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The purpose of this report is to examine the causes of the failure of the Ukrainian offensive in 2023 to avoid the repetition of such errors in the future and to inform the regeneration of offensive combat power in NATO militaries.

У цій аналітичній записці розглядається можливість використання віртуальних активів для спрощення надходження допомоги на нагальні потреби відбудови України.

Pressure on Western banks to implement sanctions against Russia threatens a schism in the international financial system. Developing countries will suffer.

With this week’s NATO summit, the perennial question of Ukraine’s future membership will again be raised and left unresolved. However, Ukraine joining NATO at the conclusion of the Russo-Ukrainian War is also in Russia’s interests, although it may not yet realise or acknowledge this reality.

This Policy Brief examines whether virtual assets can be used to facilitate donations to Ukraine’s urgent reconstruction efforts.

Since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has continued to access critical components from abroad, expanded the production of core weapons, and continued to increase the sophistication of some key capabilities.

Supporting Ukraine’s peace initiative is not only the right thing to do for those Africans who value sovereignty and the rule of law, but it is also in their own self-interest.

New Zealand’s government has misjudged the strategic significance of the Ukraine peace summit, and needs to consider greater engagement.

Russia has caused immense damage to Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and will aim to expand its success as a source of leverage to end the war. This can be prevented through the focused provision of air defence.

With Russia increasingly pressing its numerical advantage, Ukraine and its partners need to devise a new strategy for strengthening Ukraine’s defence if they are to avoid playing to Russia’s strengths in an attritional conflict.

A conversation with Michael Pompeo, former US Secretary of State and Director of the CIA, and currently independent Non-Executive Director of Ukraine’s largest telecommunications provider, Kyivstar.

Ukraine’s apparent success in damaging a Su-57 is a substantial blow to Russia’s long-troubled stealth fighter fleet, and another Illustration of Ukraine’s most effective option for countering increasingly effective Russian air attacks on the frontlines.

With President Biden signalling that Ukraine will likely not become a NATO member while the confrontation with Russia continues, the US will need to take the lead at the upcoming Washington NATO Summit in setting out how a new European security architecture beyond NATO can be developed to deter Russia from future aggression and to defend Ukraine in the long term.

This paper examines the question: How does the EU use strategic communications to persuade third countries to cooperate on sanctions? The paper analyses how the EU is using arguments linked to upholding values and appealing to the interests of third countries.

Removing restrictions on the use of weapons supplied to Ukraine by international partners will help Ukraine’s defence against Russia, particularly in the north, but it is not a war-winning move on its own.

Ukraine has been able to weaponise media, crowdfunding and commercial drones against Russia’s aggression.

Researcher Oksana Ihnatenko explains what further measures can be taken by Ukraine to strengthen its response to financial crime, and how these efforts affect the security of Europe.

By stretching Ukrainian forces along a wide front, Russia is overcoming the limitations of its undertrained army.

Oksana Ihnatenko, Researcher for SMURF (Supervising and Monitoring Ukraine’s Reconstruction Funds), describes the approach Ukraine is taking to virtual assets, and the benefits of a strong legal framework on virtual assets.