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Since late 2021, Just Security has published more than 300 articles analyzing the diplomatic, political, legal, economic, humanitarian, and other issues and consequences of Russia’s war on Ukraine, including many in Ukrainian translation.

The catalog below organizes our collection of articles primarily about the war into general categories to facilitate access to relevant topics for policymakers, researchers, journalists, scholars, and the public at large. The archive will be updated as new pieces are published.

We welcome readers to use this catalog to follow the unfolding situation and generate new lines of analysis. To search headlines and authors, expand one or all of the topics, as needed, and use CTRL-F on your keyboard to open the search tool. The archive also is available in reverse chronological order at the Russia-Ukraine War articles page.

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Diplomacy

Trump’s New Year Foreign Policy: The Risk that the Bold and the Bad Outweigh the Constructive
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (January 8, 2026)

A NATO Promise Not to Enlarge? No, Not Even According to Putin 1.0
by Ambassador Steven Pifer (January 7, 2026)

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy Has Options in Response to Latest U.S.-Russian ‘Peace Plan’
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (November 21, 2025)

​​Ukraine’s Ironclad Security Is Inseparable from Peace
by Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. (November 14, 2025)

Roosevelt’s Weak Hand and Trump’s Strong One in Eastern and Central Europe: Will Trump Play His Good Cards?
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (October 22, 2025)

The Fantasy of a European Reassurance Force for Ukraine
by Michael Carpenter (August 28, 2025)

A Security Guarantee for Ukraine? Look to the Taiwan Relations Act
by Philip Gordon (August 25, 2025)

Trump, Zelenskyy, European Leaders in White House Meeting: Progress Toward a Deal?
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (August 19, 2025)

In Trump’s Planned Meeting With Putin, Beware of Traps, Play the Right Cards
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (August 13, 2025)

The Just Security Podcast: A Ukrainian MP Takes Stock of the NATO Summit and the Prospects for Peace
Viola Gienger interview with Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko and Lauren Van Metre (June 27, 2025)

Can Trump Seize a Win in Ukraine?
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (June 5, 2025)

The Just Security Podcast: Peace Diplomacy and the Russo-Ukraine War
by Brianna Rosen and Janina Dill interview with Sir Lawrence Freedman as part of the University of Oxford's Calleva-Airey Neave Global Security Seminar Series (May 14, 2025)

The U.S.-Ukraine Agreement: Legality and Transparency
by Curtis A. Bradley, Jack Goldsmith and Oona A. Hathaway (May 6, 2025)

How to Land the Emerging Deal on Peace for Ukraine
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (April 30, 2025)

Negotiations at Gunpoint: Does U.S. Pressure on Ukraine for a Minerals Deal Amount to Unlawfully Procuring a Treaty by Use of Force?
by Jeremy Pizzi and Maksym Vishchyk (April 17, 2025)

Intelligence Sharing Is a True Measure of U.S. Strategic Realignment with Russia
by Brian O'Neill (March 26, 2025)

Putin and Trump Cannot Erase Ukraine, and Joint Efforts to Do So May Backfire
by Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel (March 14, 2025)

What Just Happened: Security and Foreign Policy Implications of Pausing Intelligence Sharing with Ukraine
by Brett Holmgren (March 6, 2025)

Trump’s Russia Reset Is Real — Here’s How Europe Should Respond
by James Batchik and Doug Klain (March 5, 2025)

Trump Administration’s Mixed Signals on Russia and Ukraine May Reflect Internal Strategic Clash
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (February 24, 2025)

Trump’s Endgame for the War in Ukraine
by Michael J. Kelly and Craig Martin (@craigxmartin) (Updated February 14, 2025)

To ‘End’ War in Ukraine, Trump Might Be Tougher on Putin Than Critics Think
by Viola Gienger (@violagienger) (November 21, 2024)

Biden’s Final Efforts on Ukraine – and Trump’s First Moves
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (@AmbDanFried) (November 19, 2024)

The Just Security Podcast: NATO’s Washington Summit: Russia’s War on Ukraine Tests Alliance
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (@AmbDanFried), Viola Gienger (@violagienger) and Paras Shah (@pshah518) (July 12, 2024)

At the NATO Summit, Strategy and Politics in Play
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (@AmbDanFried) (July 9, 2024)

No, Trump Was Not Good for US Alliances. And Without Changes, Trump 2.0 Will Be Worse.
by Lisa Homel (@LisaHomel) and Ambassador Daniel Fried (@AmbDanFried) (May 3, 2024)

A Simple US Step Can Help Protect Another Imprisoned Democracy Activist in Russia
by Natalia Arno (@Natalia_Budaeva) and Michael Breen (@M_Breen) (April 1, 2024)

The ‘Murky’ Morality of Opposition to US Support for Ukraine: A Response
by Mariana Budjeryn (@mbudjeryn) (October 10, 2023)

At the NATO Summit, Do the Right Thing for Ukraine’s — and Democracy’s — Future
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (@AmbDanFried) (July 7, 2023)
Ukrainian translation: На саміті НАТО, робіть правильні речі для майбутнього України та демократії

Expert Q&A on What International Law Has to Say About Assistance to Russia’s War Against Ukraine
by Catherine Amirfar (May 2, 2023)

Western “Self-Deterrence” is Aiding Putin’s War of Aggression
By Erlingur Erlingsson (@rlingure) and Fridrik Jonsson (@FridrikJonsson) (March 15, 2023)
Ukrainian translation: Західне “самостримування” допомагає агресивній війні Путіна

To Secure Peace in Europe, Bring Ukraine into NATO
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (@AmbDanFried) (March 13, 2023)

Q&A: A Ukrainian MP on National Unity and the Drive for the World’s Support
by Ukrainian MP Kira Rudik (@kiraincongress) and Viola Gienger (@violagienger) (February 22, 2023)

In War, Ukraine’s Parliament Asserts Its Democratic Role
by Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko (@GoncharenkoUa) (February 22, 2023)

The United Nations in Hindsight: The Security Council, One Year After Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
by Rodrigo Saad (January 31, 2023)

Historic UNGA Resolution Calls for Ukraine Reparations
by Chiara Giorgetti (@ChiaraLawProf), Markiyan Kliuchkovsky (@kliuch), Patrick Pearsall (@Pwpearsall) and Jeremy K. Sharpe (@JKSharpe1648) (November 16, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Історична резолюція Генеральної Асамблеї ООН закликає до виплати репарацій Україні

Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Fight Can Overcome US Skeptics
by Joshua Rudolph (@JoshRudes) and Norman L. Eisen (@NormEisen) (November 10, 2022) 

UN Efforts on Ukraine, However Imperfect, Highlight Importance of International Cooperation
by Suzanne Nossel (@SuzanneNossel) (November 3, 2022)

Poland’s Judicial Reform Falls Short of EU Expectations, Complicating Cooperation Against Russia
by Kristie Bluett, Jasmine Cameron and Scott Cullinane (@ScottPCullinane) (October 3, 2022)

How Congress Should Designate Russia a State Sponsor of Terrorism
by Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk (@WuerthIngrid) (September 27, 2022)

Mexico’s Initiative for Dialogue and Peace in Ukraine
by Ambassador H.E. Huan Ramón de la Fuente and Pablo Arrocha Olabuenaga (September 23, 2022)

Richard Gowan on Ukraine and How Russia’s War Reverberates at the United Nations
by Richard Gowan (September 20, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Річард Гоуен про Україну та те, як російська війна дається взнаки в ООН

The UN’s Summit of the Future: Advancing Multilateralism in an Age of Hypercompetitive Geopolitics
by Richard Ponzio and Joris Larik (@JorisLarik) (September 16, 2022)

On Ukraine, Beware the Pitfalls of Interim Peacemaking Deals
by Valery Perry (July 18, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Щодо України: остерігайтеся пасток тимчасових миротворчих угод

Russia Should Not be Designated a State Sponsor of Terrorism
by Ingrid Wuerth (@WuerthIngrid) (July 11, 2022)

Heed the Lessons From 2011 Libya to Prevail in Ukraine Today
by Ambassador (ret.) Gordon Gray (@AmbGordonGray) (June 28, 2022)

An Offer NATO Cannot (and Should Not) Refuse: Finland’s Membership
by Laleh Ispahani (@lispahani) (May 12, 2022)

Remarks at UN Security Council Arria-Formula Meeting on Ensuring Accountability for Atrocities Committed by Russia in Ukraine
by Amal Clooney (April 28, 2022)

The United Nations in Hindsight: Challenging the Power of the Security Council Veto
by Shamala Kandiah Thompson (@skandiah), Karin Landgren (@LandgrenKarin) and Paul Romita (@PaulRomita) (April 28, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Організація Об’єднаних Націй в ретроспективі: виклики для права вето в Раді Безпеки ООН

How the War in Ukraine Illustrates the Weakness of US Policy Toward Africa
by Aude Darnal (@audedarnal) (April 18, 2022)

In Ukraine, There Are No Quick Fixes
by John Erath (April 8, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: В Україні немає швидких вирішень проблем 

Does the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ Require States to go to War with Russia?
by Rebecca Barber (@becjbarber) (March 25, 2022)

Why Pushing Russia Out of Multilateral Institutions is Not a Solution to the War
by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin (March 22, 2022)

United Nations Response Options to Russia’s Aggression: Opportunities and Rabbit Holes
by Larry D. Johnson (March 1, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Варіанти реагування ООН на російську агресію: можливості та “підводні камені”

Ukraine: Unleashing the Rhetorical Dogs of War
by Barry Posen (February 15, 2022)

In 11th-Hour Diplomacy, US and Europe Try to Stop Putin From Escalating War on Ukraine
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (@AmbDanFried) (February 13, 2022)

As Putin Lines Ukraine Border with Russian Troops, Is There a China Factor?
by Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. (@tgrahamjr) (January 24, 2022)

Sanctions and Economic Consequences

The Imperative to Weaken the Kremlin’s War Economy: What the West Can Do
by Michael Carpenter and Martin Vladimirov (September 30, 2025)

In Potential Russia Sanctions Removal, Diamonds Illustrate the Complexities
by Brad Brooks-Rubin (April 10, 2025)

This Is No Time for Business as Usual in Russia
by Albert Torres and David J. Kramer (April 1, 2025)

Lifting Russia Sanctions – What Can a President Do Unilaterally?
by Taisa Markus (October 16, 2024)

Sanctions Against Russia: The Coalition Can Do Better – for Ukraine and Global Order
by Anna Tkachova (April 23, 2024)

Baby on Board! How Kleptocrats and Associates Use Family Members to Evade Sanctions
by Michelle Kendler-Kretsch (@MichelleKretsch) and Anrike Visser (@AnrikeVisser) (September 19, 2023)

Expert Q&A on Asset Seizure in Russia’s War in Ukraine
by Chimène Keitner (@KeitnerLaw) (April 3, 2023) 

Why the European Commission’s Proposal for Russian State Asset Seizure Should be Abandoned
by Eleanor Runde (March 23, 2023)

Politics, Not Law, Is Key to Confiscating Russian Central Bank Assets
by Anton Moiseienko (@antonm_law) (August 17, 2022)

Climate Security, Energy Security, and the Russia-Ukraine War
by Mark Nevitt (@marknevitt) (May 11, 2022)

Why Proposals for U.S. to Liquidate and Use Russian Central Bank Assets Are Legally Unavailable
by Andrew Boyle (@J_Andrew_Boyle) (April 18, 2022)

How Strengthening the Corporate Transparency Act Can Help the IRS Follow the Money
by Sophia Yan (April 12, 2022)

The Russia Sanctions–How They Work and What Congress Needs to Know
by Benjamin I. Waldman (@bxnwaldman) and Elizabeth Goitein (@LizaGoitein) (March 31, 2022)

New Export Controls Distinguish Between Exports to Russia and Deemed Exports to Russian Nationals
by Christine Abely (@CEAbely) (March 9, 2022)

Diplomatic - Political Accountability
Putin and Russia’s Political Dynamics

The Undesirable Journey of Vladimir Kara-Murza: Challenging Russia’s Repression
by Natalia Arno (@Natalia_Budaeva) (July 10, 2024)

The Just Security Podcast: A Russian Legal Scholar in Exile on the Future of Resistance to Putin
Paras Shah (@pshah518) and Viola Gienger (@violagienger) interview with Gleb Bogush (@gleb_bogush) (March 29, 2024)

Putin’s Staged Election Belies Resistance — Russian Court Data Tells the Real Story
by Roman Badanin (@RBadanin) (March 15, 2024)

Russian Opposition Searches for Shreds of Hope After Navalny’s Death
by Ekaterina Kotrikadze (@katyakotrikadze) (February 23, 2024)

Navalny’s Death and the Kremlin
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (@AmbDanFried) (February 16, 2024)

How Does Putin’s Response to Prigozhin’s Mutiny Change the Threat from Russia?
by Douglas London (@douglaslondon5) (July 5, 2023)

Wagner Chief’s Mutiny in Russia: Cautionary Notes on Early Assessments
by Viola Gienger (@violagienger) (June 26, 2023)

Russia’s Assault on Ukraine Exposes US, Allied Gaps in Preparing for Great-Power War
by Ambassador (ret) John E. Herbst (@JohnEdHerbst) and Jennifer Cafarella (@JennyCafarella) (November 30, 2022)

Putin’s War Against Ukraine and the Risks of Rushing to Negotiations
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (@AmbDanFried) (November 9, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Війна Путіна проти України та ризики поспішного ведення переговорів

Putin Eyes Italy’s Political Crisis for Potential Benefits in Peeling Away Support for Ukraine
by Dario Cristiani (@med_eye) (July 19, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Путін розглядає політичну кризу в Італії з точки зору потенційної вигоди для послаблення підтримки України

Putin’s Next Play in Ukraine–And How the US and Allies Can Prepare
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (@AmbDanFried) (April 15, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Наступний акт Путіна в Україні – і як США та союзники можуть підготуватися

Putin’s Real Fear: Ukraine’s Constitutional Order
by Philip Bobbitt and Viola Gienger (@ViolaGienger) (March 24, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Справжній страх Путіна: Конституційний лад України

A Simulated President’s Daily Brief on Putin and Ukraine
by Brianna Rosen (@rosen_br) (March 2, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Змодельований щоденний звіт президента про Путіна та Україну

Putin’s Coercion on NATO Goes Beyond Its Open Door Policy
by Steven Keil (@stevenckeil) (January 28, 2022)

Influencing Putin’s Calculus: The Information War and the Russian Public
by Viola Gienger (@ViolaGienger) (March 3, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Вплив на плани Путіна: інформаційна війна та російський народ

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Is Essentially Not About NATO
by Maria Popova (@PopovaProf) and Oxana Shevel (@OxanaShevel) (February 24, 2022)

Retired Russian Generals Criticize Putin Over Ukraine, Renew Call for His Resignation
by Anders Åslund (@Anders_Aslund) (February 9, 2022)

Military Aid and Humanitarian Aid and Operations

The Just Security Podcast: Ukraine’s Resistance to Russia’s Invasion — The Other Mobilization
Viola Gienger interview with Lauren Van Metre and Ella Lamakh (August 4, 2025)

Trump’s Ukraine Deal Requires Foreign Aid
by Josh Rudolph (@JoshRudes) (February 11, 2025)

Will US Public Support for Ukraine Aid Survive the Presidential Campaign?
by Robert Miron and Peter Feaver (September 25, 2024)

Ukraine Shows that Military Aid Transparency is Possible
by Elias Yousif (August 18, 2023)

Why President Biden Should Not Transfer Prohibited Cluster Bombs to Ukraine
by Daryl G. Kimball (@DarylGKimball) (July 3, 2023)

Are Methods of Naval Warfare at Risk Under “Qualified” Neutrality? Expert Q&A from Stockton Center’s Russia-Ukraine Conference
by W. Casey Biggerstaff (@biggerstaff_wc) (March 10, 2023)

Can Aid or Assistance Be a Use of Force?: Expert Q&A from Stockton Center’s Russia-Ukraine Conference
by W. Casey Biggerstaff (@biggerstaff_wc) (March 2, 2023)

Voices from the Frontlines of Democracy in Ukraine: Supporting and Protecting Civil Society
by Lauren Van Metre (@resilienceworks) (February 24, 2023)

On Ukraine, Europeans Are Doing More Than Many Seem to Think
by Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff (@KleineBrockhoff) and James H. Sallembien (@JHSallembien) (February 3, 2023)

The “Leahy Laws” and U.S. Assistance to Ukraine
by Sarah Harrison (May 9, 2022)

Articulating Arms Control Law in the EU’s Lethal Military Assistance to Ukraine
by Tomas Hamilton (@tomhamilton) (March 30, 2022)
Italian Translation: La Legge sul Controllo delle Armi nell’Ambito dell’Assistenza Militare da Parte dell’Unione Europea all’Ucraina

Neutrality in Humanitarian Actions Means Talking to All Parties to a Conflict
by Hajer Naili (@h_naili) (March 28, 2022)

U.S. Under Secretary of State Nuland on Accelerating Aid to Ukraine and Sanctions Against Russia
by Viola Gienger (@ViolaGienger) (March 9, 2022)

Humanitarian Corridors in Ukraine: Impasse, Ploy or Narrow Passage of Hope?
by David Matyas (@DavidgMatyas) (March 8, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Гуманітарні коридори в Україні: глухий кут, підступна витівка чи вузький промінь надії?

Disinformation
Cyber Operations
Reconstruction, Reparations, Transitional Justice

Balancing the Scales: Survivors’ Needs and Rights and Criminal Accountability in Ukraine
by Hoar Habrelian and Julia Tétrault-Provencher (October 2, 2025)

Making Russia Pay: Obtaining Compensation for Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine in American Courts
by Robert Shaw and Svitlana Starosvit (May 15, 2025)

Making Russia Pay to Strengthen Ukraine
by Svitlana Starosvit (July 30, 2024)

Looking Ahead from Lviv: Sustainable Development in a Post-Conflict Ukraine
by Lucina A. Low (June 21, 2024)

Women Are at the Center of Ukraine’s Path to Justice and Recovery
by Kateryna Busol (@KaterynaBusol) and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin (@NiAolainF) (May 17, 2024)

The Register of Damages for Ukraine Opens for Claims Submissions
by Chiara Giorgetti (@ChiaraLawProf) (May 16, 2024)

Planning for Ukrainian Reintegration
by Ronald A. Brand (April 3, 2024)

Past Time to Liquidate Russian Assets
by Harold Hongju Koh (@haroldhongjukoh) (March 5, 2024)

Transferring Russian Assets to Compensate Ukraine: Some Reflections on Countermeasures
by Federica Paddeu (@federica_paddeu) (March 1, 2024)

Canada’s Special Economic Measures Act Under International Law
by Preston Lim (@PrestonJordanL1) (February 27, 2024)

Reparations for Ukraine: Three Proposals from Europe
by Philippa Webb (February 26, 2024)

Sovereign Immunity and Reparations in Ukraine
by Chimène Keitner (February 21, 2024)

Sovereign Immunity and Reparations in Ukraine
by Chimène Keitner (February 21, 2024)

Decisions Without Enforcement: Ukrainian Judiciary and Compensation for War Damages
by Ivan Horodyskyy (February 21, 2024)

How to Make Russia Pay to Rebuild Ukraine
by Maggie Mills, Thomas Poston (@thomas_poston) and Oona A. Hathaway (@oonahathaway) (February 20, 2024)

Introducing Just Security’s Series on Reparations in Russia’s War Against Ukraine
by Megan Corrarino (@megancorrarino) (February 20, 2024)

Extend US Leadership on Ukraine to Post-War Reconstruction Too
by Joshua Rudolph (@JoshRudes), Norman L. Eisen (@NormEisen) and Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff (@KleineBrockhoff) (December 22, 2022)

Historic UNGA Resolution Calls for Ukraine Reparations
by Chiara Giorgetti (@ChiaraLawProf), Markiyan Kliuchkovsky (@kliuch), Patrick Pearsall (@Pwpearsall) and Jeremy K. Sharpe (@JKSharpe1648) (November 16, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Історична резолюція Генеральної Асамблеї ООН закликає до виплати репарацій Україні

The Risks and Rewards of Planning for Ukraine’s Recovery Amid Ongoing War
by Ray Salvatore Jennings (@raysjennings) (September 29, 2022)

Transitional Justice in Ukraine: Guidance to Policymakers
by Kateryna Busol (@KaterynaBusol) and Rebecca Hamilton (@bechamilton) (June 2, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Перехідне правосуддя в Україні: рекомендації для полісімейкерів

Mariupol and the Origins and Avenues of Ukraine’s Transitional Justice Process
by Kateryna Busol (@KaterynaBusol) (June 1, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Маріуполь і зародження та перспективи перехідного правосуддя в Україні

Launching an International Claims Commission for Ukraine
by Chiara Giorgetti (@ChiaraLawProf), Markiyan Kliuchkovsky (@kliuch) and Patrick Pearsall (@Pwpearsall) (May 20, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Створення міжнародної спеціальної комісії для України

War’s Aftermath in Ukraine: Preparing Now for the Day After
by Ray Salvatore Jennings (@raysjennings) (May 5, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Наслідки війни в Україні: готуємося зараз до прийдешнього дня

War Reparations for Ukraine: Key Issues
by Laurie Blank (May 2, 2022)

Focus on Accountability Risks Overshadowing Ukraine’s Reconstruction Needs
by Rebecca Hamilton (@bechamilton) (April 21, 2022)

Reflections on War and International Law

80 Years After Nuremberg, Envisioning the Future of International Law
by Jeremy Pizzi and Maksym Vishchyk (January 12, 2026)

Ukrainian and International Legal Scholars Reflect on Ukraine, Three Years On
by Just Security (March 1, 2025)

The Voices from Kyiv: Is the World Legal Order in Decay?
by Maksym Vishchyk and Jeremy Pizzi (February 26, 2025)
Ukrainian translation: Голоси з Києва: чи це епоха руйнування світового правопорядку?

The Resilience of International Law in the Face of Empire
by Eyal Benvenisti (@EBenvenisti) (February 17, 2025)

As Ukraine Struggles for Troops, Its Constitutional Court Considers the Rights of Conscientious Objectors
by Andrii Nekoliak (@ANekoliak) (November 12, 2024)

The Just Security Podcast: International Law in the Face of Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine: The View from Lviv
Paras Shah (@pshah518) interview with Kateryna Busol (@KaterynaBusol), Rebecca Hamilton (@bechamilton), Olga Butkevych, and Gregory Shaffer (@gregorycshaffer) (March 15, 2024)

Where is the International Law We Believed in Ukraine?
by Harold Hongju Koh (@haroldhongjukoh) (March 14, 2024)

International Law in the Face of Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine: The View from Lviv
by Olga Butkevych, Rebecca Hamilton (@bechamilton) and Gregory Shaffer (@gregorycshaffer) (February 22, 2024)
Ukrainian translation: Міжнародне право в умовах російської агресії в Україні: Погляд зі Львова

Success or Failure in Ukraine?
by Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. (@tgrahamjr) and David Bernell (January 12, 2024)

Compromises on Territory, Legal Order, and World Peace: The Fate of International Law Lies on Ukraine’s Borders
by Maksym Vishchyk (@Maks_Vishchyk) and Jeremy Pizzi (October 6, 2023)
Ukrainian translation:  Поступки щодо територій, правопорядку та світового миру: доля міжнародного права спочиває на кордонах України

Lessons From a Year of War in Ukraine
by John Erath (March 1, 2023)

One Year On: If Ukraine Falls, the Global Consequences Will Haunt the World for Generations
by Mark Malloch-Brown (@malloch_brown) (February 24, 2023)

The Law of Treaties in Wartime: The Case of the Black Sea Grain Initiative
by Gregor Novak (@GregorNovak) and Helmut Aust (@AustHelmut) (November 10, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Право міжнародних договорів у воєнний час: приклад Чорноморської зернової ініціативи

Stop Saying “Annexed Territories”: Alternatives to the Bully’s Term
by Jens Iverson (@JensIverson) (October 5, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Припиніть говорити «анексовані території»: альтернативи терміну агресора

Q&A on Russia-Backed Referendums in Eastern Ukraine and International Law
by Eliav Lieblich (@eliavl) and Just Security (September 24, 2022)

Bargaining About War in the Shadow of International Law
by Eyal Benvenisti (@EBenvenisti) and Amichai Cohen (March 28, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Переговори щодо війни в тіні міжнародного права

Insight from Ukraine: Revitalizing Belief in International Law
by Maksym Vishchyk (March 18, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Погляд з України: відроджуючи віру в міжнародне право

Putin Can’t Destroy the International Order by Himself
by Oona Hathaway (@oonahathaway) and Scott Shapiro (@scottjshapiro) (February 24, 2022)

War Powers, Neutrality, Cobelligerancy, and State Responsibility
The Crime of Aggression

Memorandum for Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression Committed Against Ukraine
by James A. Goldston and Esti Tambay (October 27, 2025)

International Law at the Precipice: Holding Leaders Accountable for the Crime of Aggression in Russia’s War Against Ukraine
by Mark Ellis (April 25, 2025)

Rights of National Minorities in Armed Conflict: A Ukrainian Perspective
by Olga Butkevych (August 29, 2024)

A Reply to Chris O’Meara: Necessity and Proportionality in International Law on the Use of Force
by Dor Hai (August 27, 2024)

Ukraine’s Incursion into Kursk Oblast: A Lawful Case of Defensive Invasion?
by Chris O’Meara (@ChrisOmeara_) (August 23, 2024)

International Enough? A Council of Europe Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression
by Gaiane Nuridzhanian (June 3, 2024)

Amid Russia’s Aggression Towards Ukraine, Can Religious Freedom Endure?
by Yuliia Fysun (May 10, 2024)

Symposium: International Law in Ukraine — The View from Lviv
by Just Security (April 5, 2024)

Prosecuting the Crime of Aggression in Ukraine and Beyond: Seizing Opportunities, Confronting Challenges and Avoiding False Dilemmas
by Taras Leshkovych (@TLeshkovych) and Patryk I. Labuda (@pilabuda) (April 2, 2024)

On Double Jeopardy, the ICC, and the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression
by Gaiane Nuridzhanian and Carrie McDougall (@IntLawCarrie) (January 18, 2024)

Making Counter-Hegemonic International Law: Should A Special Tribunal for Aggression be International or Hybrid?
by Patryk I. Labuda (@pilabuda) (September 19, 2023)

Accountability for Russian Imperialism in the “Global East”
by Patryk I. Labuda (@pilabuda) (August 21, 2023)

A Significant New Step in the Creation of An International Compensation Mechanism for Ukraine
by Chiara Giorgetti (@ChiaraLawProf) and Patrick Pearsall (@Pwpearsall) (July 27, 2023)

The Brussels Declaration: Russian International and Human Rights Lawyers’ Statement on Accountability
by Gleb Bogush (@gleb_bogush) and Sergey Vasiliev (@sevslv) (June 12, 2023)

The Lithuanian Case for an International Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine
by Dr. Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė (June 1, 2023)

An International Special Tribunal is the Only Viable Path to a Just and Lasting Peace in Ukraine
by Ambassador Rein Tammsaar (May 9, 2023)

U.N. General Assembly and International Criminal Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine
by Just Security (@just_security) (May 9, 2023)

The Legal Authority to Create a Special Tribunal to Try the Crime of Aggression Upon the Request of the UN General Assembly
by Oona A. HathawayMaggie Mills and Heather Zimmerman (May 5, 2023)

Don’t be Fooled by U.S. Smoke and Mirrors on the Crime of Aggression
by Jennifer Trahan (April 14, 2023)

The United States’ Proposal on Prosecuting Russians for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine is a Step in the Right Direction
by Michael Scharf, Paul R. Williams (@PaulWilliamsDC), Yvonne Dutton and Milena Sterio (@MilenaSterio) (April 6, 2023)

An Assessment of the United States’ New Position on An Aggression Tribunal for Ukraine
by Rebecca Hamilton (@bechamilton) (March 29, 2023)

Is Amending the Rome Statute the Panacea Against Perceived Selectivity and Impunity for the Crime of Aggression Committed Against Ukraine?
by Astrid Reisinger Coracini (@astrid_coracini) (March 21, 2023)
Ukrainian translation: Чи є внесення змін до Римського статуту панацеєю від очевидної вибірковості та безкарності за злочин агресії, вчинений проти України?

A Pragmatic Legal Approach to End Russia’s Aggression
by Luis Moreno Ocampo (@MorenoOcampo1) (February 23, 2023)

Letter to Editor: On So-Called Selectivity and a Tribunal for Aggression Against Ukraine
by Chile Eboe-Osuji (@EboeOsuji) (February 10, 2023)

Why a “Hybrid” Ukrainian Tribunal on the Crime of Aggression Is Not the Answer
by Jennifer Trahan (February 6, 2023)

In Evaluating Immunities before a Special Tribunal for Aggression Against Ukraine, the Type of Tribunal Matters
by James A. Goldston (@JamesAGoldston) and Anna Khalfaoui (@Anna_Khalfaoui) (February 1, 2023)

The Ukraine War and the Crime of Aggression: How to Fill the Gaps in the International Legal System
by Claus Kress, Stephan Hobe and Angelika Nußberger (@ahnussberger) (January 23, 2023)

Toward an Interim Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine
by Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) (January 17, 2023)

The Case for Creating a Special Tribunal to Prosecute the Crime of Aggression Committed Against Ukraine (Part VI): on the Non-Applicability of Personal Immunities
by Astrid Reisinger Coracini (@astrid_coracini) and Jennifer Trahan (November 8, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Аргументи щодо створення Спеціального трибуналу для переслідування злочину агресії, вчиненого щодо України

Forging a Cooperative Relationship Between Int’l Crim. Court and a Special Tribunal for Russian Aggression Against Ukraine
by Ambassador David Scheffer (October 25, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Налагодження співпраці між МКС і Спеціальним трибуналом переслідування злочину агресії, вчиненого щодо України

The Case for Creating a Special Tribunal to Prosecute the Crime of Aggression Committed Against Ukraine (Part IV)
by Ambassador David Scheffer (September 28, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Аргументи щодо створення Спеціального трибуналу для переслідування злочину агресії, вчиненого щодо України

The Case for Creating a Special Tribunal to Prosecute the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine (Part III)
by Jennifer Trahan (September 26, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Аргументи щодо створення Спеціального трибуналу для переслідування злочину агресії, вчиненого щодо України

The Case for Creating a Special Tribunal to Prosecute the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine (Part II)
by Astrid Reisinger Coracini (@astrid_coracini) (September 23, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Аргументи щодо створення Спеціального трибуналу для переслідування злочину агресії, вчиненого щодо України

The Case for Creating an International Tribunal to Prosecute the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine
by Oona Hathaway (@oonahathaway) (September 20, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Аргументи щодо створення Міжнародного трибуналу для переслідування злочину агресії, вчиненого щодо України

Justice for the Crime of Aggression Today, Deterrence for the Aggressive Wars of Tomorrow: A Ukrainian Perspective
by Gaiane Nuridzhanian (@ya_chereshnya) (August 24, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Справедливість щодо злочину агресії сьогодні, стримування агресивних війн завтра: українська перспектива

Using the 1933 Soviet Definition of Aggression to Condemn Russia Today
by Kathryn Sikkink (May 24, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Аргументи щодо створення Міжнародного трибуналу для переслідування злочину агресії, вчиненого щодо України

Toward a Better Accounting of the Human Toll in Putin’s War of Aggression
by Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) and Ambassador (ret.) Keith Harper (@AmbHarper) (May 24, 2022)

Model Indictment for the Crime of Aggression Committed against Ukraine
by James A. Goldston (@JamesAGoldston) (May 9, 2022)

The Best Path for Accountability for the Crime of Aggression Under Ukrainian and International Law
by Alexander Komarov and Oona Hathaway (@oonahathaway) (April 11, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Найкращий шлях довідповідальності за злочин агресії за українським та міжнародним правом

Ukraine’s Constitutional Constraints: How to Achieve Accountability for the Crime of Aggression
by Alexander Komarov and Oona Hathaway (@oonahathaway) (April 5, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Конституційні обмеження України: як домогтися відповідальності за злочин агресії

The Need to Reexamine the Crime of Aggression’s Jurisdictional Regime
by Jennifer Trahan (April 4, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Необхідність перегляду юрисдикційного режиму злочину агресії

Complicity in a War of Aggression: Private Individuals’ Criminal Responsibility
by Nikola Hajdin (April 1, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Співучасть в агресивній війні: кримінальна відповідальність приватних осіб

Litigating Aggression Backwards
by Frédéric Mégret (@fredericmegret) (March 22, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Судовий розгляд агресії в обхідний спосіб

The Leadership Clause in the Crime of Aggression and Its Customary International Law Status
by Nikola Hajdin (March 17, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Положення щодо лідерства у злочині агресії та його статус у міжнародному звичаєвому праві

Model Indictment for Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine: Prosecutor v. President Vladimir Putin
by Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) and Rebecca Hamilton (@bechamilton) (March 14, 2022)

Mechanisms for Criminal Prosecution of Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine
by Tom Dannenbaum (@tomdannenbaum) (March 10, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Механізми кримінального переслідування агресії Росії проти України

How the Soviet Union Helped Establish the Crime of Aggressive War
by Francine Hirsch (@FranHirsch) (March 9, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Як Радянський Союз допоміг закріпити концепцію злочину агресивної війни
Russian translation: Как Советский Союз помог установить преступление агрессивной войны

U.N. General Assembly Should Recommend Creation Of Crime Of Aggression Tribunal For Ukraine: Nuremberg Is Not The Model
by Jennifer Trahan (March 7, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Генеральна Асамблея ООН повинна рекомендувати створення трибуналу для України щодо злочину агресії: Нюрнберг – це не модель

Statement by Members of the International Law Association Committee on the Use of Force
by Just Security (March 4, 2022)
Translations

Civilian Harm, Crimes Against Humanity, and War Crimes

History and International Law Proscribe Amnesties for Russian War Crimes
by Kateryna Busol (December 11, 2025)

Why a Ukraine-Russia Amnesty Would Violate Geneva Convention Obligations
by Tracey Begley (December 11, 2025)

From Ukraine to Gaza: IHL Compliance as a Tool for Preventing Moral Injury
By Tal Gross and LCDR Christopher Hart (August 12, 2025)

Protecting Health Care in Conflict: Lessons from Ukraine for a Global Roadmap
by Uliana Poltavets (August 1, 2025)

Ukraine’s Use of Technology in Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes Investigations
by Kateryna Busol and Polina Overchenko (May 12, 2025)

Russia’s “Human Safari” Terror Tactic in Key Southeastern Ukraine Region of Kherson
by Mercedes Sapuppo (@MKSapuppo) (December 23, 2024)

The Just Security Podcast: Russia’s Program of Coerced Adoption of Ukraine’s Children
Paras Shah (@pshah518) interview with Nathaniel Raymond (@nattyray11) and Oona A. Hathaway (@oonahathaway) (October 4, 2024)

