Explaining Russia’s Restrained Response To Estonia Seizing One Of Its “Shadow Fleet” Vessels By Andrew Korybko Russia wants to avoid falling into the UK’s trap for sabotaging its rapprochement with the US by credibly threatening military force against Estonia in response… Read More ›
Clarifying Russian Diplomats’ Seemingly Contradictory Claims About European Peacekeepers By Andrew Korybko Miroshnik and Zakharova said different things last week about these peacekeepers’ real purpose and their degree of coordination with Kiev in the unlikely scenario of them being deployed to… Read More ›
Did Ukraine Really Break Through Into Russia’s Belgorod Region? By Andrew Korybko Whatever it might have achieved isn’t militarily significant enough to warrant much attention. Conflicting reports have circulated about whether or not Ukrainian forces had broken through into Russia’s Belgorod… Read More ›
Putin’s Economic Envoy Helped Break The Russian-US Impasse On Ukraine By Andrew Korybko Creative economic diplomacy was the key to getting their increasingly stalled talks back on track. Russian Special Presidential Envoy Kirill Dmitriev, who’s also the CEO of the Russian… Read More ›
Trump’s Latest Sanctions Threat Against Russia Suggests That He’s Getting Impatient For A Deal By Andrew Korybko This moment of truth could even arrive earlier than expected and thus force Putin to compromise or escalate before he’s fully made up his… Read More ›
Putin’s Proposed UN Control Over Ukraine Is Well Intentioned But Will Be Tough To Implement By Andrew Korybko The odds of everything perfectly unfolding – the UNSC agreeing to have the UN assume control only over “rump Ukraine” and without Kiev’s… Read More ›
The Grain Deal’s Revival Would Bring Russia And Ukraine Closer To A Full Ceasefire By Andrew Korybko What’s most important is that Putin and Trump trust one another, their representatives have excellent working relations with each other, and these two leaders… Read More ›
Putin’s Senior Aide Patrushev Shared Some Updates About The Arctic And Baltic Fronts By Andrew Korybko The Arctic front of the New Cold War is thawing a lot quicker than the Baltic one since the first is where the US could… Read More ›
The Real Importance Of The Latest Russian-Pakistani Naval Drills By Andrew Korybko Pakistan continues relying on Russia to pragmatically rebalance ties with China. The Russian and Pakistani Navies conducted a passing exercise (PASSEX) in the Arabian Sea last week. This is a standard… Read More ›
Will Russia Expand Its Ground Campaign Into Sumy, Dniepropetrovsk, And/Or Kharkov Regions? By Andrew Korybko This might be the only way to ensure Ukraine’s demilitarization if diplomacy fails. The nascent Russian–US “New Détente” didn’t lead to a ceasefire during the latest Putin–Trump call, thus meaning that the hot… Read More ›