From crippling bridges bringing supplies to Russia’s troops to defending the territory they have snatched in daring raids, soldiers resting in Ukraine’s border Sumy region tell Askold Krushelnycky they want to push on.
After the assassination attempt on Robert Fico, the propaganda inherent in such cases was basically immediately launched. Wszelaka. We followed it through.
Russia’s stony-faced foreign minister is getting paranoid. Sergei Lavrov believes that “at present, about 50 countries are trying to break up Russia.” The West is the Kremlin's worst enemy.
In a career which has spanned four decades, journalist Askold Krushelnycky has seen first-hand the brutality of the Russian regime. This time he had a chance to cross the Russian border.
The aggressive political myth used to justify war – not only against Ukraine but against the entire Western civilization – penetrates much deeper into the public consciousness than Kremlin propaganda, disinformation, or fake news.
If Soviet ideology was monolithic, the current ideology of the Russian authorities appears loose, combining seemingly incompatible elements – for example, the cultivation of the Soviet past alongside the idealization of Tsarist Russia. Nevertheless, Russian propaganda has shown significant success, attracting a wide range of political forces, sometimes even those hostiles to each other. This demonstrates that modern Russian ideology functions differently from the Soviet one
War constantly changes its nature, and so does the life of people living under shelling. Only one thing remains unchanged – the constant threat of losing one’s home, being maimed, or killed. As an eyewitness, Nikolai Karpitsky gives an account of life in the Donbas frontline zone over the course of ten years.
While browsing pro-Kremlin media, I come across reports about Ukrainian refugees who supposedly refuse to leave Bulgaria’s luxurious Black Sea resorts — and I discover that similar stories (about Ukrainian refugees in Baltic resorts) are also appearing in Poland, mainly on social media and in nationalist pamphlets.
Russia is accelerating the informational and psychological phase of its preparations for a potential future war with NATO, experts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) warn.
In recent months, Ukraine has intensified its attacks on Russian oil refineries, leading to fuel shortages and rising prices in some regions of the Russian Federation. Since the beginning of 2025, 21 out of 38 major Russian facilities that process crude oil into fuels such as gasoline and diesel have been hit.
Power supply problems have arisen at the Chernobyl plant after a Russian attack on the nearby town of Slavutych. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reassures that electricity has already been partially restored, though not everywhere.