New Report Documents Russia’s Systematic Program of Coerced Adoption and Fostering of Ukraine’s Children
by Madeline Babin, Isabel Gensler and Oona A. Hathaway (@oonahathaway) (October 3, 2024)

Ukraine’s Approach to Russian ‘Passportization’ Requires Balancing National Security and Individual Rights
by Olga Poiedynok (October 4, 2024)

Death Toll Climbs in Ukraine With Russia’s ‘Double-Tap’ Strikes
by Mercedes Sapuppo (@MKSapuppo) and Shelby Magid (@shelbyjmag) (July 8, 2024)

Russia’s Attacks on Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure Imperil Healthcare Access
by Uliana Poltavets and Christian De Vos (@devos_christian) (June 6, 2024)

A Quarter Century After the Ottawa Landmine Treaty, the World Needs a UN Fund for Victims
by Ben Keith (@BenCAKeith) (April 9, 2024)

Trials of Ukrainian Prisoners of War in Russia: Decay of the Combatant’s Immunity
by Maksym Vishchyk (@Maks_Vishchyk) (August 21, 2023)
Ukrainian translation:  Суди над українськими військовополоненими в Росії: руйнація імунітету комбатанта

What You Need to Know: International Humanitarian Law and Russia’s Termination of the Black Sea Grain Initiative
by Tom Dannenbaum (@tomdannenbaum) (July 28, 2023)

Bad for the Goose, Bad for the Gander: Drone Attacks in Russia Underscore Broader Risks
by Brianna Rosen (@rosen_br) (June 8, 2023)

Expert Q&A on IHL Compliance in Russia’s War in Ukraine
by Jelena Pejic (April 7, 2023)

Time Is On Ukraine’s Side, Not Russia’s
by Maria Popova (@PopovaProf) and Oxana Shevel (@OxanaShevel) (December 21, 2022)

The Case for the International Crime of Domicide
by Balakrishnan Rajagopal (@adequatehousing) and Raphael A. Pangalangan (@ApaPangalangan) (October 28, 2022)

Why We Need the Alien Tort Statute Clarification Act Now
by Christopher Ewell, Oona A. Hathaway (@oonahathaway) and Ellen Nohle (October 27, 2022) 

Extremist Ideologies and the Roots of Mass Atrocities: Lessons for Ukraine
by Jonathan Leader Maynard (@jleadermaynard) (October 14, 2022) 

Russian Torture and American (Selective) Memory
by Joseph Margulies (October 13, 2022)

‘The Hour These Hostilities Began’: Ukrainians Mobilize to Document War Crimes
by Roman Romanov (@r_romanov) (April 26, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: «Година, коли почалися бойові дії»: українці мобілізуються задля документування воєнних злочинів

Legal Frameworks for Assessing the Use of Starvation in Ukraine
by Tom Dannenbaum (@tomdannenbaum) (April 22, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Правові рамки для оцінки використання морення голодом в Україні

The OSCE Report on War Crimes in Ukraine: Key Takeaways
by Adil Ahmad Haque (@AdHaque110) (April 15, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Звіт ОБСЄ про воєнні злочини в Україні: ключові висновки

Should We Worry that the President Called Putin a “War Criminal” Out Loud?
by Deborah Pearlstein (@DebPearlstein) (April 8, 2022)

Mass Graves in Ukraine Should Be Treated as Crime Scenes–and Urgently Secured
by Sarah Knuckey (@SarahKnuckey) and Anjli Parrin (@anjliparrin) (April 6, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Масові поховання в Україні слід розглядати як місце скоєння злочину – і терміново убезпечувати

Ukraine May Mark a Turning Point in Documenting War Crimes
by Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) (March 28, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Україна може стати поворотним моментом у документуванні воєнних злочинів

Russia’s “Occupation by Proxy” of Eastern Ukraine – Implications Under the Geneva Conventions
by Natia Kalandarishvili-Mueller (@natiakalanda) (February 22, 2022)

Genocide
Nuclear Weapons, Cluster Munitions, Other Arms

Russia’s Drone-Dropped Landmines Threaten Human Lives and Hard-Won Humanitarian Protections
by Mary Wareham (June 10, 2025)

Beating Putin’s Game of Nuclear Chicken
by Douglas London (@douglaslondon5) (March 21, 2024)

The CFE Treaty’s Demise and the OSCE: Time to Think Anew?
by Gabriela Iveliz Rosa Hernández (@GabrielaIRosa) and Alexander Graef (@alxgraef) (December 13, 2023)

U.S. Cluster Munition Transfer to Ukraine Ignores History of Civilian Harm
by Bonnie Docherty (@bonnie_docherty) (July 14, 2023)

Addressing Putin’s Nuclear Threat: Thinking Like the Cold War KGB Officer That He Was
by Douglas London (@douglaslondon5) (October 18, 2022)

Dealing with Putin’s Nuclear Blackmail
by Ambassador Daniel Fried (@AmbDanFried) (September 28, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Боротьба з ядерним шантажем Путіна

Russia’s Nuclear Threat Inflation: Misguided and Dangerous
by Lawrence Korb (@LarryKorb) and Stephen Cimbala (May 31, 2022)

U.S. Policy on Cluster Munitions and Russia’s War in Ukraine
by Stephen Pomper (@StephenPomper) (May 4, 2022)

Russian Landmines in Ukraine: The Most Relevant Treaty
by Michael Matheson (April 25, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Російські наземні міни в Україні: найбільш актуальний договір

Why the War in Ukraine Poses a Greater Nuclear Risk than the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Lawrence Korb (@LarryKorb) and Stephen Cimbala (April 12, 2022)

Russia’s Use of Cluster Munitions and Other Explosive Weapons Shows Need for Stronger Civilian Protections
by Bonnie Docherty (March 21, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Використання Росією касетних боєприпасів та іншої вибухової зброї свідчить про необхідність посилення захисту цивільного населення

Cultural Heritage
International Criminal Law and the International Criminal Court (ICC)

Unforced Error: Article 124 and the Regrettable Caveat to Ukraine’s Proposed Ratification of the ICC Statute
by Tom Dannenbaum (@tomdannenbaum) (August 20, 2024)

The Just Security Podcast: ICC Arrest Warrants for Russian Attacks on Ukraine’s Power Grid
by Kateryna Busol (@KaterynaBusol), Rebecca Hamilton (@bechamilton), Parash Shah (@pshah518), Audrey Balliette and Harrison Blank (June 28, 2024)

Deportation, Detention, and Other Crimes: In Ukraine, the Past and Present of International Criminal Law Converge
by Andrew Boyle (April 9, 2024)

No Longer the Silent Victim: How Ukrainian Prosecutors Are Revitalizing Environmental War Crime Law
by Richard J. Rogers, Kate Mackintosh (@Katemackintosh2) and Maksym Popov (January 23, 2024)

Digital Evidence Collection at the Int’l Criminal Court: Promises and Pitfalls
by Hayley Evans (@HayleyNEvans) and Mahir Hazim (July 5, 2023)
Ukrainian translation: Збір цифрових доказів у Міжнародному кримінальному суді: Обіцянки та підводні камені

Could the Nova Kakhovka Dam Destruction Become the ICC’s First Environmental Crimes Case?
by Thomas Hansen (June 9, 2023)

Assessing the Controversial Meeting of a U.N. Official and Russian Official Wanted for Arrest in the Hague
by Ryan Goodman (May 22, 2023)
Ukrainian translation: Оцінка контроверсійної зустрічі представника ООН та російської чиновниці, яку розшукують для арешту в Гаазі

Conferred Jurisdiction and the ICC’s Putin and Lvova-Belova Warrants
by Leila Nadya Sadat (@leilasadat1) (April 21, 2023)

How will the ICC’s Arrest Warrant for Putin Play Out in Practice?
by Stephen Pomper (@StephenPomper) (March 20, 2023)
Ukrainian translation: Чим обернеться на практиці ордер МКС на арешт Путіна?

The ICC Goes Straight to the Top: Arrest Warrant Issued for Putin
by Rebecca Hamilton (@bechamilton) (March 17, 2023)
Ukrainian translation: МКС розпочинає з верхівки: видано ордер на арешт Путіна

Russia’s Forcible Transfers of Ukrainian Civilians: How Civil Society Aids Accountability and Justice
by Oleksandra Matviichuk (@avalaina), Natalia Arno (@Natalia_Budaeva) and Jasmine D. Cameron (@JasmineDCameron) (March 3, 2023)
Ukrainian translation: Насильницьке переміщення Росією українських цивільних осіб: Громадянське суспільство, підзвітність, справедливість

Just Security Experts Give Address at Int’l Criminal Court’s Assembly of State Parties Side Event
by Just Security (December 7, 2022)

Amid the Russia-Ukraine War, a Dutch Court Prepares to Rule on Four Suspects in the 2014 Downing of Flight MH17
by Marieke de Hoon (@mariekedehoon) (November 15, 2022)

The War in Ukraine and the Legitimacy of the International Criminal Court
By Milena Sterio (@MilenaSterio) and Yvonne Dutton (August 30, 2022)

How International Justice Can Succeed in Ukraine and Beyond
by Christopher “Kip” Hale (@kiphale) and Leila Nadya Sadat (@leilasadat1) (April 14, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Як міжнародне правосуддя може досягти успіху в Україні та за її межами

How Not to Fail on International Criminal Justice for Ukraine
by James A. Goldston (@JamesAGoldston) (March 21, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Як не зазнати невдачі у міжнародному кримінальному правосудді для України

The Way: The Chief Prosecutor, the Int’l Criminal Court, and Ukraine
by David Schwendiman (March 20, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Шлях: Головний прокурор, Міжнародний кримінальний суд та Україна

Aggression by P5 Security Council Members: Time for ICC Referrals by the General Assembly
by Shane Darcy (@BHRIblog) (March 16, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Агресія з боку постійних членів Ради Безпеки: час для передачі ситуацій до МКС Генеральною Асамблеєю

With the Int’l Criminal Court Going In, Russian Soldiers Should Go Home
by Chile Eboe-Osuji (@EboeOsuji) (March 4, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: З початком роботи МКС, російські солдати мають повернутись додому

The Int’l Criminal Court’s Ukraine Investigation: A Test Case for User-Generated Evidence
by Rebecca Hamilton (@bechamilton) and Lindsay Freeman (@lindsaysfreeman) (March 2, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Розслідування МКС в Україні: краш-тест для доказів, створених користувачами

ICC and the United States

Biden’s Cooperation with the ICC Is a Step Toward Embracing Reality
by Adam Keith (@adamofkeith) (August 18, 2023)

Joint Symposium on U.S. Cooperation with the International Criminal Court’s Ukraine Investigation
by Just Security (July 17, 2023)

Is the Pentagon Relenting?: A Close Study of Opposition to the Int’l Criminal Court’s Ukraine Investigation
by Adam Keith (@adamofkeith) (July 12, 2023)

US Cooperation with the ICC to Investigate and Prosecute Atrocities in Ukraine: Possibilities and Challenges
by Laura Dickinson (@LA_Dickinson) (June 20, 2023)
Ukrainian translation: Співпраця США з МКС у розслідуванні та злочинів в Україні: Можливості та виклики

Unpacking New Legislation on US Support for the International Criminal Court
by Todd Buchwald (March 9, 2023)

Almost There: When Will the Biden Administration Support the ICC in Ukraine?
by Adam Keith (@adamofkeith) (March 4, 2023)

The United States Can and Should Broadly Contribute to the Trust Fund for Victims (Part IV)
by Yvonne Dutton and Milena Sterio (@MilenaSterio) (February 16, 2023)

The Binding Interpretation of the Office of Legal Counsel of the Laws Constraining US Engagement with the ICC (Part III)
by Floriane Lavaud (@FlorianeLavaud), Ashika Singh and Isabelle Glimcher (@Isglimcher) (February 15, 2023) 

The American Servicemembers’ Protection Act and the Dodd Amendment: Shaping United States Engagement with the ICC (Part II)
by Floriane Lavaud (@FlorianeLavaud), Ashika Singh and Isabelle Glimcher (@Isglimcher) (February 14, 2023) 

U.S. Strategic Interests in Contributing to the ICC Trust Fund for Victims (Part I)
by Paul R. Williams (@PaulWilliamsDC), Alexandra Koch (@alexandraekoch) and Lilian Waldock (February 13, 2023)

Introducing the Symposium on U.S. Support for the ICC’s Trust Fund for Victims
by Paul R. Williams (@PaulWilliamsDC), Milena Sterio (@MilenaSterio), Yvonne Dutton, Alexandra Koch (@alexandraekoch), Lilian Waldock, Floriane Lavaud (@FlorianeLavaud), Ashika Singh and Isabelle Glimcher (@IsGlimcher) (February 13, 2023)

Republicans Pave Way for US Policy Shift on Int’l Criminal Court
by Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) (April 13, 2022)

Pressing US Officials on Russia and Int’l Criminal Court: The Interview We Should be Hearing
by Rebecca Hamilton (@bechamilton) (April 6, 2022)

Russia, the Int’l Criminal Court, and the Malign Legacy of the U.S. “War on Terror”
by Gabor Rona (@GaborRona1) (April 1, 2022)

How Best to Fund the International Criminal Court
by Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) (March 27, 2022)

Justice for Ukraine and the U.S. Government’s Anomalous Int’l Criminal Court Policy
by Adam Keith (@adamofkeith) (March 8, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Справедливість для України та аномальна політика уряду США щодо МКС

Universal Jurisdiction and National-Level Prosecutions

The Wagner Group in Court: Justice Is Catching Up with Russia’s Top Irregular Warfighters
by Candace Rondeaux (@CandaceRondeaux) (December 17, 2024)

Latest Atrocities Highlight the Importance of Early Warning
by Lawrence Woocher (July 25, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Останні звірства підкреслюють важливість раннього попередження

To Support Accountability for Atrocities, Fix U.S. Law on the Sharing of Digital Evidence
by David J. Simon (@djsimon7) and Joshua Lam (@joshlamlamlam) (April 20, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Виправте закон США про обмін цифровими доказами щоб забезпечити притягнення до відповідальності за звірства

The Need for Urgency in Closing the War Crimes Act’s Loopholes
by Michel Paradis (@MDParadis) (April 14, 2022)

Expanding the U.S. War Crimes Act: Lessons from the Administration’s Proposals in 1996
by Michael Matheson (April 13, 2022)

How States Like California Are Bolstering Federal Sanctions Against Russia
by Julia Spiegel (April 5, 2022)

How States Can Prosecute Russia’s Aggression With or Without “Universal Jurisdiction”
by Diane Orentlicher (March 24, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Як Держави Можуть Притягати до Відповідальності за Російську Агресію з «Універсальною Юрисдикцією» чи Без Неї

How DOJ Could Prosecute Russians for War Crimes, and How Congress Can Expand Its Remit
by Edgar Chen (March 23, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Як Міністерство юстиції може переслідувати росіян за воєнні злочини і як Конгрес може розширити свої повноваження

International Court of Justice and European Court of Human Rights

Ukraine, Netherlands Await Pivotal Rulings in Cases Against Russia from Previous Years of War
by Marieke de Hoon (@mariekedehoon) (January 13, 2023)
Ukrainian translation: Україна та Нідерланди очікують ключових рішень в справах проти Росії за роки війни

US Intervention in Ukraine v. Russia at the ICJ: A Q&A with Chiméne Keitner
by Chimène Keitner (@KeitnerLaw) (September 27, 2022)

Q&A: Ukraine at the International Court of Justice, Russia’s Absence & What Comes Next
by Chimène Keitner (@KeitnerLaw ), Zoe Tatarsky and Just Security (March 16, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Питання та відповіді (Частина ІІ): Україна у Міжнародному суді справедливості, Відсутність Росії та що буде далі

Q&A: The ICJ’s Order on Provisional Measures in Ukraine v. Russian Federation
by Chimène Keitner (@KeitnerLaw), Zoe Tatarsky and Just Security (March 9, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Питання та відповіді: Наказ Міжнародного Суду ООН про тимчасові заходи у справі України проти Російської Федерації

Not Far Enough: The European Court of Human Rights’ Interim Measures on Ukraine
by Eliav Lieblich (@eliavl) (March 7, 2022)

Q&A: Next Steps in Ukraine’s Application to the International Court of Justice
by Chimène Keitner (@KeitnerLaw), Zoe Tatarsky and Just Security (March 5, 2022)
Ukrainian translation: Питання та відповіді: Наступні кроки щодо української заяви до МСС

Refugee Policy

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Since 2020, Just Security has been at the forefront of analysis on rapid shifts in AI-enabled technologies, providing expert commentary on risks, opportunities, and proposed governance mechanisms. The catalog below organizes our collection of articles on artificial intelligence into general categories to facilitate access to relevant topics for policymakers, academic experts, industry leaders, and the general public. The archive will be updated as new articles are published. The archive also is available in reverse chronological order at the artificial intelligence articles page.

AI Governance

Trump’s Chip Strategy Needs Recalibration
By Michael Schiffer (December 15, 2025)

AI Model Outputs Demand the Attention of Export Control Agencies
By Joe Khawam and Tim Schnabel (December 12, 2025)

Governing AI Agents Globally: The Role of International Law, Norms and Accountability Mechanisms
By Talita Dias (October 17, 2025)

Dueling Strategies for Global AI Leadership? What the U.S. and China Action Plans Reveal
By Zena Assaad (September 4, 2025)

Selling AI Chips Won’t Keep China Hooked on U.S. Technology
By Janet Egan (September 3, 2025)

The AI Action Plans: How Similar are the U.S. and Chinese Playbooks?
By Scott Singer and Pavlo Zvenyhorodskyi (August 26, 2025)

Assessing the Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan
By Sam Winter-Levy (July 25, 2025)

Decoding Trump’s AI Playbook: The AI Action Plan and What Comes Next
Brianna Rosen interview with Joshua Geltzer, Jenny Marron and Sam Winter-Levy (July 24, 2025)

Rethinking the Global AI Race
By Lt. Gen. (ret.) John (Jack) N.T. Shanahan and Kevin Frazier (July 21, 2025)

The Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan Is Coming. Here’s What to Look For.
By Joshua Geltzer (July 18, 2025)

AI Copyright Wars Threaten U.S. Technological Primacy in the Face of Rising Chinese Competition
By Bill Drexel (July 8, 2025)

What Comes Next After Trump’s AI Deals in the Gulf
By Alasdair Phillips-Robins and Sam Winter-Levy (June 4, 2025)

AI Governance Needs Federalism, Not a Federally Imposed Moratorium
By David S. Rubenstein (May 29, 2025)

Open Questions for China’s Open-Source AI Regulation
By Nanda Min Htin (May 5, 2025)

The Just Security Podcast: Trump’s AI Strategy Takes Shape
Brianna Rosen interview with Joshua Geltzer (April 17, 2025)

Shaping the AI Action Plan: Responses to the White House’s Request for Information
By Clara Apt and Brianna Rosen (March 18, 2025)

Export Controls on Open-Source Models Will Not Win the AI Race
By Claudia Wilson and Emmie Hine (February 25, 2025)

The Just Security Podcast: Key Takeaways from the Paris AI Action Summit
Paras Shah interview with Brianna Rosen (February 12, 2024)

The Just Security Podcast: Diving Deeper into DeepSeek
Brianna Rosen interview with Lennart Heim, Keegan McBride and Lauren Wagner (February 4, 2025)

What DeepSeek Really Changes About AI Competition
By Konstantin F. Pilz and Lennart Heim (February 3, 2025)

Throwing Caution to the Wind: Unpacking the U.K. AI Opportunities Action Plan
By Elke Schwarz (January 30, 2025)

What Just Happened: Trump’s Announcement of the Stargate AI Infrastructure Project
By Justin Hendrix (January 22, 2025)

The Future of the AI Diffusion Framework
By Sam Winter-Levy (January 21, 2025)

Unpacking the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on AI Infrastructure
By Clara Apt and Brianna Rosen (January 16, 2025)

Trump’s Balancing Act with China on Frontier AI Policy
By Scott Singer (December 23, 2024)

The AI Presidency: What “America First” Means for Global AI Governance
By Brianna Rosen (December 16, 2024)

The United States Must Win The Global Open Source AI Race
By Keegan McBride and Dean W. Ball (November 7, 2024)

AI at UNGA79: Recapping Key Themes
By Clara Apt (October 1, 2024)

Rethinking Responsible Use of Military AI: From Principles to Practice
By Brianna Rosen and Tess Bridgeman (September 26, 2024)

Competition, Not Control, is Key to Winning the Global AI Race
By Matthew Mittelsteadt and Keegan McBride (September 17, 2024)

The Just Security Podcast: Strategic Risks of AI and Recapping the 2024 REAIM Summit
Paras Shah interview with Brianna Rosen (September 12, 2024)

Putting the Second REAIM Summit into Context
By Tobias Vestner and Simon Cleobury (September 5, 2024)

The Nuts and Bolts of Enforcing AI Guardrails
By Amos Toh and Ivey Dyson (May 30, 2024)

House Meeting on White House AI Overreach Highlights Congressional Inaction
By Melanie Geller and Julian Melendi (April 12, 2024)

Why We Need a National Data Protection Strategy
By Alex Joel (April 4, 2024)

Is the Biden Administration Reaching a New Consensus on What Constitutes Private Information
By Justin Hendrix (March 19, 2024)

The Just Security Podcast: How Should the World Regulate Artificial Intelligence?
Paras Shah and Brianna Rosen interview with Robert Trager (February 2, 2024)

It’s Not Just Technology: What it Means to be a Global Leader in AI
By Kayla Blomquist and Keegan McBride (January 4, 2024)

AI Governance in the Age of Uncertainty: International Law as a Starting Point
By Talita de Souza Dias and Rashmin Sagoo (January 2, 2024)

Experts React: Unpacking the Biden Administration’s New Efforts on AI
By Ian Miller (November 14, 2023)

Biden’s Executive Order on AI Gives Sweeping Mandate to DHS
By Justin Hendrix (November 1, 2023)

The Tragedy of AI Governance
By Simon Chesterman (October 18, 2023)

Introducing the Symposium on AI Governance: Power, Justice, and the Limits of the Law
By Brianna Rosen (October 18, 2023)

U.S. Senate AI Hearings Highlight Increased Need for Regulation
By Faiza Patel and Melanie Geller (September 25, 2023)

The Perils and Promise of AI Regulation
By Faiza Patel and Ivey Dyson (July 26, 2023)

Weighing the Risks: Why a New Conversation is Needed on AI Safety
By Michael Depp (June 30, 2023)

To Legislate on AI, Schumer Should Start with the Basics
By Justin Hendrix and Paul M. Barrett (June 28, 2023)

Regulating Artificial Intelligence Requires Balancing Rights, Innovation
By Bishop Garrison (January 11, 2023)

Emerging Tech Has a Front-Row Seat at India-Hosted UN Counterterrorism Meeting. What About Human Rights?
By Marlena Wisniak (October 28, 2022)

NATO Must Tackle Digital Authoritarianism
By Michèle Flournoy and Anshu Roy (June 29, 2022)

NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept Must Enhance Digital Access and Capacities
By Chris Dolan (June 8, 2022)

Watchlisting the World: Digital Security Infrastructures, Informal Law, and the “Global War on Terror”
By Ramzi Kassem, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi and Gavin Sullivan (October 28, 2021)

One Thousand and One Talents: The Race for A.I. Dominance
by Lucas Irwin (April 7, 2021)

National Security & War

Embedded Human Judgment in the Age of Autonomous Weapons
By Lena Trabucco (October 16, 2025)

AI’s Hidden National Security Cost
By Caroline Baxter (October 1, 2025)

Harnessing the Transformative Potential of AI in Intelligence Analysis
By Rachel Bombach (August 12, 2025)

The Law Already Supports AI in Government — RAG Shows the Way
By Tal Feldman (May 16, 2025)

The United States Must Avoid AI’s Chernobyl Moment
By Janet Egan and Cole Salvador (March 10, 2025)

A Start for AI Transparency at DHS with Room to Grow
by Rachel Levinson-Waldman and Spencer Reynolds (January 22, 2025)

The U.S. National Security Memorandum on AI: Leading Experts Weigh In 
by Just Security (October 25, 2024)

The Double Black Box: AI Inside the National Security Ecosystem
By Ashley Deeks (August 14, 2024)

As DHS Implements New AI Technologies, It Must Overcome Old Shortcomings
By Spencer Reynolds and Faiza Patel (May 21, 2024)

The Machine Got it Wrong? Uncertainties, Assumptions, and Biases in Military AI
By Arthur Holland Michel (May 13, 2024)

Bringing Transparency to National Security Uses of Artificial Intelligence
By Faiza Patel and Patrick C. Toomey (April 4, 2024)

An Oversight Model for AI in National Security: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
By Faiza Patel and Patrick C. Toomey (April 26, 2024)

National Security Carve-Outs Undermine AI Regulations
By Faiza Patel and Patrick C. Toomey (December 21, 2023)

Unhuman Killings: AI and Civilian Harm in Gaza
By Brianna Rosen (December 15, 2023)

DHS Must Evaluate and Overhaul its Flawed Automated Systems
By Rachel Levinson-Waldman and José Guillermo Gutiérrez (October 19, 2023)

The Path to War is Paved with Obscure Intentions: Signaling and Perception in the Era of AI
By Gavin Wilde (October 20, 2023)

AI and the Future of Drone Warfare: Risks and Recommendations
By Brianna Rosen (October 3, 2023)

Latin America and Caribbean Nations Rally Against Autonomous Weapons Systems
By Bonnie Docherty and Mary Wareham (March 6, 2023)

Investigating (Mis)conduct in War is Already Difficult
By Laura Brunn (January 5, 2023)

Gendering the Legal Review of New Means and Methods of Warfare
By Andrea Farrés Jiménez (August 23, 2022)

Artificial Intelligence in the Intelligence Community: Oversight Must Not Be an Oversight
By Corin R. Stone (November 30, 2021)

Artificial Intelligence in the Intelligence Community: Know Risk, Know Reward
By Corin R. Stone (October 19, 2021)

Artificial Intelligence in the Intelligence Community: The Tangled Web of Budget & Acquisition
By Corin R. Stone (September 28, 2021)

Embedding Gender in International Humanitarian Law: Is Artificial Intelligence Up to the Task?
By Andrea Farrés Jiménez (August 27, 2021)

Artificial Intelligence in the Intelligence Community: Culture is Critical
By Corin R. Stone (August 17, 2021)

Artificial Intelligence in the Intelligence Community: Money is Not Enough
By Corin R. Stone (July 12, 2021)

Adding AI to Autonomous Weapons Increases Risks to Civilians in Armed Conflict
By Neil Davison and Jonathan Horowitz (March 26, 2021)

Democracy

The AI Action Plan and Federalism: A Constitutional Analysis
By David S. Rubenstein (July 30, 2025)

U.S. AI-Driven “Catch and Revoke” Initiative Threatens First Amendment Rights
By Faiza Patel (March 18, 2025)

The Munich Security Conference Provides an Opportunity to Improve on the AI Elections Accord
By Alexandra Reeve Givens (February 13, 2025)

Q&A with Marietje Schaake on the Tech Coup and Trump
By Marietje Schaake (February 6, 2025)

Maintaining the Rule of Law in the Age of AI
By Katie Szilagyi (October 9, 2024)

Shattering Illusions: How Cyber Threat Intelligence Augments Legal Action against Russia’s Influence Operations
By Mason W. Krusch (October 8, 2024)

Don’t Downplay Risks of AI for Democracy
By Suzanne Nossel (August 28, 2024)

Tracking Tech Company Commitments to Combat the Misuse of AI in Elections
By Allison Mollenkamp and Clara Apt (March 28, 224)

Multiple Threats Converge to Heighten Disinformation Risks to This Year’s US Elections
By Lawrence Norden, Mekela Panditharatne and David Harris (February 16, 2024)

Is AI the Right Sword for Democray?
By Arthur Holland Michel (November 13, 2023)

The Just Security Podcast: The Dangers of Using AI to Ban Books
Paras Shah interview with Emile Ayoub (October 27, 2023)

Process Rights and the Automation of Public Services through AI: The Case of the Liberal State
By John Zerilli (October 26, 2023)

Using AI to Comply With Book Bans Makes Those Laws More Dangerous
By Emile Ayoub and Faiza Patel (October 3, 2023)

Regulation is Not Enough: A Blueprint for Winning the AI Race
By Keegan McBride (June 29, 2023)

The Existential Threat of AI-Enhanced Disinformation Operations
By Bradley Honigberg (July 8, 2022)

System Rivalry: How Democracies Must Compete with Digital Authoritarians
By Ambassador (ret.) Eileen Donahoe (September 27, 2021)

Surveillance
Social Media & Content Moderation
Further Reading

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Just Security’s Israel-Hamas War Archive https://www.justsecurity.org/91970/just-securitys-israel-hamas-war-archive/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=just-securitys-israel-hamas-war-archive Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:00:44 +0000 https://www.justsecurity.org/?p=91970 Just Security's collection of more than 110 articles covering the Israel-Hamas War and its diplomatic, legal, and humanitarian consequences.

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Since October 2023, Just Security has published more than 140 articles analyzing the diplomatic, legal, humanitarian and other consequences of the Israel-Hamas War.

The catalog below organizes our collection of articles primarily about the war into general categories to facilitate access to relevant topics for policymakers, researchers, journalists, scholars, and the public at large. The archive will be updated as new pieces are published.

We welcome readers to use the archive to follow the unfolding situation and generate new lines of analysis. To search headlines and authors, expand one or all of the topics, as needed, and use CTRL-F on your keyboard to open the search tool. The archive also is available in reverse chronological order at the Israel-Hamas War articles page.

International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court’s Classification of Armed Conflicts in the Situation in Palestine
By Adil Ahmad Haque (December 12, 2024)

Mapping State Reactions to the ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant
By Rebecca Ingber (updated December 10, 2024)

Nuts & Bolts of the International Criminal Court Arrest Warrants in the ‘Situation in Palestine’
By Tom Dannenbaum (November 22, 2024)

Toward a Fuller Understanding of the U.S. (and Israeli) Legal Objections to ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, Part II
By Marty Lederman (October 15, 2024)

Toward a Fuller Understanding of U.S. Legal Objections to ICC Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, Part I
By Marty Lederman (September 16, 2024)

“With Utmost Urgency”: Arrest Warrants and Amicus Observations at the International Criminal Court
By Adil Ahmad Haque (September 9, 2024)

Expert Explainer: The US for the first time submits a formal brief to the International Criminal Court on the ‘Situation in Palestine’
By Todd Buchwald (August 22, 2024)

Justice for Trans-border Torture Requires Rethinking the International Criminal Court’s Jurisdiction in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
By Smadar Ben-Natan and Itamar Mann (August 7, 2024)

Sweeping ICC Sanctions Bill Would Harm Victims, U.S. Interests
By Adam Keith (July 17, 2024)

Armed Conflict Classification in the ICC Prosecutor’s Request for Arrest Warrants - Between International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law
By Yahli Shereshevsky (June 18, 2024)

A Symposium on the International Criminal Court and the Israel-Hamas War
By Just Security (June 18, 2024)

ICC Arrest Warrant Requests in the Palestine Situation and Complementarity Anxieties: Why a new notification to Israel beforehand was not needed 
By Alexandre Skander Galand (June 11, 2024)

The Prosecutor’s Circumvention of Article 18 Complementarity? A Flaw in the ICC’s Palestine Investigation
By Yuval Shany and Amichai Cohen (June 1, 2024)

Gaza Arrest Warrants: Assessing Starvation as a Method of Warfare and Associated Starvation Crimes
By Yousuf Syed Khan (May 31, 2024)

The Prosecutor’s Uphill Legal Battle?: The Netanyahu and Gallant ICC Arrest Warrant Requests
By Amichai Cohen (@amichaic) and Yuval Shany (@yuvalshany1) (May 25, 2024)

Sec. Blinken’s View on Sanctions Against the ICC: A More Complete Picture
By Tess Bridgeman (@bridgewriter) and Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) (May 22, 2024)

What the ICC Prosecutor Charged – and Didn’t Charge – in Gaza Warrants
By David Luban (@DavidLuban) (May 22, 2024)

The ICC Arrest Warrants: Even a Strong U.S. Reaction Should Not Include Sanctions
By Todd Buchwald (May 22, 2024)

The Just Security Podcast: A Request for ICC Arrest Warrants and the Israel-Hamas War
By Tess Bridgeman (@bridgewriter), Todd Buchwald, Tom Dannenbaum (@tomdannenbaum), Rebecca Hamilton (@bechamilton) and Paras Shah (@pshah518) (May 20, 2024)

Nuts & Bolts of Int’l Criminal Court Arrest Warrant Applications for Senior Israeli Officials and Hamas Leaders
By Tom Dannenbaum (@tomdannenbaum) (May 20, 2024)

Timeline of Int’l Criminal Court Arrest Warrant Applications for Gaza War: What Comes Next and How We Got Here
By Rebecca Hamilton (@bechamilton), Tess Bridgeman (@bridgewriter) and Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) (May 20, 2024)

Announcing a Symposium on the International Criminal Court and Israel-Hamas War
By Just Security (May 25, 2024)

Do Not Destroy the Int’l Criminal Court for Pursuing Accountability in Gaza
By Adam Keith (@adamofkeith) (May 17, 2024)

IHL/Law of Armed Conflict, Humanitarian Assistance, and War Crimes

A Point of Clarification Re the International Lawyers’ Statement on Gaza
By Letters to the Editor (November 13, 2025)

International Lawyers Unite in Joint Statement on Gaza
By Olivier de Frouville and Julian Fernandez (November 7, 2025)

More of the Same, But Worse: Netanyahu’s “New” Plan in Gaza
Hebrew translation: עוד מאותו הדבר – אבל גרוע יותר: התכנית “החדשה” של נתניהו בעזה
By Eliav Lieblich (August 12, 2025)

From Ukraine to Gaza: IHL Compliance as a Tool for Preventing Moral Injury
By Tal Gross and LCDR Christopher Hart

“Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics”: The Legality of Statistical Proportionality
By Alon Sapir (July 31, 2025)

Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
Hebrew translation: הזמן אזל: הרעבה המונית בעזה וחובתו של העולם
Arabic translation: لقد نفد الوقت: الجوع الجماعي في غزة والضرورة العالمية الملحّة
By Tom Dannenbaum and Alex de Waal (July 30, 2025)

Manifestly Illegal: Israeli International Law Scholars on the Stated Plan to “Concentrate” the Palestinian Population in South Gaza
By Eliav Lieblich and Tamar Megiddo (July 11, 2025)

Our Duty to Explain Israel’s Operation to “Concentrate and Move Population” in Gaza is a Manifest War Crime
By Eyal Benvenisti and Chaim Gans (July 8, 2025)

Cumulative Civilian Harm in Gaza: A Gendered View
By Fionnuala Ní Aoláin (June 25, 2025)

Judging Deprivation – Humanitarian Aid in Gaza Before Israel’s Supreme Court and Beyond
By Tamar Luster (April 22, 2025)

