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<h3><em>Latest analysis on the unfolding crisis in Ukraine and Eastern Europe.</em></h3>
<h2><img style="float: right; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="Russia Military Options Against Ukraine" src="http://www.rusi.org/images/library/LI533EECAD480BB.jpg" alt="Russia Military Options Against Ukraine" width="200" height="152" />Latest Briefing</h2>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.rusi.org/news/ref:N533EEE036731B/#.Uz7vg-Bbwrw">Possible Military Strategies Against Ukraine</a><br /></strong><em>Based on current knowledge, expert insight and research, RUSI has published a briefing setting out four military scenarios that now have to be factored into the political calculations for Russian and Ukranian militaries.</em></p>
<p><em>Scroll down for the latest analysis.</em></p>
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""Martial law was an attempt to demonstrate that Ukraine could and would respond, without provoking further escalation. In that sense it succeeded and did not need to remain in effect." "
Ukraine's martial law is over — but there's no end in sight to tensions with Russia
In The News, 29 December 2018 Tags: Ukraine, Military Sciences
Ukraine’s Impractical Martial Law
Commentary, 19 December 2018
Sébastien Gobert
Ukraine’s decision to impose martial law in parts of its territory in the wake of the latest Russian military provocation is not helpful and does not answer Ukraine’s strategic weaknesses.
Tags: Civil–Military Relations, Ukraine, Military Sciences, Defence Management, Defence Policy, Martial Power Programme, Law and Ethics, Military Personnel, National Security
Sea of Azov Crisis: Ukraine and Russia Clash, as do Competing Visions of European Security
Commentary, 12 December 2018
Wojciech Pawlus
Ukraine’s current predicament is a reminder of how Western governments have failed to anchor the country in existing security structures
Tags: Ukraine, International Security Studies, Russia, Global Security Issues, History
Russia Unlikely to Walk Away from Ukraine Agreements, but Tense Times Lie Ahead
Commentary, 5 September 2018
Emily Ferris
The recent assassination of a rebel leader in Ukraine spotlights the region’s murky realities, but probably won’t influence the current political stalemate over the Ukraine crisis.
Tags: RUSI International, Ukraine, Global Strategy and Commitments, Russia, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding
Ukraine Five Years On: Enduring Challenges
Commentary, 24 August 2018
Adam Coffey
Today, Friday 24 August, Ukraine holds its fifth Independence Day parade since the Maidan revolution. Five years on, the country still holds a unique position as a key geopolitical challenge for many alliances and governments around the world.
Tags: NATO, Ukraine, Military Sciences, Global Security Issues, National Security
Book Review: Putin’s War Against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism, and Crime
RUSI Journal, 26 July 2018
Adam Coffey
Adam Coffey reviews Putin’s War Against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism, and Crime, by Taras Kuzio
Tags: Ukraine, RussiaPages
Ukraine’s Impractical Martial Law
Commentary, 19 December 2018Sébastien Gobert
Ukraine’s decision to impose martial law in parts of its territory in the wake of the latest Russian military provocation is not helpful and does not answer Ukraine’s strategic weaknesses.
Civil–Military Relations, Ukraine, Military Sciences, Defence Management, Defence Policy, Martial Power Programme, Law and Ethics, Military Personnel, National Security
Sea of Azov Crisis: Ukraine and Russia Clash, as do Competing Visions of European Security
Commentary, 12 December 2018Wojciech Pawlus
Ukraine’s current predicament is a reminder of how Western governments have failed to anchor the country in existing security structures
Ukraine, International Security Studies, Russia, Global Security Issues, History
Russia Unlikely to Walk Away from Ukraine Agreements, but Tense Times Lie Ahead
Commentary, 5 September 2018Emily Ferris
The recent assassination of a rebel leader in Ukraine spotlights the region’s murky realities, but probably won’t influence the current political stalemate over the Ukraine crisis.
RUSI International, Ukraine, Global Strategy and Commitments, Russia, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding
Ukraine Five Years On: Enduring Challenges
Commentary, 24 August 2018Adam Coffey
Today, Friday 24 August, Ukraine holds its fifth Independence Day parade since the Maidan revolution. Five years on, the country still holds a unique position as a key geopolitical challenge for many alliances and governments around the world.
NATO, Ukraine, Military Sciences, Global Security Issues, National Security
Ukraine Declares ‘Anti-Terrorist Operation in the Donbas’ Officially Over: What Does That Mean?
Commentary, 16 May 2018Adam Coffey
A recent change in the way Ukraine describes the separatist conflict on its territory is not just about branding; it is also about the search for a more successful strategy
Ukraine, Global Security IssuesPages
Book Review: Putin’s War Against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism, and Crime
RUSI Journal, 26 July 2018Adam Coffey
Adam Coffey reviews Putin’s War Against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism, and Crime, by Taras Kuzio
RUSI Journal, Ukraine, Russia
Ukraine: The Next Twelve Months
Newsbrief, 29 May 2018Adam Coffey
Never known for being a predictable place, the next year in Ukrainian politics will be coloured by the continuing war in the Donbas, the 2019 elections, attempts at reforming a deeply corrupted...
NATO, Newsbrief, Ukraine, National Security, Organised Crime
Defending Europe by Arming Ukraine
Newsbrief, 9 February 2018Ihor Kozak and Lubomyr Luciuk
Overturning its policy of supplying Ukraine with strictly non-lethal military aid, the US will soon supply the Ukrainian military with much-anticipated anti-tank guided missiles. However, will this...
Newsbrief, Ukraine, Russia, Global Security Issues
Book Review: Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia
RUSI Journal, 13 December 2017Sarah Lain
Sarah Lain reviews Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia, by Samuel Charap and Timothy J Colton.
RUSI Journal, NATO, Ukraine, European Union, Russia, International Institutions, Europe
Hybrid Warfare or Gibridnaya Voyna? Similar, But Different
RUSI Journal, 3 April 2017Ofer Fridman
The contemporary idea of hybrid warfare differs from the views that Russian thinkers have been developing for nearly a century.
RUSI Journal, Ukraine, Russia, History, Information, Land Forces, EuropePages
Ukraine’s Security and Its Importance for the UK
Conference, 8 October 2018RUSI and The Atlantic Council together with the British-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce are holding a one-day conference in London to look at current developments in Ukraine, and their implications for...
RUSI International, Ukraine, UK, Global Security Issues
""Martial law was an attempt to demonstrate that Ukraine could and would respond, without provoking further escalation. In that sense it succeeded and did not need to remain in effect.""
Ukraine's martial law is over — but there's no end in sight to tensions with Russia
In The News, 29 December 2018 Tags: Ukraine, Military Sciences
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