is a pivotal year for American and European politics, the war in Ukraine, and transatlantic security writ large.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
wilsoncenter.org | Mariana Budjeryn
“If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls." – Czechoslovakian foreign minister Jan Masaryk to Lord Halifax, in response to announcement of allies' decision in Munich in 1938 to cede Sudetenland to Hitler. 2024 is a pivotal year for American and European politics, the war in Ukraine, and transatlantic security writ large.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Mariana Budjeryn
If history teaches anything about the causes of revolution—and history does not teach much, but still teaches considerably more than social-science theories—it is that a disintegration of political systems precedes revolutions, that the telling symptom of disintegration is a progressive erosion of government authority, and that this erosion is caused by the government’s inability to function properly, from which spring the citizens’ doubts about its legitimacy.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Mariana Budjeryn |George Perkovich
Three decades ago, Ukraine inherited—and subsequently relinquished—what was, at the time, the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal. In return for its disarmament, the United States, United Kingdom, and Russia made security guarantees to Ukraine. Twice, Vladimir Putin egregiously breached these commitments, by annexing Crimea in 2014 and invading in 2022.
Since Russia’s 2022 aggression, critics have wondered: Was Ukraine’s decision to denuclearize a mistake?
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
wilsoncenter.org | Mariana Budjeryn
On December 14, 2023, the European Council adopted an historic decision to open membership negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova, and to grant candidate status to Georgia. All three nations were once part of the Soviet empire, all three share the ill-fortune to live next to Russia, a belligerent nuclear-armed state that sees them as instrumental in reconstructing its imperial past. All three have followed a long and arduous path toward European integration.
