United for Peace and Justice is a network of organizations, and there is some diversity of views regarding the nature of the current crisis. But all agree in their opposition to the threat or use of force as a means to resolve international conflict. This page offers a selection of Ukraine resources from a variety of organizations and perspectives, from UFPJ member groups and elsewhere. Inclusion here does not indicate endorsement by UFPJ.
United for Peace and Justice statements
The Current Crisis: News, Commentary and Analysis
Pre-War Commentary and Analysis
The Ukraine war and non-violence
International Law and the Ukraine War
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine
The current crisis: recorded webinars and videos
Russian government statements
Ukraine Government Statements
Background of the current crisis
Minsk agreements and Donbass
The Ukraine crisis and nuclear weapons
Russian government claims regarding bioweapons research in Ukraine
The Ukraine Crisis and Cyberwar
Statements, appeals, and petitions by other organizations
United for Peace and Justice statements
Sign the Statement of Solidarity with Russian War Opponents. An initiative of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, co-sponsored by CODEPINK, Peace Action, United for Peace and Justice, Western States Legal Foundation, 1040 For Peace, Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), Veterans For Peace, Maine Peace Action, and Nebraskans for Peace. October 2022.
Time to start stopping the wars: No war in Ukraine, then no war anywhere. Statement on the Ukraine Crisis by the United for Peace and Justice Coordinating Committee, January 29, 2022
UFPJ Statement: Moving Away From War in Ukraine, March 2015. This page also includes links to contemporaneous statements on Ukraine by several UFPJ member groups.
The current crisis: news, commentary and analysis
Ten years since its annexation, Crimea serves as a grim warning to any Ukrainian lands that fall under Russian occupation, Shane O’Rourke, The Conversation, March 26, 2024.
UN officials outraged at Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy plants, UN News, March 22, 2024.
Putin 2024: Meduza breaks down the evidence pointing to the most fraudulent elections in modern Russian history, Meduza, March 20, 2024.
The Presidential Election: What Is To Be Done? Maxim Veselov, Posle, March 13, 2024.
‘The important thing is what people believe’ Russian opposition figures on the controversial ‘Noon Against Putin’ election protest strategy, Meduza, March 11, 2024.
Trump ‘will not give a penny to Ukraine’ if he wins, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán says, Martin Pengelly, The Guardian, March 11, 2024.
EU aims to shift European arms industry to ‘war economy mode’, Andrew Gray, Reuters, March 5, 2024.
Navalny’s Future Russia Did Not Include Everyone, Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, New Lines Magazine, March 1, 2024.
‘High time for peace’, UN chief says, as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters third year, UN News, February 23, 2024.
How the Post-Soviet ‘Crisis of Hegemony’ Explains Class and War in Ukraine: A Review of Volodymyr Ishchenko’s Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War, Bogdan Ovcharuk, LeftEast, February 24, 2024.
The war in Ukraine holds two lessons: Russia isn’t an imminent threat, and Europe must rearm regardless, Anatol Lieven, The Guardian, February 23, 2024.
Two Armies in One, James Meek, London Review of Books, February 22, 2024.
Alexei Navalny was a Russian hero, Ilya Matveev, Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, February 22, 2024.
Navalny and Us, Grusha Gilayeva, Posle, February 21, 2024.
Alexei Navalny Taught Russia’s Opposition How to Mobilize, Ilya Budraitskis, Jacobin, February 20, 2024.
‘Did you expect anything else?’ Kremlin insiders weigh in on Alexey Navalny’s death and what it means for Vladimir Putin’s regime, Meduza, February 16, 2024.
The Diplomatic Path to a Secure Ukraine, George Beebe and Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute, February 16, 2024.
Russian anti-war sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky’s sentence in ‘justifying terrorism’ case upped to five years imprisonment, Meduza, February 13, 2024.
‘It would show something is wrong’ Meduza’s sources say Kremlin barred anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin after fears he would get over 10 percent of presidential vote, Meduza, February 8, 2024.
More than 100,000 Russians have given their signatures to support the only anti-war candidate in the upcoming presidential election, Russia.Post, February 6, 2024.
The Nadezhdin Phenomenon: A new opposition candidate is only one sign of broader Russian unrest, Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian Dissent, January 23, 2024.
Russian ambassador: Swiss peace summit for Ukraine would be ‘pointless’, SonntagsZeitung reports, Reuters,
Volodymyr Ishchenko, Ukraine – An Exceptional or a Paradigmatic Case? RevDem, January 17, 2024.
Riot police clash with thousands of protesters following activist’s sentencing in Russia’s Republic of Bashkortostan, Meduza, January 17, 2024.
My Trip to Syktyvkar, Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian Dissent, January 15, 2024.
Ukraine war increasingly seen as ‘fought by the poor’, as Zelensky raises taxes and proposes strict mobilisation laws, Stefan Wolff and Tetyana Malyarenko, The Conversation, January 4, 2024.
Moscow court hands long jail terms to two men for reciting poetry: Artyom Kamardin, 33, got seven years after attending anti-Ukraine war protest and Yegor Shtovba, 23, was given five and a half, The Guardian, December 28, 2023.
Israel’s declared goals similar to Russia’s – Lavrov: The fight against Nazism is what historically unites Russia and the Middle Eastern country, the foreign minister believes, RT, December 28, 2023.
‘We’re tired of being good girls’: Russia’s military wives and mothers protest against Putin, Pjotr Sauer, The Guardian, December 25, 2023.
Putin Quietly Signals He Is Open to a Cease-Fire in Ukraine, Anton Troianovski, Adam Entous and Julian E. Barnes, The New York Times, December 23, 2023.
Inquiry: Anarchists and the War in Ukraine, Contradictions Vol. 7, 2023.
The Russian Invasion and the Left in Ukraine, Volodymyr Ishchenko, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, December 2023.
The War in Ukraine: Agenda for the Left, Oleksandr Kyselov, Commons, December 21, 2023.
Putin’s Russia and Peripheral Imperialism, Anatoly Kropivnitskyi, Posle, December 20, 2023.
Replacing a Disastrous War with a Just Peace in Ukraine, Lawrence Wittner, Foreign Policy in Focus, December 14, 2023.
Putin says no peace until Russia’s goals in Ukraine achieved, Andrew Roth and Pjotr Sauer, The Guardian, December 14, 2023.
‘What life is this?’: Escaping Ukraine’s occupied territories Isobel Koshiw, Open Democracy, December 7, 2023.
War of words: Russia’s threatened minority languages have become a political hot potato since the war in Ukraine began, Semyon Grigoryev, Novaya Gazeta Europe, December 7, 2023.
The hidden strength of Russia’s anti-war movement, Dan Storyev, Daria Korolenko, Lauren McCarthy, Riddle Russia, December 1, 2023.
Beyond Russia: authoritarian regimes and imperialist aggression, Kateryna Turenko, Commons, November 30, 2023.
Russia has banned the so-called ‘international LGBT movement’ What does this mean for queer people and activists living there? Meduza, November 30, 2023.
Russian Military Keynesianism: Who Benefits from the War in Ukraine? Volodymyr Ishchenko, Ilya Matveev and Oleg Zhuravlev, PONARS Eurasia, November 27, 2023.
Why “Not losing” is not tantamount to winning, Lawrence Freedman, Comment is Freed (Substack), November 23, 2023.
How Anti-War Russians Who Stayed Are Feeling As The War Drags On, Lyubov Borusyak, Russia.Post, November 21, 2023.
Ukrainian military officer coordinated Nord Stream pipeline attack, Shane Harris and Isabelle Khurshudyan, The Washington Post, November 11, 2023.
Nato suspends key Cold War-era armed forces treaty after Russia withdraws, Lorne Cook, The Independent, November 7, 2023.
Ukrainian Letter of Solidarity with Palestinian people, Ukraine-Palestine Solidarity Group, November 2, 2023.
A Crucial Political Moment for Europe, Lanfranco Caminiti, Chicco Galmozzi, and Brunello Mantelli, Posle Media, November 1, 3023.
Why Ukrainians should support Palestinians, Daria Saburova, Commons, October 27, 2023.
Palestine and Ukraine: how the 21st century empires wage war, Simon Pirani, People and Nature, October 28, 2023.
Diplomacy Watch: Ukraine and Russia are (quietly) talking, Connor Echols, Responsible Statecraft, October 27, 2023.
Russia simulates nuclear strike after opting out of treaty, AP Moscow/The Guardian, October 25, 2023.
The Enduring Limits of American Power: America can’t determine outcomes on the ground in Israel and Ukraine, John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, October 25, 2023.
The Russian Invasion and the Ukrainian Left: the Struggle for a Social Ukraine, Commons Journal, №13, October 18, 2023.
Veteran activist fined for ‘fascism’ article after comparing Putin’s Russia to ‘1984’, Mark Trevelyan, Reuters, October 11, 2023.
How will Russia’s war in Ukraine develop as we near winter? Paul Rogers, Open Democracy, October 6, 2023.
Russia’s War Is a Failed Answer to Its Demographic Crisis, Sasha Talaver, Left/East, October 5, 2023.
Anti-War Voices in Russia, Sergey Rodionov, Posle Media, September 28, 2023.
The anti-social ferocity of Ukrainian neo-liberals, Olena Slobodyan, Commons, September 28, 2023.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Ukraine, Palestine & Why Latin America Rejects Western Hypocrisy, Democracy Now, September 21, 2023.
Connected by fate: West Asian Grassroots Solidarity with Ukraine and the intricacies of Russian imperialism in the region, Vladyslav Starodubtsev, Commons, September 19, 2023.
Will Ukraine run elections during a war? Vladyslav Faraponov, Open Democracy, September 7, 2023.
Inside Russia’s sham ‘election’ in the occupied Ukrainian territories, Pavlo Lysianskyi, Open Democracy, September 7, 2023.
How Modi’s Russia-Ukraine Policy Coopted India’s Opposition, Kavita Krishnan, Foreign Policy in Focus, September 5, 2023.