New Israeli Guidelines Threaten to Eliminate Humanitarian Action in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Almost Entirely
By Eitan Diamond (April 8, 2025)

Limited Protection: Israel’s High Court of Justice Rejection of Gaza Humanitarian Aid Petition
By Yuval Shany and Amichai Cohen (April 1, 2025)

Gaza and Israel’s Renewed Policy of Deprivation
By Tom Dannenbaum (March 21, 2025)

Days, Not Weeks: Gaza, Starvation, and the Imperative to Act Now
By Tom Dannenbaum (November 18, 2024)

Physicians and the Push for Accountability for Alleged Abuse of Gazan Prisoners Detained by Israel
By Leonard Rubenstein and Matthew Wynia (October 22, 2024)

Israel’s ‘War on Terror’ and the Legal and Security Imperative to Comply with International Law
By Alyssa Yamamoto (August 5, 2024)

The Just Security Podcast: Assessing the Laws of War
By Cordula Droege, Tess Bridgeman, Paras Shah and Harrison Blank (August 2, 2024)

Humanitarian Notification in Gaza is Broken: How to Document and Respond When Things Go Wrong
By Bailey Ulbricht and Allen Weiner (July 2, 2024)

The Just Security Podcast: Harm to Women in War Goes Beyond Sexual Violence: `Obstetric Violence’ Neglected
By Fionnuala Ní Aoláin (@NiAolainF), Viola Gienger (@violagienger) and Paras Shah (@pshah518) (April 26, 2024)

Arms Transfers to Israel: Knowledge and Risk of Violations of International Law
By Vladyslav Lanovoy (@VLanovoy) (April 17, 2024)

Gaza’s Famine is Underway
By Jeremy Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) (March 28, 2024)

Starvation is Starvation is Starvation.
By Pablo Arrocha Olabuenaga (March 25, 2024)

Israeli Civilian Harm Mitigation in Gaza: Gold Standard or Fool’s Gold?
By Larry Lewis (@LarryLewis_) (March 12, 2024)

A Zone of Silence: Obstetric Violence in Gaza and Beyond
By Fionnuala Ní Aoláin (@NiAolainF) (February 21, 2024)

Dutch Appeals Court, Finding Clear Risk of IHL Violations, Orders Government to Halt Military Deliveries to Israel
By Yussef Al Tamimi (February 13, 2024)

On Civilians’ Return to North Gaza: What International Humanitarian Law Requires
By Eliav Lieblich (@eliavl) (February 12, 2024)

The Law of Relief Action – Is Israel Required to Allow Fuel into Gaza?
By Rosa-Lena Lauterbach (@rosalauterbach) (January 23, 2024)

Israel’s Rewriting of the Law of War
By Leonard Rubenstein (@lenrubenstein) (December 21, 2023)

In Defense of Gaza’s Hospitals and Health Workers
By Elise Baker (@elise_baker) (December 21, 2023)

Top Legal Experts on Why Aid to Gaza Can’t Be Conditioned on Hostage Release, in response to remarks by US Official
By Just Security (November 20, 2023)

Unpacking Key Assumptions Underlying Legal Analyses of the 2023 Hamas-Israel War
By Amichai Cohen (@amichaic) and Yuval Shany (@yuvalshany1) (October 30, 2023)

Law and Survival in Israel and Palestine
By Janina Dill (October 26, 2023)

The Just Security Podcast: The Siege of Gaza
By Paras Shah (@pshah518), Tom Dannenbaum (@tomdannenbaum), Tiffany Chang, Michelle Eigenheer and Clara Apt (@claraapt25) (October 20, 2023)

War on Water Prolongs Misery in Gaza
By Mark Zeitoun (October 17, 2023)

The Directive to Evacuate Northern Gaza: Advance Warning or Forced Displacement?
By Yousuf Syed Khan (@yousufsyedkhan) (October 17, 2023)

Expert Guidance: Law of Armed Conflict in the Israel-Hamas War
By Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw), Michael W. Meier (@MWMeier23) and Tess Bridgeman (@bridgewriter) (October 17, 2023)

Rare ICRC Public Statement Calls for “Pause” in Gaza Fighting
By Tess Bridgeman (@bridgewriter) (October 13, 2023)

The Siege of Gaza and the Starvation War Crime
By Tom Dannenbaum (@tomdannenbaum) (October 11, 2023)

Where Is the ICC Prosecutor?
By Rebecca Hamilton (@bechamilton) (October 11, 2023)

US Law and Policy

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nominee Waltz Faces Senate Vote as the Global Body Reels
By Richard Gowan (July 11, 2025)

Trump’s Gaza Plan is Absurd and an Affront to International Law
By Eliav Lieblich (February 18, 2025)

Why Palestinian Families Are Suing the State Department for Failing to Enforce the Leahy Law
By Sarah Leah Whitson (January 17, 2025)

Trump’s Realist Option for Int’l Criminal Court Case Against Netanyahu
By Luis Moreno Ocampo (January 7, 2025)

A Model Leahy Law Legal Memo on Assistance to Israeli Security Forces
By Sarah Harrison (December 12, 2024)

A Perilous Senate Hearing on Bill to Sanction the International Criminal Court
By Rebecca Hamilton and Ryan Goodman (September 24, 2024)

Don’t Sanction the ICC for Doing its Job
By Michael Maya (August 27, 2024)

The State Department’s Wrong Decision to Exempt IDF Unit from Leahy Law Ineligibility
By Charles O. (Cob) Blaha (August 9, 2024)

Israel and the Leahy Law
By Charles O. (Cob) Blaha (June 10, 2024)

Key Takeaways from Biden Administration Report on Israeli Use of US Weapons
By John Ramming Chappell (@jwrchappell) (May 11, 2024)

State Department Submits Key Report to Congress on Israel’s Use of US Weapons
By Just Security (May 10, 2024)

Report of the Independent Task Force on National Security Memorandum-20 Regarding Israel
By Noura Erakat (@4noura) and Josh Paul (April 24, 2024)

Section 620I: No Military Assistance to States Restricting U.S. Humanitarian Assistance
By Brian Finucane (@BCFinucane) (March 19, 2024)

Israel, the United States, and the Fourth Geneva Convention
By Brian Finucane (@BCFinucane) (February 24, 2024)

The “War Reserve Stockpile Allies – Israel” Explained & Why Congress Should Not Expand It
By John Ramming Chappell (@jwrchappell) and Sarah Harrison (@Seharrison7) (January 16, 2024)

Regional Conflict in the Middle East and the Limitations of the War Powers Resolution
By Brian Finucane (@BCFinucane) (January 8, 2024)

U.S. Policymakers’ Lessons from Yemen for Gaza
By Wa’el Alzayat (@WaelAlzayat) and Jeremy Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) (December 22, 2023)

Senator Sanders’ New Resolution Could Force U.S. to Confront Any Complicity in Civilian Harm in Gaza
By John Ramming Chappell (@jwrchappell) and Hassan El-Tayyab (@HassanElTayyab) (December 18, 2023)

It’s Time to Close the Door on Biden’s Saudi Defense Deal
By Shahed Ghoreishi (@ShahedGhoreishi) (November 16, 2023)

Law and Policy Guide to US Arms Transfers to Israel
By John Ramming Chappell (@jwrchappell), Annie Shiel (@annieshiel), Seth Binder (@seth_binder), Elias Yousif, Bill Monahan and Amanda Klasing (@AMKlasing) (November 8, 2023)

Genocide and the South Africa v. Israel ICJ Case

Nicaragua v. Germany: Why Israel is Not an Indispensable Third Party
By Adil Ahmad Haque (November 20, 2025)

Sanctions against Israel: An International Law Perspective
By James Patrick Sexton (September 17, 2025)

U.N. Commission Finds That Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza: What Does It Mean?
By Rebecca Hamilton (September 16, 2025)

“In the Event of Extreme Urgency”: The International Court of Justice Must Indicate New Provisional Measures to Protect Civilians in Gaza
By Adil Ahmad Haque and Jasmin Johurun Nessa (March 21, 2025)

The Amnesty International Report on Genocide in Gaza
By Adil Ahmad Haque (December 16, 2024)

A “Cramped Interpretation of International Jurisprudence”? Some Critical Observations on the Amnesty International Genocide Report on Gaza
By Amichai Cohen and Yuval Shany (December 16, 2024)

International Court of Justice’s Call on All States to End Israel’s Occupation and Find a Path to Peace
By Binaifer Nowrojee (July 25, 2024)

We Charge Genocide: Redux
By Matiangai Sirleaf (July 15, 2024)

Halt: The International Court of Justice and the Rafah Offensive
By Adil Ahmad Haque (@AdHaque110) (May 24, 2024)

“Famine is Setting in”: The International Court of Justice Returns to Gaza
By Adil Ahmad Haque (@AdHaque110) (March 30, 2024)

The Implications of An ICJ Finding that Israel is Committing the Crime Against Humanity of Apartheid
By Victor Kattan (@VictorKattan) (March 20, 2024)

Taking Stock of ICJ Decisions in the ‘Ukraine v. Russia’ Cases–And implications for South Africa’s case against Israel
By Oona A. Hathaway (@oonahathaway) (February 5, 2024)

Between Rhetoric and Effects: The ICJ Provisional Measures Order in South Africa v. Israel
By Amichai Cohen (@amichaic) and Yuval Shany (@yuvalshany1) (February 1, 2024)

Strategic Litigation Takes the International Stage: South Africa v Israel in Its Broader Context
By James A. Goldston (@JamesAGoldston) (January 31, 2024)

Why the ICJ Ruling Misses the Mark: Mitigating Civilian Harm With An Enemy Engaged in Human Shielding
By Claire O. Finkelstein (@COFinkelstein) and General (ret.) Joseph Votel (January 29, 2024)

The Just Security Podcast: ICJ Provisional Measures in South Africa v. Israel
By Adil Ahmad Haque (@AdHaque110), Oona A. Hathaway (@oonahathaway), Yuval Shany (@yuvalshany1), Paras Shah (@pshah518) and Clara Apt (@claraapt25) (January 26, 2024)

Top Experts’ Views of Int’l Court of Justice Ruling on Israel Gaza Operations (South Africa v Israel, Genocide Convention Case)
By Just Security (January 26, 2024)

Unpacking the Int’l Court of Justice Judgment in South Africa v Israel (Genocide Case)
By Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) and Siven Watt (@SivenWatt) (January 26, 2024)

International Courts as the Last Hope for Humanity
By Chile Eboe-Osuji (@EboeOsuji) (January 24, 2024)

South Africa vs. Israel at the International Court of Justice: A Battle Over Issue-Framing and the Request to Suspend the War
By Yuval Shany (@yuvalshany1) and Amichai Cohen (@amichaic) (January 16, 2024)

How the International Court of Justice Should Stop the War in Gaza
By Adil Ahmad Haque (@AdHaque110) (January 15, 2024)

The Promise and Risk of South Africa’s Case Against Israel
By Alaa Hachem and Oona A. Hathaway (@oonahathaway) (January 4, 2024)
Japanese Translation:  南アフリカ対イスラエル事件の期待とリスク

Selective Use of Facts and the Gaza Genocide Debate
By Amichai Cohen (@amichaic) and Yuval Shany (@yuvalshany1) (January 2, 2024)

Jus ad Bellum/Law on the Resort to Armed Force
United Nations
Reflections on War
Further Essays and Analysis

The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Israel’s Obligations Towards UNRWA and Other International Organizations in the Occupied Territories: Key Issues
By Eliav Lieblich (October 23, 2025)

When Sexism Endangers Lives: In Israel, Sidelining Women Comes at the Cost of Security
By Yofi Tirosh (October 23, 2025)

Implementing the Gaza Ceasefire
By Laurie Nathan (October 20, 2025)

Israel’s Strike on Doha: A Crisis for U.S. Credibility?
By Jesse Marks (September 17, 2025)

The Fall and Rise of German Arms Exports to Israel: Questions for the International Court of Justice
By Adil Ahmad Haque (June 13, 2025)

“With the Utmost Urgency” – The Crisis in Gaza and Advisory Opinion(s) of the International Court of Justice
By Adil Ahmad Haque (May 5, 2025)

Israel-Hamas Ceasefire: Temporary Reprieve or Sustainable Peace?
By Andrew Miller (January 27, 2025)

In ICJ Advisory Opinion on Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Separate Opinions Obscure Legal Rationale
By Yael Ronen (November 15, 2024)

The Just Security Podcast: Assessing the Recent Response of International Law and Institutions in Palestine and Israel
By Ardi Imseis, Shahd Hammouri, Victor Kattan, Matiangai Sirleaf, Paras Shah and Clara Apt (August 21, 2024)

Toward an International Register of Damage for the Occupation of Palestinian Territory
By Mark Lattimer (August 1, 2024)

No Simple End: The ICJ and Remedies for Illegal Practices in the Occupied Territories
By Yuval Shany (@yuvalshany1) and Amichai Cohen (@amichaic) (March 12, 2024)

Unhuman Killings: AI and Civilian Harm in Gaza
By Brianna Rosen (@rosen_br) (December 15, 2023)

License to Kill: The Israel-Gaza Conflict and the UK’s Arms Exports Regime
By Udit Mahalingam (@UGMahalingam) (December 5, 2023)

Social Media Platform Integrity Matters in Times of War
By Nora Benavidez (@AttorneyNora) (October 13, 2023)

Policy Alert: Key Questions in Hamas’ Attack on Israel and What Comes Next
By Brianna Rosen (@rosen_br) and Viola Gienger (@violagienger) (October 9, 2023)

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Just Security’s Climate Archive https://www.justsecurity.org/84303/just-securitys-climate-archive/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=just-securitys-climate-archive Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:30:24 +0000 https://www.justsecurity.org/?p=84303 A catalog of articles analyzing the diplomatic, political, legal, security, and humanitarian consequences of the international climate crisis.

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Over the past five years, Just Security has published a variety of articles analyzing the diplomatic, political, legal, security, and humanitarian issues and the consequences of the international climate crisis. 

The catalog below organizes our coverage into general categories to facilitate access to relevant topics for policymakers, researchers, journalists, scholars, and the public at large. The archive will be updated as new pieces are published.

We welcome readers to use the archive to follow climate change developments and generate new lines of analysis. To search headlines and authors, expand one or all of the topics, as needed, and use CTRL-F on your keyboard to open the search tool. The archive also is available in reverse chronological order at the climate change articles page.

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Diplomacy

Xi’s Climate Announcement: A Disappointment, Not a Breakthrough
by Sue Biniaz (September 29, 2025)

America’s Climate Diplomacy Challenge and the Path to Rebuilding Credibility
by Catherine Goldberg and Milan Vivanco (September 2, 2025)

Himalayan Water Disputes Awaken the Tensions and Promises of the UN Watercourses Convention
by Bowen Chang (July 28, 2025)

COP 30 Must Not Cop Out
by Sue Biniaz (July 3, 2025)

Getting to Yes on the Plastics Agreement: Time for More Plasticity?
by Sue Biniaz, Daniel Bodansky and Maria Ivanova (June 9, 2025)

Why a Global “Moratorium” on Solar Radiation Management Deployment Should Get a Chilly Reception
by Sue Biniaz and Daniel Bodansky (May 13, 2025)

What Just Happened: Withdrawing from Paris and other International Environmental Agreement Actions
by Sue Biniaz (January 21, 2025)

What to Do If U.N. Climate Negotiations Fail to Phase Out Fossil Fuels?
by Kirk Herbertson (@KirkHerbertson) (December 13, 2024)

COP29 in the Rearview Mirror: A Receding Mirage – But the Possibility for Real Action on the Road Ahead
by Camila Bustos (@MaCamilaBustos) and Achinthi Vithanage (@ProfAchinthiV) (December 4, 2024)

On the United States, China, and COP29: Assessing the State of International Climate Progress After Baku
by Mark Nevitt (@marknevitt) (December 3, 2024)

Punching Above Their Weight: Caribbean States’ Ambitious COP29 Global Finance Goal
by Jwala Rambarran (November 14, 2024)

The UN’s New Pact for the Future: A Milestone That Can Set a Path for Change
by Richard Ponzio (@ponzio_richard) (October 2, 2024)

The Just Security Podcast: Can the World Move Away from Fossil Fuels?
by Mark Nevitt (@marknevitt), Paras Shah (@pshah518), Tiffany Chang, Michelle Eigenheer and Clara Apt (@claraapt25) (December 22, 2023)

Tracking COP28: Notable Moments and Key Themes
by Clara Apt (@claraapt25) (November 20, 2023)

Climate Mitigation: Moving Beyond National Action to International Action
by Robert S. Taylor (September 27, 2023)

New High Seas Treaty Prepares International Community for Sustainable and Equitable “Blue Economy”
by Sarah Reiter, Angelique Pouponneau (@ANGIEPOPS11) and Kristina M. Gjerde (@4kgjerde) (April 26, 2023) 

Tracking the United Nations 2023 Water Conference: Notable Moments and Key Themes
by Clara Apt (@claraapt25) and Katherine Fang (@fang_kath) (March 22, 2023)

China’s Achilles Heel: Climate Diplomacy in the Developing World
by Taiya Smith (@garnetstrat) and Alexandra Hackbarth (@alexhackbarth) (December 20, 2022) 

Tracking COP27: Notable Moments and Key Themes
by Clara Apt (@claraapt25) and Katherine Fang (@fang_kath) (November 18, 2022)

Loss and Damage at COP27: What’s Been Lost, What Can We Salvage From the Damage?
by Jocelyn Perry (@JocelynGPerry) (November 11, 2022)

The Egypt Climate Summit: Four Key Questions to Help Frame COP27
by Mark Nevitt (@marknevitt) (November 8, 2022) 

Climate Change Diplomacy Has an Authoritarianism Problem
by Kirk Herbertson (@KirkHerbertson) (November 2, 2022) 

Tracking UNGA 77: Notable Moments and Key Themes
by Katherine Fang (@fang_kath) and Clara Apt (@claraapt25) (September 22, 2022) 

Good COP, Bad COP: After the Mixed Results of COP26, What’s Next?
by Ben Abraham and Jocelyn Perry (@JocelynGPerry) (November 24, 2021)

With West Africa and Priority Countries Set, Potentially Game-Changing Global Fragility Act Still Faces Hurdles
by Liz Hume (@Lizhume4peace) and Kate Phillips-Barrasso (@kpbarrasso) (April 11, 2022)

Climate Justice
National Security

As Solar Geoengineering Enters its Startup Phase, Governments Must Address Emerging Security Risks
by Scott M. Moore and Imran Bayoumi (December 2, 2025)

Don’t Succumb to Climate Fatalism
by Tom Ellison (May 8, 2025)

What Just Happened: Trump’s Executive Actions on Environment and Implications for US Climate Security
by Tom Ellison (January 24, 2025)

Don’t Ignore the Security Risks of Climate Change Because of “Uncertainty”
by Tom Ellison (November 5, 2024)

Under the Weather – The National Security Risks from Climate Change Could Go Well Beyond What the U.S. Government Thinks
by Bryan Frederick and Caitlin McCulloch (@caitmcculloch) (March 7, 2024)

DOD Can Meet the Need For Climate Intelligence With a Community-Wide Center
by Imran Bayoumi (@BayoumiImran) (February 22, 2024)

This Summer Previewed the Security Threats of Climate Change: The U.S. Needs to Do More
by Elsa Barron (@elsa_barron_), Tom Ellison, Brigitte Hugh (@BrigitteHugh_), Alexandra Naegele and Christopher Schwalm (September 28, 2023)

Burning Threats: How Wildfires Undermine U.S. National Security
by Alice C. Hill (@Alice_C_Hill) and Tess Turner (July 19, 2023)

The U.S. Military Can Help Save the Amazon
by Steven Katz (@steveLkatz) (May 11, 2023)

Why the US Still Can’t Have It All: Biden’s National Security Strategy
by Emma Ashford (@EmmaMAshford) (October 14, 2022) 

Bringing Climate and Terrorism Together at the UN Security Council – Proceed with Caution
by Jordan Street (@jordan_street07) (December 6, 2021) 

Getting Climate Intelligence Right
by Rod Schoonover (@RodSchoonover) and Erin Sikorsky (@ErinSikorsky) (November 3, 2021) 

Is Climate Change a National Emergency?
by Mark Nevitt (@marknevitt) (February 25, 2021) 

Climate Change as a National Security and Foreign Policy Priority: Opportunities and Challenges for the Next Administration
by Mayesha Alam (December 4, 2020) 

Climate Change, National Security, & the New Commander-in-Chief
by Mark Nevitt (@marknevitt) (December 2, 2020) 

An Age of Actorless Threats: Rethinking National Security in Light of COVID and Climate
by Morgan Bazilian (@MBazilian) and Cullen Hendrix (@cullenhendrix) (October 23, 2020) 

Climate Change Denialism Poses a National Security Threat
by Mark Nevitt (@marknevitt) (September 20, 2019) 

Climate Change: Our Greatest National Security Threat?
by Mark Nevitt (@marknevitt) (April 17, 2019) 

Pentagon’s Climate Change Report Lacks Analysis the Law Requires
by Mark Nevitt (@marknevitt) (January 23, 2019) 

Two Notable Omissions in the Mattis National Defense Strategy
by Benjamin Haas (@BenjaminEHaas) and Mark Nevitt (@marknevitt) (January 24, 2018) 

Wishing Away Climate Change as a Threat to National Security
by Mark Nevitt (@marknevitt) (December 20, 2017) 

Military Planning for the Climate Century
by Mark Nevitt (@marknevitt) (October 19, 2017) 

Climate Change and Arctic Security: Five Key Questions Impacting the Future of Arctic Governance
by Mark Nevitt (@marknevitt) (September 14, 2017) 

NATO’s Renewed Focus on Climate Change & Security: What You Need to Know
by Mark Nevitt (@marknevitt) (June 23, 2021)

Why President Biden Should Not Declare a Climate Emergency
by Soren Dayton (@sorendayton) and Kristy Parker (@KPNatsFan) (February 10, 2021)

Energy Security
Geopolitics
Human Rights
Women’s Rights
Civil Society and Youth
Migration and Displacement
Disasters
Humanitarianism
Courts

Attacks on Nature, Atrocities Against People: The Case for Environmental Harm as a 12th Crime Against Humanity
by Leila Nadya Sadat (October 10, 2025)

Climate-Vulnerable States Vindicated in the Hague: A First Look at the International Court of Justice’s Climate Advisory Opinion
by Corina Heri (July 25, 2025)

Inter-American Court of Human Rights Delivers Landmark Opinion on Climate Emergency
by Eoin Jackson (July 22, 2025)

An Interim Report on the ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion
by Corina Heri (@cohelongo) (December 21, 2024)

The Just Security Podcast: Could Ecocide Become a New International Crime?
Paras Shah (@pshah518) interview with Naima Te Maile Fifita, Rebecca Hamilton (@bechamilton) and Kate Mackintosh (@Katemackintosh) (November 4, 2024)

Why Criminalize Ecocide? Experts Weigh In
by Rebecca Hamilton (@bechamilton) (September 23, 2024)

How the Inter-American Court Could Advance Protection for Climate-Displaced Individuals
by Felipe Navarro (@fnlux) (June 12, 2024)

What to Watch for Following Historic Climate Opinion from ‘The Oceans Court’
by Melissa Steward (June 4, 2024)

The Just Security Podcast: A Landmark Court Opinion on the Ocean and Climate Change
Paras Shah (@pshah518) and Megan Corrarino (@MeganCorrarino) interview with Ambassador Cheryl Bazard and Catherine Amirfar (May 28, 2024)

Q&A: ‘The Oceans Court’ Issues Landmark Advisory Opinion on Climate Change
by Catherine Amirfar and Duncan Pickard (@dpickard9) (May 21, 2024)

The Just Security Podcast: The ‘Year of Climate’ in International Courts
Paras Shah (@pshah518) interview with Naima Te Maile Fifita and Joana Setzer (@JoanaSetzer) (May 8, 2024)

Strasbourg’s “Case of the Century” – Revolutionary Climate Judgment from the European Court of Human Rights
by Corina Heri (@cohelongo) (April 10, 2024)

The ‘Year of Climate’ in International Courts
by Rebecca Hamilton (@bechamilton) (March 27, 2024)

Sackett v. EPA’s Aftermath and the Risk of Inflamed Western Water Conflict
by Colby Galliher (@ColbyGalliher) (October 2, 2023)

Prosecuting Ecocide: The Norms-Adoption/Enforcement Paradox
by Thomas Obel Hansen (June 22, 2023)

Could the Nova Kakhovka Dam Destruction Become the ICC’s First Environmental Crimes Case?
by Thomas Hansen (June 9, 2023)

The Ecocide Wave is Already Here: National Momentum and the Value of a Model Law
by Darryl Robinson (@DarrylRobs) (February 23, 2023) 

Greenhouse Gaslighting: Deceptive Moderation and West Virginia v. EPA
by Craig Green (July 5, 2022)

 

IMAGES (left to right): Natural disaster and its consequences (via Getty Images); In this picture taken on September 28, 2022, an internally displaced flood-affected family sits outside their tent at a makeshift tent camp in Jamshoro district of Sindh province (Photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images; Trees smolder and burn during the Dixie fire near Greenville, California on August 3, 2021. – Numerous fires are raging through the state’s northern forests, as climate change makes wildfire season longer, hotter and more devastating. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

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Russia’s Eliminationist Rhetoric Against Ukraine: A Collection https://www.justsecurity.org/81789/russias-eliminationist-rhetoric-against-ukraine-a-collection/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russias-eliminationist-rhetoric-against-ukraine-a-collection Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:40:02 +0000 https://www.justsecurity.org/?p=81789 Updated with new analysis of how key words, phrases, and themes appear to express intent to eliminate Ukraine or Ukrainians as a nation-state, people, or culture.

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(Editor’s note: This article, with the tracker by Clara Apt, originally published on June 6, 2022 and updated regularly, is now updated with a new introduction examining patterns in the rhetoric over time and conclusions drawn by analysts and historians. Examples added to the chart for its Oct. 8 publication continue to be noted in red as “New” or “Updated.” Попередня версія цієї статті доступна українською тут.)

Legal and policy experts and historians for the U.S. Congressional Research Service, the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights with New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, Ukraine’s National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic with the International Partnership for Human Rights – all have noted a pattern since Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine: persistent rhetoric by Russian leaders and their associates that goes far beyond the ordinary bounds of verbal hostilities towards a wartime enemy, and may constitute evidence of  genocidal intent.

A number of such reports and briefs have cited Just Security’s chart below, which documents more than 500 examples of eliminationist rhetoric against Ukraine by Russian government officials, media commentators, and other public figures close to the Kremlin since the February 2022 invasion. The resource records genocidal, dehumanizing themes appearing to express an intent to eliminate the Ukrainian nation. The invective occurs in addresses, news articles, and social media posts issued by no less than Russian President Vladimir Putin, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, as well as Patriarch and Russian Orthodox Bishop Kirill of Moscow, Russian State TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, and Zakhar Vinogradov, editor-in-chief of the state-owned publication Ukraina.ru, among others.

Alongside the intensifying bombardments across Ukraine in more than three years of full-scale war, the clear and pervasive Russian rhetoric “compels us to conclude that the Russian Federation has not only continued but escalated its efforts to commit genocide,” wrote Kennesaw State University Professor Kristina Hook and four legal advisers in a July 2023 report for New Lines and the Wallenberg Centre, updating an analysis they issued in May 2022.

A legal memorandum to Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General from Harvard’s International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) and the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) stated, “Russian officials’ declared intent is to target the Ukrainian nation, both physically and ideologically, and eliminate any manifestation of its collective identity.”

Long before the February 2022 invasion and even prior to Putin’s 2014 capture of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, analysts had noted the threatening rhetoric against Ukraine by the Russian president and figures within his control. Dating at least to 2008 or 2009, increasingly hostile language laid the groundwork for rejecting Ukraine’s existence as a state, a national group, and a culture.

In May 2022, Beth Van Schaack, then-U.S. ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice, observed to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in response to a question about the Russian atrocities coming to light in Ukraine, “Some of the genocidal rhetoric that we’re hearing out of Russia is extremely worrying.”

Experts such as Francine Hirsch, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of “Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg,” pointed early on to such language as evidence of genocidal intent toward the Ukrainian people. Whether and how the concept of “genocide” applies to Russia’s campaign against Ukraine is the subject of debate, notwithstanding the reference in Article II of the Genocide Convention to “the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such.” A related issue under discussion is a concept often referred to as “cultural genocide,” which generally connotes the intentional destruction of a group’s identity even in the absence of mass killings. “These calls for ‘de-Ukrainization’ are an incitement to genocide: to ‘destroy, in whole or in part,’ the Ukrainian nation,” Hirsch wrote in April 2022. And Yale University history professor Timothy Snyder, in reference to the same article in the Russian outlet RIA Novosti that prompted Hirsch’s conclusion, wrote, “Russia has just issued a genocide handbook for its war on Ukraine.”

Just Security’s documentation indicates several themes in Russia’s eliminationist rhetoric:

  1. The denial of Ukrainian identity and statehood. Russian leaders and propagandists portray Ukraine as having “always” been an inseparable part of Russia. They argue there is “no historical basis” for an independent Ukrainian state, delegitimize the country’s current government, and claim that Ukraine’s existence threatens Russian security. According to Mykola Riabchuck, a Ukrainian poet, author, and essayist who is an honorary president of Ukrainian PEN-center, this perception of Ukraine as a “historical aberration” with no right to exist legitimates the so-called “special military operation,” which intends to return Ukrainian territories to Russian control, as was the case in the Soviet Union.
  2. The desire to eliminate the Ukrainian national group. Russian officials and others close to the Kremlin – including media personalities – express a desire or intent to destroy Ukraine’s culture and even the very existence of its population. Russian politicians and media figures have endorsed “total Russification,” “a complete ban” on teaching Ukrainian language,” “partially squeez[ing] out” of Ukrainians disloyal to Russia, wiping the country’s decision-making centers “off the face of the earth,” and incorporating Ukrainian territory into Russia so that “there are no more remnants of Ukraine.” This discourse presents “cultural eradication” as a “moral necessity” to salvage Ukraine, aiming to “create a generation of Ukrainians who identify as Russians,” writes political scientist Martin Laryš, deputy research director at the Institute of International Relations Prague.
  3. The dehumanization of Ukrainians. Russian eliminationist rhetoric characterizes Ukrainians as subhumans requiring spiritual cleansing and treatment. State officials and others have referred to Ukrainians as “tumors,” “rabid dogs,” “cockroaches,” “lice” and “vermin” that Russia must “disinfect,” while also alluding to a larger Ukrainian “organism” no longer capable of “reproducing itself.” There is a precedent for such dehumanizing terminologies in past genocides, write National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy professors Denys Azarov, Dmytro Koval, Gaiane Nuridzhanian, and Volodymyr Venher. Tutsis were labelled “cockroaches” in Rwanda, while the Nazis referred to Jews as “lice” and “rats.”

Civil society organizations, legal scholars, and others are concluding that eliminationist rhetoric by Russian state officials and other affiliated individuals incites genocide and expresses a willingness to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity:

  • The July 2023 report by the New Lines Institute and the Wallenberg Centre concluded that Russia’s public messages of incitement to genocide have intensified throughout the war, with new dehumanization tropes and narratives. This incitement provides evidence that Russia has a “general plan” to “destroy the Ukrainian national group.”
  • An October 2023 Congressional Research Service report found that statements by senior Russian officials denying Ukraine’s existence and calling for the elimination of its population “could be considered evidence of the intent to commit genocide in Ukraine.”
  • In their April 2025 legal memo, IHRC and IPHR concluded that statements by Russian government officials and the use of aerial attacks to inflict civilian harm provide evidence that Russian officials have “acted with the knowledge and intent necessary to hold them accountable for crimes against humanity and war crimes.” A November 2022 statement from State Duma Deputy Speaker Boris Chernyshov, for example, claimed that Russian retaliatory strikes were “an expression of our hatred, our holy hatred. They’ll be sitting without gas, without light, and without everything else. If the Kyiv regime chose the path of war criminals, they have to freeze and rot over there.” These statements, among others, demonstrate that Russian officials “knew and intended the attacks to cause civilian harm and death,” according to IHRC and IPHR.
  • And, in a May 2025 article, international human rights lawyer and director of IHRC Susan Farbstein wrote in an article for Just Security that the “devastating humanitarian effects” of aerial attacks, combined with Russian officials’ rhetoric, “make clear that Russia’s relentless aerial campaign against Ukraine is intended to exterminate Ukrainian civilians.”
  • Laryš of the Prague institute took the analysis a step further to show how such rhetoric has impacted Russian society. “This discursive ecosystem operates with tacit approval from the Kremlin, which allows such rhetoric to thrive while criminalizing anti-war dissent. The result is a competitive landscape of ideologues and propagandists vying to outdo each other in their expressions of loyalty to the regime’s goals. This environment not only sustains but actively amplifies genocidal ideologies, ensuring their widespread penetration into mainstream Russian society.”

The following compilation seeks to collect examples of such rhetoric in one place, organized in chronological order and necessarily non-exhaustive, since such declarations occur at high frequency in various media controlled by the Russian government. We express our sincere respect and thanks for the work of expert monitors of Russian media such as Julia Davis and Francis Scarr, who are credited below for their entries, and to Maksym Vishchyk for his contributions.

The statements range from formal presidential addresses and articles by Putin and other officials to commentary on Russian State television and on social media. Sources include (but are not limited to) news articles; books; the Kremlin’s online repository of speeches and addresses; Russian State-controlled news agencies, including RIA Novosti and Kommersant; and posts on Twitter/X and Telegram.

(Readers may also be interested in Compilation of Countries’ Statements Calling Russian Actions in Ukraine “Genocide” by Elizabeth Whatcott.)

