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On today's Lawfare Daily, Benjamin Wittes spoke to Anastasiia Lapatina and Eric Ciaramella to go over all the Russian-Ukraine War updates from the past few weeks, including the Russians having bombed a children’s hospital in Kyiv and the NATO summit in D.C. lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfar…

Ukraine's path to survival then victory all starts and finishes with the protection and replenishment of the Ukrainian infantryman. No high-tech weaponry can help if there is nobody left to man the zero line. My latest, from there, for The Kyiv Independent: kyivindependent.com/eye-of-the-sto…

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My first piece is about motherhood during war, and how Russia launched one of its largest air attacks on Kyiv 2 days after I gave birth to my daughter. It is a reflection on how mundane and expected horrific violence in Ukraine has become: yoursukrainian.substack.com/p/becoming-a-m…

Here is an uncomfortable truth some need to hear: Since at least 2014, Russia has played the West for fools. They have lied, cheated, and acted in bad faith, yet Western analysts and governments still pushed for what amounted to unilateral disarmament. 1/3

So grateful to be on Lawfare's podcast with Anastasiia Lapatina. We chatted about the evolution of Ukraine's OWA drone campaign and how my proposals in 2022 did (and didn't) play out in practice. Check out the full episode below: youtube.com/watch?v=XO8cOh…

Inspired by recent events and in the spirit of being constructive, here are some concrete bare minimum steps that need to be taken by Russian opposition for Ukrainians to consider cooperating with them again:

Why would the Russian opposition not just say “We’re glad to be free. Now it’s time for our fellow Russians to put down their weapons, refuse to fight, and refuse to work. Enough killing and violence at home and in Ukraine”? It’s like they’re desperate to be unpopular.

"Ukrainians can do a lot just on vides, energy and little else"

Looks like a significant shift in rhetoric:

On today's Lawfare Daily, Benjamin Wittes spoke with Anastasiia Lapatina and Eric Ciaramella (Carnegie Endowment) about Ukraine's incursion into the Kursk Oblast in Russia, what Ukraine trying to achieve, how the Kursk operation may affect the war, and more. lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfar…

On Aug. 6, Ukraine launched an offensive into Kursk Oblast in Russian territory. Anastasiia Lapatina looks at why the Kursk attack is different from other Ukrainian cross-border incursions, what the potential goals of the attack are, and global reactions. lawfaremedia.org/article/six-ob…

"Since Ukraine launched the Kursk offensive, 'I would say things have become worse in our part of the front,' said Ivan Sekach, spokesperson of Ukraine's 110th Mechanized Brigade, which is currently deployed in the Pokrovsk district in the Donetsk region. 'We have been getting

My latest for Lawfare — everything we know about Ukraine’s invasion of Russia lawfaremedia.org/article/six-ob…