Putin fails to win support for his Ukraine war narrative from fellow bloc leaders, Peter Fabricius, Daily Maverick (South Africa), August 23, 2023.
Ukraine’s offensive: is it failing? Lawrence Freedman, Comment is Freed (Substack), August 23, 2023.
Russia’s Lavrov says West needs continual reminder of risks of nuclear war, AlJazeera, August 19, 2023.
Korean armistice, Ukrainian ceasefire, John Feffer, Hankyoreh, August 15, 2023.
Ukraine and the Contested Meaning of Nonalignment, Rohini Hensman, Foreign Policy in Focus, August 1, 2023.
Building International Solidarity for Ukraine: Three Perspectives, Posle editorial collective, August 1, 2023.
Defend Boris Kagarlitsky! Hank Reichman, Academe blog, July 28, 2023.
Former U.S. Official Shares Details of Secret ‘Track 1.5’ Diplomacy With Moscow, Cameron Manley, Moscow Times, July 27, 2023.
Military alliances like NATO won’t solve our greatest security threat, Paul Rogers, Open Democracy, July 14, 2023.
“Our indifference to Ukraine did harm to our struggle in India,” Interview with Kavita Krishnan, Commons, July 11, 2023.
Former U.S. officials have held secret Ukraine talks with prominent Russians, Josh Lederman, NBC News, July 6, 2023.
‘It’s not me who needs to leave’ We asked some of our readers who left Russia during the war and came back why they returned, Meduza, July 5, 2023.
“To Banish the Old Monsters,” What do anarchists in Germany think about the war in Ukraine? Interview with Paul Nagel, Posle, July 5, 2023.
Impressions from a Visit to Western Ukraine, Medea Benjamín and Ann Wright, CODEPINK Newsletter, July 4, 2023.
The Peace Movement and Ukraine: John Feffer Replies to Critics, Portside/New Politics, July 3, 2023.
Wagnerization: How Putin Degraded the Russian State, Ilya Matveev, Left/East, July 3, 2023.
‘If the authorities had rallied around Putin, Prigozhin wouldn’t have even reached Rostov’, Historian Andrey Zubov on why the Wagner rebellion may spell regime change in Russia, Meduza, June 30, 2023.
Prigozhin’s March on Moscow: Ten lessons from a mutiny, Timothy Snyder, Substack, June 25, 2023.
Russia᾽s War Against Ukraine and the West: The First Year, FOI, June 20, 2023.
Ukraine, Lula’s peace plan and the global fight against the extreme right: An interview with Brazilian socialist Israel Dutra, Commons, June 16, 2023.
Peace by peaceful means. Ceasefire and negotiations now! Statement from the International Summit for Peace in Ukraine, June 12, 2023.
Vienna’s International Summit for Peace in Ukraine Issues a Global Call for Action, Medea Benjamin, Common Dreams, June 12, 2023.
Why the ‘International Summit for Peace in Ukraine’ is not conducive to peace, Christian Zeller, Emanzipation–Journal for Ecosocialist Strategy, June 9, 2023 (translation).
Ukrainian economy and society: whither the (postwar) country? Yuliya Yurchenko, Commons, June 8, 2023.
The Surprising Pervasiveness of Pro-War Propaganda, Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies and Marcy Winograd, Foreign Policy in Focus, June 9, 2023.
The Surprising Pervasiveness of American Arrogance, John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, May 24, 2023.
A Very Simple Request: A plea to my Western progressive friends, Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian Dissent, May 23, 2023.
Russia, Decolonization, and the Capitalism-Democracy Muddle, Adrian Ivakhi, e-flux Notes, May 18, 2023.
Paths to a Ceasefire in Ukraine: America Must Take the Lead,Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, May 17, 2023.
The Case Against the Russian Federation: One Year Later, Oleksiy Radynski, e-flux Notes, May 15, 2023.
Putin’s Agency and the Decision for War, Julian Waller, Riddle Russia, May 15, 2023.
Ukraine in the New World Disorder: The Rest’s Rebellion Against the United States, Fiona Hill, Lennart Meri Lecture 2023, International Centre for Defence and Security, May 11, 2023.
A view of anti-imperialism from the periphery, Joey Ayoub, Dana El Kurd, Leila Al-Shami, and Romeo Kokriatski, south/south dialogues, May 5, 2023.
Anti-Western in Form, Neoliberal in Content: Professor Vyacheslav Morozov of the University of Tartu on the intricacies of Russian diplomacy, Posle, May 6, 2023.
The Kremlin’s Theory Of Ideology: A Very Short Introduction, Ilya Budraitskis, Russia.Post, May 4, 2023.
Ukraine, the Deepening Euro-Atlantic Crisis, and Common Security Possibilities, Joseph Gerson, Common Dreams, May 3, 2023.
The War in Ukraine & the Question of Internationalism, A collection of essays, The Alameda Institute, May 2023.
Catastrophe: The Global Cost of the Ukraine War, Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives, May 2, 2023.
Ukraine’s workers are fighting an internal threat, too. They need support, Hanna Perekhoda, Open Democracy, April 30, 2023.
Sending Arms or Twisting Arms: The U.S. Role in the Ukraine War, John Feffer, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, April 27, 2023.
Pretending things are normal: How Russians manage to not notice the war, Sergei Shelin, Russia.Post, April 27, 2023.
How to End the War in Ukraine, Rajan Menon, Boston Review, April 26, 2023.
We Need a New Military Doctrine, Neta C. Crawford, Boston Review, April 25, 2023.
A Better-Armed Ukraine Is the Best Path to Peace, Kathryn Stoner, Boston Review, April 25, 2023.
The Prospects for Lasting Peace, Taras Bilous, Boston Review, April 25, 2023.
The Ukraine War & European Security: How Durable Is America’s Strategy? Zachary Paikin, Quincy Institute, April 25, 2023.
The Ukraine War Has Never Been America’s War: U.S. imperialism is not behind the conflict, Lawrence S. Wittner, Foreign Policy in Focus, April 24, 2023.
Leaked papers reveal reality behind Ukraine war propaganda — and it’s grim, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, Salon, April 24, 2023.
Sub-Imperialist positioning, not “anti-colonial consciousness,” behind the neutrality of reactionary elites in the Global South, Michael Karadjis, Commons, April 24, 2023.
From Russia with Peace: Ekaterina Moroko is checking the pulse on the Russian anti-war movement, Riddle Russia, April 22, 2023.
“This regime is not subject to evolution,” Interview with historian and political commentator Ilya Budraitskis, Meduza, April 17, 2023.
Is US aid to Ukraine really ‘unprecedented’? New studies destroy the myth propagated by supporters of Western and Russian imperialism, Michael Pröbsting, Links, April 4, 2023.
Dmitry Muratov: Nuclear warning from Russia’s Nobel-winning journalist, BBC News, March 30, 2023.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, March 29, 2023.
Ukrainian Socialists in the Diaspora: Lessons On Solidarity From Another Era, Marko Bojcun, Posle, March 27, 2023.
Crisis of Decoloniality and Inevitability of Decolonization, Nikolay Smirnov, Posle, March 10, 2023.
Ukraine’s Future: Like Korea or Yugoslavia? John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, March 8, 2023.
The Disturbing Groupthink Over the War in Ukraine, Jeremy Scahill, the Intercept, March 3, 2023.
Post-War Security for Ukraine: Eventually the Fighting Will End. What Then? Stefano Stefanini, Russia Matters, March 2, 2023.
Decolonialism divided against itself… Adrian Ivakhiv, UKR-TAZ, A Ukrainian Temporary Autonomous Zone, March 1, 2023.
Peace in Ukraine Isn’t Coming Soon, Gregory Afinogenov, Jacobin, Febroary 24, 2023.
How will the War in Ukraine End? interview with Boris Kagarlitsky, theAnalysis.news, February 24, 2023.
For years, Putin didn’t invade Ukraine. What made him finally snap in 2022? Anatol Lieven, The Guardian, February 24, 2023.
‘Russia ends nowhere,’ they say: Sociologist Grigory Yudin discusses a year of war and what comes next, Meduza, February 24, 2023.
China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis, MInistry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, February 24, 2023.
A Ukrainian Socialist Lays Out the Aims and Struggles of Her Country’s Left, Alona Liasheva interviewed by Ashley Smith, Truthout, February 24, 2023.
The Dark Side of Neutrality, Slavoj Žižek, Project Syndicate, February 17, 2023.
Who decided on the boundaries of the ‘Russian World’? A brief history of Donbas separatism, Konstantin Skorkin, Meduza, February 16, 2023.
The Far Right in Ukraine, Taras Bilous interviewed by Stephen R. Shalom, Commons, Ukraine, February 16, 2023.
The Sy Hersh effect: killing the messenger, ignoring the message, Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, Responsible Statecraft, February 16, 2023.
The Nord Stream Pipeline Explosions: Challenging False Narratives, Simon Pirani, New Politics, February 15, 2023.
Commodifying War: The Political Economy of Disaster Capitalism in Ukraine and Beyond, Nela Porobić, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, February 14, 2023.
Notes on a City in Darkness: Odesa After the Russian Infrastructure Attacks, Yana Lysenko, LEFTEAST, February 13, 2023.
The Conflict Inside the Conflict, Historian Martin Baña on reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Argentina, Posle, February 12, 2023.
Blowing Holes in Seymour Hersh’s Pipe Dream, Oliver Alexander, Substack, February 10, 2023.
How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline, Seymour Hersh, Substack, February 8, 2023.
The Grinding War in Ukraine Could Have Ended a Long Time Ago, Branko Marcetic, Jacobin, February 8, 2023.
Economics vs. culture: Ishchenko & his critics, Adrian Ivakhiv, UKR-TAZ, A Ukrainian Temporary Autonomous Zone, February 6, 2023.
What kind of decolonization do we need? Ilya Budraitskis, Russia.Post, February 1, 2023.
