This Month
- Opinion
- Opinion
Ukraine and its backers need a credible path to victory
The country no longer has a convincing theory of victory. Unless they can come up with one, Western support for Ukraine will continue to waver.
- Gideon Rachman
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Ukraine’s economic recovery depends on extra allied aid, warns IMF chief
Kristalina Georgieva says further funding delays could force Kyiv to return to printing money, as it did a few months after Russia’s invasion last year.
- Song Jung-a, Sam Fleming and Ben Hall
‘Thank you’: How Putin turned a Western boycott into a bonanza
While Ukraine is preoccupied with short-term imperatives such as shoring up international support, the relative resilience of the Russian economy has enabled Putin to play a long game.
- Paul Sonne and Rebecca Ruiz
Confident Putin declares ‘victory will be ours’ in Ukraine
Despite casualties of some 315,000 dead and wounded, the Russian president seems to still have popular support for the invasion.
- Updated
- Valerie Hopkins and Anton Troianovski
US says Russia’s economy feeling strain of Ukraine war
The invasion of Ukraine is contributing to growing expenditures, a depreciating rouble, inflation and a tight labour market, a new report says.
- Claire Jones and Anastasia Stognei
How Russia punched a $17b hole in the West’s oil sanctions
Russia’s revenues from its main tax-generating sources of petrodollars almost doubled between April and October.
- Alaric Nightingale, Julian Lee and Alex Longley
- Opinion
- Opinion
US and EU bickering leaves Ukraine adrift
Political bickering in Washington and European capitals over ongoing support for Kyiv appears to presage an even bleaker winter for President Zelensky.
- James Curran
- Analysis
- Analysis
Crunch time for Ukraine as the West wavers
The next week could be critical for the country’s future. Having promised open-ended support, the US and EU are struggling to provide new funding.
- Henry Foy, James Politi and Ben Hall
- Exclusive
- Richard Marles
Lapsed contract could deliver Aussie fighter jets to Ukraine
Plans to transfer old RAAF jets could be revived while Canberra will consider Ukraine’s request for year-round supply of Australian coal.
- Andrew Tillett
Republicans sink US military aid to Ukraine
Joe Biden lashed out at Republicans after the vote on a spending bill spotlighted waning support for backing Ukraine’s fight against Russia.
- Karoun Demirjian
US ‘out of money’ for Ukraine, White House warns
A top budget official said a failure by Congress to approve further aid by the end of the year will “kneecap” Kyiv and increase the likelihood of Russian victories.
- Justin Sink
- Exclusive
- AUKUS
The biggest risk that could set off China-US conflict: ex-army chief
Sir Mark Carleton-Smith also says Ukraine’s war with Russia could last for as long as another five years.
- Andrew Tillett
AustralianSuper director publishes war novel
Misha Zelinsky’s book about the war in Ukraine features on a union official not dissimilar to himself, except female.
- Myriam Robin
How Ukraine defeated Russia’s cyber warriors
Kyiv imported tens of thousands of modems after malware took down its satellite communications network. Western tech companies helped thwart other attacks too.
- Lawrence Freedman
November
Five wounded in Kyiv by largest drone attack yet on Ukraine
The six-hour air raid, on the day Ukraine commemorated the 1932-33 Holodomor famine that killed millions, began hitting different districts of Kyiv in the early hours.
- Max Hunder
- Opinion
- Opinion
Far left is down the rabbit hole
How young social justice warriors got mixed up with an adherent of oppressive Sharia Law is a question worth pondering.
- Misha Zelinsky
‘Important signal’: Lachlan Murdoch in surprise Ukraine trip
The Fox Corp CEO’s visit comes as concern in Ukraine mounts over the future of vital US military and economic aid with the war with Russia showing no end in sight.
- Tom Balmforth
- Opinion
- South Korea
South Korea’s lessons in rebuilding Ukraine
Funding, security guarantees, and freezing the conflict will give Ukrainians the same chance to prosper that South Koreans have famously done.
- James Stavridis
APEC leaders divided on Ukraine, Gaza wars
The 21 forum members went into the meetings at odds over Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Hamas-Israel war, and that is how they left them.
- David Lawder and David Brunnstrom
Zelensky says shell supply slowed by Israel-Hamas War
The war in Gaza has raised questions about Western nations’ ability to stay focused on supporting Ukraine, where a long counteroffensive has made little progress.
- Daryna Krasnolutska and Olesia Safronova
