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Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, an academic centre at the University of Cambridge. Advancing new approaches to teaching and researching Ukraine since 2008.
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Now the new plan is a nonstarter for Russia. This whole episode was just an embarrassing and useless fire-drill.
While Trump couldn’t care less about Ukraine, he’s foolish to believe he could force an ultimatum and more foolish to not realize he’s being endlessly played by Putin.
While Trump couldn’t care less about Ukraine, he’s foolish to believe he could force an ultimatum and more foolish to not realize he’s being endlessly played by Putin.
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Now the new plan is a nonstarter for Russia. This whole episode was just an embarrassing and useless fire-drill.
While Trump couldn’t care less about Ukraine, he’s foolish to believe he could force an ultimatum and more foolish to not realize he’s being endlessly played by Putin.
While Trump couldn’t care less about Ukraine, he’s foolish to believe he could force an ultimatum and more foolish to not realize he’s being endlessly played by Putin.
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Good to see the U.S. and Ukraine agree to a joint peace plan. However, this plan is irrelevant.
Russia never proposed a legitimate plan. The 28 point “Dim-Witt” plan was an influence operation rather than a plan for a just and lasting peace.
Russia never proposed a legitimate plan. The 28 point “Dim-Witt” plan was an influence operation rather than a plan for a just and lasting peace.
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Good to see the U.S. and Ukraine agree to a joint peace plan. However, this plan is irrelevant.
Russia never proposed a legitimate plan. The 28 point “Dim-Witt” plan was an influence operation rather than a plan for a just and lasting peace.
Russia never proposed a legitimate plan. The 28 point “Dim-Witt” plan was an influence operation rather than a plan for a just and lasting peace.
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At the end of the day, I would readily bet that there will be no peace plan—for one simple reason, which I have often emphasized: there cannot be one with Russia.
This is not actually bad news, however, but rather the opposite—at least if Europeans prove themselves equal to the historical task.
This is not actually bad news, however, but rather the opposite—at least if Europeans prove themselves equal to the historical task.
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
At the end of the day, I would readily bet that there will be no peace plan—for one simple reason, which I have often emphasized: there cannot be one with Russia.
This is not actually bad news, however, but rather the opposite—at least if Europeans prove themselves equal to the historical task.
This is not actually bad news, however, but rather the opposite—at least if Europeans prove themselves equal to the historical task.
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Kharkiv tonight after russian drone attack on our city. Private houses are on fire.
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Kharkiv tonight after russian drone attack on our city. Private houses are on fire.
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Another night, another apartment block destroyed by Russian rockets. 20 dead, including 2 children. It's criminal, evil, sickening. But we can act! Let's save those alive today by supporting Ukraine's defenders: euromaidanpress.com/lets-support...
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Another night, another apartment block destroyed by Russian rockets. 20 dead, including 2 children. It's criminal, evil, sickening. But we can act! Let's save those alive today by supporting Ukraine's defenders: euromaidanpress.com/lets-support...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Save Modern Languages at the University of Nottingham www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
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It took a little longer than expected, but the moment of truth for Europe really is here.
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
It took a little longer than expected, but the moment of truth for Europe really is here.
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As anticipated
Well, once again it was shown that Trump's "support" for Ukraine was a con. He has been working with Putin in secret to craft a "peace" deal which the US and Russia will now try to shove down Ukrainian and European throats. Just sent out this free piece. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Trump Was Working With Putin The Entire Time
And Now Europe and Ukraine Will Pay The Price
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
As anticipated
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Ternopil today after Russia bombed apartment building with a missile . 73 people wounded, including 15 kids.
25 people killed including 3 kids
25 people killed including 3 kids
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Ternopil today after Russia bombed apartment building with a missile . 73 people wounded, including 15 kids.
25 people killed including 3 kids
25 people killed including 3 kids
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Last night Russia sent about five hundred drones and missiles to kill Ukrainians. Most were intercepted but those that got through hit a post office, a store, a power plant, and multiple residences. 19 people were killed in Ternopil. (1/2)
November 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Last night Russia sent about five hundred drones and missiles to kill Ukrainians. Most were intercepted but those that got through hit a post office, a store, a power plant, and multiple residences. 19 people were killed in Ternopil. (1/2)
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Join @camukrainistyka.bsky.social to discuss the reconstruction of Ukraine with Gillian Tett OBE of King’s College & FT ed. board, and Alyona Shkrum, First Deputy Minister of Communities & Territories Development of Ukraine.
