Opinions

On April 18, 2022, Vladimir Putin awarded the rank of "Guards" to the 64th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Army. On March 28, a similar name was awarded to the 155th Marine Brigade.

“Bucha massacre is a fake news invented against Russia”, “Russia is engaged in humanitarian aid for Ukraine’s inhabitants”, “Russian troops are welcomed in Ukraine with joy” – these are a couple of lies that in recent days have been distributed by Russian propaganda all around the globe.

The notion with “God is with us,” Gott mit uns, has been part of Vladimir Putin’s Russian nationalist revival, a boast that is sacrilegious and untrue.

The consensus was stifling. This war is none of the West’s business. The causes are complicated. These fierce, strange people in hard-to-understand places have been fighting each other for centuries.

Russia has just issued a genocide handbook for its war on Ukraine. The Russian official press agency "RIA Novosti" published last Sunday an explicit program for the complete elimination of the Ukrainian nation as such.

Within the next five weeks, Vladimir Putin must contrive something to celebrate at his country’s most important patriotic holiday: May 9th, which marks the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.

Russia’s use of violence against Ukrainian civilians is worsening, something distorted by ever-more cynical propaganda.

Russia’s President rolled the dice with his Ukraine invasion. Domestic support, currently at high levels, is about to wane and his options will soon narrow.

The war in Ukraine is not about Ukraine, it’s about one man’s desire to return to the past. NATO must stop him.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine was meant to secure Vladimir Putin’s place in history and reunify what Moscow views as the divided lands of historic Russia.