Russia's request for parts linked to talks before Ukraine war began

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Monday that this request was part of discussions being held “for some years now” and not a “post February 24 ...

Russia issues list of demands it says must be met to lower tensions ...

The demands include a ban on Ukraine entering Nato and a limit to the deployment of troops and weapons to Nato's eastern flank, in effect ...

Exclusive: As war began, Putin rejected a Ukraine peace deal ...

... Russia's demand that Ukraine stay out of NATO, but Putin rejected it and pressed ahead with his military campaign, according to three people ...

Ukraine war: Russia demands annexations recognised before talks

Russia says the West's refusal to recognise "new territories" seized from Ukraine makes peace talks harder, after President Joe Biden indicated he would be ...

De-bunking Russian disinformation on NATO

Russia wants to establish spheres of influence and control other countries through coercion, subversion, aggression and annexation. It uses ...

Countering disinformation with facts - Russian invasion of Ukraine

The Kremlin has long spread disinformation and propaganda to achieve its objectives. It continues to disseminate lies to justify its illegal, unprovoked, ...

The story behind 2022's secret Ukraine-Russia peace negotiations

The Russia-Ukraine war has lasted over two years. But just weeks after Russia's 2022 invasion, both sides came close to a settlement that ...

Early Peace Plan Shows Russia's Intent To Neutralize Ukraine

RFE/RL's Russian investigative unit, Systema, has obtained a draft treaty that Moscow proposed early in talks that began days after the ...

Ukraine: Conflict at the Crossroads of Europe and Russia

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 marked a dramatic escalation of the eight-year-old conflict that began with Russia's annexation of Crimea.

Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine - Wikipedia

Following the 2022 Ukrainian eastern counteroffensive, Russia renewed calls for peace talks, but Russian government sources suggested that Putin is not truly ...

Article by Vladimir Putin ”On the Historical Unity of Russians and ...

During the recent Direct Line, when I was asked about Russian-Ukrainian relations, I said that Russians and Ukrainians were one people – a ...

Our experts decode the Putin speech that launched Russia's ...

The speech was carefully crafted to place the blame on Ukraine, the United States, and NATO, while framing Russia as desiring peace but now taking military ...

Seven ways Russia's war on Ukraine has changed the world

Chatham House experts examine the shifts in geopolitical alliances, security, energy, and supply chains and whether these changes are likely to be long-lasting.

Fact check: Russia falsely blames Ukraine for starting war - DW

Russia started the fighting and triggered an ongoing escalation when it crossed into Ukrainian territory. The second claim made by the Russian ...

Perspectives on Ukraine and the Russian Invasion - Global ECCO

In February 2022, Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine because he erroneously believed that it would enable him to quickly establish a Kremlin- ...

Russia's War in Ukraine: Identity, History, and Conflict - CSIS

This rejection of Ukrainian identity and the claim that Ukraine's desire to separate itself from Russian influence was the product of “external ...

Why the US and Nato have long wanted Russia to attack Ukraine

The government in Kyiv (mostly Ukrainian speaking and Catholic) launched a war against these provinces to crush their resistance. Scroll forward ...

Diplomacy in the Context of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Ukraine is seeking to isolate Russia internationally. Meanwhile, Russia's illegal war of aggression continues. If there is to be even a ...

War in Ukraine | Global Conflict Tracker - Council on Foreign Relations

Russia denied military involvement, but both Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) reported the buildup of Russian troops ...

Fact-checking Putin's claims that Ukraine and Russia are 'one people'

In a sense, you can talk about a continuous Ukrainian state from 1918 onward, because nominally Ukraine was a kind of sovereign state within the ...