Russian President Vladimir Putin in reported comment to U.S. President George W. Bush – The NATO bloc broke up into blocking packages – Kommersant (April 7, 2008)
  • “You don’t understand, George, that Ukraine is not even a state. What is Ukraine? Part of its territories is Eastern Europe, but the greater part is a gift from us.” (Reported based on anonymous source as a Putin comment to Bush during the NATO Summit in Bucharest, Romania; reported in English on May 25, 2009, in Time Magazine. Neither that nor subsequent references identified to date indicated any effort to corroborate, and some analysts cast doubt on whether Putin made the comment. Some references translated “state” as “country,” which would be a more likely meaning, as in a sovereign State.)
Putin – “Putin to the West: Hands off Ukraine” – Time Magazine (May 25, 2009)
  • Relations between “Big Russia and Little Russia — Ukraine…have always been the business of Russia itself.”
Putin – “Russia: The Ethnicity Issue” – Nezavisimaya Gazeta (January 23, 2012), (alternative translation by Russian site Top War)
  • Russia, with its diverse set of languages, traditions, and cultures, has an “ethnicity issue” that is “without any doubt a fundamental one.”
  • Multiculturalism “denies integration through assimilation” whilst making the “‘minorities right to be distinct’ absolute.” However, it “does little to balance this with public, behavioral or cultural commitments to the population and society as a whole.
  • Russia is a “type of state civilization where there are no ethnicities, but where ‘belonging’ is determined by a common culture and shared values.” This common culture is reliant upon “preserving the dominance of Russian culture,” which “hostile forces” have tried to break.
    • Analysis: Russia’s unity is reliant upon “the absorption by the leader – first his ideas and then presumably in his acts – of all of these other groups. I was about to say national minorities, but that would have been wrong because, in Putin’s mind, and in [Ivan] Ilyn’s mind for that matter, there are no national minorities. Ilyn [a Russian fascist philosopher and source of ideological inspiration for Putin] was very clear that anyone who uses the phrase ‘national minority’ is attacking Russia.” – Snyder
  • “Subtle cultural therapy” is recommended for Russia, a “a country where, for many, the civil war never really ended and where the past is highly politicized.”
  • The organization of regional parties is a “direct path to separatism.” Those who “attempt to lean towards nationalist, separatist, or other similar forces or influences should be restricted from the electoral process through democratic or court procedures.”
  • Russia and Ukraine have “lived together for many centuries. Together [they] were victorious in the most terrible of wars. And [they] will continue to exist side by side. To those who want and try to divide [Russia and Ukraine], I say – in your dreams.”
    • Analysis: When Putin discusses Ukrainians in this vision, “he doesn’t mention the existence of the Ukrainian state; that’s irrelevant. All he mentions is that Ukrainians are a kind of fragment scattered across this broad expanse… This fragment will only be made whole insofar and as it is absorbed into this larger Russian civilization.” Putin also elaborates upon this notion of Russia as a whole civilization in a fascist manner. The “contours, the limits of that civilization are defined by the leader himself.” And, If Russia is divided, “it is the fault of others, who must be threatened and deterred.” – Snyder
Putin – “Address by President of the Russian Federation” – Kremlin website (March 18, 2014)
  • Crimea is “an inseparable part of Russia” that reflects Russia and the region’s “shared history and pride.”
  • “When Crimea ended up as part of a different country,” Russia realized that “it was not simply robbed, it was plundered.”
  • Russians had been deprived of their “historical memory, even of their language and to subject them to forced assimilation.”
  • Ukraine has “no legitimate executive authority now, nobody to talk to. Many government agencies have been taken over by the imposters, but they do not have any control in the country,” and they themselves are “often controlled by radicals.”
Then-Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev quoted in a conversation with an industry watchdog official – “Russian Prime Minister: Ukraine Has ‘No Industry, or State” (April 5, 2016)
  • There is “neither industry, nor a state there” in Ukraine. In 2013, there was “industry there, but there was no state even then.”
Russian economist and pundit Mikhail Khazin remarks – “They need to be partially eliminated” – YouTube video (December 27, 2016)
  • Ukraine has “several million people [not loyal to Russia]” who “need to be partially eliminated and partially squeezed out.”
  • “New Russia,” or the territories from Kharkov, Odessa, Zaporozhye, and Dnepropetrovsk, “should be joined to the Russian regions, with full denazification, deukrainization.”
  • Russia should institute a “complete ban on Ukrainian fonts, Ukrainian texts, programs on [the] Ukrainian language, on teaching Ukrainian – ie completely.
  • These implementations will cause a “surplus population – let the surplus population go to the [Russian] Far East.”
Former Putin aide Vladislav Surkov in Q&A – Surkov: “I’m Interested in Acting Against Reality” – Actual Comments website (February 26, 2020)
  • Surkov’s “vanity is forever satisfied by the fact that [he] put [his] hand and head into the building of a new Russian state.”
  • There is “no Ukraine,” although there is “Ukrainianism” – a “specific mental disorder. Surprisingly brought to the extreme degree passion for ethnography. Such bloody lore. Muddle instead of the state. There is borscht, Bandera, bandura. But there is no nation.”
  • Donbass “does not deserve such humiliation” of returning to Ukraine. Ukraine “does not deserve such honor.”
Putin – “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians” – Kremlin (July 12, 2021)
  • The incorporation of “western Russian lands into the single state” was the product of “common faith, shared cultural traditions, and – I would like to emphasize it once again – language similarity.”
  • There is “no historical basis” for the “idea of Ukrainian people as a nation separate from the Russians.”
  • Ukrainization was “often imposed on those who did not see themselves as Ukrainians.”
  • Modern Ukraine is “entirely the product of the Soviet era” shaped on the “lands of historical Russia.” Hence, Russia “was robbed.”
  • Ukraine’s leaders “began to mythologize and rewrite history, edit out everything that united [Russia and Ukraine], and refer to the period when Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union as an occupation.”
  • The “slogans, ideology, and blatant aggressive Russophobia” of “radical nationalist groups” have become “defining elements of state policy in Ukraine.
  • Ukraine “peddle[s] Russophobia” and prefers to “exploit the image of the ‘victim of external aggression.’”
  • Russia and Ukraine together have “always been and will be many times stronger and more successful. For [they] are one people.”
Medvedev op-ed – “Why Contacts with the Current Ukrainian Leadership are Meaningless” – Kommersant (October 11, 2021)
  • Ukrainian leaders are “people who do not have any stable self-identification. Who are they, what country are they citizens of, what is their historical identity, ethnic component, what gods do they pray to?”
  • There are “no fools to fight for Ukraine. And it is pointless for [Russia] to deal with vassals. Business must be done with the suzerain.”
Putin in press conference (February 8, 2022) and in official remarks (February 21, 2022) – An Independent Legal Analysis of the Russian Federation’s Breaches of the Genocide Convention in Ukraine and the Duty to Prevent – Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy
  • “‘Like it or not, take it, my beauty’” references a “vulgar Russian rhyme about necrophiliac rape, implying an intention to inflict similar destruction on Ukraine and a view of Ukraine as a corpse.”
  • Modern Ukraine is considered to be “entirely created by Russia or, to be more precise, by Bolshevik, Communist Russia.”
  • Russia is “ready to show what real decommunization would mean for Ukraine.”
UPDATED Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov – Telegram posts by Kadyrov – Telegram (Feb. 21, 2022 – Sept. 2, 2025)
  • “All of today’s Ukraine at one time did not even dream of those territories that were given to it with one stroke of the pen by the Bolsheviks. Without those broad reckless gestures, she, as a country, would not have represented anything from the beginning… Sooner or later everything returns to its native freedom. So it was with the Crimea. Donetsk and Luhansk did not take root either. I think this is not the limit.” (Feb. 21, 2022)
  • “Chechen fighters take an active part in a special operation to cleanse Ukraine from Bandera, nationalists and terrorists.” (March 8, 2022)
  • “Very soon, these brave [Russian] warriors will erase this vile, vile phenomenon called “nationalism” from the pages of Ukrainian history.” (March 19, 2022)
  • “I do not envy the fate of the Bandera dogs, because their sad fate is already a foregone conclusion by our valiant warriors. My dear brothers… intend to excise this hated Nazi tumor. Very soon, the hands of Chechen fighters will bring final peace and order throughout Ukraine. They intend to personally behead all the shaitans hiding behind thick walls, or, what is even more vile for civilians.” (using the Islamic term “shaitans for devils, or Satan. March 24, 2022)
  • “The Kyiv authorities have chosen a path doomed to death. Having once chosen the side of outright Western criminals, the entire Ukronazi trash forever crossed out the possibility of peaceful coexistence in a religious and civilized society.” (March 24, 2022)
  • “The Nazis once again demonstrate their true essence, the essence of rodent pests.” (April 2, 2022)
  • Russian forces “are conducting cleansing operations from the surviving Bandera rabble, Nazis and shaitans.” (April 13, 2022)
  • “With such motivation and fighting spirit, we simply do not have the right to leave a single nationalist and Banderist on Ukraine soil.” (April 26, 2022)
  • For eight years, Donbass “was oppressed by non-humans from gangs of Ukraine.” (May 19, 2022)
  • “I am convinced that Russian President Vladimir Putin made the only right decision, ordering to destroy the American chimera in its very embryo in Ukraine.” (June 26, 2022)
  • “This is exactly how the purge of the entire Luhansk People’s Republic took place – competently, quickly and accurately.” (July 10, 2022)
  • “Europeans, Ukrainians, wake up! Save your gene pool, not Zelensky’s status.” (July 24, 2022)
  • “It cost us a lot of effort to squeeze out of our lands this abomination that has bred at the suggestion of the same West.” (August 3, 2022)
  • “Now, even if one bullet flies towards Russia, it is necessary not only to hit the decision-making centers, but to wipe them off the face of the earth so that there is no wet place left from this fascist-Bandera junta. I think so – the fish rots from the head, so you have to start from the top.” (Oct. 19, 2022)
  • “We will do our best to ensure that these dogs of hell get what they deserve, and those who somehow managed to escape punishment are doomed to live the rest of their miserable life, turning around anxiously. They don’t deserve any rights or accepted norms.” (Nov. 19, 2022)
  • “The result of the special operation for us is the complete destruction of the manifestations of Satanism: shaitans, Bandera, Nazis. There are many definitions for them, but the essence is always the same. Their true essence is the lack of humanity, moral principles, the spread of evil spirits. Therefore, for us they are Satanists.” (Nov. 26, 2022)
  • “Our ancestors fought for religion, for the right to pray, to build mosques, to adhere to their spiritual and moral values … Today, in the zone of the special military operation, our brothers are defending this right, defending the Motherland from the satanic invasion, which wants to instill destructive ideas and values that are alien to us and destructive.” (Feb. 17, 2023)
  • “Today, Russia alone is fighting not only the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv. Under the guise of Ukraine and its gene pool, the entire NATO block, the European Union is fighting against us, supplying weapons, ammunition, equipment, and mercenaries.” (March 13, 2023)
  • “I will not confine myself to a dry condemnation of the act of the Ukrainian evil spirits, which recently burned the pages of the Holy Quran … For the elimination of this scum, I announce a reward of 5 million rubles.” (March 17, 2023)
  • “Today, the Donetsk People’s Republic is an integral part of Russia, its full subject. Exactly nine years ago, the inhabitants of the DPR determined their future fate. They firmly decided that they would steadily move towards their historical homeland – Russia.” (May 11, 2023)
  • We will crush these evil spirits like annoying bugs. We will become a wall, protecting our great Motherland, which honors the traditions of the peoples, protects their spiritual values.” (May 23, 2023)
  • “The Kiev Nazi leadership makes decisions that more and more leave no doubt that they are using terrorist methods and, therefore, are terrorists. We need to use this completely appropriate term along with the terms ‘Nazi’ and ‘Satanist.’ For me, it is so necessary to declare martial law in Russia, to use all the combat resources intended for this, in order to sweep away this entire terrorist cell at once, without resorting to the wording ‘Ukrainian military.’ There are no military and politicians in Ukraine – only terrorists.” (May 30, 2023)
  • “But if we are really serious – All of you [Ukrainians], the unfortunate ones, are in trouble. I will NEVER stop crushing you, dung beetles …” (September 2, 2025)
Putin declaring Russia’s full-scale assault on Ukraine – “Putin Orders ‘Special Military Operation’ for Ukraine” – Bloomberg News (February 24, 2022)
  • The special military operation’s goal is “the protection of people who during eight years, suffer from abuse and genocide from the Kyiv regime.”
  • Whoever tries to stop Russia and “further create threats to [Russia’s] country, to [the Russian] people, should know that Russia’s response will be immediate and lead [them] to such consequences that [they] have never faced in [their] history.”
UPDATED Head of the Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky – Telegram posts by Slutsky – Telegram (Feb. 24, 2022 – Aug. 24, 2025)
  • “Considering that Washington and Brussels have rejected Russian proposals on global security issues, and Kiev has been refusing to implement the Minsk agreements for 8 years, the demilitarization of Ukraine is the only way left… [Russia and Ukraine] is one people. Think about [their] shared history. [They] have common victories. One culture, one faith.” (Feb. 24, 2022)
  • “Today in Ukraine there is not only a special operation of the RF Armed Forces for liberation from neo-Nazism. In fact, this is the culmination of a fierce civilizational battle unleashed not by us. But the price of victory in it now is salvation from the destruction of the entire Russian world.” (May 7, 2022)
  • “All of this once again demonstrates that Russia’s special operation in Ukraine must be brought to an end. This is a question of the survival of the Russian world and Russian civilization.” (July 17, 2022)
  • “The decision to conduct the SVO [special military operation] was the only correct one. Russia is saving the Donbass from the genocide and terror of the Nazi regime, which is far from being controlled in Kyiv… Holding referendums on joining Russia in the LPR and DPR, as well as in the liberated territories of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, all subsequent steps (we have no doubt what they will be), the decree on partial mobilization is the way to preserve our common fatherland.” (Sept. 21, 2022)
  • “This is the harsh truth. Until the last Ukrainian, so until the last Ukrainian.” (Sept. 30, 2022)
  • “These are the non-humans that the Ukrainian Maidan spawned. Religion in Ukraine is replaced by them with false faith and sectarianism, and the junta itself is first replaced by them.” (Dec. 12, 2022)
  • “The fate of the Zelensky junta, no matter how Western magazines give him the title of man of the year, is no more enviable than the fate of ordinary traitors. The sale of national interests and the extermination of their people in the war of the West against Russia to the ‘last Ukrainian’ may very well end up with a ‘Not Found’ answer to a search query about Ukraine in the future.” (Dec. 26, 2022)
  • “The Kyiv regime finally seems to have lost the last remnants of sanity. But what is wrong with European capitals? Are you ready to be erased too?” (Jan. 23, 2023)
  • Ukraine celebrates its independence day. What does Kiev mean today in this concept, what kind of “independence” – from whom and from what – is it celebrating? And what exactly is its Ukrainian version? The propaganda response of the Kyiv regime, whether headed by Zelensky or Poroshenko, is quite obvious. After the 2014 coup, under the supervision of the collective West, all ties of cooperation with Russia were demonstratively severed, neo-Nazism actually became the state ideology, and the bloody executioners and accomplices of the Nazis were elevated to the rank of national heroes. And for what? In order to voluntarily become a new American vassal? The ‘dependence’ (literally and figuratively) of the Kyiv regime was the beginning of the loss of state sovereignty and provoked an armed conflict, suffering and death. It turned the country’s territory into a theater of military operations and created threats not only to European but also to global security. She deprived millions of Ukrainians of their homes, forced to flee abroad from the madness of the ukrofuhrer. Today there is no state more controlled from the outside in all respects – political, economic, military (!) – than “free Ukraine”. This is independence in Ukrainian style.” (Aug. 24, 2023)
  • “In such conditions, carrying out SVO is an effective vaccine against the slide towards a new epidemic of the “brown plague.” The goals of denazification of Ukraine must be fully achieved.” (Dec. 20, 2023)
  • “We do not refuse negotiations today, but subject to the main condition – the elimination of the neo-Nazi threat and guarantees of security for Russians. This means denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine, its neutral status and recognition of the choice of the people of Novorossiya to be together with Russia. Zelensky’s so-called “peace plan” with its essentially demand for capitulation and betrayal of citizens who have become ours in the new (or rather, old) Russian territories is not being considered – it should definitely be scrapped.” (Dec. 27, 2023)
  • “Russia, as you know, does not start war, Russia is ending war. Victory is inevitable, as is the capitulation of the Kiev junta. The goals of the SVO on the denazification and demilitarization of the Ukro-fascists must be achieved – and as soon as possible. Banderov Ukraine will become “the grave” of the West. The hegemony.” (Feb. 22, 2024)
  • The inevitable victory of Russia in the SVO will be a crushing defeat in the proxy war to the last Ukrainian.” (Feb. 22, 2024)
  • A bullet or the most severe punishment awaits the entire leadership of the Nazi regime!” (March 23, 2025)
  • “The general logic here is absolutely clear. Zelensky can continue to be hysterical, repeating mantras about “temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories”, but he will not see Donbass and other originally Russian lands as if to his own ears. The time of the Ukrofuhrer is running out. The countdown is underway.” (April 18, 2025)
  • “All haters of Russia should remember this: in April 1814, the Russian army forced Napoleon to abdicate, and in 1945, it forced Hitler to commit suicide. The same awaits today’s Ukrofascists.” (April 30, 2025)
  • “The unification of the Russian world is an inevitable process, although it takes time. Today, our heroes are fighting for this in a special military operation. It will put an end to the last neo-Nazi regime in the world.” (Aug. 19, 2025)
  • “The political landscape has been destroyed, there are no elections, total censorship has been introduced. The independence of Russophobic Ukraine is a phantom. It’s time to celebrate “Dependence Day” – neocolonial.” (Aug. 24, 2025)
Russian victory declaration, accidentally published – “The Offensive of Russia and the New World” – RIA Novosti (February 26, 2022, since deleted)
  • There will be no more Ukraine as anti-Russia.”
  • Vladimir Putin has asserted a “historic responsibility by deciding not to leave the solution of the Ukrainian question to future generations.”
  • Ukraine’s return to Russia will not mean its statehood’s “liquidation”; instead, Ukraine will be “reorganized, re-established and returned to its natural state of part of the Russian world.”
    • Analysis: This victory declaration “made it clear that Russia’s aim in this war was to destroy the Ukrainian state, destroy the Ukrainian nation, and then leave the remaining populace as a kind of unformed mass that could be colonized in any way the Russian leadership desired.” – Snyder
  • This war is a “response to the geopolitical expansion of the Atlanticists, this is Russia’s return of its historical space and its place in the world.”
UPDATED Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin – Telegram posts by Volodin – Telegram (March 15, 2022 – June 21, 2025)
  • “In the end, everyone should come to the realization that we have one country, and we are obliged to defend it. And there shouldn’t be another!” (March 15, 2022)
  • Ukraine has lost its sovereignty and is on the verge of self-disintegration.” (July 21, 2022)
  • “If the attacks by the Kyiv regime continue, the response will be even tougher. All organizers and perpetrators of terrorist attacks must be found. Those who resist are destroyed.” (Oct. 13, 2022)
  • Ukraine “began to destroy their native culture, which cannot be divided into Russian and Ukrainian – it, like faith, we have in common.” (Feb. 19, 2023)
  • “There can be no negotiations with the Zelensky regime. We will demand the use of weapons capable of stopping and destroying the Kiev terrorist regime.” (May 3, 2023)
  • “Zelensky committed a vile act towards those who gave their lives for the liberation of the world from fascism, towards those who today can no longer defend themselves. Having handed over the Ukrainians as expendable material to NATO, the Kiev bloody regime destroyed the national culture, trampled on faith, banned the Russian language, which was and is being spoken by the majority of the population, and is now rewriting history. Ukraine became a US colony. There can be no future for a state where the deeds and memories of grandfathers and great-grandfathers, heroes, thanks to whom we live, are not honored… Do everything so that the followers of Nazism are destroyed!” (May 9, 2023)
  • A country loses sovereignty if it abandons its history, language, faith, culture and traditions. Zelensky caused irreparable damage to Ukraine in these matters.” (July 1, 2023)
  • “Traditional, true values ​​for Ukrainians have been trampled underfoot. History has been rewritten, faith has been betrayed, and Russian, the native language of many Ukrainian citizens, has been banned. Instead, European pseudo-values ​​are being propagated, LGBT people are being promoted, and drugs are being legalized. The beautiful slogans of the Maidan and the cookies of the US State Department turned out to be a deception of the Ukrainian people. The puppet Kiev regime has led the country to a dead end. Ukrainians were deprived of their future by betraying national interests and selling their sovereignty to Washington.” (Nov. 20, 2023)
  • Ukraine has ceased to exist as a rule of law since 2014. Ten years ago, Washington and Brussels with the hands of the Nazis in Kiev conducted a bloody coup d’etat. The leadership positions were occupied by bandits and Nazis. And those who disagreed with this, threw behind bars, killed, burned alive.” (May 26, 2024)
  • Russians and Ukrainians are one people. In this sense, all of Ukraine is ours.” (June 21, 2025)
UPDATED Medvedev – Telegram posts by Medvedev – Telegram (March 17, 2022 – June 25, 2025)
  • Russia fights for a “world order” in which there is “no place for frostbitten Nazis, historical lies and genocide [against the Russian people].” (March 17, 2022)
  • Negotiations with Ukraine aim to “fix the neutral status of Ukraine, its demilitarization, the rejection of the use of Nazi ideological laws that were adopted in this country. Well, and a number of positions that the Russian Federation considers to be most important.” (March 26, 2022)
  • Deep Ukrainianism” is a fictional concept “fueled by anti-Russian poison and an all-consuming lie about its identity, is one big fake. This phenomenon has never happened in history. And it doesn’t exist now.” (April 5, 2022)
  • Ukraine will “suffer its own fate” after having “mentally transformed into the Third Reich, having written down the names of Jews and Nazi henchmen into history books. This is its path, of such Ukraine.” (April 5, 2022)
  • Russia’s “most important goal” is to “change the bloody and full of false myths consciousness of a part of today’s Ukrainians.” (April 5, 2022)
  • “History will put everything in its place and show which side the truth is on. Who became the custodian of true Christian values, protecting them from atheists, bandits, and nationalists.” (April 27, 2022)
  • “Zelensky has no other way to stay in office. If, of course, the position itself remains.” (May 3, 2022)
  • “I am often asked why my Telegram posts are so harsh. The answer is I hate them. They are bastards and geeks. They want death for us, Russia. And as long as I’m alive, I will do everything to make them disappear.” (June 7, 2022)
  • “I saw a message that Ukraine, under Lend-Lease, wants to receive SPG-9 from its overseas owners with payment for delivery in 2 years. Otherwise, next winter it will simply freeze. Just a question. And who said that in two years Ukraine will even exist on the world map?” (June 15, 2022)
  • Putin’s special military operation aims to “protect the citizens of Donbass and to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. Everything is clear here, and they will be achieved.” (July 9, 2022)
  • “As a result of Western involvement, “Ukraine may lose the remnants of state sovereignty and disappear from the world map” and “Ukrainian criminals will definitely be tried for the atrocities committed against the people of Ukraine and Russia (July 21, 2022)
  • “The Ukrainian state in its current configuration with the Nazi political regime will pose a constant, direct and clear threat to Russia. Therefore, in addition to protecting our people and protecting the borders of the country, the goal of our future actions, in my opinion, should be the complete dismantling of the political regime of Ukraine.” (Oct. 10, 2022)
  • “Here, various cockroaches that have bred in the Kiev insectarium constantly threaten to ‘return the Crimea.’ Well, the goals are clear: to cheer up the tame insects around and show the owner of the insectarium that they are still very capable of running cockroaches for a piece of food. Almost like a cockroach – favorite Janissaries in the play of the famous Kyivian Mikhail Bulgakov ‘Running.’ Therefore, I want to remind them of indisputable facts:
    • “Kiev is the capital of Ancient Russia.
    • “Kyiv is a large Little Russian city within the Russian Empire.
    • “Kyiv is the republican capital of the USSR.
    • “And finally, Kyiv is just a Russian city where people always thought and spoke Russian. To make everything very clear what and how to return…” (Nov. 20, 2022)
  • Pseudo-Ukrainian rabid mongrels with Russian surnames, choking on their toxic saliva, declare that their enemy is located within the borders of Russia, from the West to Vladivostok. Rabies has no cure.” (Dec. 11, 2022)
  • “The termination of life, or death, of the former state will be accompanied by insane laughter, indecent antics and vile clown antics of the Nazi gang, completely crazy from the abundance of blood and drugs. And the deathly silence of Western doctors, looking with cold contempt at the agony of their own tortured patient…” (Feb. 3, 2023)
  • “It is so important to achieve all the goals of a special military operation. Push the borders of threats to our country as far as possible, even if these are the borders of Poland. Destroy neo-Nazism to the ground. In order not to waste time later on catching the remnants of Bandera gangs in the Little Russian forests. So that the world will find long-awaited peace.” (Feb. 24, 2023)
  • “Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that Ukraine is financially a non-existent country. As soon as funding from the US and Europe ends, the war will end. Well done, boldly and accurately for a European politician. One can only add that as soon as Western funding ends, Ukraine itself will end. She doesn’t need anyone.” (April 14, 2023)
  • “The Kyiv dog continues to bark. Saliva flows down the hairy muzzle so that the owners see his fighting qualities… Do not underestimate even delusional performances. It is also a hysterical manifesto of the Kiev regime in order to consolidate the Nazi elite, maintain the morale of the troops and receive new support from their sponsors. And the answer to it can only be this:
    • Massive destruction of personnel and military equipment used by the Nazi regime during the counteroffensive, with the infliction of the maximum military defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
    • The complete defeat of the enemy and the final overthrow of the Nazi regime in Kiev with its complete demilitarization throughout the Ukraine.
    • The implementation of acts of retribution against key figures of the Nazi regime, regardless of their location and without statute of limitations.” (April 29, 2023)
  • “Our main task is … to inflict a devastating defeat on all enemies – the Ukronazis, the United States, their minions in NATO, including vile Poland, and other Western nits. We must finally return our lands.” (May 1, 2023)
  • “After today’s terrorist attack, there are no options left except for the physical elimination of Zelensky and his cabal. It is not even needed to sign the act of unconditional surrender. Hitler, as you know, did not sign it either.” (May 3, 2023)
  • “Now is the time to say how Ukraine will disappear, as well as what is the risk of renewed conflict in Europe and in the world. This will depend on which path the process of disintegration of this dying state will follow as a result of a lost military conflict. There are two of them. Or the path of relatively slow erosion of Ukrainian statehood with the gradual loss of the remaining elements of state sovereignty. Or the path of its instant collapse with the simultaneous annihilation of all signs of statehood.” (May 25, 2023)
  • “We do not need Ukraine in NATO. In any case, as long as at least a stump of this state is preserved in its current form. Consequently, for Nazi Ukraine, the conflict will be permanent. And the new political regime in Kiev (if it exists at all) will definitely not be asked for in NATO.” (June 16, 2023)
  • “The Ukrainian junta keeps saying that the condition for negotiations is access to some of their 1991 borders. These are the borders of the regions of Russia and once the provinces of the Russian Empire, and not the mythical Ukraine. Ukraine is the Land of Sannikov, founded by Lenin. It didn’t last long and disappeared from the map. There is no such land. Whatever they think in the West and in the occupied Russian city of Kyiv.” (July 2, 2023)
  • “The special military operation will continue with the same goals. One of them: refusal of the Kiev Nazi group from membership in NATO, which we insisted on from the very beginning (which is impossible). This means that this group will have to be eliminated (which is possible and necessary).” (July 11, 2023)
  • We must not stop until the current inherently terrorist Ukrainian state is completely dismantled. It must be destroyed completely. Or rather, so that not even ashes remain from it. So that this abomination can never, under any circumstances, be reborn… This is the only way — the complete disposal of the state machine of a hostile country and absolute guarantees of loyalty for the future.” (Aug. 19, 2023)
  • “Judging by simple arithmetic, this ‘country’ [of Ukraine] had a mythical past, a sad present and no future… The decay vector is clearly visible. With so many people abandoning their state, the Kyiv regime and its ‘Ukraine’ will soon have nothing to support themselves, let alone fight. Therefore, the most noticeable number in Ukrainian reports will be the number 404. Computer error code: people fled, country not found.” (Aug. 31, 2023)
  • “Today is the Day of reunification of new regions with Russia. A year ago, at referendums, their residents made a fateful decision – to be with their Fatherland. This choice became a symbol not only of the restoration of historical justice, but also of the unity of the Russian people, their colossal will and dedication. The special military operation will continue until the Nazi Kyiv regime is completely destroyed and the original Russian territories are liberated from the enemy. Victory will be ours. And there will be more new regions within Russia.” (Sept. 30, 2023)
  • “We must admit that Odessa, Nikolaev, Kyiv, and practically everything else is not Ukraine at all. After this, there are only three steps before admitting the obvious:
    • Zelensky, who does not go to the polls, is NOT the president, but a usurper.
    • The Ukrainian language is NOT a language, but a surzhik [Ukrainian-Russian pidgin language].
    • Ukraine is NOT a country, but artificially collected territories.” (Nov. 12, 2023)
  • “That’s all. The masks have finally been dropped. The Rada canceled the presidential elections. After all, while there is a war going on until the last Ukrainian, there are no elections, there are Zelensky ones… Hence the hysteria of the cocaine clown with the aim of refusing to elect a president of the still existing country 404. However, every cloud has a silver lining. After all, the bottom line is that such a ‘Ukraine’ will not have a  ‘president,’ nor will such a ‘president’ have a ‘Ukraine.’” (Nov. 23, 2023)
  • “What about negotiations in 2024? Everything is quite obvious.
    • 1. The special operation will continue, its goal will remain the disarmament of Ukrainian troops and the rejection of the current Ukrainian state from the ideology of neo-Nazism.
    • 2. The removal of the ruling Bandera regime is clearly not declared, but the most important and inevitable goal that must and will be achieved.
    • 3. Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Nikolaev, Kyiv are Russian cities, like many other temporarily occupied ones. All of them are still marked in yellow-blue on paper maps and on electronic tablets.
    • And so – yes. ‘Negotiations’ are, of course, possible. Russia has never rejected them, unlike the crazy Ukrainian authorities. Such ‘negotiations’ are not limited by time. They can continue until the complete defeat and capitulation of the Bandera troops of the North Atlantic Alliance.” (Dec. 28, 2023)
  • “Why Ukraine is dangerous for its residents: The Existence of Ukraine [is] deadly dangerous for the Ukrainians. And I am referring not only to the current state, the Bandera political regime. I’m talking about any Ukraine. Why? Why? The presence of an independent state in the historical Russian territories will now be a constant reason for the resumption of hostilities. It’s late. Whoever stood at the steering of the cancerous neoplasm under the name of Ukraine, this will not add legitimacy to his rule and the legal viability of the country itself. And, therefore, the probability of a new contraction will remain uncertainly long… that is why the existence of Ukraine [is] fatal for Ukrainians.” (Jan. 17, 2024)
  • “The senior Ukrainian drug addict made an unpretentious propaganda move caused by a failure at the front. Having mercilessly blown the double dose, he signed a decree on territorial claims to Russia on the lands historically populated by Ukrainians. There is nothing to comment, because the Ukrainians are Russians, and Malorossia is part of Russia.” (Jan. 22, 2024)
  • “This is not just an operation to return [to] our official territories and punish the Nazis. It is possible and necessary to go to the land of the existing Ukraine. To Odessa, to Kharkiv, to Dnepropetrovsk, to Nikolaev. To Kiev and beyond. There should be no restrictions in the sense of some recognized borders of the Ukrainian reich.” (Aug. 8, 2024)
  • “This story will not go unpunished for Ukraine. The country will be destroyed, like Sodom and Gomorrah, and the demons will inevitably fall. Moreover, retribution will cover them not in the distant future – after the transition to another world. On the contrary, the punishment will be earthly, cruel, painful and will happen soon. For it is said: “Then Jesus struck them and killed them and hung them on five trees; and they hung on the trees until evening” (Josh. 10:26). And the True Orthodox Church in the former Ukrainian lands will shine in its former glory.” (Aug. 23, 2024)
  • “Western corpse-eaters can continue to pour endless funds into their Kyiv bastards and reap their sad harvest. But the fact remains: the economic foundation of Ukrainian statehood has been undermined. The resource base illegally obtained by Bandera’s creatures at the end of the 20th century has returned to their native country. There is nothing left to parasitize on. The abundant Western aid will soon end for quite prosaic reasons. There is very little of our own left. And then there is only rapid decomposition and inevitable collapse…” (Aug. 30, 2024)
  • “Tomorrow will be three years since the beginning of the special military operation. We had to take this step when the point of no return was finally passed in the confrontation with the so-called collective West. And there was only one way to protect our Motherland and its citizens, to push the enemy away from our borders… 80 years ago, our country defeated fascism. Its vile descendants will not escape retribution. And this retribution will not be in a new Nuremberg. It will be on the battlefield. It is shorter and fairer…. We will not allow a worldwide Apocalypse. We must make the revenge of Nazism on the planet impossible. Burn out its roots with a hot iron. Preserve historical memory and leave a worthy legacy for new generations on Earth.” (Feb. 23, 2025)
  • (Discussing the Ukrainian drone attack on a pumping station of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, referring to Ukraine as an “animal.”) “The bite must prove to the breadwinner that the animal has ceased to be domestic and now poses a danger to the entire barnyard. And even to the owner himself… Now the owner of the aggressive creature will have to check whether the animal suffers from rabies in order to protect his health. As is known, there are two ways to do this. The first is to immediately treat yourself, having received a painful vaccination, six injections from a deadly disease, while simultaneously observing the behavior of the suspicious creature. And the second, most reliable way to prevent the spread of rabies is to quickly euthanize the sick animal for a posthumous study of brain tissue, just in case. Which of them the new US administration will choose, the near future will show.” (Feb. 18, 2025)
  • “During the Bright Easter week, the Kursk region was completely liberated. On the eve of the Great Victory Day, our heroic soldiers continue to crush the enemy in other areas. The Nazi scum must disappear from our land forever!” (April 27, 2025)
  • “The shagreen skin of the Bandera state is shrinking. Disinfection against parasites continues.” (June 8, 2025)
  • “The pinworms from Bankova cannot confirm that the Ukrainian Armed Forces received about 30% of the weapons and military equipment supplied by the Americans. I have already written that these deadly gifts become trophies of various criminals around the world, including international terrorist groups. Finally, this banal truth is beginning to reach the suppliers themselves, who until recently were zealous advocates of helping the parasitic Ukrainian democracy with pork and dwarf tapeworms. And this is only the beginning. If the US continues the audit, they will probably learn many more interesting things. This means that the main intestinal worm with a community of roundworms and other helminths will face an investigation in Congress. In this case, the final outcome for the Kiev parasites will be disastrous. They will inevitably meet their end with the help of antihelminthic therapy.” (June 23, 2025) 
  • The so-called Ukraine in the EU is a danger for our country. There are two ways to stop this danger: a) either the EU itself must realize that it does not need the Kiev quasi-state in principle; b) or, which is certainly preferable, if there is simply no one to join the EU…” (June 25, 2025)
Russian head of occupation authority in Crimea Sergey Aksyonov – Telegram posts by Aksyonov – Telegram (March 29, 2022 – Jan. 17, 2025)
  • Everything that is connected with the common history, culture, spirituality of the Russian and Ukrainian peoples, acts on the demon-possessed Bandera people like incense on devils. Our army liberates the Ukrainian land from evil spirits. The idol of Bandera will be destroyed, and the world will become cleaner and freer.” (March 29, 2022)
  • “Does anyone still have doubts that Russia is freeing the Ukrainian people from absolute evil? It was grown in the ideological laboratories of Western intelligence services, pumped up with hatred and armed to the teeth, its goal is the destruction of our common values, everything that is dear to us. Therefore, only demilitarization, denazification and the trial of Nazi criminals. Therefore – only victory!” (March 30, 2022)
  • “It is necessary to destroy the Nazi reptile in its Kiev nest. We must go to the end. Like in `45.” (April 14, 2022)
  • “We understand that in the person of this regime we are dealing not only with an anti-Russian, but also with an anti-Christian force. In other words, with Satanists. Nazism, paganism, the occult and Satanism have always gone hand in hand – this was the case in the Third Reich, this is happening today in Ukraine… After liberation, Ukraine will need not only denazification, but also serious spiritual ‘treatment.’ Not only a new Nuremberg, but also, figuratively speaking, baptism in the waters of the Dnieper.” (April 18, 2022)
  • “Those war criminals who survive the process of demilitarization and denazification must be tried and executed publicly. How our grandfathers and great-grandfathers executed the Bandera bastard.” (April 22, 2022)
  • The “Ukrainian Nazis” face two outcomes: “crawling on their knees into captivity and then under the tribunal or into hell. There are no other scenarios for them and cannot be.” (April 26, 2022)
  • “The Ukrainian government is confidently leading the country along the path of Nazi Germany, to spiritual, cultural and political suicide. Russian classics, which make up a significant part of world culture, are being sacrificed to bestial Russophobia. The nature of this hatred is understandable: the very existence of the Russian world and everything connected with it is death for Ukrainian Nazism, the virus of which was grown in Western ideological laboratories and artificially brought to the historical lands of Russia … I am sure that after the defeat of Nazism, Russian classics will return to Ukrainian soil. This will become an important tool for denazification of the country. Russian culture and Nazism are incompatible.” (April 27, 2022)
  • Those captured Nazis who will not be shot by the verdict of the tribunal should be sent to the most black and hard work to restore the cities of Donbass they destroyed. There will be places for them in the Crimean colony. Here they will find a ‘warm’ welcome, lessons in the Russian language and anti-fascism, which they will remember for the rest of their lives.” (May 20, 2022)
  • “It is difficult to argue with the obvious fact that Ukraine has adopted the methods of ISIS (the organization is banned in the Russian federation)… [Russia] will give a worthy and fair response to the terrorist state of Ukraine, will protect its people and fraternal peoples.” (June 29, 2022)
  • Ukraine has already committed so many terrorist attacks, so many crimes against humanity that it has lost all right to its statehood. Ukrainian statehood has become an idol to which bloody sacrifices are constantly made. This idol must be destroyed. The sooner Ukraine in its current form disappears from the political map of the world, the better it will be for the peoples of this country, which the Kyiv regime mercilessly throws into the meat grinder of war, and for the entire world community, for which the Ukrainian state has become a source of endless problems and tension.” (July 12, 2022)
  • The Ukrainian regime “is not just Nazi and anti-Russian, it is anti-humanUkrainian statehood is Moloch [a pagan deity], to whom children are sacrificed. This filthy idol must be destroyed, it has no place in history.” (July 27, 2022)
  • “The forces that seized the Mother of Russian cities and other lands of historical Russia are anti-Russian, anti-Christian, anti-human.” (July 28, 2022)
  • “The Russian world is returning to its natural borders. I am sure that this process will continue. Our glorious ancestors for centuries mastered, developed and defended these lands not for the bastards who do not remember their relationship, the followers of the sect of Nazis and traitors, to ‘panow’ on them.” (Aug. 8, 2022)
  • “The future of Ukraine, or rather what remains of it, is possible only with the complete elimination of Ukrainian statehood. We must work to ensure that a new enemy does not grow up near us, in a more serious guise.” (Sept. 1, 2022)
  • “Unfortunately, the ideology of state terrorism is shared by at least part of Ukrainian society. This is evidenced by the outbursts of demonic joy on the Internet about every terrorist attack staged by the Kyiv regime. This is a disease of public consciousness, which will also have to be treated during the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. Everyone should know that the end of terrorists is always the same – dog death and eternal damnation. So it was, is and will be.” (Sept. 3, 2022)
  • Ukraine is a terrorist state. There can only be one end for terrorists. Proven by history.” (Sept. 16, 2022)
  • It is not the Russian language that will disappear, but Ukraine.” (Oct. 21, 2022)
  • “Now it’s our turn to burn out the Nazi plague with a red-hot iron. And the best guarantee that it will never again crawl out of its rotten catches and will not again strike minds and souls is the liquidation of Ukrainian statehood, which gave birth to Nazism. This will be a new day of liberation for the millions of people who today are held hostage by a terrorist state.”(Oct. 28, 2022)
  • Those who occupy Odessa and other Russian cities are of no historical value. The Empress will definitely return to her rightful place, and Bandera’s garbage will be thrown to the dustbin of history.” (Nov. 8, 2022)
  • “Perhaps the West believes that [Hitler] managed to breed a special ‘breed’ of the Nazis, intended exclusively for ‘hunting’ for Russia and Russians – as breeds of dogs are bred. No one remembers that in fact one of the main ‘generic signs’ of the failed Ukrainian statehood in the nineteenth-twentieth, and in the forties of the last century was anti-Semitism… Only the elimination of the Kyiv junta and the dismantling of Ukrainian statehood, impregnated with Nazism, are a reliable guarantee of peace and security for all peoples.” (Nov. 8/9, 2022)
  • “We are fed up with ‘square’ disgusting to the throat. And no amount of weapons will help the Kyiv regime to once again get into the Crimea with its snout and put its pig’s hooves on our table. There can be only one result of such attempts: the loss of new territories by the former Ukraine in addition to those already lost and the appearance of thousands of new graves in Ukrainian cemeteries. (Jan. 19, 2023)
  • “The failed Ukrainian statehood is based not only on the ideological code of Russophobia, which the West uses today, but also on the code of anti-Semitism.” (Jan. 26/27, 2023)
  • (Referring to the Berkut police forces who died in 2014) “The Berkut fighters stood in the way of the possessed Maidan crowd, the Nazi scumbags rushing to power, and to the end they fulfilled their duty – official and human. Unlike the corrupt and cowardly Ukrainian authorities, which betrayed everyone who defended the law and the constitutional order, who else could prevent the impending catastrophe, crushing the fascist reptile in the bud. Today it has turned into a monster that our soldiers are fighting in the NWO zone. There is no doubt that the Nazi monster will be destroyed. This is our common duty to our ancestors and defendants, to all those who died in the fight against Nazism.” (Feb. 18, 2023)
  • “Nine years have passed since the tragedy in Odessa, where the Nazis burned dozens of people who did not want to live under their dictates in the building of the local House of Trade Unions… The massacre in Odessa clearly showed the terrorist nature of the Kiev regime. In fact, it was a ritual murder. Because Nazism is not only a political system, and Russophobia is not only a manifestation of national enmity. It is a cult of hatred and death, the “religion” of a terrorist state… But there will certainly be retribution for the death of the Odessa martyrs. The participants in the murder of the House of Trade Unions are known. Judging by media reports, one of the bastards has already been destroyed in the NWO [special military operation] zone. Each of the non-humans, wherever he is, must remember the inevitable retribution.” (May 2, 2023)
  • “I will not repeat once again that the Kiev regime is, in fact, a terrorist organization. We must not speak, but act. Silently and decisively. Our military and special services have a lot of experience in this regard. Like the list of killed terrorists. It is high time to enter new names there… We need targeted and systematic work to eliminate not only the perpetrators, but also the instigators of terrorism and war criminals. This is the only way to stop the wave of terror.” (May 6, 2023)
  • “Today, the fascist reptile is again trying to raise its head in order to destroy as many Russians as possible, inflict as much damage on Russia as possible, turn the original Russian lands into a Wild Field. But there is no doubt that the fate of their idols awaits the ideological and blood heirs of the unfinished fascists.” (June 22, 2023)
  • The Nazi vermin will be destroyed – this time completely. So that not even ashes will remain from it. (Oct. 28. 2023)
  • “Ten years ago, the Maidan began in Kyiv. It is unlikely that those people, deceived by provocateurs, who then took to the streets against the “evil ruler” could have known what a disaster it would all end. In essence, a handful of nationalists brought Ukraine to its knees. And Yanukovych, who tried to position himself as a super politician, ended up being a complete loser. When riots began on the Maidan and the weakness of the central government became visible, we in Crimea realized that the country no longer existed and began to create self-defense units. And now the actions of the Ukrainian authorities defy either logic or common sense. There is no one there to negotiate with. And we do not need to deviate from the obvious – inflicting complete military defeat and changing the political regime in Ukraine. Otherwise, we risk prolonging this problem for decades.” (Nov. 21, 2023)
  • Banderaism is the religion of evil slaves, stupid herds, which killed hundreds of thousands of people and a country that, in general, had a chance for a decent future. As our President said, the only guarantor of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine was Russia. But neither one nor the other was and is not included in the plans of the Western masters, who pull the strings of local puppet politicians. And the fate of the Ukrainian people does not interest them. They do not need Ukraine, but anti-Russia. And now history and the Russian army are putting everything in its place.” (Jan. 1, 2024)
  • “On January 20, 1991, during the first referendum on the territory of the USSR, the Crimeans spoke in favor of the restoration of the Crimean autonomy as part of the Soviet Union. The main driving force behind the referendum was the desire for unity with Russia. And also the political wisdom and common sense of our countrymen, who already then understood what kind of catastrophe the collapse of a great country would result. Figuratively speaking, the children wanted to live with their mother, not with the evil and lying neighbor-Ukraine… Therefore, today other Russian lands – DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, have returned to their homeland. What’s next?” (Jan. 20, 2024)
  • “The very existence of our country depends on the outcome of this confrontation. In fact, on the battlefields in the zone of the SVO, the fate of each of us, the fate of our children, is decided. So winning is a common cause. Holy cause…. Another result of the SVO was the cleansing of the country from the dirt and mold, which bred during the years of timelessness. From aggressive parasites that poisoned the social body.” (Feb. 24, 2024)
  • “Today is the tenth anniversary of the Odessa Khatyni. On May 2, 2014, the Nazis burned people alive in the House of Trade Unions who did not accept the coup in Kiev… In the occupied Russian city of Odessa burned Russian people. Bandera bastards savored their crimes, were proud to have killed those who were rescued from the fire. The mass murder was a matter of national pride. And Ukraine as a state finally died, turning into a terrorist organization, into a frenzied animal.” (May 2, 2024)
  • “The Kiev regime kills more civilians again. All those who gave criminal orders, all who obeyed them, must answer for this. And they will answer. Terrorists have no right to life. No mercy to the infidels.” (June 7, 2024)
  • “Today’s date [the anniversary of the Pereyaslav Agreement] also reminds us that the path of betrayal inevitably leads to the degradation of society and the death of the state. This is clearly evidenced by the agony of Ukraine, which turned off the main route of history named after Bohdan Khmelnytsky into the dead end of Mazepa, Petliura and Bandera.” (Jan. 17, 2025)
Pro-Putin pundit Timofei Sergeitsev op-ed – “What Should Russia Do with Ukraine?” – RIA Novosti (April 5, 2022) (alternative translation by Mariia Kravchenko on Medium)
  • Nazi, Bandera Ukraine, the enemy of Russia and the West’s tool for the destuction of Russia, we do not need.”
  • The “denazification” of Ukraine entails “a set of measures in relation to the nazified mass of the population, which technically cannot be subjected to direct punishment as war criminals.”
    • Analysis: Denazification in “official Russian usage just means the destruction of the Ukrainian state and nation. A ‘Nazi,’ as [Sergeitsev’s article] explains, is simply a human being who self-identifies as Ukrainian. According to [him], the establishment of a Ukrainian state thirty years ago was the ‘nazification of Ukraine.’ Indeed ‘any attempt to build such state’ has to be a ‘Nazi’ act.” – Snyder
  • There is “no significant distinction between the APU [Armed Forces of Ukraine] and the so-called national battalions, as well as the territorial defense that joined these two types of military formations. All of them are equally involved in extreme cruelty against the civilian population, equally guilty of the genocide of the Russian people, do not comply with the laws and customs of war. War criminals and active Nazis should be exemplarily and exponentially punished.”
  • In addition to Ukrainian defense forces, “a significant part of the masses, which are passive Nazis, accomplices of Nazism, are also guilty. They supported and indulged Nazi power.”
  • These masses can be denazified through “re-education, which is achieved by ideological repression (suppression) of Nazi attitudes and strict censorship: not only in the political sphere, bit also necessarily in the sphere of culture and education.”
  • The terms of denazification can in no way be less than one generation, which must be born, grow up and reach maturity under the conditions of denazification.”
  • Denazification will coincide with “de-Ukrainization – a rejection of the large-scale artificial inflation of the ethnic component of self-identification of the population of the territories of historical Little Russia and New Russia, begun by the Soviet authorities.”
    • Analysis: “As a historian of mass killing, I am hard pressed to think of many examples where states explicitly advertise the genocidal character of their own actions right at the moment those actions become public knowledge. From a legal perspective, the existence of sucha text (in the larger context of similar statements and Vladimir Putin’s repeated denial that Ukraine exists) makes the charge of genocide far easier to make. Legally, genocide means both actions that destroy a group in whole or in part, combined with some intention to do so. Russia has done the deed and confessed to the intention.” – Snyder
    • Analysis: History reveals that we “should take dictators at their word. Those who incite genocide usually attempt to follow through. It is not unusual for them to publicize their campaigns through propagandists and media. Adolf Hitler had Joseph Goebbels, Alfred Rosenberg and others doing this work. Putin has Medvedev and the pundits of Russian state media. Finally, the more that Russian soldiers embrace the campaign of ‘de-Ukrainization,’ the more brutal the war will become – and the harder it will be for Russia to find an exit short of total victory or defeat. Russian society’s complacency becomes complicity in murder.” – Hirsch
  • Ukraine is historically “impossible as a nation state, and attempts to ‘build’ one naturally lead to Nazism. Ukrainism is an artificial anti-Russian construction that does not have its own civilizational content, a subordinate element of an alien and alien civilization.”
    • Analysis: This article is different from other Russian news sources for “two critical reasons. It was published amid Russia’s predatory war of aggression – while atrocities were being committed in Bucha, Mariupol and other towns, and while Ukrainian civilians were being kidnapped, deported and sent to filtration camps. It was being published during extreme wartime censorship in Russia, indicating its approval by the Russian authorities.” – Hirsch
  • Politically, the “Bandera elite must be eliminated [as] its re-education is impossible.” Ukraine itself requires “cleans[ing] of Nazi elements… integrating this statehood into close cooperation with the Russian department for the denazification of Ukraine.” Russia will then create a “tribunal for crimes against humanity in the former Ukraine [and] in this regard act as the guardian of the Nuremberg Trials.”
  • Initial steps of denazification, according to Sergeitsev, can be defined as follows:
    • Liquidation of armed Nazi formations, as well as the military, informational, educational infrastructure that ensures their activity;
    • Installation of the Russian information space;
    • The withdrawal of educational materials and the prohibition of educational programs at all levels containing Nazi ideological guidelines; and
    • Lustration, publication of the names of the accomplices of the Nazi regime, involving them in forced labor to restore the destroyed infrastructure as punishment for Nazi activities (from among those who will not be subject to the death penalty or imprisonment).”
UPDATED Vladimir Solovyov, pro-Kremlin presenter – Russian State TV Excerpts (April 7, 2022 – July 23, 2025)
  • “Vladimir Volfovich [former member of the State Duma] made a genuine forecast. And it sounded like this: Zelensky is the last president of Ukraine because after him there will not be any Ukraine!” (April 7, 2022,  translated by media monitor Francis Scarr)
  • “The troops of LPR and DPR are fighting for their land, and now I have a question: What would the Ukrainian territorial defense fight for? None of it is their land… We’re telling people: come to your senses! Remember who you are! Look at what’s been done to you! Look who conquered you! Remember your great past! Wake up, stop lying to yourselves! And that is the main point. Why are they making up a language for you? You are Rusyns [Slavic people] – do you need that language that Zelenskyy is trying to speak. Look at the history that is being made up for you, the religion that is being made up for you. That’s why people are for us. Westerners say, ‘Why don’t they greet you with flowers’? Yes, they are, big time. Despite their fear, they’re welcoming us, and they will welcome us even more when they understand that we’re never leaving.” (May 24, 2022, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “Putin talks about reinforcing and enlargement, because returning means enlargement. What we lost before, now we need to take back… Who is going to be next? Eastern Europe is next, but they don’t want that. Who is the first to get flushed? Poland is the closest to Ukraine. The Baltics are the closest to the borders of the former USSR. That’s why they’re screaming the loudest.” (June 10, 2022, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • Solovyov likens the Russia-Ukraine crisis to “deworming a cat. For the doctor, it’s a special operation. For the worms – it’s a war, and for the cat, it’s a cleansing.” (July 19, 2022, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • Don’t rush to buy maps for the new school year. It would be simply pointless.” (Aug. 5, 2022, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “If we’d taken Kharkiv, it’s obvious that their main logistics and supply centre is there! Wipe it off the face of the fucking earth if we have to! Warn the civilians, tell them ‘You’ve got 24, 48 hours!’ After that we begin to destroy the city block by block.” (Oct. 25, 2022, translated by media monitor Francis Scarr)
  • “What’s happening in Ukraine won’t stay in Ukraine. A holy war is underway. We’re fighting for the right of mankind to live in its original state, as designed by the Creator. Those [Ukrainian] fools who are trying to fight – they aren’t fighting against us, they’re at war with God. In case of their victory, their end is certain. When I say that either we win, or the whole world will be reduced to ashes, this also has another meaning. How can humanity that fights against God continue to exist? … If you think about what’s happening, it’s Satanism. They’re purely demonic, you can’t put it any other way. We have to understand: games are over since we’re dealing with servants of the Prince of Darkness, since we’re dealing with a diabolical origin, what kind of negotiations could there be? Who are we talking to? What kind of negotiations could you have with Satan?” … The new Sodom and Gomorrah await the Lord’s judgment.” (Dec. 17, 2022, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • Let’s destroy the city of Kyiv, to hell with it. Its government district, the Duma where they all sit… Wipe it off the face of the earth. Kyiv’s government district should not exist. It should be destroyed, as well as in Kharkiv, Odessa,  Mykolaiv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv. This is it, jokes are over. You can fight the unclean only with a holy fire falling from the skies, fire and brimstone, like Sodom and Gomorrah… The Lord has chosen us as the weapon of his judgment.” (April 4, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “There should be such damage to Kyiv’s districts that it would be visible from a satellite. Government districts should not exist in all cities of a terrorist country. Ukro-Reich should cease to exist… Everyone involved with terrorists has to be executed… Destroy, D-E-S-T-R-O-Y all Nazi Ukrainian leadership.” (May 6, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “This hatred [for Russia] was nurtured in poor Ukrainians for years… They were teaching them to hate Russian culture… Our poor brotherly nation has gone astray. We will cure them, we will help, we will rebuild.” (May 19, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “And Kyiv? Kyiv needs to be dismantled. Odessa needs to be dismantled! Kharkiv, Dnipro, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk too. There should be strikes on those cities today, much more brutal than our current ones.” (May 30, 2023, translated by media monitor Francis Scarr)
  • “We’ll warn civilians so they can leave. We’ll give them six hours so they can all leave quickly. And then we’ll blow all those cities to kingdom come!” (June 2, 2023, translated by media monitor Francis Scarr)
  • “We no longer have any option. We must wipe them from the face of the earth. Their decision-making centers. No, not the people of Ukraine. But nobody in their leadership should be allowed to feel comfortable.” (June 22, 2023, translated by media monitor Francis Scarr)
