Ukrainian forces have begun to develop novel approaches to combined arms manoeuvre, incorporating new capabilities, that bear scrutiny for NATO armies.
An address by His Excellency Arseniy Yatsenyuk, former Prime Minister of Ukraine, Chairman of the Kyiv Security Forum and Founder of the Open Ukraine Foundation.
Join Neil Melvin and former Ukrainian Defence Minister Andriy Zagorodnyuk as they analyse the current state of the war in Ukraine on this podcast episode.
The war in Ukraine has diverted Russia’s resources and attention away from its own critical domestic security issues, creating uneven gaps in its ability to address terrorism, corruption, regional instability and the return of fighters from the war.
Russia's Zapad 2025 in Belarus focused on high-leverage capabilities, contrasting with the high tempo and mass in previous iterations of the exercises.
Private military and security companies are recasting conflict as a marketplace. The centre of gravity has shifted from security services to capability and data control. Ukraine provides the clearest illustration of how that shift plays out in practice.
Ukraine has faced more than three years of relentless assault from an imperialist Russia determined to erase its sovereignty. Western weapons and aid have been vital, but Europe’s response has been hesitant, fragmented, and over-reliant on Washington.
The effective use of sanctions needs clear objectives and outcomes, multilateral coordination, and rigorous enforcement; their overuse can have unintended consequences.
Ukraine has steadily increased its indigenous production of both low-end and higher-end long range strike systems, offering an increasingly potent combination.
As expectations continue to swirl for peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, the future of the largest nuclear power plant in Europe hangs in the balance.
The shadow fleets of Russia, Iran and North Korea are in the international spotlight, but efforts to counter their operations will fail while these vessels can so easily obtain new flags.
As the UK weighs its options for an integrated air and missile defence architecture and the capabilities that might underpin different viable architectures, this paper discusses the factors that should be taken into consideration.
The EU’s Black Sea strategy is a vital first step towards protecting the region, and how it is implemented will serve as a key test of the EU’s credibility.
Frenetic diplomacy over the past week has set up potential talks between Presidents Zelenskyy and Putin. But so far this is a triumph of diplomatic process rather than concrete progress, and it is far from certain that an end to the fighting is near, with much to clarify on Western ‘security guarantees.’
Following the Washington summit of European leaders with Presidents Zelenskyy and Trump, RUSI experts share their key takeaways from a seismic few days in geopolitics.
Read reactions from Director of Military Sciences Matthew Savill, Director of the Centre for Finance and Security Tom Keatinge and Director of International Security Neil Melvin on the meeting of President Trump and President Putin in Alaska.