Can Biden keep sending Ukraine weapons without provoking Russia? William Hartung, Op-Ed, The Los Angeles Times, January 27, 2023.
Concerning the arguments for ‘total defeat’ of Russia, Anatol Lieven, Responsible Statecraft, January 26, 202.
Resisting war and repression in Putin’s Russia: Interview with Russian socialist Ivan Ovsyannikov, Tempest, January 22, 2023.
When will Putin give up Ukraine? Only when his inner circle forces him to stop, Olga Chyzh, The Guardian, January 22, 2023.
Avoiding a Long War: U.S. Policy and the Trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict, Samuel Charap and Miranda Priebe, The Rand Corporation, January, 2023.
Nothing Is Worse Than Silence in the Face of Aggression: The Russo-Ukrainian War and the rest of us, Bill Fletcher, Jr., The Nation, January 20, 2023.
Voices of Resistance, Interviews with Russian anti war activists, Z, January 11, 2023.
From ‘Bothsidesism’ to Solidarity with Ukraine: The Japanese Left Responds to the Russo-Ukrainian War, Shaun O’Dwyer, Commons, January 10, 2023.
Where the war in Ukraine could be headed in 2023, Anatol Lieven, Responsible Statecraft, January 6, 2023.
Ending the war while ensuring Russia does not gain territory via nuclear coercion, Robert J. Goldston, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 4, 2023.
Are Peace Talks Possible? Prof. Gilbert Achcar on Whether Russia & Ukraine Can Negotiate End to War, Democracy Now, December 29, 2022
Why EU Leaders Dread a Ukraine Peace Process, Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate, December 21, 2022.
Ukrainian Voices? Volodymyr Ishchenko, New Left Review, November/December 2022.
The Ukraine War: Paving the Road to a World War with ‘Peace Plans’? Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, In Depth News, December 28. 2022.
Multipolarity, the Mantra of Authoritarianism, Kavita Krishnan, The India Forum, December 20, 2022.
The left view on the prospects of peace negotiations, Denys Bondar and Zakhar Popovych, Соціальний Рух (Social Movement Ukraine), December 12, 2022.
“Russia Is Losing the War”: Russian Marxist Boris Kagarlitsky on Ukraine and What Comes After Putin, Democracy Now, December 8, 2022.
The future of Russia in Ukraine: a different kind of war? Paul Rogers, Open Democracy, December 2, 2022.
Market economics in an all-out-war? Assessing economic and political risks to the Ukrainian war effort, Luke Cooper, London School of Economics and Political Science, Research Report, December 1, 2022.
Colonialism and the war in Ukraine, Łukasz Stanek, Africa is a Country, November 29, 2022.
Russia’s missiles and winter conditions mean no quick end to Ukraine war, Paul Rogers, Open Democracy, November 22, 2022.
Goodbye, “Russian Romance!”: an Interview with Indian feminist activist Kavita Krishnan, Part 1, Posle, November 12, 2022, Part 2, November 16, 2022.
No Time for a Ceasefire in Ukraine, John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, November 16, 2022.
Q&A: Navigating the Left’s Ukraine Debate, Bill Fletcher Jr. and Elly Leary, Convergence, November 15, 2022.
How far are Ukraine and Russia from negotiations? Virginia Pietromarchi, AlJazeera, November11, 2022.
It’s Time for a Ceasefire in Ukraine, Phyllis Bennis, Znet, November 11, 2022.
A Divided Opposition: The Ukraine War and the Critique of Geopolitical Reason, A working paper for a future peace movement, Andrew Lichterman, Western States Legal Foundation, November 2022
The Sources of Russian Misconduct: A Diplomat Defects From the Kremlin, Boris Bondarev, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2022.
Ukraine: Divisions Among The Left, Achin Vanaik, Radical Socialist (India), October 30, 2022.
Russia’s military Keynesianism, Volodymyr Ishchenko, AlJazeera, October 26, 2022.
Resistance and Solidarity. The Left Volunteer Movement in the Russo-Ukrainian War, Summary and video of a session at a conference on “Reconstruction and Justice in Post-War Ukraine,” sponsored by the Commons journal of social criticism, Ukraine, October 21-23, 2022. For video of other conference sessions (with English translation) click here.
Warfare without the state – New Keynesian shock therapy for Ukraine’s home front, Adam Tooze, Chartbook, October 22, 2022.
Getting to Negotiations: Why it’s so hard to find a route to a diplomatic resolution in Ukraine,
Why the US must press for a ceasefire in Ukraine, Jack F. Matlock Jr., Responsible Statecraft, October 17, 2022.
No, the West Didn’t Halt Ukraine’s Peace Talks With Russia, Volodymyr Artiukh & Taras Fedirko, Novara Media, October 17, 2022.
“Stop the War!” Discussions of the German Left, Angela Klein, Posle Media, October 12, 2022.
Down with Putin’s modern czarism! A response to Yanis Varoufakis, Anthony Barnett, Open Democracy, November 10, 2022.
Comradely disagreements between progressives over Ukraine & the New Cold War – Reply to Anthony Barnett, Yanis Varoufakis, Thoughts for the Post-2008 world, October 12, 2022.
A betrayal of Ukraine and the Left, Anthony Barnett, Open Democracy, October 11, 2022.
‘We Cannot Win’: Russia’s Military Veterans Opposing The Ukraine War, Leyla Latypova, The Moscow Times,
No blob, we are not ‘already fighting’ World War III, Anatol Lieven, Resonsible Statecraft, October 3, 2022.
Support Ukrainian Resistance and Disempower Fossil Capital, Author’s Collective, Commons (Ukraine), September 27, 2022.
What’s the future of Russia’s Ukraine war? Volodymyr Artiukh, Open Democracy, September 26, 2022.
Ukraine War: Still a Cuban Missile Crisis in Slow Motion, Joseph Gerson, Common Dreams, September 21, 2022.
The Tragedy of the Ukrainian Working Class, Interview with the Karmína collective, Sozial.Geschichte Online, September 20, 2022. See also the longer analysis referred to in the interview here.
Russia at a crossroads after Ukrainian offensives, Marcus Stanley, Responsible Statecraft, September 19, 2022.
Threat Inflation, Russian Military Weakness, and the Resulting Nuclear Paradox: Implications of the War in Ukraine for U.S. Military Spending, Lyle J. Goldstein, Costs of War Project, September 15, 2022.
Ukraine’s Tale of Two Colonizations, , Portside (from Project Syndicate), September 12, 2022.
Peace Talks Essential as War Rages on in Ukraine, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Counterpunch, September 7, 2022.
Fleeing Putin: Russia’s Expat Journalists, Jill Dougherty, The Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2022.
How Will the War End? , Russian Dissent, August 30, 2022.
The war in Ukraine six months on, Open Democracy, August 24, 2022.
New Reality? Antonio Negri & Nicolas Guilhot, Sidecar, New Left Review, August 19, 2022.
“In Russia, People Resist the War Against All Odds,” Interview with human rights lawyer Varya Mikhailova, Posle, August 13, 2022.
Eastern Europe’s Tragedy: How the Spheres of Influence Policy Amplifies Reaction, Taras Bilous, Commons, August 11, 2022.
“When there’s a problem, people come to us,” Interview with Donbas Trade union and human rights activist Pavel Lisyansky, Posle, August 3, 2022.
Replacing the corrupt elite is not enough: Review of a book on the political economy of Ukraine, Peter Korotayev, Commons, August 1, 2022.
Why Russia’s political capitalists went to war – and how the war could end their rule, Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat and Volodymyr Ishchenko, Cross-Border Talks, July 29, 2022.
The fraught complexities of ‘Decolonising Russia,’ Kevork Oskanian, Riddle, July 29, 2022.
Pathways to Russian Escalation Against NATO from the Ukraine War, Bryan Frederick et al., Rand Corporation, July 2022.
Russia-Ukraine War Is Propelling Us Into a New Age of Global Political Upheaval, Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept, July 27, 2022.
Ukraine and the Peace Movement, and
Sinking Germany, Marco D’Eramo, Sidecar, New Left Review, July 19, 2022.
Russian anti-war socialist: ‘Putin cannot tolerate an independent Ukraine’, Federico Fuentes and Ilya Matveev, Green Left (Australia), July 18, 2022
The Global NATO Alliance, the European Left, and the Crack in Everything, Joseph Gerson, Common Dreams, July 12, 2022.
The war in Ukraine shows it’s time for a new way to ensure security in Europe, David Carment and Dani Belo, The Conversation, July 10, 2022.
Unions sound warning about UK-backed plan to rebuild Ukraine, Open Democracy, July 7, 2022.
Stalemate between Putin and NATO in Ukraine puts us all at risk, Paul Rogers, Open Democracy, July 4, 2022.
In the War: Nationalism, Imperialism, Cosmopolitics, Etienne Balibar, Commons, June 29, 2022.
NATO and a War Foretold, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, Counterpunch, June 29, 2022.
Why is Ukrainian resistance invisible to you? An appeal to supporters of the Stop the War Coalition, Simon Pirani, People and Nature, June 27, 2022.
The aggressor always needs peace, the oppressed always need liberation, An interview with Agon Hamza, Posle Media, June 21, 2022.
Why grain can’t get out of Ukraine, Jen Kirby, Vox, June 20, 2022.
Some hard thoughts about post Ukraine, Graham E. Fuller, former Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council at CIA , June 18, 2022.
Students against the War: A conversation with Russian anti-war activists, Part 1 Part 2 Posle, June 14, 2022.
Ukrainian identity map in wartime: Thesis-antithesis-synthesis? Denys Gorbach, Focaal blog, June 13, 2022.
Socialist Internationalism and the Ukraine War, Rohini Hensman, Historical Materialism, June 2, 2022.
A Just Ceasefire or Just a Ceasefire? John Feffer, Just Foreign Policy, June 1, 2022.
Why Ukraine Matters for the Left, Matthew Duss, The New Republic, June 1, 2022.