  • “I’m still saying I could take Kyiv in 3 days! But first, everything should be destroyed with t  actical nukes! Erase Kyiv off the face of the earth and erect our flag among the ruins!” (July 3, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “[Ukrainian] port cities have to be destroyed. They have to be wiped off the face of the Earth… We will not spare Odessa. We’ll later rebuild it from scratch. It will be much easier this way.” (July 24, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “The President said that if you make a move, your very statehood will be in question. We aren’t saying we’ll let them [Ukrainians] keep their statehood.” (July 24, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “Another question is whether the Ukrainian nation should exist. My answer is, in its current state, it shouldn’t. No! A nation whose ideology presents a threat to us cannot exist next to us.” (Nov. 29, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “Wherever Russia is, there is life. There is love, care and respect. Wherever Satanic Ukraine is, there is death. The spirit dies first. They didn’t even understand it yet. They [Ukrainians] are already corpses, they are dead.” (Dec. 19, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “Ukrainians had a chance to create their nation, it’s over. All these attempts to take only a little bit of land, we throw a hat and will stop where it lands… We’re dealing with a cancerous tumor. We tried curing it with soft, non-invasive methods. That’s over, it didn’t work. And now… sorry.” (March 21, 2024, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • I’ll say it once again: Kharkiv should be erased off the face of the earth very simply, so there are no illusions. But we should start with Kyiv. We should simply destroy all of those governmental… Erase everything off the face of the earth! What’s the name, Koncha-Zaspa [neighborhood in Kyiv]? Erase Koncha-Zaspa, so there is nothing left! Nothing but radioactive dust!” (March 28, 2024, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “Egyptian plagues have descended upon a city that was captured by Satanists. This is what’s happening in Kyiv right now! The Sahara Desert has come upon this city that was betrayed, trampled and humiliated by its inhabitants. Satanists have seized power and are having a ball. After this, who will dare to tell me Kyiv should remain? Satanists have captured the city! This is exactly the way we should treat them — with hot iron! With fire and a sword! These terrorists have to be destroyed! Russian holy sites have to be liberated.” (April 4, 2024, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • What is Ukraine anyway? At the conclusion of this conflict, there should be no Ukraine. If necessary, Romania, Poland, Hungary and ourselves could take some of the territories. There should be no Ukraine any longer! We need a sanitary perimeter. If we leave even a tiny portion of this cancerous tumor, it will expand once again. What talks, what negotiations could there be with them? We don’t need to listen to them either. Who are they to tell us what to do on our territories? All of you, get your stuff and get the heck out of here! … What is in our interests is for them [Ukraine] not to exist! As State Duma deputy [Pyotr] Tolstoy said, we will kill all of them.” (April 6, 2024, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • We will erase whatever is left of Ukraine from the face of the earth… There will be no Ukraine… There will be Novorossiya.”(Oct. 25, 2024, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “We won’t enter into any agreements with you [Ukraine]. We will destroy you, destroy you…we will be destroying you, period… By its nature, Ukrainian political thinking is a betrayal and traitors have to be destroyed… They have to be finished off, finished off completely… For us, Ukraine isn’t even a topic of discussion. It simply doesn’t exist.” (Nov. 9, 2024, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “I especially have no pity for Lviv right now. I believe Lviv should be erased off the face of the earth. Basically, all of Lviv’s population, you have 24 hours to leave the city. This city is Sodom and Gomorrah, and therefore, this city should be erased off the face of the earth. It should simply be destroyed.” (July 23, 2025, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
Russian State TV Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan and other pro-Putin figures or officials – “Ominous rhetoric gains ground in Russia as its forces founder in Ukraine” – Washington Post (April 13, 2022)
  • “On state television, a military analyst doubled down on Russia’s need to win and called for concentration camps for Ukrainians opposed to the invasion. Two days later, the head of the defense committee in the lower house of parliament said it would take 30 to 40 years to ‘reeducate’ Ukrainians.”
  • The editor-in-chief of the television news network RT described “Ukrainians’ determination to defend their country as ‘collective insanity.’ ‘It’s no accident that we call them Nazis,’ said Margarita Simonyan, who also heads the Kremlin-backed media group that operates the Sputnik and RIA Novosti news agencies. ‘What makes you a Nazi is your bestial nature, your bestial hatred and your bestial willingness to tear out the eyes of children on the basis of nationality.’”
  • “In late March, the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee launched a probe into whether Ukrainian students’ textbooks ‘target Children with hatred of Russia and the Russian language’ and ‘distort history.’”
Mentions of Kyiv and Ukraine are removed from the textbooks of the Prosveshcheniye publishing house – Mediazona (April 23, 2022)
  • An anonymous employee for the Russian Prosveshcheniye (Enlightenment) educational publishing house says that they are “faced with the task of making it as if Ukraine simply does not exist… It’s much worse when the textbook just doesn’t mention a country. A person grows up without a knowledge base about some country, and then it is much easier for him to believe what he is told about it from TV.”
  • The publishing house can “mention how [Russia] saved Kyiv, but it is no longer possible to talk about any independence of Ukraine as a country.”
Karen Shakhnazarov, pundit and filmmaker – “‘There will be no mercy’ Putin mouthpiece warns of ‘concentration camps, sterilisation’” – excerpts from Russian State TV channel Rossiya 1 via Express (May 4, 2022, via May 5, 2022 article)
  • Opponents of “Letter Z” must “‘understand that if they are counting on mercy, no, there will be no mercy for them. It all became very serious. In this case it means concentration camps, re-education, sterilization.’”
Russian political scientist Sergey Mikheev – Russian State TV Channel 1 –  translated by Francis Scarr of BBC Monitoring (May 8, 2022)
  • “Ukraine is in thrall to a Nazi-inspired ‘neo-pagan’ religion based on violence.
  • “The ‘bloody paganism’ was founded by Ukrainian ‘accomplices of the Nazis’ during WWII and later cultivated by the diaspora in the US.”
Journalist Victoria Nikiforova op-ed – “It’s Time to Repeat” – RIA Novosti (May 9, 2022)
  • “Fighting is underway in eastern Ukraine. The Nazis torture and kill the inhabitants of the occupied territories.”
  • Russia is defined by “social harmony – difficult to achieve, but absolutely real”
  • The Ukrainian special operation has become Russia’s “war for peace. And not only in Russia, but also for world peace.”
Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokeswoman – Telegram posts by Zakharova – Telegram (June 3, 2022 – May 11, 2024)
  • The Minsk agreements signed by Russia and Ukraine before 2022 in negotiations to end the war in the Donbas were “a chance for Kyiv to preserve the Ukrainian state. Zelensky, led by Westerners, publicly refused [Putin]. The Kyiv regime will not get a second such chance.” (June 3, 2022)
  • The Russian military is “fighting Nazism, neo-Nazism now, freeing Ukraine from the neo-Nazi dominance that has been fed there in recent decades by ‘Western partners.’” (June 22, 2022)
  • The policy of forced Ukrainization and persecution of everything Russian continues.” (June 22, 2022)
  • “Zelensky called Ukraine the only legitimate heir to Kievan Rus. Prince Volodymyr, then mind not being offended that part of Ukraine will be called Rus. I said it myself, well done.” (July 28, 2022)
  • “All that is left to the Kyiv regime, whose characteristic features have long been venality, anger, immorality, dementia and demonic possession. They go to the bottom, proudly raising their middle finger, which has become their shameful symbol.” (Nov. 24, 2022)
  • “The history of these places, like the whole history of Ukraine, is inseparable from the Russian one, and any attempts of the Kiev regime to rewrite it are doomed to failure.” (Dec. 29, 2022)
  • “There is no doubt that the neo-Nazi madness in Kiev will come to an end. The plans of those who took the Ukrainian people hostage and artificially trying to change their national identity with the help of Goebbels propaganda, to tear them away from those with whom they have a common historical past and present, will not come true.” (May 3, 2023)
  • “The Kiev parasitic regime, for many years living on Western handouts at the expense of future generations, is simply not able to offer anything as an experience of state building and achieving economic stability.” (May 11, 2023)
  • “If anyone has any doubts that the Kiev regime will not later turn its terrorist insides against its own creators, they are cruelly mistaken. Unfortunately, then it will be too late.” (June 7, 2023)
  • “The last children of Hitler’s henchmen S. Bandera and R. Shukhevych, as well as their ideological ancestors, in pursuit of imaginary independence and independence, are in fact destroying their homeland, turning it into a springboard for another futile “Drang nach Osten”, becoming a blind instrument of Western aggression against Moscow. And their end will be just as inglorious. All this makes the task of denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine an absolute priority of Russian foreign policy.” (Aug. 20, 2023)
  • “The Kiev regime is an inhumane and anti-humanistic new formation by its very essence… Today, the Kiev regime strenuously wants to emphasize that the unfortunate population of Ukraine are the heirs of Hitler’s fosterlings Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych, who brought a lot of evil to the Ukrainian and other peoples. There is no doubt that after some time this bubble will also burst. It turns out that the Kyiv regime has no more worthy legacy, except for Ukrainians and Nazi collaborators? After all, Gogol, and Khmelnitsky, and many others of those whom they still allow people to be proud of, are directly connected with Russia, which the Kiev regime crossed out from among its ancestors.” (Aug. 31, 2023)
  • “Today, the Kiev regime, continuing its course of falsifying history, is doing everything to erase the immortal feat of the Soviet people from the memory of current and future generations, whitewash fascism and glorify Nazi criminals, who are responsible for the lives of tens of thousands of innocent civilians – Ukrainians, Russians, Belarusians, Poles, Jews and others. We are confident that a new day of liberation of Ukraine from the power of the newly-minted spiritual and ideological heirs of misanthropic ideology is just around the corner.” (Nov. 2, 2023)
  • “In Ukraine, a forcible change in the national identity of citizens is being carried out through the adoption of discriminatory laws in the linguistic, educational and media spheres. Russophobia is being spread everywhere, and perverted interpretations of history are being imposed. Mental adjustment is used against Ukrainian citizens by those who call themselves pro-Ukrainian politicians. It has gotten to the point that the Kiev authorities openly deny the existence of such a national group as Russians in the country (there is even a decision of the Constitutional Court in 2021 on this matter), despite the fact that Russians in Ukraine are actually the state-forming nation.” (Nov. 15, 2023)
  • “Today it is appropriate to ask the question: what exactly did ‘Euromaidan’ give to Ukraine? The answer is obvious. From a self-sufficient, industrialized and populous republic of the former USSR, Ukraine has turned into a poor, dying territory. The country has lost its state independence and is supported by Western colonialists, who determine its domestic and foreign policy.” (Nov. 20, 2023)
  • We will not allow the existence of an aggressive Nazi state on our borders, from whose territory there will be danger for Russia and neighboring countries… It is necessary to confirm the neutral, non-aligned and nuclear-free status of Ukraine, carry out its demilitarization and denazification, recognize new territorial realities, and ensure the rights of Russian-speaking citizens and national minorities living in this country.” (Dec. 9, 2023)
  • “We have seen what Ukraine has become over the years — a failed state, a self-rogue country driven into the ravine of civilization by neo-Nazi ideology, historical amnesia and the promotion of all kinds of vices.” (May 11, 2024)
Alexander Egortsev, Special Correspondent of the Spas TV Channel, which is aligned with the Russian Orthodox Church and had more than 1 million subscribers before being blocked by YouTube and moving its account to the Russian version, RuTube – Goat muzzle. Satanism and the occult have become the ideology of the Ukrainian national battalions – RIA Novosti (June 3, 2022)
  • Alexander Sergeevich Khodakovsky, the commander of the Russian Vostok battalion, likens this [falsely alleged] behavior to the “occultism” that was “very strongly developed in Nazi Germany. And here we see worthy heirs. What they are doing is not compatible with the Christian faith and Orthodoxy. This is savagery…”
  • Archpriest Alexander Novopashin believes that the “essence of turning to Satanism is a rejection of Christianity and an attempt to resort to the help of supernatural forces to solve their problems – natural deities, energies or entities that allegedly help to gain power. Someone calls these dark forces Satan or the devil, someone talks about the Slavic gods, for example, Perun, Wotan, Odin, etc. Now there is little doubt who exported, fed and encouraged Nazism in the modern history of Ukraine.”
Dmitry Rogozin (Director General of Russia’s Roskosmos State Space Agency, former Deputy Prime Minister) – comments on his Twitter feed and Telegram channel (June 13, 2022 – June 27, 2022)
  • “In general, what has grown up in the place of Ukraine is an existential threat to the Russian people, Russian history, Russian language and Russian civilization. If we do not put an end to them, as, unfortunately, our grandfathers did not do away with them, we will have to die, but end up at an even greater cost to our grandchildren. So let’s get this over with. Once and forever. For our grandchildren.”
Zakharova – “Ukraine in its previous borders no longer possible” (June 17, 2022)
  • “The Ukraine that you and I had known, within the borders that used to be, no longer exists, and will never exist again. This is evident.”
UPDATED Rogozin – Telegram posts by Rogozin – Telegram (June 26, 2022 – October 3, 2025)
  • The modern state of Ukraine is “a bastard formation of the Belovezhskaya conspiracy, where the Ukrainian party nomenclature gnawed off the ‘clothes of independence’ along with the Crimea, three military districts and the industrial Donbass. Moreover, the Ukrainian elites suppressed the Russian movement and Russian culture with fear and blood, deprived the indigenous Russian population in Ukraine of the right to speak their native language…Ukrainian elites are traitors…There is no forgiveness for traitors and betrayal!” (June 26, 2022)
  • The Kaliningrad and Baltic territories are “[Russia’s] land. And no revanchist and illiterate geeks can call this into question. We will defend our native land. Woe and cruel death to those who try to unleash aggression against Russia.” (June 27, 2022)
  • “This time we need to burn all this “Ukrainianism” as an ideology. Keep Ukrainians away from it. Burn this ideology along with its bastard literature, delusional history, cannibalism of the “ancient Ukranians,” fascination with fascist “aesthetic” and groveling before the West. Burn that there is no spirit left. No truces. Any truce, and especially humiliation, is the sure death of our children and grandchildren.” (June 26, 2024)
  • “But I was somewhat distracted from the main question: are there ancient Ukrainian folk tales? After all, if they do not exist, then the very statement about the existence of some separate Ukrainian people from the Russian nation – no more than a fairy tale for fools, the fiction of Austro-Hungarian agents, not without the success of the spun separatists, inventing their world history and a separate role. Everything was invented, but they forgot about the stories. They were fond of other tales: about Bandera, Holodomor, Petlluru and Mazepa. Here they are – the heroes of Ukrainian fairy tales. Now to them the battalion “Azov” as epic heroes will rise. And then this poison instead of Russian fairy tales, they will feed their children with a teaspoon. In short, it’s all for a long time now… We will be picking the garbage out of their heads for decades. And here again we cannot do without Pushkin, Gogol and Bulgakov.” (July 17, 2024)
  • “The requirement of denazification has not been canceled. Denazification is not only the replenishment of library collections with Russian literature, it is not only the retraining of teachers in schools in liberated territories, but this is the ruthless suppression and, ultimately, the elimination of Ukrainian fascism as a phenomenon… the entire Bandera underground and the ideologists of this sabotage against the Slavic brotherhood and the Russian world. Wherever they are – in Lviv, in Kiev, or lurking in our rear, we will find them, pick them out and destroy them.” (July 21, 2024)
  • “They [Ukrainians] cannot be released from the Kursk region. We’ve got to bury them all there. Human, flawed, you can’t fix them anymore. You can’t leave them alive.” (Aug. 8, 2024)
  • “In an ecstasy of Russophobia, they throw down busts of Pushkin and Gogol from their pedestals and impose a cult of this freak. Are people with such a mental shift in their heads capable of returning to peaceful life? This is a serious question. Will we be able to live next to them when the military actions end (and they will end sooner or later)? I would think about it now, before it is too late. Personally, I consider such a neighborhood extremely dangerous for the preservation of our nation.” (Feb. 5, 2025)
  • “I assert that Ukraine, formed as a result of the collapse of Greater Russia (the USSR), has not established itself as a viable state. And the issue here is not the patchwork and legally dubious nature of its ethnic and territorial unification within the state borders drawn in 1991. The issue is the extremely low quality of its population’s demand for a “leader of the nation.” The state nationalism being implanted in Ukraine has failed to gain a steady breath and rational meaning, reducing all its efforts to confronting Russia, to attempts to single out only that which separates Ukraine from its mother Russia… I do not believe in the future of Ukraine as a state and in the future of Ukrainians as a people. There is no such people anymore. They were poisoned by bile, eaten by Russophobia. All the energy of these people, stupefied by hostile propaganda, went into the steam of hatred. There is no energy left for state building.” (Feb. 22, 2025)
  • “And here we are all Russians, regardless of blood and place of birth, and they are Vyrus. This is the essence of our confrontation. And no matter what our diplomats agree on at the top, we will never agree with them here on earth. Until their children become Russian again.” (Mar. 13, 2025, using the term “Vyrus,” which connotes “those who are Russian, but refuse to self-identify as such,” according to media monitor Julia Davis)
  • The Bandera degenerates are a completely different kind of human. Second-rate human. A dead-end and foul-smelling branch that needs to be cut off with pruning shears, so that the whole tree does not become sick with it.” (Mar. 23, 2025)
  • “Ukrainianism as an extreme form of ethnic nationalism, all these ‘Ukrainians’ with Hungarian, Jewish, Russian, Little Russian surnames represent for us only the question of how, when and at what cost we will be able to destroy them. We will not be able to live next door to them. Reconcile? After everything that happened? Of course not.” (April 22, 2025)
  • “May 9 [the day Germany surrendered to the Soviet Union] is our family code. Our attitude to May 9 separates us from them. They are the grandchildren of the surviving collaborators and Nazis. There can be no reconciliation with them. Either us or them. There is no third option.” (May 9, 2025)
  • Many countries celebrate World Pest Day on June 6. This is what our Center is directly involved in – crushing pests in its area of ​​​​responsibility. Join “Bars-Sarmat” if you love your homeland, the Russian language and want to rid the world of pests.” (June 6, 2025)
  • “Listen, my friends. Let’s not be so noble and forgetful anymore… We have no right to be calm about the future of our children while those who have the idea and the ability to kill our children are alive. It’s either us or them. There is no third option.” (June 16, 2025)
  • “Of course, we must negotiate with their [Ukraine’s] representatives. First of all, for the sake of our prisoners and inmates. But it is very difficult. I know what negotiations are and what it means to be a negotiator, but with these freaks – after everything I have seen and know about them – I would hardly be able to sit down at the negotiating table. It is easier to kill their leaders than to live next to them. Believe me, it will be safer this way. Yes, they will tell me that I am going too far, that I do not understand that this cannot be done… I also understand that this cannot be done, but I do not see any other option yet.” (July 24, 2025)
  • “The transformation of Little Russians and Russian people in Ukraine into Vyrusians and stupid “pro-Ukrainians” was carried out in two ways: 
    • 1. Substitution of a common Russian-Soviet history [with] the history of the ‘ancient, distinctive Ukrainians.’
    • 2. The widespread extermination of Orthodoxy and its replacement with a pseudo-Christian surzhyk, sects, and outright Banderaism. For example, in the small, liberated Zaporizhzhia town of Berdyansk, 30 (!) religious sects were active under the Ukrainians.
    • All this is happening with the complete inaction of the believers themselves, who silently watch as the doors to their churches are boarded up. Ukrainian society is inexorably and relentlessly turning into cattle. Without faith, without memory, without compassion, without the instinct for self-preservation.” (September 12, 2025)
  • “Fascism is this: rabid Ukrainian women in dichlorvos-infected lab coats, swearing loudly. They confiscate Russian books for burning. A language patrol, so to speak. Who will these women give birth to? Those very same ones – in SS uniforms, with Schmeissers fired from the hip. They’re already giving birth on a roach-like scale.” (October 3, 2025)
Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Russian administration in occupied Kherson, Ukraine – Telegram posts by Stremousov – Telegram (June 29, 2022 – Oct. 21, 2022)
  • Kherson is “going to Russia and in the near future we will regain our Motherland, from which we all come. The Kherson region will never return to the environment of Nazism, debauchery and cynicism.” (June 29, 2022)
  • The army of the Russian Federation, luring mindless Ukronazis into fire bags, continues to cleanse the planet of fascism.” (Oct. 15, 2022)
  • “The result of this campaign is not the struggle for Ukraine, but the destroyed and ruined destinies of millions of Ukrainians.” (Oct. 21, 2022)
Vasily Fatigarov, Russian military expert – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by Francis Scarr of BBC Monitoring (June 30, 2022)
  • Russia “must carry out a large amount of methodical, competent and carefully considered work to denazify Ukraine…I like this kind of figurative comparison of the fascination of Ukraine with a cancerous tumor. [Russia is] now working like surgeons. And when a surgeon cuts out a cancerous tumor, while he’s cutting it, it’s growing. And when he cleans it up, he also has to clean up a certain amount of healthy tissue so that, God forbid, nothing remains and starts growing again. And that fascist infection is the same! That’s to say, if some of it remains somewhere, it will definitely start growing again. Therefore [Russia] will purify that territory very precisely, very severely, and ensure that that fascist infection doesn’t grow anywhere else.”
Putin – “Putin says Russia just starting in Ukraine, peace talks will get harder” – Reuters (July 7, 2022)
  • Putin says he believes the “West wants to fight [Russia] to the last Ukrainian. This is a tragedy for the Ukrainian people, but it seems that everything is heading towards this.”
Russian political scientist Mikhail Markelov – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor Julia Davis (July 13, 2022)
  • Russia should “seriously think about liquidating Nazi leadership of [Ukraine], including not only Zelensky and his circle, but also the Verkhovna Rada [parliament] and the entire government that is currently committing total genocide against its own people.”
  • “I will remind you the words of the Russian president, which he uttered on the 24th of February: ‘You wanted decommunization? You’re going to get it.’
  • Initially, we were just planning to liberate only those who live in Donbas and to free Donbas from the yoke of the Nazis, but after the deliveries of Western weapons, if, God forbid, Americans deliver missiles that can travel 300 kilometers, then we simply can’t stop at all.”
Simonyan – Russian State TV Excerpts  (July 19, 2022 – April 13, 2025)
  • “Ukraine as it was can’t continue to exist. There’ll be no Ukraine we’ve known for many years.” (July 19, 2022, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “[Zelenskyy] is a small Egyptian pharaoh who isn’t letting our people go. Orthodox people, Russian people, he is forcibly holding people before our eyes. He is a small pharaoh and before our very eyes, 10 Egyptian plagues are being inflicted upon him that have befallen pharaoh, according to the Bible… A Grad [rocket launcher] will destroy all the people and animals and the fields with their crops… When Egypt was immersed into darkness for three days, but the Israelis had light in their homes, the Bible says, “Don’t we see darkness over there on a regular basis?” Whenever our missiles are flying, whenever we are practicing our strikes of vengeance, Ukraine is immersed in darkness. And one of the scariest Egyptian plagues is the death of the firstborn. The death of their firstborn is their mobilization of their firstborn, the second, the third, all of their males… What is left of their male population? All that is left is for us to see frogs falling from the sky, if you believe in the Egyptian plagues.” (April 2, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “I feel so bad for them! For Ukrainians and the rest! Why couldn’t you live with us? What was so bad about it? Many of you [Ukrainians] got your statehood because of us! Your culture emerged because of us!” (July 15, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “Volodya [another TV host], there’s one thing on which I don’t agree with you. That Banderism, it hasn’t only existed for seven or eight years. Not at all! It’s existed for much longer! Since the time of Bandera in fact… 1992! A year before that the Soviet Union collapsed! Under Stalin they were jailed in their thousands. Under Khrushchev they were all released again in their thousands, weren’t they? Who were those people? They were the ones who got away. So we’re not talking about seven or eight years. This is the outcome of those who got away having children and grandchildren. Back then we let them get away, so this time we’ll have to finish them off!” (Dec. 23, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • Those brainwashed people that remained there [in Ukraine], whose souls are covered with dirt, that Kyiv was throwing on these souls for decades, we will wash and cleanse those souls! Whoever doesn’t want to go get washed is a slob! A terrible fate awaits any slob who refuses to wash. They have to be segregated, the slobs from those who are ready to be cleansed.” (January 29, 2024, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • What kind of a fate awaits Ukraine? Ukraine will not meet any kind of a fate. Territories that used to be Ukraine will have a fate. That’s what I think. Territories that used to be Ukraine will be partitioned the way Poland was partitioned once upon a time.” (April 13, 2025, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
Nikolai Korsakov – The baptism of Russia and the special operation in Ukraine: what do they have in common? – Gazeta (July 28, 2022)
  • “Morality does not exist for Ukronazis, they do not reason in such categories and are not afraid of God’s punishment for their atrocities. Many of the Ukronazis are open Satanists and followers of misanthropic cults who make sacrifice and commit ritual murders, experts conclude.”
Head of State Duma Defense Committee Andrey Kartaolov – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Aug. 1, 2022)
  • Ukraine “has to be restored, rebuilt from scratch, but the biggest problem today is people. There are also children. And children are the very category that was the most mistreated by the Banderite Nazi scumbags, who simply brainwashed them… We need to deal with the children, perhaps in our Suvorov’s, Nakhimov’s cadet schools, there could be additional enrollment and we could send these kiddies there. Maybe Moscow’s higher educational institutions, and others in the country, should reserve additional spots for students who could be placed on a budgetary basis, in free dormitories. Today, they can’t pay anything for their education. Nonetheless, we have to do this because then people will believe that we’re serious, and Russia is here for a long time – forever.”
Russian journalist and military expert Igor Korotchenko – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Aug. 5, 2022)
  • “Ukraine is part of the historical Russia. Ukraine as a country never existed. Ukraine’s political elites made a choice to turn it into the project ‘anti-Russia.’ These kinds of countries have no right to exist from the perspective of our country’s national interests. Neither the West, nor the United States, can influence the will and determination of our country’s leadership and of our people to ensure that this kind of a threat can never exist in our history from the territory of a country currently called Ukraine.”
Soviet-Russian filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov – excerpt from speech on the Ukrainian language – translated by media monitor Maksym Borodin (Aug. 26, 2022)
  • “The Ukrainian language has become the image of Russophobia… That is, the phrases that we hear in Ukrainian transcription and pronunciation, they are for us and for the world in principle and for themselves the formulation of hatred for Russia!”
Russian mercenary Igor Mangushev – speech on the Russia – Ukraine war – translated by journalist Denys Kazanskyi (Aug. 28, 2022)
  • [holding a skull in his hand] “We’re alive, and this guy’s already dead. Let him burn in hell. He wasn’t lucky. We’ll make a goblet out of his skull. We are not at war with people of blood and flesh, we are at war with the idea, with the idea of Ukraine as an anti-Russian state. There can be no peace. We must de-Ukrainize Ukraine. We must return our Russian lands… This is the tragedy of Ukrainian soldiers. We don’t care how many we have to kill them. If we were at war with people, we could make peace with them. But we are at war with the idea, so all bearers of an idea must be killed. Like this guy, probably he did not want to lie near Azovstal.”
Putin – Address by the President of the Russian Federation (Sept. 21, 2022)
  • “We know that the majority of people living in the territories liberated from the neo-Nazis, and these are primarily the historical lands of Novorossiya, do not want to live under the yoke of the neo-Nazi regime.”
  • The citizens of Russia can rest assured that the territorial integrity of our Motherland, our independence and freedom will be defended – I repeat – by all the systems available to us.”
Putin – People’s Choice: Together Forever Concert Rally (Sept. 30, 2022)
  • “I cannot help but go back to the time when the Soviet Union was formed, when Russia was creating modern Ukraine. It was Russia that created modern Ukraine, giving it significant swathes of land, historical lands of Russia, along with the people, who no one asked about where and how they want to live, how they see the future of their children, and in which country. The same thing happened when the Soviet Union broke apart.”
  • “Only modern Russia has given the residents of the Lugansk People’s Republic, the Donetsk People’s Republic, Zaporozhye and Kherson the right to choose. People came to the referendum and made their choice to be with their historical homeland, Russia.”
Putin – Signing of treaties on accession of Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and Zaporozhye and Kheron regions to Russia (Sept. 30, 2022)
  • “It is an inherent right of the people. It is based on our historical affinity, and it is that right that led generations of our predecessors, those who built and defended Russia for centuries since the period of Ancient Rus, to victory.”
  • “There is nothing stronger than the determination of millions of people who, by their culture, religion, traditions, and language, consider themselves part of Russia, whose ancestors lived in a single country for centuries. There is nothing stronger than their determination to return to their true historical homeland.”
Andrey Sidorov, Deputy Dean of world politics at Moscow State University – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Oct. 9, 2022)
  • “We should wait for the right moment and cause a migration crisis in Europe with a new influx of Ukrainians… I think it’s most beneficial to do it in the new year, towards the spring, because the situation will start to worsen by then, in terms of economic and social tensions in Europe. So the situation we’re living through right now should be handled rationally, not emotionally. And the rationale is: Ukraine as a nation should not exist.”
Russia-aligned leader in the Donetsk “People’s Republic” of Ukraine Pavel Gubarev – Russian State TV Excerpts (Oct. 11, 2022 – Oct. 5, 2023)
  • These are Russian people, possessed by the devil. We are coming to convince them, not to kill them. But if you don’t want us to change your minds, then we will kill you. We will kill as many of you as we have to. We will kill 1 million, or 5 million; we can exterminate all of you until you understand that you’re possessed and you have to be cured. Zelensky is the main possessed one there, he is really the devil’s spawn. He is the Hitler 2.0 with his rabid nationalism, with that rabid Russophobia, with images of a woman cutting a throat, they are bloody possessed Satanists from the standpoint of the Christian thought. From the secular point of view, these are anti-system liberal consumers, stupid people, who can’t figure out what’s happening.” (Oct. 11, 2022, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “I believe that the goal of the special military operation is the liquidation of Ukraine’s nationhood. The existence of the Ukrainian nation in any form will always be adversarial towards Russia and the Russian people.” (July 21, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “I don’t know how we [Russians and Ukrainians] can live together after our victory. We can’t commit genocide to them all. We will have to ‘re-educate’ them, create concentration camps. But for this we must win at any cost and kill as many people as necessary.” (Oct. 5, 2023, translated by Ukrainian media monitor Den Kazansky)
Member of the Russian State Duma Andrey Gurulyov – Russian State TV Excerpts – (Oct. 19, 2022 – May 28, 2023)
  • “If you have no water, no sewer, we’re projecting the flood of refugees toward Western borders, Correct? Because it’s impossible to survive. There is no heating, no water, no sewer, no lights. You can’t cook food, no place to store food, there is no way to transport the food… How does one live in a country where nothing works?” (Oct. 19, 2022, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • We should shut down the topic of Ukraine for good and admit that denazification and demilitarization will shut down Ukraine as a project once and for all. It once existed, but it is no more. There is no Ukraine. This is a territory of Russia. A territory of that Russia that used to be known as the Soviet Union. This is the most important thing to accomplish today.” (Feb. 13, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “If we select a target – for example, it is one city, one region or something else, you clean it out in such a way that there’s nothing left. If we say that it’s Kyiv – they say that Kyiv is the mother of all Russian cities – yes, it is the mother of all Russian cities. But if we need to turn Kyiv into ruins and for our flag to sit there atop those ruins, then this is what we should arrive at.” (Feb. 23, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “In military-speak, decision-making centers are called control systems. Control systems consist of three elements: control bodies, control centers, and a communications system, an automated control system. The control bodies are Zelensky, Podolyak, Zaluzhny, Syrsky and so on. We need to realize clearly that they shouldn’t be on Earth. Nothing at all is stopping us! And that needs to be said openly. The second thing is control centers. First, everyday control centers – the presidential office in Kyiv and the government building – should be turned into dust!” (May 3, 2023, translated by media monitor Francis Scarr)
  • “[The demilitarization of Ukraine entails the] total nonexistence of Ukraine as a nation.” (May 28, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
Anton Krasovsky, then-Director of Broadcasting for RT – Russian State TV Excerpts (Oct. 23, 2022 – May 22, 2023) 
  • “[Ukrainian children] should have been drowned in the Tysyna [river], right there, where the duckling swims. Just drown those children, drown them right in Tysyna [river]… Whoever says that Moskals occupied them, you throw them in the river with a strong undercurrent… Over there, every piece of shit little house, there are masses of awful, monstrous little houses, they shit all over the Carpathian Mountains. Carpathian Mountains are disgusting, every hut over there is called ‘smerekova khata.’ Shove them right into those huts and burn them up… [Ukraine] is not supposed to exist at all.” (Oct. 23, 2022, translated by media monitor Julia Davis. Kraskovsky was reportedly suspended after making this statement.)
  • [In response to footage of a Russian soldier beheading a Ukrainian soldier] “This really isn’t who we are, this is what war is. War turns brutality into a routine, an everyday occurrence. There is no such thing as a war without cruelty. It has no bounds or boundaries. Is it scary for me to see this footage? Yes, of course. Do I condemn our guys? No, and I never will! The Lord will purge all of this scum, filth and cruelty. But we have to win – at any cost, in order to survive, in order to remain.” (April 13, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “I’m amazed at Kyiv’s rhetoric that came to be. It is the rhetoric of total moral fearlessness. You simply are not people. You are creatures.” (May 12, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • [In response to a question about his previous comments on Ukrainian children] “I didn’t say they should be killed, just drowned and burned.” (May 22, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
Vladlen Tatarsky, Pro-Kremlin blogger and war correspondent – Interview with Russian State TV host Sergey Mardan – translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Oct. 23, 2022)
  • “What are Ukrainians? I suddenly understood it. A Ukrainian is a Russian who got sick. Like a transvestite, he was born a man, then something happened, he had an operation, decided to become a woman and live like one. He puts on a dress, a wig, puts lipstick on, and goes that way all over town. It looks a bit peculiar, you think: is that a man? That’s a man – no, that’s a woman. A Ukrainian is a Russian spiritual transvestite, who is trying to squeeze into another skin. I was always interested: when was this moment when they have shifted from a healthy Russian person, let’s say, a Southern Russian person, and into total schizophrenia. The future of Ukraine, those people who live there, is that they are Russian people and they will return to their normal state.”
  • “When we win in Ukraine, the future of these people is that they are Russian people, who recovered from their craziness, their spiritual transvestism, and returned to their normal state.”
  • “In order to reset things way back, all of those [Holodomor] monuments have to be destroyed, and all of those cult sites, all monuments erected after 1991 that are related to Ukraine’s independence, or its new and remade history, have to be completely destroyed.”
  • Sergey Mardan then says, “It’s impossible to defeat Ukrainianism as an idea if you don’t formulate a counter-idea… [Alexander] Dugin is correct a hundredfold when he says that in order to defeat Ukraine, you have to defeat Ukraine within yourself. That aggressive, fascist, misanthropic ideology of Western liberalism has to be eradicated in its every form. They are countless, they permeate our entire life. We have to eliminate them here. And only then we will win.”
Oleg Karpovich, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Studies at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs  – “On the way to real denazification”  – Izvestia (Oct. 25, 2022)
  • “The prevention of new bloody crises in Russian-Ukrainian relations will be possible only when it is possible to erase from the minds of Ukrainians the traces of the joint efforts of the collective West and its local collaborators to set the Slav brothers against each other. To do this, firstly, it is necessary to create an attractive alternative, cleansed of the legacy of more than thirty years of occupation, in the new Russian territories – to demonstrate to those residents of Ukraine who have not succumbed to propaganda that a choice in favor of a future freed from toxic ‘Ukrainianism’ is always possible.”
  • “The liberation of the Ukrainian people means a comprehensive and effective counteraction to destructive myths, which made it possible to endow the descendants of the Bandera militants with additional arguments in favor of the destruction of the Russian-speaking ‘Untermensch’. We are liberating not only territories, but also minds that have been repeatedly poisoned by the Russophobic authorities of the country.”
Assistant Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Alexey Pavlov — What is cooked in the “witch’s cauldron.” Neo-pagan cults gain strength in Ukraine — Federal AIF (Oct. 26, 2022)
  • “I believe that with the continuation of the special military operation, it becomes more and more urgent to carry out the de-Satanization of Ukraine, or, as the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov aptly put it, its ‘complete de-Satanization.’”
Petr Akopov, Russian propagandist – “A new stage of the dismantling of Ukraine has begun” – RIA Novosti via DISCRED.RU (Nov. 10, 2022)
  • “We need to return Ukraine to its natural state of part of the Russian world.”
  • The entire current Ukrainian elite and the current state of Ukraine are doomed.”
  • “We will not allow generations of Ukrainians and South Russian people to continue to be brought up in the denial of their own Russianness and in their hatred for Russia. The current Ukraine is incompatible with Russia – neither with the historical (because it is part of it), nor with the future, because it will be used against us.”
Dmitry Steshin, war correspondent – Russian State TV Excerpts (Nov. 19, 2022 – Aug. 20, 2023)
  • These [Ukrainian] people have shaped themselves, their identity on the denial of everything that is Muscovite. This is a horrid deviation, because at its root is their denial of themselves. Therefore, you can’t consider them as people with full-fledged morality and normal mental apparatus. It became clear to me a long time ago, when I came up with the term ‘crypto-Banderites.’ We don’t need to liberate anyone over there. We need to take what’s ours and make it so that they’re afraid to even think about so much as to breathe the wrong way towards Russia… We’ll see what kind of a beautiful life we’ll create for them and how they’ll want to again rethink their identity.” (Nov. 19, 2022, translated by Russian media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “I worry that we have plenty of ‘smart people’ who will again dabble in a Ukrainian identity, vyshyvankas, independence… For some reason, they’ve decided this identity should be preserved! An artificially-created identity, which started the bloodiest war of the twenty-first century!” (Aug. 20, 2023, translated by Russian media monitor Julia Davis)
Boris Chernyshov, State Duma member – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Nov. 19, 2022)
  • These retaliatory strikes – and they are retaliatory – it’s an expression of our hatred, our holy hatred. They’ll be sitting without gas, without light, and without everything else. If the Kyiv regime chose the path of war criminals, they have to freeze and rot over there.”
Rostislav Ishchenko, political scientist – Interview with Russian State TV host Sergey Mardan – translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Nov. 27, 2022)
  • “From my point of view, as long as Ukraine continues to exist in any state, the threat to Russia will also continue to exist. Clearly, Ukraine is not the only one posing a threat, but Ukraine is a direct, constant threat. You can deal with Hungarians, Poles, Americans, Mexicans or anybody else, even with penguins in the Antarctic, but you can’t agree on anything with Russian people who call themselves Ukrainians on the basis of rejecting everything that is Russian. This is an eschatological enemy. Therefore, in my opinion, I don’t know whether or not [Ukraine] will remain… I believe that all efforts should be devoted to make sure that there is not even a memory left of it.”
  • TV host Mardan then says, “I believe that this is rational for everyone: for us, for citizens of the former Ukrainian Soviet Republic, and even for the Europeans, if you can believe it. Even the Poles would benefit by Ukraine not existing. It would be much more peaceful for everybody… Right now, the barbarians are on our Western borders. A difficult campaign against barbarians is underway.”
Yuri Kot, pro-government pundit – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor Francis Scarr (Jan. 11, 2023)
  • “Such people have taken to the dark side and are proving themselves to be Russophobes, so it’s simply pointless to try talking to them in human terms. They’re enemies, just enemies… The enemy’s children can be re-educated, but the enemy himself must be eliminated!
Vyacheslav Molotov, State Duma member – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Jan. 16, 2023)
  • “To a large degree, this is an eschatological conflict. This is not a conflict between Russians and Ukrainians, which is entirely artificial. We are one people. This is a conflict of good versus evil, light versus darkness… War is a cruel thing. At the same time, we’re stronger than [Ukrainians] are because we are humans and over there, they’re mostly the non-humans.”
Anna Dolgareva, Russian propagandist – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor and Advisor to the Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs (Feb. 16, 2023)
  • Igor Mangushev, captain of the Luhansk People’s Republic, “always said that denazification was possible purely physically. You just have to destroy those who are at war with us and educate their children in the Russian spirit … We just need to destroy those who are at war with us, those who are holding weapons in their hands. After that, the rest can be denazified when they are on Russian territory, in some peripheral federal district.”
Petr Akopov – “Ukrainian dreams will bring Europe to self-destruction” – RIA Novosti (Feb. 16, 2023)
  • “They believe not just in the greatness of their fictitious people (fictionalized because the Little Russian part of the Russian people turned into ‘non-Russian Ukrainians’, and then Russophobes), but in its great mission. The mission of destroying Russia, and not independently, but just together with Europe.”
  • “This ‘Ukrainian myth’ is absolutely anti-historical, but it has already firmly settled in the minds of a considerable part of the population of the Nezalezhnaya. Moreover, the most cunning of the manipulators go further and simply call Ukraine the ‘heir of Rus’ and the Ukrainians ‘Real Russians’, thereby canceling both the Russians and Russia.”
Putin – Presidential Address to Federal Assembly (Feb. 21, 2023)
  • The West “started turning Ukraine into an ‘anti-Russia.’ Actually, this project is not new. People who are knowledgeable about history at least to some extent realise that this project dates back to the 19th century. The Austro-Hungarian Empire and Poland had conceived it for one purpose, that is, to deprive Russia of these historical territories that are now called Ukraine. This is their goal. There is nothing new here; they are repeating everything.”
  • Russophobia and extremely aggressive nationalism formed [Ukraine’s] ideological foundation.”
  • “Responsibility for inciting and escalating the Ukraine conflict as well as the sheer number of casualties lies entirely with the Western elites and, of course, today’s Kiev regime, for which the Ukrainian people are, in fact, not its own people.
Putin – Congratulations on the Occasion of Defender of the Fatherland Day (Feb. 23, 2023)
  • “Our troops are heroically fighting the neo-Nazism that has taken root in Ukraine, protecting our people in our historical lands, and are fighting courageously and heroically.”
Russian State TV Host Sergey Mardan – Russian State TV Excerpts (March 28, 2023 – March 31, 2024)
  • “Someone is still worried that God forbid, God forbid, we are yet to decide for ourselves that this formation that appeared on the map in 1991 by the name of the nation of Ukraine isn’t the same khimera that should simply be erased off the map. People who self-identify as patriots of this khimera are degenerates. People who are fighting for it are criminals. Taken separately, every one of them may be normal. For many of them, Russian is their native language. It doesn’t change anything. For Chikatilo [serial killer], Russian was also his native language. Does that make him more acceptable, more normal? Should we be more sympathetic towards him than if he was an American, a German, or the native of Burkina Faso?I don’t understand how this is even relevant. I don’t know which conclusion to draw from this. In one year, all conclusions have already been reached. These are simply animals. They don’t need to be agitated to lose their human form. They have no human form anymore. There is no pity for any of them, not one of them. This is whom the Russian Army is fighting – ghouls. Fighting against the undead who rose from the grave, yes yes yes, just like in the TV series.” (Mar. 28, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • Ukraine is doomed. It is an amazing place with an amazing fate, like a sinkhole that leads to hell where history walks in circles. This historical circle is of a small diameter. It’s a ruin that repeats time and time again. Fiery whirlwinds keep rolling through this land, leaving nothing in their wake, practically every 100 years. What Ukraine will come to in either case is ruin. The Ukrainian history has this concept: anarchy, chaos, and horror… Yes, Ukraine is doomed to drink its bitter cup, to drink its endlessly bitter cup to the very bottom. In 1991, millions of people had the misfortune to end up there, for their children and grandchildren to be born there. They were unlucky. This is not the way they had imagined their fate. Well, it happens.”(April 2, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “When I say that Kyiv is a Russian city, it’s not a figure of speech, not an ideological mantra, it’s not methodology, this is simply a fact! Kyiv was, is, and will be a Russian city due to its origins, its culture, its cultural code, its customs, its language and its accent!… And now the children of the same people from Kyiv that I’ve encountered many years ago say that more than anything in the world, they would like to get rid of Rusnya [Russian invaders]. This is incredible, since they are Russian themselves! How do you erase that part of your brain that controls your ethnic, cultural identity?… Our media, our politicians, our official spokespeople, even they keep saying, saying, saying and repeating, ‘Ukrainians, Ukrainians, Ukrainians’ – meaning what? At least half of Ukraine’s population is Russian! Why the hell are you counting them as Ukrainians? … For over 30 years, we took it for granted that Ukraine exists and that everyone who lives in Ukraine is Ukrainian. Why, all of a sudden? Says who? Where did you get that? … These people, whose ethnic origins have no meaning, they can be anyone at all – Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, Crimean Tatars or even Tanzanians. But any person who takes on the identity as a citizen of independent Ukraine, sings this hideous thing called the Ukrainian anthem, warps his brain by speaking someone else’s language, which is not his native tongue. It’s unfit for speaking, you can only sing in it. It’s simply ridiculous. He rejects the huge body of Russian literature. He rejects himself, rejects the entire Russian culture. And if you, being Russian by culture, reject the Russian culture, what is left within you, what do you become? You simply become an animal! Everything else that makes a human human, especially, pardon me, a civilized human, there is none of that in these people! … We see an external manifestation of a mass insanity among many people, but of course, not all of them… This is us, this is our land! This is our land!” (June 12, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • They’ve totally dehumanized us. They’ve totally separated from us. The group they are calling the Ukrainians includes Russian people, who were simply unlucky to be born and grow up on the territory of the former Soviet Ukrainian Republic. They’re calling them Ukrainians, I can’t understand why!” (Aug. 20, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • [Discussing arguments made by Alexander Khodakovsky, Russian-backed general and politician] “[Khodakovsky] is rhetorically asking, ‘Perhaps the Ukrainian national character and the Ukrainian genome is a harmful bacteria that infects a healthy Russian organism?’ Next, he says, ‘I don’t see the way of digesting this infected carcass — Ukraine. The experiment with relocation turned out to be harmful. They can be allowed into our organism only selectively. We say that we’re supposed to cleanse Ukraine of scum, but how, to engage in genocide? This is not our method… If there are territories to which we can expel all those who are incapable of demonstrating loyalty, it will be easier for us. So many haters of Russia will accumulate on these territories, that their hatred will cause sepsis, a blood infection’ … Any Ukrainian becomes a Russian in a matter of ten years! In my life, I’ve communicated with people from about 20 Ukrainian cities, cities that were truly Ukrainian, Ukrainian, Ukrainian! They are the same Russian people that I am!” (Sept. 11, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • Political Ukrainianness as a phenomenon is a type of Nazism. This type of Nazism will have to be eradicated. It’s currently being eradicated by our soldiers on the frontlines. After that, civilian administrations will have to do this very important part of a job. People who work with the mindset. We openly say that during 30 years, the brains of two generations of normal people, our close fellow countrymen, who lived on the territory of the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, have been brainwashed into an incredible state. Many of them have been turned into shapeshifters. They don’t hear us and we don’t understand them. These people have to be converted back into normal Russian people. This is a difficult job. Otherwise, it will be what we have right now. Political Ukrainianness is a type of Nazism. [Ukraine] is poisoned with it, it may be incurable. There are many of them, we understand it. We will have to do something about it. They will have to be reprogrammed with monuments, heroes and symbols, teaching history in schools, teaching Russian literature in schools. In this history of the Russian literature they will study, what place will Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko [a Ukrainian poet] have? A special one? An important one? I don’t think so! That’s in the past.” (March 10, 2024, translated by media monitor Julia Davis).
  • All of Ukraine will be methodically turned into a sanitary zone. What is a sanitary zone? It’s a territory of war. It’s a terrain that has no electricity, where the bridges and transport hubs are broken, where there are no railways, where large cities aren’t capable of sustaining a normal livelihood, because there is no working water supply, no sewers, no working emergency services or hospitals. These are the places from where people leave en masse… I believe that there is now a total consensus around this idea, that Ukraine has to be dismantled brick by brick, so that nothing at all is left there!” (March 31, 2024, translated by media monitor Julia Davis) 
College in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia – “Conversations about what matters” – translated by media monitor Julia Davis via Telegram channel @nizhny01 (March 29, 2023)
  • [Referencing an image of a dead pig draped in the Ukrainian flag] “A pig is a well-known, widespread, popular image that symbolizes Ukraine. In order to make it more illustrative, we covered it with the Ukrainian flag. We took this photograph as a visual demonstration to show the fate of the Ukrainian nation as a whole. Just like this pig.”
Pavel Astakhov, Former Children’s Rights Commissioner – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor Julia Davis (April 4, 2023)
  • They [Ukrainians] have to be destroyed and that’s it! Because it would be a compromise with the devil… God is not with those who persecute, but with those who are being persecuted. Their current government is not of God. They will put ashes upon their heads.”
UPDATED Medvedev – Posts by Medvedev – Twitter/X (April 4, 2023 – June 23, 2025)
  • “All these foul ACF and MBH-media, nalvany, volkov, ponomaryov, and other clones of khodorkhovsky have turned into ordinary terrorists and killers. They are utterly enjoying the sight of Russian citizens’ blood. They flare their nostrils in excitement, looking at wounded and crippled bodies. They have fervently pledged to darkness and terror, along with the murderers from the Nazi regime in Kiev, native to them. One does not negotiate with terrorists. They are exterminated as rabid dogs, poisonous saliva flowing from their mouths; without unnecessary, pathetic speeches, even if sometimes it takes years to get them. Forgiveness and compassion are not applicable to them. This is what the higher justice is all about.” (tweeted April 4, 2023)
  • WHY WILL UKRAINE DISAPPEAR? BECAUSE NOBODY NEEDS IT
    • There’s a nice perspective ahead: to permanently put the nouveau-Ukrainian blood-sucking parasites on the decrepit EU’s arthritis-crippled neck. That’ll be the final fall of Europe, once majestic, but robbed off by degeneration.
    • Russia doesn’t need Ukraine. A threadbare quilt, torn, shaggy, and greasy. The new Malorossiya of 1991 is made up of the artificially cut territories, many of which are indigenously Russian, separated by accident in the 20th century. Millions of our compatriots live there, harassed for years by the Nazi Kiev regime. It is them who we defend in our special military operation, relentlessly eradicating the enemy. We don’t need unterukraine. We need Big Great Russia.
    • Finally, its own citizens don’t need the Nazi-headed Ukraine. That’s why out of 45 million people there’s only some 20 million remaining. That’s why those who stayed want to leave for any place: the hated Poland, EU, NATO, to be America’s 51nd state. Joining the Antarctic with its penguins will also be fine. As long as it’s quiet, and the food’s good. The ruling junta’s criminal ambitions forced Ukrainians to beg and roam around the countries and continents, searching for a better life. All that is for an obscure European perspective. Or rather, to let the harlequin in a khaki tricot and his band of thievish Nazi clowns to put the money stolen from the West into their offshore accounts. Would ordinary Ukrainians need that?
  • Nobody on this planet needs such a Ukraine. That’s why it’ll disappear.” (tweeted April 8, 2023)
  • “How gratifying it is, that the rotting corpse of Ukraine is headed by dim-witted mankurts: the corrupt hucksters and stoned clowns, who worship their overseas masters. How really advantageous it is, that these morons have come up with an unviable “peace formula”, and frothing at the mouth, reject all other variants of negotiations. How really fortunate it is, that the mad clown signed his little paper banning any talks with our country. All that will let Russia bring what it has started in the special military operation to an end. To the end of the bandera regime. To the end of neo-nazi ideology, and to the retribution to Kiev judahs who have destroyed masses of their own citizens for the sake of the money stolen from the West. Let the earth burn under their feet!” (July 31, 2023)
  • The so-called former Ukraine doesn’t show any will to enter negotiations – in any case, based on recognizing the realities that V.V.Putin noted yesterday. For them, realities are nothing but the mind-numbing “peace formula” by a green tricot-clad provincial clown. Just that. It looks so far-fetched that the only way out is to come up with our own Russian formula, orderly and quite realistic, humane to everyone. Like what? For example, like this:
    • 1. Recognition by the former (further, f.) “Ukraine” its military defeat in the conflict; total and unconditional surrender of the f. “Ukraine” represented by the neo-nazi clique in Kiev; demilitarization of the f. “Ukraine” and banning the creation of military formations within its boundaries in the future.
    • 2. Recognition by the international community of the nazi character of the f. political regime in Kiev, and carrying out – supervised by the UN – forced denazification of all of the government agencies of the f. “Ukraine”.
    • 3. Assertion by the UN the f. “Ukraine’s” loss of its international legal personality, and inability of any of its legal successors’ to join military alliances.
    • 4. Resignation of all the constitutional bodies of the f. “Ukraine”, and holding immediate election to a provisional parliament of the f. “Ukraine’s” territory, self-governing under the UN aegis.
    • 5. Approval by the provisional parliament of the bills concerning all due payments to Russia, including those to our country’s deceased citizens’ relatives, and health damage compensation for the wounded; establishing order of compensating for property damage done to the subjects of the Russian Federation.
    • 6. Official recognition by the provisional parliament of the f. “Ukraine” that all of its territory is the territory of the Russian Federation; adoption of an act of unification of the f. “Ukraine’s” territory with Russia.
    • 7. Self-dissolution of the provisional parliament; recognition of the unification act by the UN.
    • Such can be a soft Russian peace formula. This is a compromise position, right?” (tweeted March 14, 2024)
  • “The Trump administration no longer wants to feed the Nazi mutt in Kiev. The flea-ridden dog was picked up by a decrepit Europe, joyfully exclaiming ‘My doggie’! It’s no use, the mad parasitic dog is dangerous. So, better to put it down quietly, without any suffering.” (posted March 4, 2025)
  • “There is a legitimate government in Ukraine, and it is obvious that it must be respected, the UN Secretary General said. This, alas, is a double lie. The nit is illegitimate. There’s nothing to respect him for. He failed, his people are dying, and his country is disappearing.” (posted March 29, 2025)
  • “We are glad to see friends who are joining us in celebrating the 80th anniversary of the crushing defeat of Nazi Germany. This is something the European lapdogs helping today’s typhus-ridden neo-Nazi lice should remember.” (posted May 8, 2025)
  • “The green tapeworm has crawled into England, demanding 0.25% of the allies’ GDP (!). At the same time, he can’t even account for 30% of the money he’s received for weapons. How long will you tolerate parasites in your body, Europeans and Americans?!” (posted June 23, 2025)
Vladimir Kohmyakov, Journalist – The main weapon arrived. Russian victory is inevitable – Tsargrad (May 15, 2023)
  • “The collapse of the USSR led to the emergence of a number of states in the post-Soviet space that fell into varying degrees of dependence on the collective West. One of them was Ukraine, which for 8 years of the puppet regime was turned into anti-Russia and the main geopolitical tool aimed at the destruction of the Russian world. Therefore, the very existence of such a Ukraine is an existential threat to the Russian people.”
  • “From a spiritual and moral point of view, the NWO [special military operation] is a holy war, in which Russia fulfills the mission of Katekhon [a Biblical concept], which keeps the world from the onset of global evil… Upon completion of the NWO, the entire territory of present-day Ukraine should enter the zone of exclusive influence of Russia.”
  • The reunification of the Russian people, the restoration of their historical living space and creative potential are the key conditions for the true revival of Russia.”
  • “Ukrainian nationalism should be legally assessed by the highest state authorities of the Russian Federation, it should be recognized as a destructive ideology that threatens traditional spiritual and moral values, and an extremist ideology.”
  • “The most important factor in the recovery of the economy and the social sphere of the territories reunited with Russia may be the implementation of the state program there for the development of industrial individual housing construction (IHS) and the mass resettlement of citizens in comfortable individual residential buildings.”
Alexei Zhuravlyov, State Duma Member – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor Francis Scarr (May 18, 2023)
  • “We need to say honestly and clearly that we have to change the aims of the special operation. We said we wanted demilitarization and denazification, but in actual fact there’s full nazification there! There’s no other ideology there! That’s it!”
Alexei Didenko, State Duma member – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor Julia Davis (May 29, 2023)
  • The language of the [Ukrainian] enemy should not be studied. It should not be respected, it should not exist! There shouldn’t be any horrible signs in this language, no materials [in Ukrainian], nothing at all! This is an incitement to ethnic hatred, it’s prohibited! This [Ukrainian] language should not exist… Neither this [Ukrainian] nation nor this language should exist! Cleanse it all out, cleanse out all of its sources.”
Putin – Answer to question about drone attack on Moscow and Moscow Region (May 30, 2023)
  • “The territory that is called Ukraine was virtually controlled from the very beginning by people who, being led by the West, took the path of not just confronting Russia, but creating an ‘anti-Russia’ on that territory.”
Andrey Norkin, State TV host – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor Julia Davis (May 31, 2023)
  • Strictly put, why aren’t we destroying them [Ukrainians] like rats?
Bogdan Bezpalko, Member of the Russian Council for Interethnic Relations – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor Julia Davis (May 31, 2023)
  • “I’ll be brief: Victory means the destruction of Ukraine’s nationhood.
Vlad Shlepchenko, journalist of nationalist pro-Putin media outlet – Ukrainian drones opened the way for cruise missiles to Moscow: There is only one way out! – Tsargrad (May 31, 2023)
  • “The only way to 100% protect our country from Ukrainian strikes is to destroy Ukrainian statehood, eliminate its military-political leadership and armed forces, reach the western borders as quickly as possible and return historically Russian lands to Russia. Fight. Until victory.”
Aleksandr Dugin, Russian political analyst – Comments at “What Kind of Ukraine Do We Need?” Forum in Moscow – via Russian news site PolitNavigator (June 1, 2023)
