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Oct 23, 2023 | 
russiamatters.org | Simon Saradzhyan |Conor Cunningham |Olga Kiyan |Mikael Pir-Budagyan
Report Card*Since Feb. 24, 2022:Russia: +25,000 square miles. 11% of Ukraine. Area equivalent to Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut combined. Ukraine: 0. Ukraine has not taken any territory controlled by Russia before the 2022 invasion. Since Aug. 29, 2022 Ukrainian counteroffensive: Ukraine +6,540 square miles. 3% of Ukraine. Area equivalent to Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. Russia: +520. Ukraine: +7,060. In past month: Ukraine +16 square miles. Russia: +11. Ukraine: +27.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
russiamatters.org | Simon Saradzhyan |Conor Cunningham |Olga Kiyan |Mikael Pir-Budagyan
6 Things to KnowU.S. President Joe Biden sought to draw parallels between Hamas and Vladimir Putin in his televised address on Oct. 19 as he urged Congress to approve a security package for Israel and Ukraine. “We cannot and will not let terrorists like Hamas and tyrants like Putin win,” he said in remarks that the Kremlin denounced. While seeking more military aid for Ukraine, Biden stated in his Oct.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
russiamatters.org | Conor Cunningham |Olga Kiyan |Mikael Pir-Budagyan |David Ignatius
As violence escalated between Israel and Hamas in the wake of the latter’s indiscriminate attacks on multiple civilian and military targets this week, top Russian officials seized the opportunity to blame the crisis on what they described as America’s repeated failure to use its “monopoly” on mediation between the two sides to reach a fair and lasting peace deal.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
russiamatters.org | Grace Jones |Janet Egan |Eric Rosenbach |Mikael Pir-Budagyan
August 04, 2023 This week has seen U.S. and Ukrainian officials launch negotiations on bilateral security commitments for Ukraine per the joint declaration of support for Kyiv adopted by G-7 countries ahead of July’s NATO summit in Lithuania.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
russiamatters.org | Grace Jones |Janet Egan |Eric Rosenbach |Mikael Pir-Budagyan
This piece is a series in Belfer’s analysis on the war in Ukraine, including most recently a primer on Ukraine and NATO’s relationship. Future analysis will explore Russia’s use of technology during the war, and specific recommendations for the US defense enterprise to support Ukraine. The underdog invaded by a major world power, Ukraine was outmatched on every traditional defense metric.
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Jul 21, 2023 | 
russiamatters.org | Simon Saradzhyan |Ingrid Burke Friedman |Sam Bendett |Mikael Pir-Budagyan
5 Things to KnowIt is "way too early" to judge the Ukrainian offensive a failure, said U.S. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, adding that the war "is going to be long, it's going be hard, it's going be bloody." Milley said the biggest challenge for Ukraine’s counteroffensive is getting through Russia’s “extensive” defensive minefields, not a lack of sufficient airpower.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
russiamatters.org | Sam Bendett |Mikael Pir-Budagyan |William Burns |Simon Saradzhyan
July 20, 2023 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a significant asset in the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Specifically, it has become a key data analysis tool that helps operators and warfighters make sense of the growing volume and amount of information generated by numerous systems, weapons and soldiers in the field.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
russiamatters.org | Mikael Pir-Budagyan |William Burns |Simon Saradzhyan |Ho-Chun Herbert Chang
Report Card*Change in control of Ukrainian territorySince Feb. 24, 2022: Russia: +25,000 square miles. 11% of Ukraine. Area equivalent to Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut combined. Ukraine: 0. Ukraine has not taken any territory controlled by Russia before the 2022 invasion. Since Aug. 29, 2022 Ukrainian counteroffensive: Ukraine +6,760 square miles. 3% of Ukraine. Area equivalent to Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. Russia: +420. Ukraine: +7,180.
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
russiamatters.org | Simon Saradzhyan |Ingrid Burke Friedman |Michael Kofman |Mikael Pir-Budagyan
4 Ideas to Explore Having seen one-fifth of the weaponry and armor they’ve sent to the battlefield damaged or destroyed in the first two weeks of their counteroffensive, Ukrainian commanders took a pause to rethink their strategy, NYT reported on July 15, citing Western officials.
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Jul 1, 2023 | 
russiamatters.org | Grace Jones |Janet Egan |Eric Rosenbach |Mikael Pir-Budagyan
5 Ideas to Explore:Does the U.S. need to offer security guarantees to Ukraine? If yes, then why, and what should they look like? If not, why not? Russia Matters posed these questions to four prominent U.S. experts on post-Soviet Eurasia, including Thomas Graham of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council’s Melinda Haring, Mark N. Katz of George Mason University and Joshua Shifrinson of the University of Maryland.
