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.
For many athletes, the Olympic Games in Paris will have a bittersweet aftertaste. Thirty-one athletes from Russia and Belarus will perform under a neutral flag.
The failure to understand that Russia's goal is to destroy Ukraine and Ukrainian identity creates a dangerous illusion that concessions can be made to Russia. The fight against Ukrainian identity naturally escalates into a fight against human identity – against the desire to remain human. Russian occupation is the worst thing that can happen in life, says Oksana Pohomii, who survived the occupation of Kherson.
According to data from the International Committee of the Red Cross, the number of armed conflicts worldwide is currently the highest it has been since World War II,” says Oleksandra Matviichuk, recipient of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, in her first interview with Polish media.
How differently do Ukrainians and Russians relate to their own countries? Why, despite changes in regimes and ideological systems in Russia, does one thing remain constant – continuous military expansion? What is it in the structure of Russia’s imperial consciousness that prevents it from living peacefully with its neighbors? These questions are addressed by Nikolai Karpitsky in the article “Russian Imperial Consciousness”.
“This is the hardest winter in Sloviansk in all the years of the war,” says Nikolai Karpitsky. He has spent all four years of the war in this frontline city. Specially for PostPravda.Info, he tells how a resident of Sloviansk endures the cold, which the enemy uses as a weapon.
What is responsibility, and how is a feeling of responsibility connected to recognizing a person as a free citizen rather than a serf or a slave? Why do some Russians acknowledge collective responsibility for the war, while others are outraged that responsibility for crimes of the regime – crimes in which they were not personally involved – is being attributed to them?
President Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ policies, his redux of the Monroe Doctrine, and the threats to abandon NATO have triggered a collective angst from the US’s most powerful and proven allies.
The trilateral negotiations between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States on settling the war concluded on January 24, 2026, in Abu Dhabi. The parties agreed to continue the talks on February 1. But is peace possible if the sides fundamentally fail to understand one another – because they think differently and inhabit different worldviews?
The January protests in Iran were suppressed with inhumane brutality in the name of a regime that proclaims the primacy of religious morality. Yet such brutality contradicts any morality and any religion. At what point does the religious and moral motivation of the Iranian authorities become necrophilic? Is the degeneration of ideological totalitarianism in Iran into necro-imperialism inevitable – by analogy with what has occurred in Russia?