For peace in Ukraine, Europe must finally find its own voice, Michael von der Schulenburg, Other News, May 31, 2022.
Erroneous predictions: Political scientist Kirill Rogov on why Russia’s invasion of Ukraine isn’t just ‘Putin’s war’, Meduza, May 31, 2022.
Let’s Strike within and against World War III, Transnational Social Strike, May 26, 2022.
The War in Ukraine, International Security, and the Left, Taras Bilous, Commons, May 26, 2022.
Westphalian Logic and Geopolitical Prudence in the Nuclear Age, Richard Falk, Global Justice in the 21st Century, May 24, 2022.
What Does $40 Billion in Aid to Ukraine Buy? Mark F. Cancian, Center for Strategic and International Studies, May 23, 2022.
Goodbye Russian gas, hello rapid decarbonisation, Simon Pirani, Open Democracy, May 20, 2022.
Joining the West, Lily Lynch, Sweden, Finland, and NATO, New Left Review Sidecar, May 20, 2022.
Sovereignty and War: interview with Yuliya Yurchenko, theAnalysis.news, May 17, 2022.
There’s still hope for a negotiated end to the Ukraine war, Paul Rogers, Open Democracy, May 14, 2022.
Not War Alone, The Ukraine war and the global food crisis, Tom Stevenson, The London Review of Books, May 12, 2022.
Learning Solidarity Together, Anastasia Vosstavshaya and Marie, Russian Socialist Movement, Midnight Sun, May 12, 2022.
The Postcolonial Moment in Russia’s War Against Ukraine, Maria Mälksoo, Journal of Genocide Research, May 11, 2022.
When should we stop excusing the Russian invasion?
Radioactive Righteousness, Marco D’Eramo, NLR Sidecar, May 11, 2022.
Holding Onto Nonviolence and Feminism in the Midst of War, Nela Porobić , Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, May 9, 2022.
War and Indignation: The West’s Red Line Dilemma, Jürgen Habermas, Reset Dialogues, May 6, 2022.
Germans have been involved in the war, chiefly on the wrong side: an answer to Habermas, Timothy Snyder, Frankfurter Allgemeine, June 27, 2022.
Self-Determination and the War in Ukraine, Taras Bilous, Commons, May 4, 2022.
Can U.S. Progressives Work with the European Left on Ukraine? , Foreign Policy in Focus, May 3, 2022.
Towards the Abyss, Interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko, New Left Review, January/April 2022
The Second Level Geopolitical War in Ukraine Takes Over, Richard Falk, Global Justice in the 21st Century, April 30, 2022.
On the Frontier of Whiteness? Expropriation, War, and Social Reproduction in Ukraine,
The Ukraine War Is Ballooning America’s Military Industrial Complex, Andrew Bacevich, The New Republic, April 29, 2022.
The War in Ukraine Is a Colonial War, Timothy Snyder, The New Yorker, April 28, 2022.
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and the Return of Civilisational Politics: An American and French Tale, Chia-Yu Liang and Ferran Perez Mena, E-International Relations, April 27, 2022.
US Secretary of Defense Admits the Real Strategic Goal in Ukraine: Quagmire for Russia, John Burroughs, Common Dreams, April 26, 2022
NO to NATO, or the identity crisis of the Spanish left, Elisa Moros, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, April 26, 2022.
Female Face of Russian Anti-war Movement: Why Women Protest?
From Managed Democracy to Fascism: Putin’s Imposition of Obedience and Order on Russian Society, Ilya Budraitskis, Tempest, April 23, 2022.
Whose Side Are We On? The War in Ukraine and the Crisis of the Left,
Don’t Normalise Nuclear Weapons and War— Abolish Them, Ray Acheson, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, April 19, 2022.
The Ukrainian invasion: Implications for Putin’s power, Ilya Matveev, Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, April 17, 2022.
When speaking for peace will get you jailed: A Russian and a Ukrainian activist describe the challenges ahead in ending Europe’s most dangerous war, Beyond Nuclear International, April 10, 2022.
Against Russian Imperialism, Russian Socialist Movement & Sotsialnyi Rukh, Left/East, April 7, 2022.
Ukraine cannot win this war: We have a moral duty to give Putin a way out, Yanis Varoufakis, UnHerd, April 6, 2022.
Crimea: Key to Ending War in Ukraine, John Quigley, Opinio Juris, April 5, 2022
War Crimes Will Only Make Things Worse for Russia as Ukrainians Prepare for a Fight to the Bitter End, Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, April 5, 2022.
Western hypocrisy: What Joe Biden gets wrong about Russia, Paul Rogers, Open Democracy, April 2, 2022.
A fascist regime looms in Russia, interview with Moscow sociologist Greg Yudin, analyse & kritik, April 1, 2022.
Make Peace, Not War, in Ukraine, Richard Falk, Counterpunch, March 30, 2022.
In solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance, for an internationalist revival, Pierre Rousset, Le Club de Mediapart, March 29, 2022.
Ukraine Negotiations: No Fly Zone, Nukes, Neutrality, and Disarmament, Joseph Gerson, Common Dreams, March 28, 2022.
How the Ukrainian Working Class Was Born, interview with Marko Bojcun, Jacobin, March 26, 2022.
Decolonialism and the Invasion of Ukraine, Adrian Ivakhiv, eflux Notes, March 22, 2022.
What Do we Mean by a Transnational Politics of Peace? Transnational Social Strike, March 22, 2022.
Putin’s Bombers Could Devastate Ukraine But He’s Holding Back. Here’s Why, William M. Arkin, Newsweek, March 22, 2022.
Washington Should Think Twice Before Launching a New Cold War, William D. Hartung, Nick Cleveland-Stout, and Taylor Giorno, TomDispatch, March 22, 2022.
Putin Has Sacrificed Russia’s Economy for This War on Ukraine’s People, Simon Pirani, Truthout, March 21, 2022.
Russia’s war in Ukraine may finally end the post-Soviet condition Volodymyr Ishchenko, The Parialment Magazine, March 21, 2022.
A True Solution to the Tragedy of Ukraine,
Russia’s War on Ukraine Has Already Changed the World, An interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko, Jacobin, March 19, 2022.
Stop the Fighting in Ukraine, By Michael T. Klare, The Nation, March 17, 2022.
Between War and Terror: A Letter from Russia,
The war in Ukraine and the Global South, Tara Bilous, Commons, a journal of social criticism, Ukraine, March 14, 2022. A reply to The west v Russia: why the global south isn’t taking sides,” by David Adler.
Possible Outcomes of the Russo-Ukrainian War and China’s Choice, Hu Wei, vice-chairman of the Public Policy Research Center of the Counselor’s Office of the State Council, chairman of Shanghai Public Policy Research Association, chairman of the Academic Committee of the Chahar Institute, translation by
The Ukraine War: A Geopolitical Perspective, Richard Falk, Global Justice in the 21st Century, March 12, 2022.
The Zapatistas and the invasion of Ukraine, Raúl Zibechi, Originally Published in Spanish by La Jornada, March 11, 2022, and Re-published with English interpretation by the Chiapas Support Committee.
The March of Folly Resumed: Russia, Ukraine and the West, Richard Sakwa, Public Reading Rooms, March 10, 2022.
Open Letter on the Withdrawal from the Teach-In on Ukraine, Dmitry Vilensky (Russian anti-war activist), transversal texts, March 2022.
Against war in Ukraine and the New Imperialism: A Letter of Solidarity with the Oppressed, Gal Kinr, LEFTEAST, March 10, 2022.
The west v Russia: why the global south isn’t taking sides, David Adler, The Guardian, March 10, 2022.
We need a peoples’ solidarity with Ukraine and against war, not the fake solidarity of governments, Denis Pilash, Denys Gorbach, Nick Buxton, Shaun Matsheza Commons: Journal of Social Criticism, Ukraine, March 11, 2022.
A Ukrainian Socialist Explains Why the Russian Invasion Shouldn’t Have Been a Surprise, An interview with Volodymyr Artiukh , Jacobin, March 9, 2022.
To Help Ukraine, Cancel Its Foreign Debt, an interview with Alexander Kravchuk, Jacobin, March 9, 2022.
The War in Ukraine Seen on the Ground: Interview with Oksana Dutchak, Transnational Social Strike, March 5, 2022. “I had discussions with leftist people from other countries and I am sometimes surprised of how they are afraid of putting too little blame on NATO and they are trying to put in every phrase that ‘It is also NATO to blame’. Sure, NATO can be blamed to some point in time, but when the bombs start falling from the sky – only Russia can be blamed for bombing. From here on the ground the situation looks differently because we see how Russian government behaves.”
War in Ukraine: Ten Lessons from Syria, Syrian Exiles on How Their Experience Can Inform Resistance to the Invasion, CrimethInc, March 7, 2022.
From ‘frozen’ conflict to full-scale invasion: How has eight years of war changed Ukraine’s Donbas? Interview with human rights expert Varvara Pakhomenko, Meduza, March 5, 2022.
Ukraine: Beyond the Postsoviet, Ileana Nachescu, Boston Review, March 4, 2022. The war is shaped by global neoliberalism, sexism, and racism—not just Cold War dynamics.
The Peace Movement and the Ukraine War: Where to Now? Western States Legal Foundation Commentary by Andrew Lichterman, March 4, 2022.
Sharing the Shame 与有耻焉：A Letter from Internationalists in China 来自中国大陆国际, Chuang, “a journal analyzing the ongoing development of capitalism in China, its historical roots, and the revolts of those crushed beneath it,” March 2, 2022.
The Ukraine invasion and the peace movement, Richard Swift, Canadian Dimension, March 2, 2022.
US-plaining is not enough. To the Western left, on your and our mistakes, Volodymyr Artiukh, Commons, a journal of social criticism, Ukraine, March 1, 2022.
Why no mass protests in Russia? Sociologist Grigory Yudin demonstrated against the invasion and ended up in the hospital. He says we’re living in a new era. Meduza, March 1, 2022.
