Russia Ukraine War

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by the Associated Press, Republic World, Ukrinform, and Understanding War. On Tues., NATO’s 30 member states signed off on accession protocols for Finland and Sweden to join the US-led alliance after it made the historic decision to invite the…

Martin Fornusek Perspectify Team Many respected voices argue that the West pushed Putin into the corner, giving him no choice but to invade Ukraine. This argument not only ignores issues like national self-determination and democracy, it also fails to reflect the reality of modern-day geopolitics. Who caused the war in…

War was the last thing that the Global economy needed — Two pillars of the post-world-war-2 order were globalisation and international trade; both ensured that countries’ economies became interdependent, and it worked well because China and other developing countries grew by leaps and bounds because of their export-oriented economy. But the order worked well during peace, and countries are aware that…

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by US News, Pravda, Al Jazeera, Euractiv, and Reuters. After Russian forces this weekend took control of Lysychansk, the last holdout in Luhansk, the region’s exiled governor Serhiy Gaidai said Russia’s sights will now turn to neighbor Donetsk, namely…

Only a few years ago, Israel was a net importer of natural gas. However, with the discoveries of the Tamar and Leviathan gas fields in 2009 and 2010 respectively, Israel found itself sitting on a windfall of natural gas reserves. But gas reserves are only profitable if they can be…

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by the President, Associated Press, RTE, Tass, and the New York Post. Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has condemned a Fri. morning missile strike on the Odesa village of Serhiivka, calling it an example of “deliberate, purposeful Russian terror.” …

Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) is taking the spotlight on the energy affairs agenda of the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Germany in 2022. The G7 rejected demands from Russia that countries pay for natural gas exports in Russian rubles, after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin announced that “unfriendly” countries should…

Hi! My name is Katya Savchenko. I am 27 years old and I am from Horlivka, a city in the Donbas region of Ukraine that russia occupied in 2014. My family and I never wanted to leave our home, but russia’s war against Ukraine forced us to move to Kyiv…