Russia Analytical Report, May 30

"The Three Keys to Ukraine's Recovery," Mustafa Nayyem, head of the State Agency for the Restoration of Ukraine, Chatham House, 06.02.23.

"Ukraine's Counter-Offensive Appears To Have Begun. Its Armor Strikes in the South-East; but There Is More To Come," The Economist, 06.05.23. [1]

"Ukraine's Zelensky: We Are Ready for Counteroffensive. Ukrainian president also discusses U.S. elections, NATO and China in wide-ranging interview," Ukraine's president speaks with correspondent James Marson and chief editor Emma Tucker, WSJ, 06.03.23. Clues from Ukrainian Views.

"Biden shows growing appetite to cross Putin's red lines," journalists John Hudson and Dan Lamothe, WP, 06.01.23.

"What the Ukrainian Armed Forces Need to Do to Win," the Ukraine Defense Support Group's Erik Kramer and Paul Schneider, War on the Rocks, 06.02.23.

"The Key to Victory in Ukraine? Taking the Long View," Editorial Board, WP, 05.31.23.

"Backlash Against Weaponized Dollar Is Growing Across the World," reporters Michelle Jamrisko and Ruth Carson, Bloomberg, 06.02.23.

"Tech Sanctions Against Russia: Turning the West's Assumptions Into Lessons," research fellow Alena Epifanova, DGAP, 06.05.23.

"Washington Is Sanctioning 12,000 Entities. It's Backfiring," columnist Max Boot, WP, 06.05.23.

"An Unwinnable War. Washington Needs an Endgame in Ukraine," Rand's Samuel Charap, FA, 06.05.23.

"Getting Ukraine Right: From Negotiations Trap to Victory," Ukraine Task Force, PONARS, May 2023.

"The Cigar-Chomping ‘Kissinger’ Behind Africa's Mission To End Ukraine War," journalists Joseph Cotterill and David Pilling, FT, 05.26.23.

"Why Washington Underwrites Violence in Ukraine," the Quincy Institute's Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch, 06.01.23.

"The Battle for Eurasia," Hal Brands of Johns Hopkins’ SAIS, FP, 06.04.23.

"Closing speech by the President of the French Republic" Emmanuel Macron speaking at GLOBSEC, Elysee, 05.31.23.

"To Counter Russia, Germany Promised a Strong Military. What happened?", Editorial Board, WP, 06.05.23.

"To Protect Europe, Let Ukraine Join NATO — Right Now. No Country Is Better at Stopping Russia," former defense minister of Ukraine and current chair of the Center for Defense Strategies, Andriy Zagorodnyuk, FA, 06.01.23. Clues from Ukrainian Views.

"Ukraine Needs Long-Term Security Guarantees," Editorial Board, FT, 06.05.23.

"The United States Can No Longer Assume That the Rest of the World Is on Its Side," Fareed Zakaria, WP, 06.02.23.

"How America is Reshaping the Global Economy," commentator Gideon Rachman, FT, 06.05.23.

"The Legacy of the War in Ukraine: Will a ‘Silk Curtain’ Fall?", geopolitical due diligence advisor John Raine, IISS, 05.31.23.

"Prove It Before You Use It: Nuclear Retaliation Under Uncertainty," U.S. Navy officer Johnathan Falcone, Preamble Inc.'s Jonathan Rodriguez Cefalu, and quantitative behavioral researcher Maarten Bos, War on the Rocks, 06.01.23.

"New START: To Succeed, Plan for Failure," John Erath of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, BAS, 06.01.2023.

"Nuclear Dangers Are Rising Once More. Here's How the U.S. Should Respond," Washington Post Editorial Board, WP, 05.31.23.

"Ukraine War May Become a Proving Ground for AI," columnist James Stavridis, Bloomberg, 05.31.23.

"All Quiet on the Cyber Front? Explaining Russia's Limited Cyber Effects," Pia Hüsch and Joseph Jarnecki, RUSI, 06.01.23.

"Can China Compensate Russia's Losses on the European Gas Market?," nonresident scholar Sergei Vakulenko, CEIP, 06.01.23.

"Who's Actually Running Russia?," journalist Anna Arutunyan, The Spectator, 06.04.23.

"Red Belt of the Special Operation. Why the Inhabitants of the Frontline Regions Support the Authorities," Aleksey Gusev of Berlin's Hertie School of Governance, Carnegie Politika, 05.06.23.

"The Rise and Sudden Fall of the Arctic Council," Brett Simpson, a Fulbright Fellow, FP, 05.31.23.

"Uptick in Russian-African Diplomacy Moscow's Evolving Geopolitical Plans," RM Staff, RM, 06.02.23.

"Nazi Symbols on Ukraine's Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History," correspondent Thomas Gibbons-Neff, NYT, 06.05.23.

"Peace Edges Closer in the Troubled South Caucasus," editor Tony Barber, FT, 05.30.23.

"The Stans Can't Play Both Sides Anymore," Raffaello Pantucci of Britain's Royal United Services Institute and Alessandro Arduino of the Lau China Institute and King's College London, FP, 05.31.23.

"America Cannot Compete with Russia and China for the Entirety of the Global South," the Quincy Institute's Suzanne Loftus, NI, 06.02.23.

[1] U.S. officials told NYT on Monday that there were signs that Ukraine may have begun its expected counteroffensive. However, Ukrainian officials refuted Russian claims that Ukrainian troops had launched a major counteroffensive on multiple fronts, FT reported on Monday.

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