Russia’s ‘theatrical’ nuclear weapons drills & Ukraine’s theory of victory

Russia’s ‘theatrical’ nuclear weapons drills & Ukraine’s theory of victory

Day 812.

Today, further to the fast-evolving situation on the front lines, we reflect on how Ukraine might win the war, the ‘theatrical’ nuclear weapons drills being carried out by Moscow, and look deeper on the political fault-lines of Central and Eastern Europe.


Contributors:

Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on X.

James Rothwell (Berlin Correspondent). @JamesERothwell on X.

Hamish De Bretton-Gordon (Former Tank Commander and Chemical Weapons Expert). @HamishDBG on X.

Dalibor Rohac (Senior Fellow AEI) @DaliborRohac on X.


'The villages near Kharkiv were recovering. Fleeing again, their people feel betrayed by the west – and I understand why' (Ada Wordsworth in The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/22/kharkiv-betrayed-west-ukraine-russia-war


'A Theory of Victory for Ukraine' (Andriy Zagorodnyuk and Eliot A. Cohen, Foreign Affairs):

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/theory-victory-ukraine


Putin targets German speakers in Russia in search for cannon fodder (The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/19/putin-targets-germans-living-in-russia-in-search-for-troops/


'The EU is failing Georgia, just as it failed Ukraine' (Dalibor Rohac in The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/21/the-eu-is-failing-georgia-just-as-it-failed-ukraine/


'Exclusive: Pentagon's Russian Oil Red Line Questioned' (Newsweek)

https://www.newsweek.com/pentagon-russia-ukraine-drone-attacks-oil-hubs-red-line-1902516



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