  • “We needed a friendly Ukraine. The only Ukraine we need is a friendly Ukraine. After 30 years she was rapidly leaving, turning into an unfriendly Ukraine, we could endure, endure, tolerate a neutral Ukraine… But hostile Ukraine, which is joining NATO, we not only do not need, it is impossible. This is the explanation of the Special Military Operation… A friendly Ukraine could survive, develop and gradually become a full-fledged, sovereign state. Neutral is already more problematic, because the balance was difficult, some situations led us to tough decisions. But when it became openly hostile, especially after 2014, after that Ukraine no longer exists for us. Since the 14th year, we no longer need any Ukraine, we don’t need any Ukraine, and we are fighting so it doesn’t exist anymore.”
Natalya Nikanorova, Senator of the Donetsk People’s Republic – Comments at “What Kind of Ukraine Do We Need?” Forum in Moscow – via Russian state-owned news site Ukraina.ru (June 1, 2023)
  • “I know that there are discussions in the scientific community about this plan [of denazification]… We have all the evidence of infection with the virus. But we need to decide on our official attitude towards the Kiev regime: what kind of regime is this, what kind of relations do we see in the future, what signs of denazification are we seeing? And then we will be able to build our positions.”
Dmitry Evstafiev, School of Integrated Communications professor at HSE (Higher School of Economics) University – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor Julia Davis (June 2, 2023 – June 10, 2023)
  • “About Bakhmut, it looks like a universe of death. The point of existence of this social system, which can’t be described as a civilization – self-destruction is its reason for existing, as well as destroying everything else. This is a universe of death! The behavior of the Ukrainian leadership – the so-called Ukrainian leadership, since we know that it’s really based in Washington, DC, we understand all of that – but this group that is in charge of operations of the territory by the name of the former Ukrainian Socialist Republic, their goal is self destruction as well as maximum destruction of culture, values, people, industries, even agriculture.” (June 2, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “I keep looking at the Kyiv regime, at its military, at the Westerners who are courting this regime and are supporting it in every way – they don’t feel any pain. Do you know who feels no pain? The dead! They are already dead! They are the undead! Our army, our heroes are fighting against the undead! They fight the darkness that drowns out the light! They can’t feel pain! They don’t care!” (June 10, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
Vlad Shlepchenko, journalist of nationalist pro-Putin media outlet – Three cities of Ukraine that will save the Russians. Direction of impact marked – Tsargrad (June 2, 2023)
  • “In the current situation, it is obvious that the preservation of Ukraine as an allegedly independent state does not make any sense. The security of Russia as a whole and of individual citizens requires the complete liberation of the historically Russian lands. Ukraine must be destroyed.
Konstantin Zatulin, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots – The State Duma stated the failure of all Putin’s goals in Ukraine – The Moscow Times (June 3, 2023)
  • “On which of these points [of denazification, demilitarization and neutrality of Ukraine] did we achieve results? None. Moreover, some of them have ceased to have any meaning. For example, the neutrality of Ukraine. What is the meaning of this requirement? None at the moment. It will not be neutral if it remains in existence.”
Olga Skabeeva, State TV Host – Russian State TV Excerpts (June 4, 2023 – June 17, 2023)
  • “We can draw only one conclusion: the Ukrainian question has to be solved once and for all. Otherwise, it may be too late… What comes to mind right now, I will say it again, is to destroy every living thing in the Kharkiv region as a punishment and as a deterrent.” (June 4, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “[Dmitry] Medvedev, who is currently proposing for us to find and destroy all the holed-up roaches, said 1 year ago that if they [Ukrainians] infringe on Russian Crimea, there will be a big crater where Kyiv used to be.” (June 17, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
Vladimir Skachko, journalist of Russian state-owned,  pro-Putin media outlet – How Ukrainians can save their immortal soul and mortal body – Ukraina.ru (June 5, 2023)
  • The first goal [of the NWO] – the denazification – will help save the immortal [Ukrainian] soul, cleanse it from the haze of neo-Nazism, racism, xenophobia, national arrogance and misanthropy, with the help of which the Ukrainian people are not only cemented into some kind of aggressive and evil community waging war, but also turned into a hostage nation and the kamikaze people thrown into this war.”
  • “The second goal – demilitarization – is designed to save the mortal body of Ukrainians, providing them with peace and taking away weapons from their hands… With the complete transition of Ukraine into Russia, everything will become clear – it will be disarmed in accordance with Russian laws.”
  • “Ukrainians should be offered a re-education matrix that should help them freely and consciously, but at first under strict control, acquire new state structures and institutions of power at all levels, a new economic policy and a new identity. If not in a family, then at least in good neighborliness with other people and states.”
Yuri Knutov, Military Analyst – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor Julia Davis (June 5, 2023)
  • [Responding to another analyst discussing the severity of war] “Bringing up some Ukraine – Ukraine is nothing! It’s a puppet controlled by strings! More than 50 countries are commanding Ukraine!”
Alexei Zhuravlyov, State Duma member – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor Julia Davis (June 6, 2023)
  • [Regarding the Kakhovka Dam collapse] “[Ukrainians] have about 600 [tanks], so they’ll keep coming. They will certainly keep doing it. They will keep bluntly crawling forward, like roaches, until all of them get squashed.”
Putin – Plenary session of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (June 16, 2023)
  • “Bandera was an anti-Semite and a neo-Nazi. But no one appears to want to hear that because Zelensky has Jewish blood. But he is covering for these freaks, these neo-Nazis, with his actions… If this is not the current edition of neo-Nazism, then what is it? We have every right to believe that our goal of denazifying Ukraine is one of the key goals.”
Ishchenko – Interview with Ukraina.ru Correspondent Alexander Porunov – Ukraina.ru (June 17, 2023)
  • “Now Ukrainian statehood has been destroyed and destroyed, but the presence of efficient law enforcement agencies implies the possibility, relying on Western or Russian money, on anyone else’s, but on external support, on Chinese, a quick restoration of such statehood, no matter what, Nazi or anti-Nazi. But the presence of a power lever suggests that statehood can be restored fairly quickly. If this power lever does not exist and these structures are completely disintegrated and destroyed, then, given that Ukraine no longer has any administrative or political efficient structures, then restoration seems completely impossible. Then, not only for us, but also for our neighbors, the question arises whether Ukraine has or not in order to restore the normal administration of its own territory. Who will manage these territories and how it will be carried out.”
  • “If we go to the borders of NATO, then there is no such Ukraine anymore. There is Russia here, and there is NATO.”
  • “Yes, it was no such coincidence that we talked about denazification and demilitarization. Demilitarization and neutralization presupposes that the armed force that is capable of posing a threat to Russia will disappear from the state. Neutralization assumes that foreign troops will no longer be located on its territory. Denazification assumes that pro-Western politicians, who turned out to be all Nazis, will no longer be able to come to power there. Consequently, the de facto neutralization, denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine presupposes the creation of a Russian protectorate out of it.”
Vyacheslav Nikonov, State Duma deputy – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor Julia Davis (June 21, 2023)
  • [Responding to a question about the message of Russia holding elections in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions] “The message is totally clear: that this is forever! A legitimate government is needed and it will be Russian.”
Yevgeny Nikiforov, head of the Orthodox Radio Channel “Radonezh” — Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Aug. 3, 2023)
  • [Ukrainians are] godless, it’s all about godlessness… The main problem is our own faint-heartedness! From the very start, we’ve been trying to negotiate! You can’t make deals with demons! There’s nothing to negotiate… They have no laws, they are a lawless people! They are the offspring of lawlessness… The illness in Ukraine is so far gone that you can’t convince them or negotiate with them. You can’t cure them this way! Only surgery will work there. The only response to these statements by the Nazis is a Solntsepyok [heavy thermobaric rocket launcher]. It has to be burned out! Some will say, ‘Oy, this is not a Christian method!’ This way is quite Christian! These people position themselves as pagans! Then take it like pagans! No New Testament ethics for you! Only the Old Testament! Like the apostle, who personally slit the throats of 300 servants at the Valaam! This is how we should deal with these too! Destroy them without any doubt! Apply only the Old Testament ethics! This is the only language they understand!
Sergei Markov, Putin’s former advisor — Russian State TV Excerpts (Aug. 5, 2023 – Aug. 11, 2023)
  • “Understand, Ukraine is the main test site in the world for creating an artificial society! Sometimes it is said that there is fascism there. Fascists and Banderites are a tiny part of their society! They have an artificial political-scientific fascism, created by American and British political technologies! They will turn them into zombies, into cult members, I think they will force some to become homosexuals!” (Aug. 5, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “[Ukrainians] were part of a highly developed civilization! The main principle is widely known: Ukraine with Russia is flourishing, Ukraine without Russia turns into ruins. Right now, it’s turning into ruins! Ukraine does not exist as an independent nation. Ukraine exists as a geographical region, it has beautiful landscapes and poor, unhappy, suffering people. The occupation of Ukraine is not the same as it was in the times of Hitler. The occupation of Ukraine by Americans is the occupation of state institutions and occupation of people’s minds, with a forced change of identity! These are the latest political technologies, which change the identities of people! They turn into an army of zombies. That is what poor Ukraine is going through right now… That’s why the name of Ukraine is now synonymous with the word “catastrophe” and self-destruction of their own country! That’s why our special operation is not a war against Ukraine, this is a war of liberation of these unfortunate people from a terrorist occupation by a nation which is tormenting and killing them and us and is ready to kill all the rest!” (Aug. 11, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
Ishchenko — Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Aug. 11, 2023 – Jan. 2, 2024)
  • “Our problem is that we wage a war of liberation, but a significant part of Ukraine’s population recognizes themselves as Ukrainians, having rejected their Russianness. They view this as a war of national liberation. They are trying to liberate themselves from us. We are liberating them from Banderites… From the standpoint of preserving Russia’s security, can Ukraine as such even exist? We should understand that relations with Ukraine are not like relations with Poland. Relations with Ukraine are relations with a part of Russia that declared itself anti-Russia. For this part, we are the absolute evil a priori. If we allow a part of Ukrainian nationhood to remain, we are creating a future problem and a revanchist structure on our borders. If we can’t swallow it whole, then we should try to forcefully split it up with our neighbors, like Belarus, but we simply cannot keep this around for the future.”
  • “Our problem is that we wage a war of liberation, but a significant part of Ukraine’s population recognizes themselves as Ukrainians, having rejected their Russianness. They view this as a war of national liberation. They are trying to liberate themselves from us. We are liberating them from Banderites… From the standpoint of preserving Russia’s security, can Ukraine as such even exist? We should understand that relations with Ukraine are not like relations with Poland. Relations with Ukraine are relations with a part of Russia that declared itself anti-Russia. For this part, we are the absolute evil a priori. If we allow a part of Ukrainian nationhood to remain, we are creating a future problem and a revanchist structure on our borders. If we can’t swallow it whole, then we should try to forcefully split it up with our neighbors, like Belarus, but we simply cannot keep this around for the future.” (Aug. 11, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “We also don’t get upset about their dead. We dryly count them, 100 thousand, 300 thousand, half a million. There are discussions on this topic, I haven’t heard any distress about it. Quite the contrary, the more we kill, the closer is the end of the war.” (Jan. 2, 2024, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
Ishchenko — “Nonviolent” suppression of Ukrainian as a strategy for Russian victory — via Russian state-owned news site Ukraina.ru (Aug. 21, 2023)
  • “Textbooks will also be printed by the local budget, only they will be written by specially selected people, so that a Ukrainized child, in a language he understands, receives information that he is actually Russian, it’s just that the last generation of his ancestors fell into the heresy of Ukrainianism, which seriously ruined the life of not only himself, but even for him (the child), since his Ukrainized education will not be in demand further than his native village, maximum district. Russianness opens up unprecedented prospects for a career in the civil service, literature, art or business, both within Russia and abroad.”
  • State propaganda will have to actively implant a simple thought in the brain: a Ukrainian is a Russian, whose horizon is limited to the outskirts of his native village and the nearest forest. A person with the necessary and sufficient level of intellectual development from Ukrainian quickly grows into Russian, even if he is unlucky to be born into a Ukrainianized family.”
  • “With a serious approach to the matter, Ukrainianness will begin to collapse in all new territories without any repression, and in twenty to thirty years Ukrainian schools and choral singing and embroidery circles will remain only as harmless relics. Moreover, they will even be useful, since they will become a kind of “honey trap”, where all the unfinished Bandera will be drawn. The competent authorities will not need to make special efforts to identify all potentially disloyal ones – it will be enough to have lists of graduates of the relevant schools (the school also always collects information about parents).”
Egor Kucher — The War is Lost, Ukraine has been Sentenced: Only Russia Can Save It — Tsargrad (Aug. 21, 2023)
  • “We are accustomed to the fact that the main horrors of modern Ukraine are neo-Nazism, Ukrainianism, debauchery in the worst form, militant Russophobia, rewriting history, corruption and puppet anti-democracy. But in the information field little attention is paid to the fact that Ukraine represents the moral and ethical collapse of the anti-Christian state, which has become the black sheep of both the Russian and, more broadly, the Slavic world.”
  • “With such a level of decline in public morality, the rejection of traditional Christian values, the formation of a destructive identity, the basis of which is hatred of Russians on ethnic grounds, Ukraine no longer has a normal state and nation.”
Ivan Lizan, Journalist — Having lost their heads, they don’t cry over their hair: about the main loss of Ukraine – Ukraina.ru (Aug. 24, 2023)
  • “If Ukraine remains at least in some part, then there will no longer be industry on this territory. And until a qualitatively different statehood is created there, there is and cannot be any chance of its revival, and with it a society capable of creation. But the paradox of Ukraine is that its atomized society is incapable of creating anything, including the state as a complex social organism. This means that with each subsequent year of Ukrainian independence, the list of losses of the Ukrainian people will become longer and longer until Ukraine itself is swallowed up by its neighbors, who have a state, an economy and a more or less healthy society.”
Igor Markov, former politician — Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Aug. 28, 2023)
  • “When I hear discussions about the future of Ukraine, whether Ukraine will remain, I think that people don’t even understand what is happening… About deliveries of weapons and F-16s, by the time these planes and pilots are ready, the nation of Ukraine should no longer exist!”
Elena Markosyan, political commentator— Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Sept. 2, 2023)
  • “What is Ukraine? What has this country turned into? I don’t even know what to call it… The Ukrainian language cannot become the foundation of Ukraine’s development, or in all other spheres, like its stabilization or politics. I know that it’s impossible, because it immediately cuts the entire society off from the deepest levels of Russian culture! Everything lives in it and grows out of it… Ukraine decided it can build all of it on the basis of the Ukrainian language! Here is the result! Every face is a pig snout! Every action is a joke! It resulted in the country’s degradation! I have no hatred for these people. I have no pity for them either! I look at it as a doctor! A doctor has to cure a sickness! A person who has become ill this way!”
Skachko — Degradation as a path of development. New six “de-” of neo-Nazi Ukraine — Ukraina.ru (Sept. 10, 2023)
  • “These five ‘de-’ then turned out to be primitive, but, alas, obvious:
    • 1) desovereignization – the loss of state sovereignty for the sake of the illusory benefits of staying in the European Union, which did not intend and does not intend to accept Ukraine as a full member;
    • 2) deindustrialization – the destruction of the Ukrainian economy, which could be a competitor to the European or transnational economy;
    • 3) depopulation – a reduction in the population, which is recognized as “excessive” for a reformatted Ukraine, primarily pensioners, the elderly and the sick;
    • 4) de-democratization – replacing generally accepted democratic methods of forming and renewing power with technologies from electoral manipulation of election results to direct coups in the form of Maidans and “color revolutions,” of which there were two in Ukraine. Usurpation of power;
    • 5) de-intellectualization – lowering the educational and intellectual level of the “people” by abandoning the previous education system and introducing technologies for manipulating and dumbing down the minds, primarily of the younger generations.
    • This has all happened in recent years and continues in Ukraine, breaking all conceivable and inconceivable anti-records and reducing its entire existence to one, but the main “de-” – degradation. But since it is not possible to completely remove the Ukrainian “people” (there must remain aborigines who would work “for their uncle” in the “liberated” and “democratized” territories and lands), then new five “de-” were needed, introduced into the heads of based on rabid zoological nationalism, in fact neo-Nazism. Ukrainian. For what? Legitimate but stupid question. To dupe and properly zombify the remaining population in Ukraine, to brainwash and reformat them (the brains) according to new attitudes and postulates. To completely abandon the past in order to build a new future.”
  • “The special military operation (SVO) of Russia in Ukraine has completely exposed all the negative processes, but is designed to stop the processes of degradation with which all these eleven “de-” have merged. However, everyone is now deciding how Ukraine will remain, having already been turned into anti-Russia – de-Ukraine, if linguistic research continues.”
Ishchenko —  On the issue of the post-war structure of Ukraine – Ukraina.ru (Sept. 11, 2023)
  • “Let me remind you that military operations against Ukraine have been going on for a year and a half, and it has been drinking blood from Russia for more than thirty years. The Americans would never have thrown Ukraine into the war against Russia if it were not for the all-conquering kleptomania and inability for state building of the Ukrainian ruling elite. Ukrainian rulers stole Ukraine from themselves and sold it at retail for cheap, only by doing this forcing the Americans to throw this asset into the furnace of war. Without war, a devastated Ukraine would become too burdensome – more would have to be spent on its maintenance than the damage caused to Russia by the existence of such a Ukraine.”
  • “A small area with a predominantly agricultural economy is inexpensive to maintain. The new Ukraine will be turned into something like a military settlement: they feed themselves and are always ready to fight against Russia (the idea of ​​revenge), if only they supply weapons. A surviving, albeit reduced, Ukraine will be a source of permanent dual loyalty within Russia. I’m not talking about outright disloyalty. It’s unpleasant, but you can fight it. I’m talking about double loyalty, which we saw during the collapse of the USSR in the example of the population of the Union republics, when it turned out that for the majority their regional decision-making center turned out to be more important than the all-Union one.”
  • Ukraine will be the same as it was — a black hole sucking up Russian resources. Only a more effectively managed black hole, whose elite will be placed under the direct control of the West and will be led not by the idea of ​​selling everything and running away to Switzerland, but by thoughts of revenge.”
Sergey Lavrov, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs – Interview with Russian State News Agency TASS (Sept. 28, 2023)
  • “We are ready to negotiate, but taking into account the realities currently prevailing ‘on the ground’ and our position, which is well known to everyone. Also taking into account our interests, the interests of our security and preventing the creation of a hostile Nazi regime on the borders of Russia, which openly declared the goal of exterminating everything Russian on the lands that, both in Crimea and Novorossiya, had been developed, settled and settled by Russian people for centuries. This is the crux of the problem now.”
Putin — Speech at the Valdai International Discussion Club (Oct. 5, 2023) 
  • “We just discussed the situation in the Canadian parliament, when the President of Ukraine stood and applauded a Nazi who killed Jews, Russians, and Poles. Does this not show that we rightfully call Ukraine’s current system a pro-Nazi one? The leader of the state stands and applauds a Nazi, not just an ideological follower of Nazism, but a real Nazi, a former SS soldier. Is this not a sign of the Nazification of Ukraine? Does not this give us the right to talk about its denazification?”
Konstantin Dolgov, Russian Senator — Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Oct. 22, 2023)
  • “These kids in Ukraine aren’t simply being trained how to stay focused in challenging situations. They’re being trained to fight against Russians, to fight against Russia! An indoctrination is underway, a neo-Nazi kind of indoctrination! … We remember how it ended for the Hitler Jugend. It ended badly for many children who were in it. They simply died. As for the rest, let’s put it this way, everything that was jammed into their heads had to be beaten out of their heads. We will certainly do the same to these [Ukrainian] children! … This is not an easy job. Many were infected by this bacteria! The youth and the adults! … Intellectually, it’s absolutely primitive over there [in Ukraine]! Every place where Kyiv is still in power is a desert! Not just a desert, there is nothing at all in the desert. But here, to the contrary, all of it is filled to the brim with perverted, amplified anti-Russian propaganda. A lot of work is ahead of us! This is a big job! Unfortunately, these generations are already ruined, those that are growing up. But I’m certain that many of them can be saved. I don’t mean just physically, which we are doing in Donbass and Novorossiya, but to save them intellectually and psychologically! Even mentally, we’ll be doing this for a long time… Our history and the history of relations between Russians and Ukrainians when it was Malorossiya and these lands were part of the Russian Empire. A significant part of these lands were Russian lands! There was no Ukraine there whatsoever! Yulia [the interviewer], we have to explain it to this youth. This can’t be done solely by forbidding things, although I think forbidding things is necessary! It’s necessary! … It’s very important to provide them with correct content about their land, about our common history with the Ukrainian people. This history of our country!”
Putin — Meeting with Members of the Russian Security Council and Government (Oct. 30, 2023)
  • “I would like to say once again that we must realize where the root of evil lies. We must know where the spider that is trying to entangle the entire planet and the whole world in its cobweb is. It wants to ensure our strategic defeat on the battlefield, and it is using people on the territory of contemporary Ukraine who have been brainwashed by it for decades.”
Vladimir Bortko, Former Member of the Russian State Duma – Russian State TV Excerpts – translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Nov. 30, 2023)
  • “When our Ukrainian, Malorussian friends are saying, ‘We are a separate nation’ — what nation? From where? … When they say, ‘We are a separate nation, we’re going to speak our language’ — It’s a dialect of Slavic languages! … I think that the existence of the Russian people should not be subjected to being split up into Ukrainian people and Belarussian people. It’s all the same people, speaking different dialects!”
Sergey Karnaukhov, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law, Moscow State University — Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Dec. 1, 2023 – July 25, 2024)
  • “Finland is destined to become Ukraine in 50 years. Ukraine is worse than the terrorist organization ISIS. It’s much worse than al-Qaeda! It’s the worst terrorist formation, a growth on the body! There is nothing human there!” (Dec. 1, 2023, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
  • “Why are we so surprised by Ukraine’s behavior? Because there’s no such country, there’s no such nation. There is no history of Ukraine. It does not exist and it cannot exist  because there is no such entity… There is no historic predetermination, there is no culture, there is nothing!” (July 25, 2024, translated by media monitor Julia Davis)
Apti Alaudinov, Military Commander of Russia’s Akhmat Special Forces — Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Dec. 9, 2023)
  • “For Russia, this is a holy war, and nothing else. It is holy, because we didn’t want to take from Ukraine some piece of land, some mountain or some mine. It’s not important what they have or don’t have. What’s most important is what is behind it. Over there, we’re defending the interests of our people in terms of spirituality, morality, divine values, universal human values. There, we became a buffer from Satanism that was moving closer and closer to our borders. Basically, it completely surrounded Russia. This Satanism was going to destroy our country, to consume it and break it up into small parts. This war will be the starting point… First, we have to be cleansed. Only after Russia purges itself of this filth that permeates our society, which it infiltrated, when all of us in unison come to God, maybe not all of us, more work is needed in that regard — only after that will we see the results of our actions.” 
Elena Panina, Former State Duma member — Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Dec. 14, 2023)
  • “We need to secure Ukraine! … Many are asking, ‘What does a victory mean? Let’s define what victory means.’ Go to the frontlines and you will understand! They understand it on the frontlines! Our deep people understand it on the homefront! Victory means the destruction of a Nazi nation Ukraine!”
Putin — “Results of the Year” Live News Conference (Dec. 14, 2023)
  • “When the head of today’s Kiev Administration in front of the whole world gives a standing ovation to a former SS soldier who directly participated in the Holocaust, in the extermination of 1.5 million Jews in Ukraine, Russians and Poles. Is this not a manifestation of Nazism? Therefore, the issue of denazification is relevant.” 
  • “The problem is, as I have always said and as I am saying today, that despite the current tragic developments, Russians and Ukrainians are essentially one people. What is happening now is an immense tragedy; it is like a civil war between brothers who stand on different sides [of the conflict]. But overall, they are not, to a large extent, responsible for this… The southeastern part of Ukraine has always been pro-Russian because it is historically a Russian territory. I see a colleague holding up a sign saying “Turkiye.” He knows, and people in Turkiye know that the entire Black Sea region was incorporated into Russia as the result of Russo-Turkish wars. What does Ukraine have to do with that? Neither Crimea nor the Black Sea region has any connection to Ukraine. Odessa is a Russian city. We know this. Everyone knows this. But they [Ukrainians] have concocted some historical nonsense… My point is that they have lost their sovereignty to a large extent, as we can see now, and they are making many decisions to their own detriment. To their own detriment! But they do it, nonetheless.”
Skachko — Not-Wag vs. Winner. How the partition of Ukraine is being prepared— Ukraina.ru (Dec. 20, 2023)
  • “Ukraine without Russia is the same state as its president from Zelensky: the term exists, but it is not filled with meaning.”
  • “Everything that Ukraine received from Russia should be returned to it, Russia! At a minimum, the entire South-East of Ukraine is now a territory inhabited by Russian, Russian-speaking and Russian-speaking populations, declared “non-existent” by Zelensky’s neo-Nazis.”
Lavrov – Interview with Russian State News Agencies RIA Novosti and Rossiya 24 TV (Dec. 28, 2023)
  • “Everyone assumed, as they swore in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, as they swore in December 1991 in Almaty, that we are brothers forever, there are no artificial obstacles for us to live and communicate in the same language. Yes, this happened in different states, but in the same civilizational, historical space. All this happened. The process of destroying this ideology of brotherhood and unity began in Ukraine.”
Russian State TV Host Armen Gasparyan – Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Dec. 29, 2023)
  • [Addressing Ukrainians] “When things [missiles] are flying and landing on you, you’ll be yelling ‘Mama’ in your native language. You won’t recall the rules of the [Ukrainian] language. I’m amazed by something else. Why are all of you screaming in Russian on Telegram? Aren’t you, lice, subject to official language laws? You walk around in embroidered shirts, with a trident, hollering [the Ukrainian national anthem] like crazy, but as soon as something happens, you speak the Russian language without any accent.”
  • “At first, you [Ukrainians] were pitied. Then, you were looked at with disbelief. Then, with half-disdain. Then, with total disdain. Now, you’re not considered at all, as a matter of principle, because your humanity is gone… Nowadays, you are not people.”
Olesya Loseva, pro-Kremlin presenter — Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Francis Scarr (Jan. 9, 2024)
  • “Nevertheless, nobody is rushing to give an urgent euthanasia injection to the terminally ill patient called Ukraine. On the contrary, they’re attempting to keep that body alive as much as possible in order to harm the Russian Federation as much as possible.”
Ishchenko — Population of New Russian Regions — DISCRED.RU (Jan. 13, 2024)
  • Returning to the question of whom they [Ukrainians] are: today they are no one. They were Russians, they decided to become Ukrainians. …To make them again Russians is the only way to avoid problems for the next 100 years. What will be done with a session of collective psychotherapy, only it will be carried out simultaneously on thousands of square kilometers with two tens of millions of people and will take a decade and a half to two times (and then two times longer control).
Pyotr Tolstoy, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma — Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Jan. 16, 2024)
  • The fact is that Ukraine that was turned into anti-Russia will never exist again, that’s for sure.”
  • There is no way to negotiate with these people. They will devour everyone until we cleanse them out of the territory of the former Soviet Ukraine, and until people living in Ukraine come back home to Russia.”
  • “Let me remind you that during the last 300 years, Ukraine wasn’t an independent nation. All of Ukraine’s independence is just a legend that was made up by the Bolsheviks and by Ukrainian nationalists.”
Oleg Yasinsky, journalist of Russian state-owned, pro-Putin media outlet — Lenin and Ukraine — via Ukraina.ru (Jan. 21, 2024)
  • “Since any rational analysis easily shows that without Lenin and socialism, the development of Ukraine did not occur, for its current destruction it is necessary to completely eliminate the memory of that time and its names.”
Lavrov  – Speech at the Meeting of the UN Security Council on Ukraine (Jan. 22, 2024)
  • Most Ukrainians are beginning to understand who their true enemy and who for many years bleached their heads, frightening Russia, planting lies about our country and canceling our common history.”
Alexey Bobrovsky, Russian State TV Host — Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Jan. 23, 2024)
  • “This is the way Russian history works. If the Russians were ever present somewhere, if some place was ever part of Russia, sooner or later, Russia returns to these territories. This is the way it is throughout our entire history! As for all this fiction about historical Ukrainian lands, many historians trashed it on many occasions… Don’t forget history, remember it and treat it accordingly with respect, but not this fiction that currently exists in Ukraine.”
Putin — Interview with Tucker Carlson — Kremlin website (Feb. 9, 2024)
  • “So Romania and Hungary had some of their lands taken away and given to the Ukraine and they still remain part of Ukraine. So in this sense, we have every reason to affirm that Ukraine is an artificial state that was shaped at Stalin’s will.”
  • “I say that Ukrainians are part of the one Russian people. They say, ‘No, we are a separate people.’ Okay, fine. If they consider themselves a separate people, they have the right to do so, but not on the basis of Nazism, the Nazi ideology.”
Medvedev — Interview with Russian State News Agency TASS (Feb. 22, 2024)
  • “Where should we stop? I don’t know, but I think with what I’ve said, we’re going to have a lot of work to do. Will it be Kyiv? Probably, yes. It has to be Kyiv. If not now, then after some time. Just two reasons. The first is that Kyiv is a Russian city. Second, it is a threat to the existence of the Russian federation… Odesa, come home. We’ve been waiting for Odesa in the Russian Federation. Even considering the history of that city, what kind of people live there, what language they speak. This is our Russian city!”
Medvedev — Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Francis Scarr (Mar. 4, 2024)
  • One of Ukraine’s former leaders once said that Ukraine isn’t Russia. That concept must disappear for good. Ukraine is undoubtedly Russia!”
Ishchenko — Article “Without faith, no purpose, no hope. Protest against the Pope of Rome unmasks the true character of Ukrainians” — via Russian state-owned news site Ukraina.ru (March 12, 2024)
  • “They [Ukrainians] already realized that their experiment failed – the country will not survive under any circumstances, Ukraine will not survive: it has traveled around Europe and blew down at the front, the remains will die in the next half century. But, dead, they dream that, after achieving them, Russia will blow up and die, poisoned by a non-brotherly corpse poison. And if he [Ukraine] doesn’t die, it’ll get a little sick.”
  • Therefore, everyone who can, it is necessary to return to Russianness. There will be nothing possible of the Ukrainians.”
Skachko — Article “The mystery of the sanitary zone: elections in Russia – the death of neo-Nazis in Ukraine” — via Russian state-owned news site Ukraina.ru (March 18, 2024)
  • “And for Russia, for which the creation of sanitary zones and security buffers on its southwestern borders is a matter of the near future and ensuring its state security. That is, we are talking about the fulfillment of the tasks and the achievement of the goals of the SVO, which was set for this. That’s it! The circle is closed: Russia’s security is needed, and it is impossible to achieve it without the collapse of Ukraine. It is necessary to ensure its security at the expense of Ukraine. This is the logic of every war, including this war: the rules of the future of the common life are dictated by the victors.”
  • “There will be no Zelensky, and there will be a sanitary zone. And instead of a part of Ukraine or in its composition, but under someone else’s (they are a question of peace agreements) control – this is not so important. The one that Ukraine, which after the 2014 coup turned into an “anti-Russia” and provoked a war, will never be.”
Ishchenko — Article “How Ukrainian was born. The Forgotten Anniversary of Political Mistake” — via Russian state-owned news site Ukraina.ru (March 24, 2024)
  • “The meaning in the study of the problem of the birth of Ukrainian separatism, the study of its deepest and most unobvious roots, is only in one case – if the knowledge used we use for a final solution to this problem, the eradication of Ukraine, as a project, hostile to Russianity, forever. ​​The first steps in this direction are already being taken. The new territories are part of Russia as Russian regions, without any special privileges and powers. The main thing is not to get off this path, or because we still have a fairly influential pro-Ukrainian lobby, which considers and proves that at least some Ukraine, at least in some territories should be preserved.
  • There can be no Ukraine. Even in Galicia, where another, non-Russian nation was formed in more than six hundred years of separate existence. Let there be Galicians, Poles, Romanians, Hungarians, anyone, but not Ukrainians. Ukrainians – an alternative to the Russian version of the development of the Russian nation, so far, Ukrainianism is fighting with Russianism for “Polish free parties,” for the “European choice.” It will never rest, without eradicating Russianity (as an alternative and more successful version of national-state development), which means that in the interests of our security [Ukraine] must be completely eradicated.”
Vladislav Shurygin, Russian military expert — Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (March 27, 2024)
  • “I asked myself, why do we treat animals that are shelling our cities as though we consider them to be normal people? … Give them two warnings, as it was done in the past, warn them twice, but then hit them the third time. Then the place of this brigade’s permanent deployment will face total destruction, where their wives, their kids, mothers and fathers live. Where the entire pack lives… You can’t treat them in any other way. These are animals. They aren’t capable of understanding anything human.”
Andry Lugovoy, State Duma member — Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (March 28, 2024) 
  • “The Ukrainian population is bipolar in its head. We have to put them in their place. I think that Kharkiv should be deprived of electricity to the point that it becomes totally unlivable. Let those 800 thousand people that are left there get in their cars, walk with their sacks or ride in wagons, heading West. And do the same to other cities, including Kyiv… Purely symbolically, we should level the Presidential Palace, since it’s clear who is at the head of this gang. Many may say, they are in the bunkers, nothing will happen to them, but it would be symbolic.”
Dugin — Ukraine is No More — DISCRED.RU (April 1, 2024)
  • Today, what was Ukraine yesterday, whether someone liked it or not, is no longer Ukraine. It is a piece of territory and an array of population, captured in any way and in no way legal and not [a] legitimate group of people.”
Konstantin Kevorkian, Russian journalist — A Fair Military Operation or Return of the Stolen — Ukraina.ru (May 1, 2024)
  • “Today’s Ukraine has been turned into a huge concentration camp. A just military operation is the return of stolen freedom and scolded human dignity. It, as a surgical operation in the case of an advanced disease, is severe, bleeding, requires a huge strain of strength. But if a malignant tumor is not cut out, then the metastases will harm the whole body.”
Zakharova — Briefing in St. Petersburg — Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (May 23, 2024)
  • “Today, the Ukrainian heritage associated with the Kiev regime has been overcome, and Crimea has turned into a prosperous Russian region, a territory of national harmony, where people of all nationalities have equal rights and opportunities, live in peace and understanding.”
Ishchenko — Post-Ukraine: contours of denazification — Ukraina.ru (May 29, 2024)
  • The choice is not made by us, but we have to consider it. If there is one thing to remain, we must make every effort to ensure that it is not Ukraine. Ukrainian Russophobic Nazism and Ukrainianism as such, constantly give rise to each other and can no other way.”
Ishchenko — The Dead Army of Zelensky goes into battle — Ukraina.ru (May 30, 2024)
  • “We have long stated that we are going to leave the scorched [Ukrainian] land. But these will not just be villages dismantled brick by brick, into which the Russian army is now entering after months of fighting. In the near future, we are threatened to see half-dead cities (former million-plus cities or regional centers with populations of 300,000 to 900,000), with destroyed infrastructure, the lack of elementary conditions for the life of the remaining population, hundreds of thousands of unrecovered corpses rotting in the surrounding fields, forest plantings and rural basements, and rodents also fatten on these corpses and move freely between them and the cities.”
Sergei Karaganov, political scientist & dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics — Plenary Session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum — Kremlin (June 7, 2024)
  • “The Kiev regime is morally, politically, and even legally illegitimate, even from the perspective of the failed state that exists there. How can we possibly hold any talks with them without first defeating them, achieving their complete surrender and holding a nuclear gun, so to speak, over our Western opponents, so that they do not resist any further? In fact, right now, no agreements will be implemented until they are defeated. They are illegitimate and unreliable partners.”
Zakharova — Briefing in St. Petersburg — Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (June 19, 2024)
  • The price they expect from the citizens of Ukraine, from Ukrainian society, the people (I can’t say the state, because I can’t say. There is nothing left of Ukrainian statehood) – inflicting Russia’s “strategic defeat” by his hands with colossal Western money.”
Ishchenko — When it’s over: graves and monumental propaganda — Ukraina.ru (June 20, 2024)
  • The Ukrainians, although they proclaimed their nation the oldest (which existed at least 100,000 years), can not find any material evidence of its existence beyond the last century. Therefore, in order to raise new generations in the Ukrainian cultural environment (if, of course, it can be called culture), Ukrainian nationalists needed to destroy everything that was too vividly testified to the Russian history of the region.
  • “As I wrote above, I don’t know what to do with the natural way, with our help, multiplying Ukrainian monumental and grave propaganda, but something needs to be done about it. Otherwise, and in decades, some inquisitive child will begin to wonder what Ukraine was in the fight for which so many people died. I am not sure that quite truthful explanations about collective zombification, about the reworking of local Russians into Ukrainians who hate Russianness with the help of American propaganda, for the child of the end of this century, for which freedom will be as distant as for us the Russo-Japanese war, will be more convincing than rows of graves and memories of grandfathers and great-grandfathers against their background.”
Putin — Answers to questions from Russian journalists — Kremlin (June 20, 2024)
  • “Six months ago, I made it clear that if they continued to target Russian communities in the [Kharkiv] border region, we would have to create a security area, a sanitary zone, on Ukrainian territory. They continued the shelling, and we did what we said we would.”
Ishchenko — Undiscovered disaster. Why the neo-Banderas are going to kill the Russians again and again — Ukraina.ru (June 28, 2024)
  • “There is nothing you can do to even have a chance to return the [Ukrainian] collective average person to a normal state; it is necessary to kill hundreds of thousands of individual people. If you leave everything as it is, then a hostile collective man in the street will continue to try to kill us.”
Ishchenko — Ukrainian Patriots in the Process of Awareness of the Obvious — Discred.ru (June 29, 2024)
  • “Therefore, from my point of view, although the collapse of Ukraine is natural, and its complete takeover is a burden, Russia should still strive for a complete absorption of the former territories of the Ukrainian SSR, not even because they are native Russian: the Polish – now Polish Bialystok – is also an ancient Russian city, and our Kaliningrad was built by the Germans. Just the complete absorption of Ukraine is the only guarantee of the eradication of Ukraine (with the right approach to solving the problem), and therefore ensuring the long-term security of Russia.”
Zakharova — Briefing in St. Petersburg — Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (June 26, 2024)
  • “All this once again confirms that the regime of V.A. Zelensky and its Western curators are indifferent to the fate of Ukraine and its residents. They are not disturbed by the suffering of their citizens, on whose shoulders fall the hardships of such an escalation. Destroyed Ukrainian statehood, destroyed economy, industry, production throughout the territory formerly called Ukraine.”
  • Today’s Ukraine has long become a toxic state rotten from within, which infects other countries with its corruption plague. This should be discussed on specialized profile platforms. The mutual cooperation with the Kiev regime (this should be understood, including the countries of the world’s majority) will only cause harm, because no one will ever calculate how many machinations were committed by Bankova [the office of the Ukrainian president]. With their promises, they have a hand in enriching criminal cartels and arms merchants around the world. And now they feel like the world’s rulers in this regard.”
Zakharova — Comment on the Kiev regime’s attempts to accuse Russia of deliberate attacks on Ukrainian civil facilities — Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (July 8, 2024)
  • “Attempts by the Zelensky regime to use the tragedy with the children’s hospital in Kiev for propaganda purposes once again confirms its inhuman Nazi essence. For the sake of maintaining power, the Kiev regime is ready for any crimes. He is indifferent to the fate and life of his fellow citizens, including children.”
Skachko — The Cage of the Brain. On neo-Nazi soil in Ukraine, completely banned Russia — Ukraina.ru (July 18, 2024)
  • “But what to do with these [Ukrainian] patriots, it seems, no one knows. Veterinarians, however, claim that there are no methods of treatment of rabies-stricken animals, and therefore the branded four-legged are simply exterminated. As, in principle, the fascists and Nazis in 1945. And it’s only a pity that then some individuals left the “medication” and bred…”
Alexander Kazakov, State Duma member – Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Aug. 1, 2024)
  • “This question [of “where are the Ukrainians?”] will no longer exist in two years. We will win in the special military operation. We’ll have our own May 9th [Victory Day]. The way all Germans turned into anti-fascists, after our victory, all Ukrainians will turn into Russians and Malorussians. That’s it, in two years, this issue will not exist.”
Zakharova — Comment on the situation around Ukraine — Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (August 7, 2024)
  • “It is not surprising that today the new symbols of the Ukrainian state are covered with rust, while the authorities steal the country and sell it to the West… The facts listed once again confirm the relevance of the tasks of a special military operation on the denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine and the elimination of threats emanating from its territory. All of them will be fulfilled.”
Victoria Nikiforova, Russian propagandist and columnist at RIA Novosti — No Negotiations. Ukraine Simply Should Not Be — Discred.ru (August 14, 2024)
  • There should be no “Ukraine” — all this space should be denazified, cleared and neutralized. Whatever efforts and sacrifices we need, we are ready for them.”
  • “And all this huge, multi-millions of people, all this vast [Ukrainian] country – what can you do to it on a scale of decades? We’re not going anywhere. We will kill the Nazis until we cleanse all our land.”
Dmitry Drobnitsky, Russian political scientist — Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Aug. 14, 2024)
  • “Realistically, these [Ukrainians] are just Russian people. Seriously. They were simply convinced that it’s bad to be Russian. This is what political Ukrainianism is all about. They convinced them that it’s bad to be a Russian, that it’s shameful and backward. They turned them into that, but their spirit remained the same.”
Patriarch and Russian Orthodox Bishop Kirill of Moscow – Interview with Andrey Kondrashov, Director General of the Russian State News Agency TASS — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (Jan. 7, 2025)
  • “The fact that despite our ties, they’ve succeeded at inciting this hatred, and to bring things to the point of an armed conflict shows that major forces were devoted to stupefying the Ukrainian people. But I believe that this intoxication is a short-term phenomenon, akin to anesthesia. A person wakes from a drug-induced sleep and starts to return to reality, which includes questioning visions he might have experienced under a drug-induced sleep. The same thing will happen. People will understand that this is an illusion, and in reality, this is a special operation by external forces directed at separating one people.”
Rogozin – Interview with Gazeta.ru Correspondent Alexey Klimenkov – Gazeta.ru (Jan. 14, 2025)
  • Denazification is, first of all, the destruction of those who instill this misanthropic, Russophobic spirit, which has turned a fraternal republic with a huge number of mixed families into our fierce enemy.”
Ishchenko – Post-Ukraine and Russian reflection – Ukraina.ru (Feb. 28, 2025)
  • Ukraine cannot exist independently, and it is extremely difficult to legalize its liquidation, but it is necessary, otherwise we will constantly be dealing with a zombie state – not dead, not alive, senselessly devouring resources and poisoning everything around it.”
Ishchenko – The Ideology Trap – Ukraina.ru (March 31, 2025)
  • There are still some Ukrainians left. They are even occasionally encountered in Ukraine, although in general this species of mammals is now disappearing in the area of ​​its origin.”
Ishchenko – Ukrogenesis and ukricide – Ukraina.ru (April 24, 2025)
  • “Some well-intentioned Russian patriots say that since it so happened that the Ukrainian nation has been formed, or at least the process of ethnogenesis has been launched, then nothing can be done, we must come to terms with it, live side by side and try our best to be friends at home. But the point is that no Ukrainian nation has been formed. Moreover, its formation is completely absent from the plans of the ‘great Ukrs’ themselves, just as it was absent from the plans of the Polabian and Pomor Slavs a thousand years ago.”
  • “A nation must also have its own national territory and economy, without which it is impossible to create a national state. And their territory is foreign: Lviv is a Polish city (at least for now the Poles have a chance), and Kiev, Kharkov, Odessa, Kherson, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye are Russian. There is no economy at all – what they inherited they themselves stole into corners, and what they could not carry and sell – they ruined. They also successfully destroyed the state they inherited, and did not create. Where will this ‘nation’ live, what will it eat and drink?”
  • “If they are a nation, then the place where they were born and live is their national territory, the protection of which is their sacred duty, but if they are not a nation, then they are traitors – fugitives through Ukrainianism from the Russian nation to European benefits and have no rights to our Russian national territory. This must also be taken into account. We will have to fight the consequences of Ukrophrenia, eradicating them, for many decades to come – the better we prepare the ground in advance, the better and easier it will be for us.”
Alexander Sladkov, military journalist – About enemies and patriots after SVO – Discred.ru (April 29, 2025)
  • “If we finish with Ukraine halfway, without demilitarization, denationalization, then we will doom ourselves to a new war, with the same Ukraine. The West will prepare Ukraine for it.”
Ishchenko – War knows no age. Ukraine as Zelensky’s giant juicer – Ukraina.ru (April 30, 2025)
  • “The birth rate in the country has fallen below one hundred thousand a year. About fifty years ago, at its peak, it reached a million a year. The people are dying out and scattering. The debate about whether the Ukrainian nation really exists or has not yet formed has lost its relevance, since even if it does exist, it will not exist anyway – it will die out.”
Skachko –Trump pressed Zelensky to make a deal. How the disappearing country was sold off on the cheap – Ukraina.ru (May 1, 2025) 
  • No, Ukraine is still listed on the map de jure and in space de facto. But in essence it does not exist, because neither the state nor its people own anything in this place. NOTHING!”
UPDATED Sergey Mironov, State Duma Leader of A Just Russia Party and former Chairman of the Federation Council – Telegram posts by Mironov – Telegram (May 3 – September 17, 2025)
  • “I emphasize: without the liquidation of the Nazi regime, the goals of the SVO will not be achieved. Our fathers and grandfathers understood this well, that’s why they went to Berlin. We should do the same.” (May 3, 2025)
  • Kiev’s actions once again show that without the liquidation of the Bandera regime, the goals of the SVO will not be achieved. The fish rots from the head, and we must rid the brotherly people of Ukraine of this Nazi rot. It is impossible and wrong to appease evil, it must be fought – this is what the Russian army is doing today.” (May 8, 2025)
  • “It is important to understand that this fight is not over yet, but it must definitely end in our victory. The denazification of Ukraine, the need for which our President spoke, must be completed – at the negotiating table or on the battlefield. Otherwise, the cancer of Nazism will again spread throughout the world.” (May 21, 2025) 
  • “Russia does not use history to “legitimize violence.” Russia is trying to stop the violence that the Nazi regime in Kiev has been committing since 2014. We have not forgotten and will remind you who burned people in Odessa and bombed them in Donbass! You say that there is no fascism in Ukraine? So you have forgotten what fascism is. And a people who do not know their past, as we know, have no future.” (June 11, 2025)
  • We and the Ukrainians are one people, and all of Ukraine is ours, and they are trying to take it away from us. Who? The West, which first staged a coup d’etat in Ukraine, brought Nazi Bandera supporters to power and unleashed a war to destroy Russians in Donbass. In this sense, the special military operation is becoming a domestic liberation war. Stop being ashamed of your history, faith and national interests! We have no right to concede any of this, much less an inch of our land. Crimea, Donbass, Kherson region and Zaporozhye are Russian because the people clearly said that they want to be part of Russia. I have no doubt that the residents of Kharkov, Sumy, Odessa, Nikolaev, Dnepropetrovsk and most regions of the so-called Ukraine, who are suffering today from Bandera’s power, think the same way. How are they worse? And the ancient cities of Kievan Rus – Kiev and Chernigov, aren’t they Russian in population, history and spirit? All of Ukraine is ours – it’s all the Russian world! Except for the cut-off slice – Western Ukraine. If they want to worship their Ukrainianness – let them worship it. But there shouldn’t be any Nazis there. If we have to, we’ll reach Lvov, like we reached Berlin in 1945!” (June 20, 2025)
  • “The main guarantee of security for Ukraine is the liquidation of the Zelensky regime. As long as he is in power, there will be no security there. He said this on Channel One. Zelensky is a traitor to his country and his people. Of course, Ukrainians have been brainwashed, but sooner or later they will understand this.” (August 21, 2025) 
  • “Ukraine’s fight against the Russian language has led to the Russification of even Lviv, the stronghold of Bandera. A local deputy from one of the Nazi parties was outraged by this. As the saying goes, forbidden fruit is sweet. Especially if this “fruit” is the native language of most Ukrainians. And that language is Russian, not Ukrainian. False notions about what language Ukraine speaks will ultimately lose out to reality. And no matter how much Bandera supporters scream about the “nightingale language” being the only one, the Russian language will not only survive, but will also regain its rightful place in Ukrainian life. ” (September 17, 2025)
NEW Ishchenko — “Ukraine as an anti-system” — Ukraina.ru (May 31, 2025)
  • We often say that Ukraine was created as anti-Russia. This is true. But this is not the whole truth. Ukraine is anti-Russia – a special case. Ukraine is an anti-system in principle.” 
NEW Zakhar Vinogradov, Editor-in-Chief of Ukraina.ru — “Zelensky’s Ukrainian regime has confirmed that it cannot be negotiated with, it can only be destroyed” — Ukraina.ru (June 1, 2025)
  • “It seems to me that Russia has no other choice but to continue the war until the Nazi militaristic state of Ukraine is completely destroyed. Because they will still act in accordance with their Nazi logic of war.”
  • “This is another reason why Ukraine must be liquidated completely, once and for all. The modest charm of total corruption is already too great, and if this anti-system, as it does now, also has its own state, it will become tenfold stronger. And again, as now, in order to defeat the vices that the Ukrainian anti-system cherishes, it will be necessary to first win on the battlefield and finally liquidate Ukraine. Only this will be much more difficult to do. Because the longer Ukraine exists, the more infected there will be around it.” 
NEW Putin — Remarks at St. Petersburg International Economic Forum — via Russian news network REN TV (June 20, 2025)
  • I have already said many times that I consider the Russian and Ukrainian people to be one people in reality, and in this sense all of Ukraine is ours. But we proceed from the realities that are developing.”
NEW Vladimir Medinsky, Presidential Aide — Meeting with editors of history textbooks — Kremlin website (June 22, 2025)
  • “The actual 17th-century event referenced was the agreement, in which Zaporozhye Cossacks, led by Hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky, voluntarily aligned their territories with the Moscow Tsardom under a protectorate, retaining limited autonomy. That involved Cossack lands, not Ukraine as a state. What kind of “reunification” are we talking about? No Ukrainian statehood existed to “reunite” with Russia. In this new edition, we included all the correct historical assessments while clearing it of excess ideology, which gave students a false idea of what really happened. In addition, we emphasize the continuity of our history.”
NEW Ishchenko — “Ukraine has known since 1991 that Russia would take from it what does not belong to it” — Ukraina.ru via Discred.ru (June 30, 2025)
  • “That’s how [Ukrainian] brains work. Or rather, they don’t have brains. They only have nerve centers that make them talk and twitch occasionally. How else can one explain the behavior of someone who first says, “Russia stole our Russian name and language. Ukraine is the true Rus’,” and then goes on to say, “I’m Ukrainian, but I don’t speak Ukrainian because my ancestors were forcibly Russified”? This is their fundamental historical concept. And the longer Ukraine closes itself off from the world, the more this nonsense will penetrate the minds of the younger generation.”
NEW Ishchenko — “On the capitulation of Ukraine” — Ukraina.ru (July 18, 2025)
  • “The West’s agreement to negotiate under the conditions of the destruction of Ukrainian statehood will mean its actual recognition of the new geopolitical reality, which is what we actually need to begin with. Recognizing the actual state of affairs, the West will eventually have to agree to its legal registration, but will begin to bargain shamelessly for bonuses for itself. So, even in the event of capitulation, the liquidation of Ukraine cannot be avoided.”
NEW Roman Golovanov, TV show host – Russian State TV Excerpts — translated by media monitor Julia Davis (July 19, 2025)
  • “[A Ukrainian speaker at a conference] says that Odesa is supposedly a Ukrainian city. What is this? If he is a real historian, of course he knows that everything he says is a total lie. But if he is insane, then he believes in all of this. In addition to all the measures we are undertaking, we will have to conduct serious psychiatric treatment of many persons over there. To a certain extent, this will be forced psychiatric treatment of many people. It will be a medical campaign on a mass scale.” 
NEW Skachko — “Unconsciousness in the Law. The Castration of the Dumbstruck in Ukraine as an Example for Europe” — Ukraina.ru (July 21, 2025)
  • “And the Ukrainian paradox today is that, firstly, the neo-Nazis and their curators have not succeeded in winning on the battlefield and most likely will not succeed and may end in the total liquidation of the official Ukrainian statehood, which has already been effectively deprived of sovereignty. But in matters of ideological, moral and spiritual reformatting of the population, Ukraine has long since reached the bottom and is even scooping up the bottom silt, not stopping at any perversions and crimes.”
  • “According to the principle of the three ‘Ds’: demilitarization, denazification and democratization, which were applied to Nazi Germany after 1945. And there is the fourth “D” from Medvedev: deparasitization or disinsection. Fastidious, but necessary, because the number of parasites in Kyiv is already off the charts…” 
NEW Alexander Chalenko, journalist — “Why Russia Should Include All of Ukraine, Not Just Novorossiya? Five Arguments” — Ukraina.ru (Aug. 6, 2025)
  • “The experience of the 20th and early 21st centuries has shown that any ‘Ukrainian revival,’ any Ukrainization, does not lead to the emergence of a population loyal to Moscow, but to the cultivation of aggressive Ukrainian nationalism, which, when the center is weakened, immediately raises its head and leads first to the separation of the territory where Ukrainianism was nurtured, and then to the total destruction of everything Russian, as well as to wars. Therefore, in order to avoid all this negativity in the future, we need total Russification of the population. And there is nothing violent about it. For example, Kyiv is an absolutely Russian city in culture and language, on which the language and Ukrainianism were imposed. Russification of Kyiv in this case will only mean a rejection of state Ukrainization. Anyone who wants to privately study the language, let them do so, but there will be no more state forced support for all this. Moreover, there will be fewer and fewer people willing to study the language every year, since the population of these territories will begin to perceive and consider themselves Russian.”
  • “However, the relative prosperity for uncritical citizens of the rest of the territory of the former Ukraine, which became part of Russia, will be a serious temptation to maintain an anti-Russian attitude and a desire to return to Ukrainian power, under which they too will be able to fall into this “communism”. And so there are no more remnants of Ukraine – there is no unnecessary temptation.” 
NEW Mikhail Pavliv, political strategist — “Ukraine lives while it fights! It’s a revived Frankenstein” — Ukraina.ru (Aug. 25, 2025)
  • It is in this framework that we should look at Ukrainian statehood. Not as a ‘country at war with difficulties’, but as an organism that is already exhausted, already compressed by half, no longer reproducing itself. Dead in essence and galvanized like Frankenstein. The test for statehood here is simple: can Ukraine maintain its own social obligations and industrial contour without total and endless external care? The answer is no. And it is this “no” that sets the tone for the entire next ten-year trajectory – the trajectory of collapse. And, in a paradoxical but correct logic, this state that arose on the ruins of the Union in 1991 literally lives while it fights. The end of the war for Ukraine-Anti-Russia is a one-way ticket to a logical end in a fairly short time. I would say up to ten years. Or maybe even less.”
NEW Mikhail Pavliv — “Drugs and alcoholism are the demons of the Ukrainian chimera” — Ukraina.ru (Sept. 4, 2025)
  • “No country can survive when its youth is doomed to degradation. But the Ukrainian government deliberately turns a blind eye to this. It prefers to report to Western curators about ‘reforms’ instead of saving its own children. And this is a death sentence. This is a symbol of the fact that Ukraine as a state (obviously, a failed one) has already been destroyed from within. This means that no slogans about the “European choice” will change the fact: the chimera, the anti-system that devours its children, has no right to a future.”