End war, build peace, Ray Acheson, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, March 1, 2022.
Deserting the War, Sandro Mezzadra, transversal texts, March 2022.
Ukraine war follows decades of warnings that NATO expansion into Eastern Europe could provoke Russia, Ronald Suny, The Conversation, February 28, 2022.
A Conflict Over Ukraine Embroils Four of the World’s Major Nuclear Powers, Thalif Deen,IDN-Indepth News, February 27, 2022.
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Marks a Deep Turning Point in the World Order, David Harvey, Common Dreams, February 26, 2022.
Worse Than a Crime; It’s a Blunder: Anatol Lieven on the meaning and consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the West’s response, The American Prospect, February 25, 2022.
A letter to the Western Left from Kyiv: The ‘anti-imperialism of idiots’ meant people turned a blind eye to Russia’s actions, Taras Bilous, Open Democracy, February 25, 2022.
Ordinary Russians Don’t Want This War, Jacobin (via Portside), February 24, 2022.
People! Please wake up before it’s too late, Tony Robinson, Presseza, February 24, 2022.
Pre-war Commentary
Ukraine Crisis: The Stakes are High, John Burroughs, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, Interpress News Service, February 21, 2022,
Will Truth Invade Ukraine?, Yurii Sheliazhenko, executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, World Beyond War, February 18, 2022.
What Is Going to Happen in Ukraine? Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, World BEYOND War, February 17, 2022
News from Natoland, Tariq Ali, Sidecar, February 16, 2022
Common Security Approaches to Resolve the Ukraine and European Crisis, Joseph Gerson, Pressenza, January 23, 2022
A Left-Wing Proposal for De-Escalation in the Donbas, Taras Bilous, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, January 14, 2022. Taras Bilas is an editor at Commons: Journal of Social Criticism, a Rosa Luxemburg Foundation partner in Ukraine.
Self-determination for Ukraine! Interview with Marko Bojcun, author of The Workers’ Movement and the National Question in Ukraine: 1897-1918 and Towards a Political Economy of Ukraine, January 7, 2022.
The United States Can Solve the Ukraine Crisis, Melvin Goodman, Counterpunch, December 8, 2021
The Ukraine war and non-violence
Resistance to War in Ukraine: Actions, News, Analyses, and Resources for Nonviolence, The Metta Center. Updated regularly.
The inside story of how activists achieved a Christmas Truce in Ukraine, Ethan Vesely-Flad, Fellowship Magaizine, March 24, 2023.
5 ways to support courageous nonviolent resistance in Ukraine,
Ukraine’s secret weapon may prove to be civilian resistance,
The dangerous assumption that violence keeps us safe, George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence, February 26, 2022.
International Law and the Ukraine War
Human Rights Situation During the Russian Occupation of Territory Of Ukraine and Its Aftermath, 24 February 2022 – 31 December 2023, United Nations, Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner, March 20, 2024.
Ten Years of Occupation by the Russian Federation: Human Rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol, Ukraine, United Nations, Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner, February 28, 2024.
Ukraine: UN Security Council Briefing on Russian Federation conduct of elections in occupied territories in Ukraine, Security Council Report, March 14, 2024.
ICC issues arrest warrants for two top Russian commanders, Stephanie van den Berg, Reuters, March 5, 2024.
Ukraine: High-level Briefing, Security Council Report, February 23, 2024.
Ukraine Warns the World: It’s Now or Never for Prosecuting Putin, Dawn Clancy, PassBlue, February 21, 2024.
ICC ‘turf war’ blocking Ukrainian bid to have top Russians tried, advocate says, Patrick Wintour, The Guardian, February 6, 2024.
Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation: 32 States intervening) – The Court finds that it has jurisdiction to entertain Ukraine’s request for a declaration that it did not breach its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and that this request is admissible, February 2, 2024. Press release, Summary, and the opinions of the Court and judges.
ICJ Delivers Preliminary Objections Judgment in the Ukraine v. Russia Genocide Case, Ukraine Loses on the Most Important Aspects, Marko Milanovic, EJIL: Talk!, Blog of the European Journal of International Law, February 2, 2024.
Application of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Ukraine v. Russian Federation), Judgment of January 31, 2024. Press release, Summary, and the opinions of the Court and judges.
UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine finds continued war crimes and human rights violations gravely impacting civilians, UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, October 20, 2023. Full report here.
The Illegality of U.S. Cluster Munitions Delivery to Ukraine under International Law – and the Positive Obligation of the U.S. to Avoid or Minimise the Humanitarian Suffering Caused by These Weapons, International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms , August 18, 2023.
The Brussels Declaration Russian lawyers, legal scholars, and human rights defenders endorsing the creation of an international tribunal to investigate the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding observations on the combined twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth periodic reports of Russian Federation, April 28, 2023.
The Path to an International Tribunal on Aggression in Ukraine Must Go Through the UN General Assembly, Ban Ki-Moon, Pass Blue, April 23, 2023.
Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, 1 August 2022 – 31 January 2023, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations, March 24, 2023.
Situation in Ukraine: ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, Press Release, International Criminal Court, March 17, 2022.
War crimes, indiscriminate attacks on infrastructure, systematic and widespread torture show disregard for civilians, says UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, United Nations Media Center, March 16, 2023.
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, March 15, 2023.
Principles of the Charter of the United Nations underlying a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine, United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/ES-11/L.7, February 23, 2023. Vote Record
Why the new ECHR Ukraine-Russia ruling matters, William Goodhind, EU Observer, January 27, 2023.
Eastern Ukraine and flight MH17 case declared partly admissible, Press Release, European Court of Human Rights, January 25, 2023. Case Summary
Ukraine, Netherlands Await Pivotal Rulings in Cases Against Russia from Previous Years of War, Marieke de Hoon, Just Security, January 13, 2023.
IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine January 13, 2023.
“Ukraine commits genocide on Russians”: the term “genocide” in Russian propaganda, Egbert Fortuin, Russian Linguistics, September 7, 2022.
What Amnesty got wrong in Ukraine and why I had to resign, Oksana Pokalchuk, The Washington Post, August 13, 2022.
Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians, Amnesty International, August 4, 2022.
The Imperative of Ending Russia’s War on Ukraine, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, April 21, 2022.
Humanitarian disarmament resources relevant to the Ukraine War, from the Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection Initiative, Harvard Law School.
Bargaining About War in the Shadow of International Law, Eyal Benvenisti and Amichai Cohen, Just Security, March 28, 2022.
Ukraine: Developments at the United Nations, John Burroughs, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, United for Peace and Justice, March 26, 2022.
Why China Giving Military Assistance to Russia Would Violate International Law, Oona Hathaway and Ryan Goodman, Just Security, March 17, 2022.
Provisional Measures order by the International Court of Justice in Ukraine v. Russian Federation, Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, March 16, 2022. Press Release and Full text of Order
The Peace Movement and the Ukraine War: Where to Now? Western States Legal Foundation Commentary by Andrew Lichterman, March 4, 2022.
Statement on the war in the Ukraine: Strengthen international law, enforce human rights, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, February 28, 2022.
Ukraine Crisis: The Stakes are High, John Burroughs, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, Interpress News Service, February 21, 2022.
OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine “is an unarmed, civilian mission, present on the ground 24/7 in all regions of Ukraine. Its main tasks are to observe and report in an impartial and objective way on the situation in Ukraine; and to facilitate dialogue among all parties to the crisis.” It provides daily reports from its observers there, available online, periodic “trends and observations” reports, and occasional assessments of specific issues.
The current crisis: recorded webinars and videos
Book Talk: Towards the Abyss in Ukraine, Quincy Institute, Ferbuary 20, 2024.
From the Quincy Institute: “Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine (and indeed before), Western reporting and analysis of the country has been dominated by a Ukrainian narrative emanating from middle-class civil society. The Russian officially-backed narrative has been even cruder and more monolithic. The result has been to obscure key features of Ukraine and the background to the war, with damaging consequences for Western policymaking. To illuminate these features, Anatol Lieven is joined by Volodymyr Ishchenko, a leading Ukrainian sociologist and political analyst.” They discussed Dr. Ishchenko’s book, “Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War”, published by Verso.
Book Talk: The Russo-Ukrainian War and the Return of History, Quincy Institute, December 12, 2023.
Many of the roots of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the tensions leading up to the invasion, are to be found in the old, complex and contested historical relationship between Russians and Ukrainians. To discuss this history and its role in the present conflict, Anatol Lieven, Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute, was joined by the distinguished Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy. They talked about Dr. Plokhy’s latest book, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History.
Dialogues of the Peripheries Commons, November 2023.
This series of webinars, sponsored by the Ukrainian journal Commons, brought together the voices of many activists from different regions to discuss the challenges they face. From the Commons editors:
“What should new global security guarantees look like? How to counter global inequality? What should be the basis of international solidarity?
These questions are relevant not exclusively in the context of Russian aggression and the reconstruction of Ukraine, but are crucial for many other countries with a history of colonial oppression. Therefore, the answer to these questions should be sought in a joint dialogue on ways of anti-imperialist struggle and the vision of alternative development in the future.”
Panel topics included:
When will they fall? Authoritarian regimes and imperialist aggression
Eating in crisis: food sovereignty, war and environment
International (in)security: building solidarity in a rupturing world?
Women during the war: between defense of the country and lack of social security
Labour rights in conditions of war and mass migration: how to work under attack?
How does the international refugee system have to work?
Post-Invasion Russia: A Stable New Order Or A Collapse Waiting To Happen? NYU Jordan Center, November 3, 2023.
Featuring:
Dr. Volodymyr Ishchenko is a research associate at the Institute of East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on protests and social movements, revolutions, radicalization, right and left politics, nationalism, and civil society.
Ilya Matveev is a researcher focusing on Russian and comparative political economy. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley. His academic work has appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, Journal of Labor and Society, Europe-Asia Studies, East European Politics and other journals.
