Center for International Studies

  A winter break or an attack on Crimea - under what scenario will the war in Ukraine continue after the De-occupation of Kherson? Nika Chitadze Director of the Center for International Studies  Professor of the International Black Sea University  As is known, the liberation of Kherson has already been assessed as a great military and an important political and psychological victory for Ukraine. Now it is possible to analyze what new opportunities this gives to the Ukrainian army and how things will develop. At the same time, the Russian forces launched a massive offensive in the Donetsk region, and are carrying out more intensive missile attacks against the critical infrastructure of Ukraine, as a result of which, first of all, the civilian population of the country is harmed and the victims are increasing more and more. As a result of the missile strikes, as is known, the missiles reached the territory of Poland. With all of the above, the Russians want to somehow ...

Nika Chitadze Professor of the International Black Sea University  Director of the Center for International Studies  After one defeat after another on the front line in the last few months, the representatives of the Russian political elite and Russian President Putin himself talk about the defense of "Russian territory by all means, including the use of nuclear weapons." After Putin announced the annexation of four districts of the occupied territories of Ukraine - Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson and "joined" them to the Russian Federation, and later lost the Russian  political elite and Russian President Putin  control over the largest part of the Kherson district, the threat of nuclear blackmail from the Kremlin became more serious. The fact is that for the further liberation of these occupied Ukrainian regions, of course, the Ukrainians will not stop fighting until their final liberation, and the Kremlin will announce that the attacks are now directl...