My thoughts are with the courageous people of Georgia.

This is a good suggestion (from a former ambassador to Georgia). There may be other. The most important thing is to abandon this bystander stance. Send powerful signals to both Georgia's party of power and its civil society. And do it now, without delay. The Georgian people needs…

Aha, so Ukrainian strikes are having an impact after all.

The moment of yesterday’s russian attack on Odesa with a ballistic missile with a cluster warhead. They perfectly knew what they were doing. They wanted to kill and wound as many people as possible.

One of those injured in today’s Russian missile attack on Odesa is Serhiy Kivalov. Once one of Ukraine’s most notable pro-Russian politicians, he oversaw the fraudulent 2004 elections that sparked the 'Orange Revolution' and then was a long-serving MP from Yanukovych's party,…

My podcsast interview with Czech journalist Lenka Kabrhelova

Seeing massive crowds in the streets of Tbilisi for so many days in a row, including now in the middle of the night, is very endearing. This great country got off track at some point, or should we say was taken off track. The healthy civil society is the only force that can take…

Broad set of issues discussed in my conversation with one of the leading Slovak journalists Andrej Matisak, including Slovak initiatives to support Ukraine, even if the current leadership of the SR thinks this should not be done.

Who is providing MTG with a script?

It has been long known by now that the only way that Russia can disrupt trade and transportation in the Black Sea region for Ukraine is by striking its port infrastructure. That is exactly what happened today in a greater Odesa area. Russia is using the fact that Ukraine’s air…

Lady next to me here on a train in Germany shows her friend a photo of Taylor Swift. And I am looking at the photos of the pile of smoke from an explosion near my home town of Odesa. No blaming here, of course. Just a momentary observation of differences in priorities. I would…

Great analysis by my colleague Polina Sinovets

“People are beginning to sour on the U.S.,” said Volodymyr Dubovyk, associate professor and director of the Center for International Studies at Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University. The U.S. was “a decisive factor for Ukraine in the first two years of the war, but now of…

A lot of angry Ukrainians today. First, new U.S. aid is being held for almost half a year now, with no progress. In the meantime, let’s not push Russia to escalate remains the mantra - whatever it even means now, with Russia trying pretty much everything by now. Ukrainians are…