Military Exercises

19 March 2023

Russia carried out two mass rocket attacks on Ukraine on 14 January, destroying an apartment block in Dnipro and leaving at least 14 people dead and 64 injured, at least a dozen of them children.

In the last few months, the Russian army has suffered a series of reversals and Russian President Vladimir Putin has responded with a mass mobilisation of soldiers and attacks on core Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

Editor’s Note: In a major breakthrough at the COP27 UN Climate Summit, rich countries agreed to establish a loss and damage fund to help the Global South deal with the worst effects of the climate catastrophe, but delegates failed to agree any steps to phase out fossil fuels.

The conflict in Ukraine appears further than ever from resolution, with the prospect of bitter urban fighting for Kherson city the next likely phase in a war that has included nuclear threats and mass atrocities.

As Russia’s war in Ukraine nears the eight-month mark it appears to be escalating on several fronts, with Russian President Vladimir Putin launching the largest airstrikes on civilian targets in Ukraine in months.

– nuclear exercises by Russia and NATO to go ahead

Analysis of the NATO Defence Ministers meeting, 12-13 October 2022

22 September 2022

Fighting in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions (that together make up the Donbas) continues to grind on.

Russian aggression against Ukraine continued into week 12 of the war with further destruction of civilian infrastructure and indiscriminate violence against civilians.