War on Ukraine

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Solidarity drives online virality in a nation under attack, study of Ukrainian social media reveals

01 Oct 2024

While divisive social media posts get more traction in countries such as the US, a new study shows that celebrating national unity is the way to go...

̽��ֱ��Crimean Tatar who wants freedom for Ukraine to sing again

18 May 2023

Displaced journalist and scholar Elmaz Asan arrived in Cambridge from Ukraine in October 2022. She sees her research as a chance to fight back...

Search engine data reveals Russian discontent after invasion of Ukraine

17 May 2023

Russian military mobilisations saw huge spikes in anti-regime web searches, according to a study of search trends from Google and Yandex.

Engineer's humanitarian mission to insulate thousands of bomb and bullet-damaged homes in Ukraine

02 Apr 2023

A window that takes 15 minutes to build – designed by a Cambridge PhD student who has paused his studies – is transforming the lives of Ukrainians...

Opinion: Putin's war of attrition

24 Feb 2023

Former UK Ambassador to Russia, Sir Laurie Bristow, on what lies behind Putin's war on Ukraine and why we must begin to prepare for change in Russia...

Patient being treated in a Kharkiv hospital during a 2015 military operation

Opinion: ̽��ֱ��challenges faced by doctors and nurses in conflict zones

15 Mar 2022

Professor Mark de Rond from Cambridge Judge Business School outlines some of the unique pressures faced by doctors and nurses in Ukraine, in this...

A Ukrainian soldier near the front lines in the Donbas region in 2015

Russia-Ukraine ‘off-ramp’: potential plan drafted by Cambridge peace negotiator

14 Mar 2022

An international law expert outlines terms for a possible agreement on Ukraine, including proposals for the Donbas and Crimea regions, and a '...

Russian attempts to invoke international law dismantled

09 Mar 2022

Professor Marc Weller, a leading expert in international law and advisor on a large number of peace negotiations, debunks in turn Russia’s attempts...

Vigil against the war on Ukraine

04 Mar 2022

Around 1,000 people attended a special vigil for Ukraine organised by the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge on the evening of Thursday 3 March.

On Putin: the man behind the war

03 Mar 2022

Bridget Kendall, Master of Peterhouse, discusses her encounters with the man behind Russia's horrifying war on Ukraine.

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