On January 26, in Paris, senior political advisors to the Russian, Ukrainian, German and French heads of state and government convened to “reanimate” (such is the term in circulation) the quadrilateral “Normandy” process of consultations. The meeting, lasting eight and a half hours (almost twice longer than anticipated), marks a …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the United States and other countries from the West to stop creating panic among Ukrainian citizens as the reports of an imminent invasion were leading Ukraine’s economy to potentially decline. “There are signals even from respected leaders of states; they just say that tomorrow …

Ukraine’s leader and his defense and security aides are assessing Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s intentions differently from many of their Western counterparts. Are they just more stoical after eight years of persistent Russian provocations and a long-running war in eastern Ukraine—or are they misreading their Russian adversary? Washington and London …