Analyses and other info on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Articles and analyses from authoritative and knowledgeable sources

• “Is Russia losing?” (March 18 2022)
• Top American generals on three key lessons learned from Ukraine  (March 11 2022)
• “Russian Success or Failure in Ukraine Will Define Global Security for Decades” (March 10 2022)
• “Putin’s baffling war strategy”, interview with Mason Clark, the lead Russia analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, a nonpartisan DC-based think tank
• “Possible Outcomes of the Russo-Ukrainian War and China’s Choice” by Hu Wei, vice-chairman of the Public Policy Research Center of the Counselor’s Office of the State Council, the chairman of Shanghai Public Policy Research Association, China.
• Twitter thread on Russian military’s underperformance by Michael Kofman, Director of the Russia Studies program at the Center for Naval Analyses (the main Navy/Marines think tank) in Washington, DC.
• “What Putin Fears Most” by Robert Person, associate professor of international relations at the United States Military Academy and director of West Point’s International Affairs curriculum, and Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, professor of political science at Stanford University, director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
• “Ukraine Is Only One Small Part of Putin’s Plans” by Lilia Shevtsova, an expert on Russia who has written about its politics and relations with the West for decades.
• A Russian Invasion of Ukraine Could Destabilize Russia’s Political Order  (from LeftEast, news and analysis by experts from and on the East European region)
• “Putin’s Public Approval Is Soaring During Russia-Ukraine Crisis. But It Might Not Last” (by Arik Burakovsky, Assistant Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University)
• Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Essentially Not About NATO by Maria Popova, Dept. of Pol. Science, McGill Univ., and Oxana Shevel, Dept of Pol. Science, Tufts University
• “Putin is a prisoner of his own delusions about Ukraine. They will be his undoing” by Oxana Shevel (see previous article link)
• “Putin’s rule depends on creating foreign enemies — and domestic ‘traitors'” by Samuel A.  Greene, professor of Russian politics and director of the Russia Institute at King’s College, London, co-author of “Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia” and Graeme B. Robertson, professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and director of its Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European studies. He is co-author of “Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia.”
• “The Signs of a Dangerous Shift in ‘How Putin Understands His Own Power’” interview with Stephen Greene (see previous article link)
• “A Sleepless Night of Russian Air Strikes in Ukraine”, report from on the ground in Ukraine by Joshua Yaffa, a US journalist for The New Yorker
• “The Realist Illusion About Russia and Ukraine: A Response to Stephen Walt” by Aliaksei Kazharski Visegrad Insight Fellow. Researcher at the Institute of European Studies and International Relations of the Comenius University in Bratislava and a lecturer at the Department of Security Studies of Charles University in Prague
• Russia, Ukraine and the West: A CPCS Virtual Issue (from journal Communist and Post-Communist Studies)
• Live map of military incidents in and around Ukraine. From the Centre for Information Resilience (CIR), an independent, non-profit social enterprise dedicated to countering disinformation, exposing human rights abuses, and combating online behaviour harmful to women and minorities. Here’s some background on this map.

Sources in the region:

• Moscow Times – Independent English language newspaper based in Moscow, founded in 1992
• Kyiv Independent – Independent English language newspaper based in Kyiv, Ukraine
• Ukrayinska Pravda – English language version of major Ukrainian daily newspaper

Blogs and other sites with a focus on Russia:

• In Moscow’s Shadows – Analysis and Assessment of Russian Crime and Security
• Russian Military Reform – Tracking developments in the Russian military
• Russia without BS – foreigner-in-Russia blog that strives to give all those interested in Russia an insight into life in the capital from the perspective of an ordinary working-class American
• Window on Eurasia

Others:

• Text of speech by Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Ukraine’s president) on March 15
• Text of speech by Vladimir Putin on February 24 justifying Russian intervention into Ukraine
• Video of Feb 24 speech with English subtitles (27:58)
• Text and video of Feb 21 speech
• Video (with English subtitles) of Putin speech to Russian people on on the Situation in Ukraine, the position of NATO, and the Status of the Donbass, 21 Feb 2022 (55:55)
• Historian Timothy Snyder’s critique of Putin’s  claims about Ukraine’s history
• Video of address by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to Ukraine Early Morning 26 February 2022 – English Subtitles (4:54)
• Kenyan ambassador’s speech to UN about Russian invasion of Ukraine (2:39)