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Analyses |
| Marcin Jędrysiak
On 5 September, Ukraine’s parliament (Verkhovna Rada, VR) appointed 10 new ministers, including two deputy prime ministers (see Appendix 1). The previous day, six ministers and the head of the State Property Fund (SPF) had tendered their…
Analyses |
| Marcin Jędrysiak, Krzysztof Nieczypor
On 20 August, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed amendments to laws regulating the activities of religious communities, and thus made it possible to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP), the largest…
OSW Commentary |
| Marcin Jędrysiak
A peculiar political system has emerged during the five years of Volodymyr Zelensky’s rule in Ukraine, with virtually all power concentrated in the hands of the head of state and the Office of the President of Ukraine (OPU) which he…
Analyses |
| Andrzej Wilk, Marcin Jędrysiak
Within six days of their military action, after initially encountering no serious resistance, Ukrainian forces have succeeded in occupying Russian territory in the Kursk Oblast, having advanced more than 20 km to the north and up to 10 km…
Analyses |
| Marcin Jędrysiak
On 25 June, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg unanimously ruled that during the period between February 2014 and August 2015, in occupied Crimea, Russia had violated numerous articles of the European Convention for…
Analyses |
| Sławomir Matuszak, Marcin Jędrysiak
20 June saw another combined rocket and UAV strike on energy infrastructure facilities. Since March 2024, when Russia resumed its massive shelling campaigns, Ukraine has lost around half of its installed capacity, resulting in power…
Analyses |
| Marcin Jędrysiak
Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidential term came to an end on 20 May. According to the Ukrainian constitution, the head of state holds office for five years and performs their duties until a newly elected successor takes office. Elections are…
Analyses |
| Marcin Jędrysiak
On 25 April, the head of Ukraine’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, Mykola Solskyi, tendered his resignation; the next day, the High Anti-Corruption Court decided to place him under temporary detention with the possibility of release…
Analyses |
| Marcin Jędrysiak, Piotr Żochowski
Representatives of the Ukrainian media who have criticised the government have been attacked twice over the past month, and the law enforcement authorities have not yet fully cleared up the details of the incidents.
OSW Commentary |
| Marcin Jędrysiak
The almost two-year-long Russian assault has inflicted huge losses on Ukraine. According to the World Bank, the latter lost $135 billion in direct costs in the first twelve months of the war alone. The total economic, social and monetary…