Who ate all the Minsk pies?

Viktor Orban continues to complicate EU policymaking on Ukraine and Russia. What is to be done?

The Ukrainian military operation inside the Russian border, which began on Tuesday, is going quite well. What's going on?

As NATO marks its 75-year anniversary, this new volume from Sten Rynning is a fitting appraisal of 'the world's most powerful alliance'.

The United Kingdom goes to the polls this week. Does the result matter at all for Ukrainians and Belarusians?

From Putin's phoney peace offer to his meeting with Kim Jong-Un, there is little cause for optimism. But you can often see what you want.

Ukraine's military is being forced to fight with one hand behind its back. Is it time to relax restrictions on its use of donated weapons?

Georgian protests, Lord Cameron in Ukraine, a scathing US view of the UK army, Belarusian informants... What caught my attention this week.

A few notes on the Washington–Beijing–Moscow strategic triangle of today.

Recent talk of a rift between Ukraine's president and the commander–in–chief of the armed forces was not scuttlebutt.

Claims that Boris Johnson scuppered a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine last year aren't new, and probably aren't true.

Vladimir Putin appears confident the war in Ukraine is turning in his favour: he could yet be hoisted with his own petard, however.

The death of Henry Kissinger came at a watershed moment for political realism in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war.

If anyone doubts how far the Russia-Ukraine war has fallen down the agenda, look at the coverage of the Biden-Xi Jinping press conference.

An essay, of sorts, on war.

This is part two of my roundup of things I might have written more about. I'm leaving out the calls for Russia to be stripped of its...

One of the biggest challenges since I started this blog is that there is so much going on in, or otherwise affecting, eastern Europe and...

A spate of media stories, beginning a week and a half ago, suggested that Ukraine’s counteroffensive was ‘failing’. Then followed stories...

Yes, this really does involve Stormtroopers, but not quite yet. When I started this blog, one of my (many) ideas for content was to...

I’ve been away on a summer holiday and somewhat detached from the news. Still, I did skim through a newspaper each morning and there was...

I am not usually one to throw caution to the wind, but I am rethinking my position on the rhetoric round nuclear weapons.