Weds 26 Nov, 6pm
Downing Place URC
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rebuilding...
Weds 26 Nov, 6pm
Downing Place URC
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rebuilding...
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Join @camukrainistyka.bsky.social to discuss the reconstruction of Ukraine with Gillian Tett OBE of King’s College & FT ed. board, and Alyona Shkrum, First Deputy Minister of Communities & Territories Development of Ukraine.
Weds 26 Nov, 6pm
Downing Place URC
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rebuilding...
Weds 26 Nov, 6pm
Downing Place URC
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rebuilding...
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Just released. The most important, under-reported story of the Russo-Ukraine War since Trump became President is how the Chinese now feel that they can pile in with Russian support. They are now helping Russia across the board, with components, technical help… open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The Biggest Under-Reported Story of 2025
Since Trump has become President, China has ramped up its support for Russia to hammer Ukraine.
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Just released. The most important, under-reported story of the Russo-Ukraine War since Trump became President is how the Chinese now feel that they can pile in with Russian support. They are now helping Russia across the board, with components, technical help… open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Ever since, russia has been taking brutal revenge on Kherson, shelling it non-stop, hunting civilians in safaris, including infants, destroying critical infrastructure.
Kherson doesn't need the world to admire its invincibility.
Kherson needs actions aimed at defeating the aggressor now.
Kherson doesn't need the world to admire its invincibility.
Kherson needs actions aimed at defeating the aggressor now.
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Ever since, russia has been taking brutal revenge on Kherson, shelling it non-stop, hunting civilians in safaris, including infants, destroying critical infrastructure.
Kherson doesn't need the world to admire its invincibility.
Kherson needs actions aimed at defeating the aggressor now.
Kherson doesn't need the world to admire its invincibility.
Kherson needs actions aimed at defeating the aggressor now.
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Tracks of cruise (green) aero (blue) and ballistic (orange) missiles in tonight’s missile attack by fascist Russia on democratic Ukraine. Cruise missiles “disappeared” in Kyiv Oblast (likely shot down). Separately, fascist Russia as usual launched attack drones across Ukraine.
November 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Tracks of cruise (green) aero (blue) and ballistic (orange) missiles in tonight’s missile attack by fascist Russia on democratic Ukraine. Cruise missiles “disappeared” in Kyiv Oblast (likely shot down). Separately, fascist Russia as usual launched attack drones across Ukraine.
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While the world gasped at a theft in the Louvre, a far greater heist has been unfolding for years — the silent erasure of Ukraine’s cultural memory.
It’s about identity under attack, not just stolen objects.
🧵 1/15
It’s about identity under attack, not just stolen objects.
🧵 1/15
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
While the world gasped at a theft in the Louvre, a far greater heist has been unfolding for years — the silent erasure of Ukraine’s cultural memory.
It’s about identity under attack, not just stolen objects.
🧵 1/15
It’s about identity under attack, not just stolen objects.
🧵 1/15
📢 Next Thursday, an extraordinary panel of Ukraine's thought leaders and cultural activists convenes in Cambridge.
12pm on 13 November, Gonville and Caius College. Free admission, light refreshments, but registration is required: www.eventbrite.com/e/contempora...
12pm on 13 November, Gonville and Caius College. Free admission, light refreshments, but registration is required: www.eventbrite.com/e/contempora...
Contemporary Ukrainian Culture: Creativity and Identity in Wartime
An Extraordinary Cambridge Roundtable featuring Alim Aliev, Olesya Ostrovska-Liuta, Yevhen Nyshchuk, Olenka Pevny, and other special guests
www.eventbrite.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
📢 Next Thursday, an extraordinary panel of Ukraine's thought leaders and cultural activists convenes in Cambridge.
12pm on 13 November, Gonville and Caius College. Free admission, light refreshments, but registration is required: www.eventbrite.com/e/contempora...
12pm on 13 November, Gonville and Caius College. Free admission, light refreshments, but registration is required: www.eventbrite.com/e/contempora...
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On Thursday 13 November at 12 noon, @camukrainistyka.bsky.social are hosting an extraordinary panel (in English) of Ukraine's thought leaders and cultural activists at Gonville and Caius College on contemporary Ukrainian culture.
Free admission. Register at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contempora...
Free admission. Register at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contempora...