Yekaterina Oziashvili is the managing editor of Comparative Politics and teaches Politics at Sarah Lawrence College. Her research and teaching interests include ethnic conflict, political economy, revolutions and social movements, politics of Eastern Europe and post-Soviet states, American constitutional law, and American political development.
Oleg Zhuravlev is a sociologist working on social movements, the sociology of knowledge, Marxism, pragmatic sociology. He is a research fellow at Scoula Normale Superiore (Italy) and a member of the Public Sociology Laboratory (Russia).
Joseph Gerson on Gaza & Ukraine Wars, Asian Common Security, New Hampshire Peace Action Webinar, Oct. 23, 2023
Joseph Gerson is President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, Convener of Peace & Planet International Network, and co-chair of the Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy. He works closely with peace organizations and advocates across the United States, Asia-Pacific and Europe. His books include Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World and With Hiroshima Eyes.
The Urgency of Pursuing Peace in Ukraine, October 3, 2023
This forum, presented by Peace in Ukraine and CODEPINK, featured Dr. Cornel West, Co-Executive Director of the People’s Forum Claudia De La Cruz CODEPINK, Co-founder Medea Benjamin, journalist Eugene Puryear, and comedian/podcaster Lee Camp.
War, Resistance & Ukraine’s Future April 14, 2023
Veterans For Peace Ukraine working group (vfpukraine.org) peace solidarity webinar series. Featuring:
–Alona Liasheva, co-editor of Commons Journal (Lviv/Kyiv, Ukraine)
–Karyna Lazaruk, communications researcher (Lviv, Ukraine/Berlin, Germany)
–Yosh, director of Feminist Workshop (Lviv, Ukraine), moderator
Hosted by Jeff Paterson and Jeremiah Knowles, Veterans For Peace (veteransforpeace.org) National Board Members
What Should We Do About the War in Ukraine? April 8, 2023.
A panel discussion presented by Military Families Speak Out (MFSO)
Listen to Medea Benjamin and Bill Fletcher as they provide two very different perspectives on the war in Ukraine and answer your questions.
Veterans For Peace For Ukraine: “Can Russia’s invasion be justified by western expansionism?” March 23, 2023.
Featuring:
–Yosh, Feminist Workshop [femwork.org], Lviv, Ukraine
–Vladyslav Starodubtsev, Historian, Democratic Socialist [facebook.com/social.ruh/], Kyiv, Ukraine
–Prof. Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco
Hosted by the Veterans For Peace For Ukraine caucus [vfp4ukraine.org]. Moderated by Jeff Paterson and Steph Atkinson.
Nuclear Dangers: The Ukraine War, One Year Later, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, March 2, 2023.
Speakers:
Noam Chomsky is a philosopher, cognitive scientist, linguist, political commentator, and lifelong activist.
Daniel Ellsberg is known to many as the original whistleblower, in 1971, Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study of US decision-making during the Vietnam War.
Richard Falk is a professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor’s Chairman of the Board of Trustees. In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council appointed him to a six-year term as a UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 Falk’s memoir, Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim, was published in 2021.
Cynthia Lazaroff is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder of Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy.
Dr. Ivana Hughes is President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and also a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at Columbia University, where she previously served as the Director of the K=1 Project, Center for Nuclear Studies.
Russia Out! Solidarity with the Ukrainian Resistance
On Saturday, February 25, 2023, Haymarket Books and the Ukraine Solidarity Network presented this panel of scholars and activists in a discussion of the roots, nature, and politics of the war and the resistance.
Featured Speakers:
Yuliya Yurchenko, Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich and author of Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: From Marketization to Armed Conflict.
Vladyslav Starodubstev, historian of Central and Eastern European region, and member of the Ukrainian democratic socialist organization Sotsialnyi Rukh.
Kirill Medvedev, poet, political writer, and member of the Russian Socialist Movement.
Kavita Krishnan, Indian feminist, author of Fearless Freedom, former leader of the Communist Party of India (ML).
Bill Fletcher, former President of TransAfrica Forum, former senior staff person at the AFL-CIO, and Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies.
Ukrainian Public Opinion and the War
To discuss and analyze Ukrainian public opinion, including in the areas occupied by Russia, the Quincy Institute hosted a panel with leading scholars and journalists with first hand knowledge about opinion in Ukraine, including Volodymyr Ishchenko of the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Gerard Toal of Virginia Tech, and freelance journalist Albina Kovalyova, whose latest project is a documentary of a Ukrainian family living under Russian occupation. The discussion was moderated by Anatol Lieven, Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute.
Russia & Europe, The Ukraine War & Possibilities for Euro-Atlantic Peace
Reiner Braun is a leading European peace advocate and until recently, the Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau. He recently returned from a series of meeting in Moscow. In this video he discusses what he learned in Moscow, current European perspectives on the Ukraine war, and campaigning for a Christmas truce and possible peace negotiations – including the need for a new European security architecture. Organized by the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, Co-sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action, Peace Action New York State, and the International Peace Bureau. December 16, 2022.
The Ukraine War and Nuclear Dangers
This webinar, presented by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, discussed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and accompanying nuclear threats with reference to the applicable international law, and divergent approaches of peace advocates to the war, and whether prevalent geopolitical frames provide an adequate perspective for viewing the war. The speakers were John Burroughs of Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy and Andrew Lichterman and Jackie Cabasso of Western States Legal Foundation. John is the principal author of the paper End the War, Stop the War Crimes; Andrew is the author of the paper The Peace Movement and the Ukraine War: Where to Now?; and Jackie is a key actor in peace and disarmament networks. October 27, 2022.
The U.S. Russia, China & NATO: The Dangerous New Era of Great Power Confrontation & How We Respond
Reiner Braun, International Peace Bureau, and Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies. The Ukraine War crystalized a new era of “blockification” and increasing military, economic, and technological competition. Escalation of the war remains possible. Biden’s National Security Policy and NATO’s new Strategic Concept name China as a “challenge” to the rules based order. Provocative naval and air force “exercises” in the East and South China Sea could trigger a U.S.-China nuclear war. Two wo leading analysts address this fluid and dangerous landscape. Co-sponsored by Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security and Massachusetts Peace Action. August 8, 2022.
The causes and consequences of the Ukraine war: A lecture by John J. Mearsheimer at The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, June 16, 2022.
Russia, Ukraine, Imperialism & how the left should respond, May 6, 2022.
Speakers: Ilya Matveev is a researcher and lecturer based in St Petersburg, Russia. He is a founding editor of Openleft.ru and a member of the research group Public Sociology Laboratory. Volodymyr Ishchenko is a sociologist based in Kyiv. He has published articles and interviews in the Guardian and New Left Review. Barnaby Raine is writing his PhD at Columbia University on visions of ending capitalism. He teaches at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.
Panelists included Amb. Alexander Kmentt (Director of Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation at the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; President-designate for the first Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW), Zia Mian (co-director, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University), John Burroughs (Senior Analyst, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy), Daryl Kimball (Executive Director, Arms Control Association), and Ariana N. Smith (Executive Director, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy) – moderator. Sponsored by the Arms Control Association, the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, and the Princeton University Program on Science and Global Security .
Anatol Lieven: A Negotiated Settlement of the Russia/Ukraine Conflict? Massachusetts Peace Action and CodePink, March 31, 2022.
Russian Invasion of Ukraine and US Policy: Challenges for the Peace Movement, Brooklyn for Peace, speakers were Phyllis Bennis and Joseph Gerson, moderated by Carolyn “Rusti” Eisenberg, March 30, 2022.
Against Imperialist War! Ukraine, Russia, NATO, and the U.S., Sponsored by Tempest Magazine, March 13, 2022.
Speakers were Gilbert Achcar, professor at SOAS, University of London; Ilya Budraitskis, a Moscow-based historian and political writer; Volodymyr Ishchenko a research associate at the Institute of East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin; Ho-Fung Hung, Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy and chair of the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University; and Erin Cass, a queer Romani data scientist and activist based in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.
Putin’s War on Ukraine: History, Analysis, Solidarity March 7, 2022
Sponsored by Internationalism from Below, New Politics magazine, Commons: Journal of Social Criticism, Sotsialniy Rukh (Social Movement) Ukraine, Solidarity, the Tempest Collective and Haymarket Books.
Speakers: Denys Pilash is a political scientist and leftist activist in Kyiv. He is a member of the Social Movement (Sotsialniy Rukh) democratic socialist organization and serves on the editorial board of Commons: Journal of Social Criticism, a publication of the Ukrainian left; Hanna Perekhoda is a doctoral student at the Institute of Political Studies at the University of Lausanne. Her research examines debates over the Ukrainian question among the Bolsheviks. She is a native of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine. Catherine Samary is the author of Yugoslavia Dismembered. She is a frequent contributor to Le Monde diplomatique and is associated with the journal and network Balkanologie. Stephen R. Shalom (moderator) is on the editorial board of New Politics and a member of Internationalism from Below.
On the Brink: Understanding the Ukraine Crises & Paths Toward a Just Peace
The Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, with Massachusetts Peace Action, presented a webinar with Richard Sakwa (author of Frontline Ukraine) and Nina Khrushcheva (author of In Putin’s Footsteps.)
Webinar: No war in Ukraine: for peace and human rights
January 25, 2022 a joint initiative of Another Europe Is Possible and European Alternatives
This event drew together Ukrainian and Russian civil society activists, as part of a new international push for citizens-led dialogue and solidarity across borders. The speakers were Dmitri Makarov, co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Oleksandra Matviychuk, human rights lawyer and civil society activist based in Kyiv, Mary Kaldor, Emeritus Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and previously a leading figure with European Nuclear Disarmament, Paul Mason, journalist and author, Alvaro Vasconcelos, former Director of the European Union Institute for Security Studies, and Yuliya Yurchenko, senior lecturer in Political Economy at Greenwich University and author of Ukraine and The Empire of Capital: from Marketisation to Armed Conflict (2018).
