Category: Ukraine

DESPITE the West calling for and implementing sanctions against Russia, it appears this doesn’t include Russian gas. Gas exports from Russia to Europe, via Ukraine it should be noted, have…

Are some refugees more welcome than others? It has not been long since a great many people, not least the British government, seemed perfectly happy to allow refugees fleeing war…

On Sunday Belarusians joined the worldwide protests against war on Ukraine as their government sanctioned rocket and missile attacks and Belarus soldiers joined Russian forces crossing the border into Ukraine.…

The news that Vladimir Putin has put his nuclear arsenal on standby is, to say the least, chilling.  At the moment fighting in Ukraine is strictly conventional. Casualties have been…

On Thursday Russia invaded Ukraine. Under normal circumstances the stance of the left would be unequivocally pro-Ukrainian, but on this occasion as the war rhetoric has increased, so has our…

How well is Putin’s war in Ukraine going and what is he really going to gain from it? Several days into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, after Russia attacked on…

At Critical Mass we oppose the Russian invasion and support calls for a cease fire to the war in Ukraine and the withdrawal of Russian troops so that negotiations can…

On Thursday thousands of ordinary Russian people across over 50 locations showed immense courage in protesting on the streets against Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. As I write, more than 1746…

This week’s new look briefing is focussed, of course, on the war in Ukraine. We recommend you use this full screen (click on the X in the controls) and, especially…

WE began the week with warmongering voices coming mainly from the West, in particular the US, but I don’t think many of us expected the situation to escalate so quickly,…