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What You Need to Know About Iran Sanctions Snap Back at the UN: A Q&A with Kelsey Davenport https://www.justsecurity.org/119774/iran-sanctions-snapback-qa/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=iran-sanctions-snapback-qa Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:34:38 +0000 https://www.justsecurity.org/?p=119774 On Aug. 28, three European nations triggered snapback of the UN's Iran sanctions. Kelsey Davenport explains its impact, next steps, and why it matters.

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On August 28, the three European participants in the Iran nuclear deal initiated a process to snap back into place U.N. sanctions that had been relieved or reformulated as part of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231 that endorsed and implemented the deal in 2015. This Q&A, featuring Kelsey Davenport, the Director for Nonproliferation Policy at the Arms Control Association, explains what that means, what might come next, and why it matters.

Q. The U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 2231 immediately after the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2015 to endorse the JCPOA and provide for its implementation. Among other things, it suspended some restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program while reformulating others, created an innovative “procurement channel” for approval of any transfers of potentially nuclear-related goods into Iran, established a first-of-its-kind “snap back” mechanism that would allow the previous U.N. sanctions architecture to be reconstituted if there were significant and unresolved non-compliance with the terms of the JCPOA, and provided for “termination” of the Security Council’s restrictions on Iran a decade after the JCPOA went into effect (unless “snap back” had occurred before that time). Before we get to the “snap back” part of the resolution, can you walk us through what you consider to be the most important features of Resolution 2231 are and why we’re hearing about them today?