Emergency webinar: Is the U.S. going to war with Russia over Ukraine?
January 25, 2022, A discussion between CODEPINK’s Medea Benjamin and retired Army Colonel Larry Wilkerson.
Ukraine Crisis Webinar: Peace Activists and Experts Gather
Roots Action presented a webinar on February 2, 2022 with Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director of The Nation magazine, Ann Wright, retired U.S. Army colonel and diplomat, Vladimir Kozin, member of Russian Academy of Military Sciences, speaking from Moscow, Norman Solomon, co-founder and national director of RootsAction.org, moderated by David Swanson, campaign coordinator of RootsAction.org, executive director of World BEYOND War.
Democracy Now, “Ukrainians Doubt a Russian Invasion Is Imminent as U.S. Peace Groups Urge Biden to Halt Escalation,” February 1, 2022, with Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK, and Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko.
How the US and NATO Could Settle Dispute Over Ukraine Without War, presentation by Joseph Gerson, Campaign for peace, Disarmament, and Common Security at Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice, and the Environment’s February Monthly Meeting.
Russian government statements
President Vladimir Putin, interview with Dmitry Kiselev, March 13, 2024. http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73648
President Vladimir Putin, Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly, February 29, 2024.
President Vladimir Putin, Answers to questions from journalist Pavel Zarubin, February 14, 2024.
President Vladimir Putin, Interview to Tucker Carlson, February 9, 2024.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the embassy roundtable discussion of a settlement in Ukraine, Moscow, January 30, 2024
President Vladimir Putin, Visit to Vishnevsky Central Military Clinical Hospital, January 1, 2024.
President Vladimir Putin, Meeting with war correspondents, June 13, 2023.
The Concept of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, Approved by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, March 31, 2023.
President Vladimir Putin, Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council, March 31, 2023.
President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin Sign Joint Statement of the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation on Deepening the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of Coordination for the New Era and Stress Settling the Ukraine Crisis Through Dialogue, Foreign Ministry of the People’s Republic of China, March 22, 2023.
President Vladimir Putin, remarks at Visit to Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant, March 14, 2023.
Vladimir Putin, Presidential Address to Federal Assembly, February 21, 2023.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions during the Government Hour in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Moscow, February 15, 2023.
Speech by President Vladimir Putin, Gala concert for 80th anniversary of defeating German Nazi forces in Battle of Stalingrad, February 2, 2023.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the Great Game programme on Channel One, Moscow, December 28, 2022.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s year-end interview with TASS news agency, December 27, 2022.
President Vladimir Putin, News conference following the visit to Kyrgyzstan, December 9, 2022.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin, Remarks at Council for Civil Society and Human Rights meeting, December 7, 2022.
Valdai International Discussion Club meeting, Remarks by Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, October 27, 2022.
Vladimir Putin answered questions from journalists, December 22, 2022.
Signing of treaties on accession of Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to Russia, Remarks by Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, September 30, 2022.
Address by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, September 21, 2022.
Eastern Economic Forum plenary session, Remarks by Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, September 7, 2022.
Meeting with State Duma leaders and party faction heads, Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, July 7, 2022.
Meeting with young entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists, Vladimir Putin, President of Russian, June 9, 2022.
Victory Parade on Red Square: Address by Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, May 9, 2022.
Meeting with Council of Lawmakers: Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, April 27, 2022.
Meeting on socioeconomic support for regions,
President Putin’s Address announcing the invasion February 24, 2022. Alternate source for text, The Spectator, UK.
Address by Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, February 21, 2022, declaring recognition of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic. Alternative source for text, Rio Times, Brazil.
Treaty between The United States of America and the Russian Federation on security guarantees, proposed by the government of the Russian Federation, December 17, 2021.
Vladimir Putin, “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians,” July 12, 2021. “During the recent Direct Line, when I was asked about Russian-Ukrainian relations, I said that Russians and Ukrainians were one people – a single whole….”
President of Russia Vladimir Putin, Orthodox-Slavic Values: The Foundation of Ukraine’s Civilisational Choice conference, July 27, 2013.
Ukraine Government Statements
Zelensky’s full speech at Munich Security Conference, Kyiv Independent, February 8, 2022.
Background of the current crisis
The 90s are Killing People: Why We Need a New Historical Narrative about That Era, Anton Pravednikov, September, March 26, 2024.
Unraveling Russian State Anxieties, Hanna Perekhoda, Posle, February 24, 2024.
The Maidan Shooting: Conspiracy Theories and Unanswered Questions, William Rische, Commons, February 20, 2024.
Russia’s Eliminationist Rhetoric Against Ukraine: A Collection, Clara Apt, Just Security, January 11, 2024.
Russia as an Island: Civilizational Theory in Higher Education, Daniel Nedolyan, Posle, January 10, 2024.
Traditional Values and Lofty Sentiments, Marina Simakova, Posle, December 6, 2023.
A Brief History of Equality in Russia, Arseniy Krasnikov, Posle, November 30, 2023.
Putin’s ‘Society Of The Spectacle’, Ilya Budraitskis, Russia.Post, September 28, 2023.
The restoration of the imperial idea in Stalin’s USSR, Vadim Rogovin, September, August 13, 2023.
The Minsk Accords and the Political Weakness of the “Other Ukraine”, Volodymyr Ishchenko, Russian Politics 8(2):127–146, June 2023.
The Global East and the Subaltern Empire in the Breakdown of Worlds, Ivan Kislenko, Posle, June 7, 2023.
Commons: A Ukrainian left-wing collective intellectual, Patrick Le Tréhondat, Commons, June 6, 2023.
Why some Ukrainian soldiers use Nazi-related insignia, Illia Ponomarenko, Kyiv Independent, May 26, 2023.
Left Internationalism in the Heart of Empire, Aziz Rana, Dissent, May 23, 2023.
‘A very grim portrait’ Political scientist Erica Frantz on what Russia’s future holds after Putin, Meduza, May 15, 2023.
Expropriation, assimilation, elimination: Understanding Soviet Settler Colonialism, Botakoz Kassymbekova and Aminat Chokobaeva, south/south dialogues, May 5, 2023.
‘It’s Stalinist logic’ Three experts explain the escalating nature of Russia’s political repressions, Meduza, April 17, 2023.
Russian colonialism, Eastern Europe and global anti-colonial struggles, Daria Krivonos, LEFT/EAST, April 13, 2023.
The Broken Gunsight of Language, Ilya Kalinin, Russia.Post, April 1, 2023.
The Russia Crisis, a series of analytical pieces on the implications of the serious crisis caused by events in and around contemporary Russia. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2022-2023.
On the Anniversary of Russia’s War on Ukraine: Analyzing the Roots of Russian Imperialism, Dan La Botz, New Politics, February 27, 2023.
About Russian Neo-Imperialism, Bernd Gehrke, Against the Current, November/December 2022.
The Ukrainian State under Russian Aggression: Resilience and Resistance, Serhiy Kudelia, Current History, October 1, 2022.
Russian Capitalism Today: A Case of ‘Primacy of Politics’? Jairus Banaji, Commons, June 23, 2022.
The political logic of Russia’s imperialism, Volodymyr Artiukh, Commons, June 15, 2022.
The Conquest of Ukraine and the History of Russian Imperialism,
The Birth and Death of the “Russian World”: a History of the Concept, Ilya Budraitskis, Posle, June 6, 2022.
Russia’s War Against Ukraine, a collection of open access articles from the journal Europe-Asia Studies, May 2022.
‘They don’t know Ukraine’ Zelensky advisor Mykhailo Podolyak on Kyiv’s ‘cautious optimism’ about the negotiations with Russia, Meduza, March 17, 2022
Ukrainian Marxists, Russian Bolsheviks, and National Liberation: 1900-1921, Eric Blanc, Historical Materialism, March 12, 2022.
The Imperialist Roots of Putin’s Policy, Lawrence Wittner, Counterpunch, March 11, 2022.
Inside Putin’s circle — the real Russian elite, Anatol Lieven, The Financial Times, March 19, 2022.
Weekend Read: Critical Resources on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Documents on NATO Expansion, Putin’s Rise to Power, and Russian Cyber Tactics, Claire Harvey, Unredacted (National Security Archive blog), March 4, 2022.
Fact check: Russia falsely blames Ukraine for starting war, Kathrin Wesolowski, DW, March 4, 2022.
The Historical Background to Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine, March 2, 2022.
Putin’s Fateful War of Choice Jeremy Kinsman, former Canadian ambassador to Russia, February 24, 2022.
War in Eastern Europe: On the Brink of a Humanitarian Disaster, Briefing Paper, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, February 23, 2022.
Interview with Ambassador Jack F. Matlock, U.S. Ambassador in Moscow: 1987-1991, Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, January 24, 2022.
Putin’s Challenge to Western hegemony – the 2022 edition, Adam Tooze, Chartbook #68, January 12, 2022. Economic historian Adam Tooze discusses the trajectories of Russia’s and Ukraine’s economies, their role in creating conditions for the current crisis, Russia’s role as a petrostate, and the complexities of imposing sanctions on a leading fossil fuel producer.
Greater Russia: Is Moscow out to subvert the West? Richard Sakwa, International Politics (2021) 58:334–362
Ukrainian Capitalism and Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Volodymyr Ishchenko and Yuliya Yurchenko, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, 2019.
Contradictions of Post-Soviet Ukraine and Failure of Ukraine’s New Left,
“The Return Of Capitalism to Ukraine,” Marko Bojcun, Observer Ukraine web site.
Kremlin Propaganda, Fellow Travelers and the Third Russo-Ukrainian War, Stephen Velychenko , Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research, March 2015.
Ukraine’s Fractures: Interview with Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko discussing the unfolding of the 2014 Ukrainian crisis against the backdrop of the political and economic order that emerged after 1991, New Left Review May/June 2014.
NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard– Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner, National Security Archive, December 2017.
Minsk agreements and Donbass
February 2015 Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements.
