It is necessary to increase pressure on Russia and secure reliable security guarantees for Ukraine. Ukraine and the European Union must sit down at the
A settlement without firm security guarantees poses a direct risk of renewed aggression by the Russian Federation. What is needed is not appeasement, but increased
The lesson of Budapest is this: Ukraine needs permanent, physical, and verifiable security guarantees—up to and including a European no-fly zone in the west and
Russia is waging a war of attrition in a technological and tactical stalemate: the “death zone” of up to ~80 km suppresses maneuvering, while advancing