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KYIV BLOG: What is Ukraine’s future: Afghanistan or Finland?

July 17, 2026

What is in store for Ukraine? There are two starkly different possibilities. It can become Finland — a country that lost a war, lost a tenth of its territory, swallowed neutrality, and then got rich. Or it can become Afghanistan.

KYIV BLOG: Ukraine’s new PM: one step forward, one big step backwards

July 16, 2026

Ukraine just got a new Prime Minister, Serhii Koretskyi, an oil and gas man that cut his teeth as an oil trader in the private sector before going to run Ukraine’s two biggest energy companies: Ukrnafta and Naftogaz.

KYIV BLOG: Government reshuffle and Ukraine’s Battle of Britain moment

July 14, 2026

Ukraine is likely to get a new Prime Minister today and a much more pragmatic government as a result of the surprise reshuffle that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy triggered by asking the current Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko to quit.

KYIV BLOG: Russia, Ukraine political assassinations and the backpack bomb in Monaco

July 1, 2026

A bomber targeted Ukrainian real estate mogul and online scammer yesterday in Monaco, the principality’s first ever terror attack, in the latest of a string of alleged SBU assassinations overseas.

KYIV BLOG: The Ukraine war stuck in a violent stalemate

June 24, 2026

The efforts to bring the war in Ukraine to an end have stalled in the face of an escalating exchange of drone and missiles and the stalemated EU efforts to mediate.

KYIV BLOG: Ukraine peace deal goes back to square one at London summit

June 9, 2026

The E3 European leaders met in London over the weekend to thrash out a new formula to take to the Kremlin and end the war in Ukraine. Unfortunately, the document they produced takes us all the way back to the very beginning of the process.

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