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
On Thursday 13 November at 12 noon, @camukrainistyka.bsky.social are hosting an extraordinary panel (in English) of Ukraine's thought leaders and cultural activists at Gonville and Caius College on contemporary Ukrainian culture.
Free admission. Register at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contempora...
Free admission. Register at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contempora...
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44,000 . This is how many Shahed drones and their variants Russia sent to attack Ukraine this year. And it is 4 times more than previous year, according to CSIS data.
Guess somebody feels enabled.
Guess somebody feels enabled.
November 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
44,000 . This is how many Shahed drones and their variants Russia sent to attack Ukraine this year. And it is 4 times more than previous year, according to CSIS data.
Guess somebody feels enabled.
Guess somebody feels enabled.
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Hi All, Just sent out this post. People need to understand that the ranged/strategic air war over Russia and Ukraine is still in an early stage. Its poised for great (and terrible) changes in mass, technology and tactics over the coming year. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The Ranged War Is Still In An Early Stages
And its impossible to say how it will work out
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Hi All, Just sent out this post. People need to understand that the ranged/strategic air war over Russia and Ukraine is still in an early stage. Its poised for great (and terrible) changes in mass, technology and tactics over the coming year. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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😠 Russian soprano Anna Netrebko continues to perform at leading European venues despite sustained protests by Ukrainian diplomats, activists, and cultural institutions.
Anna Netrebko Returns to European Stages—on Taxpayer Money, Despite Kremlin Links
Russian soprano Anna Netrebko continues to perform in Europe amid protests from Ukrainian representatives, raising questions on cultural representation.
united24media.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
😠 Russian soprano Anna Netrebko continues to perform at leading European venues despite sustained protests by Ukrainian diplomats, activists, and cultural institutions.
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Russia is committing crimes against humanity by hunting Ukrainian civilians with drones, according to a UN commission of inquiry.
www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies...
www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies...
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine to the UN General Assembly (A/80/497)
www.ohchr.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Russia is committing crimes against humanity by hunting Ukrainian civilians with drones, according to a UN commission of inquiry.
www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies...
www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies...
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Read every word!
"You say you hate empire, but you only ever mean one. You rage at U.S. hegemony while excusing Russian conquest. You romanticize “multipolarity,” as if choosing a different empire were the same as dismantling one...
dumplingradical.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
"You say you hate empire, but you only ever mean one. You rage at U.S. hegemony while excusing Russian conquest. You romanticize “multipolarity,” as if choosing a different empire were the same as dismantling one...
dumplingradical.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
a letter to the western left
with frustration, from central eastern europe
dumplingradical.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Read every word!
"You say you hate empire, but you only ever mean one. You rage at U.S. hegemony while excusing Russian conquest. You romanticize “multipolarity,” as if choosing a different empire were the same as dismantling one...
dumplingradical.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
"You say you hate empire, but you only ever mean one. You rage at U.S. hegemony while excusing Russian conquest. You romanticize “multipolarity,” as if choosing a different empire were the same as dismantling one...
dumplingradical.substack.com/p/a-letter-t...
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Anastasia Masliy was 19 years old. Russia killed her last night in Kyiv, along with her mother. The women suffocated in their own bathroom, hiding from the fire started by a Russian drone 🕯
October 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Anastasia Masliy was 19 years old. Russia killed her last night in Kyiv, along with her mother. The women suffocated in their own bathroom, hiding from the fire started by a Russian drone 🕯
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"There's only one thing the West fears more than the fall of Kyiv. And this is the fall of Putin."
Author and journalist Sergei Medvedev on the West's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Watch in full➡️ bit.ly/476REzr
Author and journalist Sergei Medvedev on the West's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Watch in full➡️ bit.ly/476REzr
October 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"There's only one thing the West fears more than the fall of Kyiv. And this is the fall of Putin."
Author and journalist Sergei Medvedev on the West's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Watch in full➡️ bit.ly/476REzr
Author and journalist Sergei Medvedev on the West's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Watch in full➡️ bit.ly/476REzr
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How can you tell if you’re an easy mark? You thought there was a real chance a few days ago that Trump would send Ukraine Tomahawks.
How can you tell if you’re an all time sucker?
You still do.
How can you tell if you’re an all time sucker?
You still do.
October 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
How can you tell if you’re an easy mark? You thought there was a real chance a few days ago that Trump would send Ukraine Tomahawks.
How can you tell if you’re an all time sucker?
You still do.
How can you tell if you’re an all time sucker?
You still do.