Articles by Vitaliy Portnykov

Another Donald Trump
Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
Another Donald Trump

During his first tenure in the Oval Office, Donald Trump criticized Europe for purchasing Russian gas and emphasized that this would create a dangerous dependency on the Kremlin. There are well-known clips showing German...

What Putin Counting On?
Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
What Putin Counting On?

To the question of what exactly Putin hopes for after four and a half years of the Russian-Ukrainian war, in a situation where his troops, which were supposed to capture at least the entire Donetsk region in the first mo...

Putin's Logic of Endurance
Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
Putin's Logic of Endurance

Volodymyr Zelensky met with Donald Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York. Currently, this meeting does not appear to lead to any concrete results in the process of finding opportunities to...

Why Putin Needs Witkoff and Kushner
Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
Why Putin Needs Witkoff and Kushner

A few months ago, the very possibility of resuming negotiations between Russia and Ukraine with the participation of American intermediaries seemed more like political fiction, although both in Moscow and Kyiv, new visit...

Older than Trump
Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
Older than Trump

On the eve of the thirty-fifth anniversary of Ukrainian independence, a whole group of leading American politicians visited Kyiv. Among them were former U.S. presidential representative on Ukraine, General Keith Kellogg,...

War of Cities
Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
War of Cities

When the front line freezes and doesn't move even a kilometer for weeks, armies sooner or later turn to another target — not the enemy's trenches, but their cities. This is not a new ingenuity from the Kremlin. The world...

The Mission of Laura Loomer
Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
The Mission of Laura Loomer

The visit of the well-known American right-wing conservative blogger Laura Loomer to the Ukrainian capital was perceived by the Ukrainian authorities and covered by our media as if it were the visit of an official whose ...

Graham's Law
Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
Graham's Law

Against the backdrop of the unexpected death of Senator Lindsey Graham, the bill he had been advocating for almost the entire last year, if passed soon, will certainly not be called the new sanctions bill, nor the bill t...

The Spirit of Anchorage
Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
The Spirit of Anchorage

This week, the fictional spirit of Anchorage, concocted in Moscow, began to dissipate completely. Initially, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that no real agreements were reached in Anchorage — only proposals w...

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