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OSW Commentary | | Jadwiga Rogoża
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has aggravated the country’s already extremely difficult demographic situation, creating the prospect of a demographic catastrophe. Over the course of its three decades of independence, Ukraine has…
OSW Commentary | | Jadwiga Rogoża
29 March 2023 marked the deadline for representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) to leave the Pechersk Lavra monastery complex in Kyiv, which they had been leasing. On 10 March the Ministry of…
OSW Commentary | | Jadwiga Rogoża
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has completed the process of identity transformation and the shaping of a Ukrainian political nation. The year of war, accompanied by an all-encompassing derussification of public life, has accelerated…
Analyses | | Jadwiga Rogoża, Piotr Żochowski
On 22 November, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), supported by the police and the National Guard, launched a large-scale counter-espionage operation against the structures of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (…
Analyses | | Jadwiga Rogoża
The massive Russian missile attacks which began in October have led to a serious failure of Ukraine’s entire energy system. In the largest attack, on 23 November, the majority of power plants and combined heat and power plants were damaged…
Analyses | | Krzysztof Nieczypor, Jadwiga Rogoża
Despite the escalation of Russia’s aggressive actions – the annexation of occupied territories and nuclear blackmail – Ukraine has consistently maintained its position of refusing to make concessions and has announced the restoration of…
Analyses | | Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski, Jadwiga Rogoża
The main arena of fighting remains the Donbas. Ukrainian forces are repelling attacks in the Bakhmut area and localities southeast and south. Russian assaults are also being held southwest of Donetsk, while the frequency of hostile strikes…
Analyses | | Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski, Jadwiga Rogoża
Ukrainian forces have entered more villages in the recovered areas – Velyki Prokhody and Mali Prokhody north of Kharkiv. Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malar reported that as of 6 September, an area of nearly 8,500 square kilometres in the…
Analyses | | Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski, Jadwiga Rogoża
The fighting in the Donetsk Oblast did not bring significant changes. Russian forces approached Bakhmut from the south-east, attacking the defenders’ positions in the village of Vesela Dolyna, neighbouring the city. The Ukrainians are…
Analyses | | Andrzej Wilk, Piotr Żochowski, Jadwiga Rogoża
As warned by the Ukrainian side, the number of Russian rocket attacks increased significantly on Ukraine’s Independence Day, 24 August. The city of Dnipro and the Chaplyne railway station in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast were hit – the attack…