Canada agrees on the steps to implement Ukraine’s peace initiative to end Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Jan. 3 after a call with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “A substantive conversation with Justin Trudeau,” Zelensky wrote on Twitter. “Agreed on steps to implement the #PeaceFormula,” he added, along with thanking Canada for the “strong…
Zelensky Says Trudeau Agrees on Steps for Ukraine’s Peace Initiative
2023’s Strategic Challenges: Introducing Big Debt
Commentary When 2022 began, Vladimir Putin’s Russia was fighting a slow but deadly war with Ukraine—a war to restore what Putin believed was Russia’s historically legitimate empire. In the slow war, the Kremlin could control the level of battlefield violence and gauge the economic costs. For example, Russia could slowly destroy Ukraine’s eastern provinces and…
Following Deadly New Year’s Barrage, Russia Takes Aim at US-Made Mobile Missile Systems
Russian forces this week appeared to redouble their efforts to neutralize Ukraine’s United States-made HIMAR (High Mobility Artillery Rocket) systems. The latest moves come in the wake of a massive New Year’s Eve artillery strike that killed scores of Russian soldiers in the Donetsk region. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, within the past 24…
Moscow Says Ukrainian Rocket Strike Kills 63 Russian Troops
KYIV, Ukraine—Ukrainian forces fired rockets at a facility in the eastern Donetsk region where Russian soldiers were stationed, killing 63 of them, Russia’s defense ministry said Monday, in one of the deadliest attacks on the Kremlin’s forces since the war began more than 10 months ago. Ukrainian forces fired six rockets from a HIMARS launch…
Putin Gives New Year Address to Nation, Says 2022 Was Year of ‘Difficult but Necessary Decisions’
Russian President Vladimir Putin devoted his annual New Year’s address on Saturday to rallying the Russian people behind his troops fighting in Ukraine and pledging victory over Ukrainian “neo-Nazis” and a West supposedly intent on “destroying Russia.” In a stern and combative recorded video message, broadcast on national television, Putin cast the war— which he…
A Comprehensive ‘Helsinki 21’ Accord Is Needed to Settle the Ukraine War
Commentary Ukraine is in the right, Russia in the wrong. Ukrainian forces have performed heroically well in resisting the invasion. It is time now to consider, however, what specific arrangements will produce a lasting peace. It is possible to win a war and lose a war—a pyrrhic victory, in which the losses needed to win…
Saskatoon Group Rescues Girls at Risk of Being Trafficked in Ukraine
Savelia Curniski has guided thousands of Canadian tourists through Ukraine, including many from Saskatchewan who are of Ukrainian descent. Curniski’s grandparents came to Canada from Ukraine in 1904, and she is among the more than 12 percent of Saskatchewanians who are of Ukrainian descent. She had great enthusiasm for connecting with her roots and helping…
Sirens Wail in Kyiv, Governor Says Drone Attack Underway
KYIV—Residents of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv were urged to head to air raid shelters early on Friday as sirens wailed across the city, a day after Russia carried out the biggest aerial assault since it started the war in February. Shortly after 2.00 a.m. Kyiv’s city government issued an alert on its Telegram messaging app…
Russia Intensifies Attacks on Kherson in Ukraine’s South, Bakhmut in East
KYIV/BAKHMUT, Ukraine—Russian forces increased mortar and artillery attacks on the city of Kherson more than six weeks after it was retaken by Ukrainian troops, while also exerting pressure along frontlines in the east, Ukraine’s military said on Wednesday. Russia had shelled more than 25 settlements around Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, causing civilian casualties and damaging civilian…
The Year Putin’s Imperial Dream Became a Nightmare of Destruction
Commentary We know why Vladimir Putin wants Ukraine. Once upon a time (as recently as late February 2022), Vlad dreamed a splendid dream of imperial Russian glory restored. In Vlad’s grand reverie the architect, commander, and instrument of this repair of the Russian Empire’s Soviet Union-era crackup would be… Vlad. As grandiose, narcissistic hallucinations go,…
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