Publications

The issue of energy security and the transit of Russian fossil fuels through Ukraine represents one of the most complex geopolitical conundrums in March 2026, in which the strategic interests of Kyiv, the acute energy needs of Central Europe, and the political ambitions of Brussels intersect. The whole issue revolves around the southern branch of… Read more: The Dilemma of Druzhba Pipeline

In March 2026, the Ukrainian Armed Forces initiated a middle-scale counter-offensive. In consequence, causing effecting shift in the current static architecture of the front. This operation should not be regarded as an isolated attempt at a breakthrough, but rather as the direct culmination of strategic preparation. In December 2025, the Ukrainian army exhibited a high… Read more: The Ukrainian Counter-Offensive 2026

Author: Oleksandra Diakonova is a Master’s student in International Relations at CEU, specialising in Conflict and Security Studies. She holds Bachelor’s degrees from NaUKMA (Psychology, focusing on student-centred educational approaches) and the University of Amsterdam (Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics, with research on the abduction of Ukrainian children by Russian authorities). Her current research examines… Read more: Reflection Paper: Non-Interventionist Global Order: Neo-Imperial Wars from Korea and Vietnam to Iraq and Crimea.

To truly understand the grit of the fighting in eastern Ukraine, you have to look past the colored lines on a news map and look at the heavy, rusted reality of Soviet-era steel. In the Kharkiv and Donbas sectors, this isn’t just a war of ideologies; it’s a war of tonnage. Kupiansk isn’t just a… Read more: The Hinge of the East: Why Kupiansk Dictates the War’s Pace

By the dawn of 2025, the Russo-Ukrainian War had stripped away the last vestiges of 20th-century manoeuvre doctrine, mutating instead into a hyper-transparent, sensor-fused conflict that fundamentally defied conventional Western military expectations. If 2022 was defined by the catastrophic failure of the Russian Blitzkrieg and 2023 by the gruelling, static lessons of the southern counter-offensive,… Read more: War in Ukraine in 2025 and What to Expect in 2026

Opinion article By Tomáš Iliev The war in Ukraine (Russian aggression), which is now in its fourth year, has evolved into a dangerous conflict that has placed European security at risk and forced Ukraine to fight for its survival and territorial sovereignty. The latest turn in the war came at the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska,… Read more: Putin’s Terms of Peace – Between Hopes of Conclusion and Ukraine’s Fight for Survival