‘Ah, it is easy to deceive me.’ What were the Minsk agreements for the West, Russia and Ukraine? Sergey Mikhailov, Russia.Post, February 15, 2023.
Why Minsk-2 cannot solve the Ukraine crisis, Duncan Allan and Kataryna Wolczuk, Chatham House, February 16, 2022.
Ukraine: The Most Dangerous Problem in the World–But there’s already a solution, Anatol Lieven, The Nation, November 15, 2021, on the MInsk agreements.
Averting Collapse in the Donbas: Why We Shouldn’t Wait for a Long-Term Political Resolution to Address the Region’s Socio-Economic Crisis, Brian Milakovsky, KRYTYKA, May 2021.
“Devil in the Detail: Local versus regional approaches to peace in Donbas,” Karen Madoian, European Union Institute for Security Studies Brief, February, 2020.
Eight Years of War before the War: How eastern Ukraine’s breakaway provinces lost everything and gained nothing through integration with Russia, Natalia Savelyeva, Rosa Luxemburg Stuftung, March 25, 2022.
From ‘frozen’ conflict to full-scale invasion: How has eight years of war changed Ukraine’s Donbas? Interview with human rights expert Varvara Pakhomenko, Meduza, March 5, 2022.
The Russian Statelets in the Donbas Are No “People’s Republics,” Simon Pirani, Jacobin, March 2, 2022.
The Ukraine crisis and nuclear weapons
Putin’s nuclear warnings: heightened risk or revolving door? Stephen J. Cimbalaand Lawrence J. KorbBulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 28, 2024.
The Brink: The rising risk of nuclear weapons use, W.J. Hennigan, The New York Times, March 7, 2024.
Putin warns West of risk of nuclear war, says Moscow can strike Western targetsVladimir Soldatkin and Andrew Osborn, Reuters, February 29, 2024.
Russia’s Medvedev threatens to nuke US, UK, Germany, Ukraine if Russia loses occupied territories, Kyiv Independent, February 18, 2024.
West ‘closed door’ on Ukraine after nuclear disarmament, says key negotiator, Kateryna Farbar, Open Democracy, October 4, 2023.
The West Cannot Cure Russia’s Nuclear Fever, Hanna Notte, War on the Rocks, July 18, 2023.
Members of Russia’s Council for Foreign and Defense Policy condemn ‘preemptive nuclear strike,’ Meduza, July 14, 2023.
Xi Jinping warned Vladimir Putin against nuclear attack in Ukraine, Financial Times, July 4, 2023.
The death of nuclear fear In the wake of Prigozhin’s mutiny: war hawks are once again brandishing Russia’s nuclear potential. Why aren’t their threats working? Mikhail Troitsky, Meduza, July 3, 2023.
A Difficult but Necessary Decision, Sergei A. Karaganov, Russia in Global Affairs, June 13, 2023.
Ukraine’s Nuclear Moment, A review of Mariana Budjeryn, “Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine,” Lawfare, April 25, 2023.
Russia is deploying nuclear weapons in Belarus. NATO shouldn’t take the bait, Nikolai N. Sokov, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 24, 2023.
Russia’s Disinformation Goes Nuclear, Polina Sinovets, Khrystyna Holynska, John V. Parachini, Forum for Ukrainian Studies, March 23, 2023.
Tempting Armageddon: The Likelihood of Russian Nuclear Use is Misconstrued in Western Policy, Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives, February 1, 2023.
If worst comes to worst Experts say Putin going nuclear can’t be ruled out — and that the U.S. shouldn’t respond in kind if he does, Meduza, October 5, 2022.
Nuclear rhetoric and escalation management in Russia’s war against Ukraine: A Chronology, Anna Clara Arndt and Liviu Horovitz, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, September 3, 2022.
The path to survival is clear, address to the Russian Academy of Science by Dr. James Muller, a co-founder of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, about the dangers of nuclear war. March 16, 2022.
Russian nuclear weapons, 2022, Hans M. Kristensen and Matt Korda, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2022.
United States nuclear weapons 2021, Hans M. Kristensen and Matt Korda, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2021.
United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2021, Hans M. Kristensen and Matt Korda, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2021.
French nuclear forces, 2019, Hans M. Kristensen and Matt Korda, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2019.
Russian Strategy for Escalation Management: Evolution of Key Concepts, Michael Kofman et al., CNA, April 2020.
The Flawed Push For New Nuclear Weapons Capabilities, Hans Kristensen, Federation of American Scientists, June 29, 2017.
Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons, Congressional Research Service, updated March 7, 2022.
Russian government claims regarding bioweapons research in Ukraine
Will Russia Stop Lying About Biological Weapons? Hanna Shelest and John Parachini, Forum for Ukrainian Studies, January 20, 2023.
Ukraine: Amid fresh Russian claims, no trace of secret bioweapons programme, UN News, May 13, 2022.
Russia Is Lying About Evidence of Bioweapons Labs in Ukraine, Russian Biologists Say, Robert Mackey, The Intercept, March 17, 2022.
Russian nuclear and biological disinformation undermines treaties on weapons of mass destruction, Milton Leitenberg, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 10, 2022
The Ukraine Crisis and Cyberwar
National Security Archive Ukraine Cyber Project, a wide array of resources on the cyber component of the Ukraine conflict, regularly updated.
Statements, appeals, and petitions by other organizations
Peace by peaceful means. Ceasefire and negotiations now! Statement from the International Summit for Peace in Ukraine, June 12, 2023.
Oppose Western Militarism, Veterans For Peace For Ukraine Working Group, March 12, 2023.
Our Slogan Is “War Against War”: Russian socialists on the nature of the war in Ukraine and the delusions of Western “pacifists,” Russian Socialist Movement, February 19, 2023.
Statement of the Ukraine Solidarity Network, Ukraine Solidarity Network (U.S.) January 13, 2023.
To All Who Care about Humanity’s and the Planet’s Future, statement and petition, September, 2022.
A European Call for an end to the Ukraine War, published in German in Zeit, translation at Global Justice in the 21st Century, July 5, 2022
War Resisters League Statement on Ukraine, June, 2022.
Reaching a Just and Lasting Peace in Ukraine, statement of the individual participants of the Science and Ethics Study Group under the auspices of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, June 16, 2022.
The Athens Declaration, Yanis Varoufakis, Jeremy Corbyn and Ece Temelkuran present the Athens Declaration, DiEM25, May 13, 2022 The War on Ukraine calls for support for victims of war and a new non-aligned movement.
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and the Japanese Communist Party’s position, April 29, 2022.
Statement of The Ukrainian Pacifist Movement Against Perpetuation of War, April 19, 2022.
Western Massachusetts Labor Federation Anti-War Resolution on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, April 12, 2022.
A Compilation of Statements on the Ukraine Crisis by the journal New Politics, March 31, 2022. A wide range of statements, most from outside the United States.
France: The Mouvement de la Paix calls for a strong time of mobilizations everywhere in France between March 31 and April 4, 2022, with a special focus on Saturday April 2. Together, let us reaffirm our rejection of war and our condemnation without appeal of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine. “Cursed be all past and present wars!”
Open Letter From Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and Citizens of the World Against War and Nuclear Weapons. “The invasion of Ukraine has created a humanitarian disaster for its people. The entire world is facing the greatest threat in history: a large-scale nuclear war, capable of destroying our civilization and causing vast ecological damage across the Earth.”
Nuclear weapons must not be used: Voices of Hibakusha, Peaceboat, March 24, 2022.
Russia: Manifesto of the Coalition “Socialists Against War,” LEFTEAST, March 17, 2022.
We call on Biden to reject reckless demands for a no-fly zone: Open letter, The Guardian, March 11, 2022.
Abolition 2000 member group statements on the Ukraine war, A collection of statements from Abolition 2000, a global network for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Open letter: Solidarity with Russian anti-war protestors,CODEPINK, March 2022.
Stop the War! An Appeal for a Europe of Peace, Tranform! Europe, February 25, 2022
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: An Illegal War of Aggression, Statement by Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, UN Office of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, February 25, 2022
Statement on Russia’s attack on Ukraine from the co-chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, Bishop William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, February 25, 2022.
Resolution of the National Council of Lewica Razem [left political party in Poland] regarding the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine February 25, 2022.
No to War. For a Transnational Politics of Peace, Transnational Social Strike Platform, February 24, 2022.
Veterans For Peace Encourages Diplomacy Not War, February 24, 2022.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an escalation risking nuclear war, February 24, 2022.
Physicians for Social Responsibility Condemns the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, February 24, 2022.
URGENT STATEMENT! Russia attacked and started the invasion into Ukraine, The Chairperson of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, Mykhailo Volynets, February 24, 2022.
Pre-war
No War in Ukraine, Statement and petition from World Beyond War and Roots Action
Tell NATO and the U.S. to stop escalating conflict in Ukraine Appeal and petition from CODEPINK.
U.S. Labor Against the War Leadership Statement and Petition on Ukraine Crisis
No to War, Yes to Peace! Statement by The Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine
No More War in Europe An Appeal for Civic Action in Europe and Beyond By Civic Activists from OSCE Countries February 11, 2022
No to War Statement from the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, A network linking socialists and trade unionists in Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
An Open Letter to the Russian Leadership, Russian Congress of Intellectuals, New York Review of Books, February 4, 2022.
The Expert Dialogue on NATO-Russia Risk Reduction. Seven Recommendations A statement from more than 70 leading international experts calling for seven urgent diplomatic steps to prevent a Ukraine/great power war and to lay the foundation for comprehensive Common Security diplomacy.
Independent American And Russian Women Call For Peace Part of a dialogue and peacebuilding initiative founded by Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy and the American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord.
Russia-Ukraine: Step back from conflict and open real dialogue The ITUC [International Trade Union Confederation] and the ETUC call for an immediate end to hostilities and conflict in eastern Ukraine and for good-faith negotiations to resolve the crisis in the interests of the people, February 22, 2022