Kelsey Davenport: Between 2006 and 2010, the UN Security Council passed a series of resolutions sanctioning Iran and limiting the country’s nuclear program after the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors reported Iran to the Security Council for noncompliance with its legally required safeguards agreement.

Resolution 2231, which endorsed the 2015 nuclear deal, modified the UN sanctions and restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program and was integral to the implementation of the JCPOA. It immediately lifted sanctions and designations related to some of the country’s nuclear activities and removed or modified restrictions on the nuclear program, such as the prohibition on enrichment, necessary for JCPOA implementation. Other sanctions remained fully in place but were time-limited by the Resolution—the UN’s arms embargo remained in place for five years, and restrictions on Iran’s transfer of ballistic missiles remained in place for eight.

Furthermore, Resolution 2231 set up a unique review process for monitoring Iran’s purchase of certain materials that could be relevant to its nuclear program. Any state seeking to sell or transfer any of those materials to Iran had to seek approval from a Security Council body prior to the transfer, on which the United States (and other JCPOA participants) had a veto. This mechanism was known as the procurement channel.

Resolution 2231 contained a number of binding obligations on all UN member states. For example, the prohibition on providing nuclear or dual-use goods and services to Iran except through the procurement channel applies to all states. (The arms and missile restrictions were also universal until their expiration.).

Finally, Resolution 2231 contains what is essentially an expiration date. Ten years following the JCPOA’s adoption, on what is called “Termination Day” in the JCPOA, the Resolution provides that “all provisions of this resolution shall be terminated, and none of the previous resolutions” the Security Council had adopted to address Iran’s nuclear program will continue. On that date, “the Security Council will have concluded its consideration of the Iranian nuclear issue, and the item ‘Non-proliferation’ will be removed from the list of matters of which the Council is seized,” effectively closing the books on the Security Council’s engagement with Iran’s nuclear program. Closure of the nuclear file at the UN is particularly important to Iran, as Tehran wants to be perceived as a “normal” NPT member state. Termination Day is October 18 of this year – and if Resolution 2231 expires, the snap back provisions that could be used to put multilateral sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program back in place would expire along with it.

Q. Turning to that snap back mechanism, how does it work and who can trigger it?

KD: Snapback is a unique mechanism that allows any participant in the nuclear deal that is also a member state (that is, all but the EU) to reimpose the UN sanctions and restrictions on Iran that were removed or modified by Resolution 2231 using a process that cannot be blocked. It was included in Resolution 2231 because members of the P5+1 group (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) were concerned that if Iran violated the nuclear provisions of the JCPOA, under normal Security Council procedures, any one of the P5 states could veto the adoption of new, binding Security Council sanctions. The snapback mechanism ensured that, through October 2025, there was a veto-proof path to restoring the significant multilateral restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program that had been in place prior to the JCPOA.

To trigger the snapback mechanism, any participant in the JCPOA that is a UN member state (that is, the P5+1) can notify the Security Council of an issue that “constitutes significant nonperformance of commitments” in the nuclear deal. The President of the Security Council must then submit a draft resolution calling for the continuation of UN sanctions relief specified by the JCPOA within 10 days of the notification. The Security Council then has 30 days to vote on the resolution. If that resolution passes, the previous sanctions are not restored (i.e., they do not “snap back”). However, the participant that triggered the snapback could veto the resolution calling for the continuation of sanctions relief if its concerns had not been resolved, snapping back the previous sanctions and restrictions.

The United States, having withdrawn from the JCPOA in May 2018, cannot trigger snapback. The Trump administration attempted to use the snapback mechanism to prevent the UN arms embargo on Iran from expiring in 2020, but the Security Council president said that the United States could not do so because it was no longer a “participant” to the nuclear deal.

Q. On August 28th, the “E3” (France, the United Kingdom, and Germany) sent a letter to the President of the Security Council invoking snap back in an attempt to pressure Iran to make concessions regarding its nuclear program. It had previously been reported that JCPOA participants were in discussions about an extension of the termination provisions, which would have bought more time before there was a need to come to a decision on pulling the snap back trigger. What does it mean in practice that the E3 have initiated snap back? Was doing so at this stage wise?

KD: The E3 was in a tough position. Iran’s violations of the JCPOA since 2019 brought the country technically to the threshold of nuclear weapons and, after the U.S. and Israeli strikes in June, Iran had suspended cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), violating its legally binding safeguards obligations and removing all oversight of its nuclear activities. Furthermore, Russia and China’s failure to condemn Iran’s safeguards violations raised legitimate concerns about whether the Security Council would vote to sanction or condemn Iran in the future for safeguards noncompliance. So if the E3 did not initiate snapback, the mechanism would expire and it would be unlikely, barring any clear move by Iran to weaponize, that the Security Council would put any new pressure on Iran.

On the other hand, pressure works best when paired with a credible, diplomatic off-ramp. Currently, it is not clear that the United States perceives negotiations as an urgent necessity or that Iran views the United States as a credible negotiating partner, despite continued expressions of support for a deal.

Furthermore, Iran does not want to be perceived as capitulating to pressure, so initiating snapback will likely provoke an Iranian response, such as its threat to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). As a result, snapback could further escalate tensions and put the United States and Iran back on the path to conflict.

By initiating snapback, the E3 has set a 30 day deadline for reaching an agreement that staves off snapback taking effect. This could inject much-needed urgency into the talks if both sides are willing to engage, but there are still significant challenges. Ideally, the E3 will work with the United States on a limited deal that extends snapback in exchange for Iran taking steps to reduce nuclear risk. The E3 suggested this in an Aug. 28 statement, saying “[w]e will use the 30-day period to continue to engage with Iran on our extension offer, or on any serious diplomatic efforts to restore Iran’s compliance with its commitments.”

Fully restoring Iran’s compliance with the JCPOA in the next 30 days is unrealistic, particularly due to the verification challenges that stem from the strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, but the E3 suggested they would accept less. In an Aug. 8 letter, the E3 said it would extend snapback for six months in exchange for resuming negotiations and “addressing some of the international community’s most immediate concerns regarding the transparency” of its nuclear program.

Q. Iran has, as expected, condemned the “illegal and unfounded” E3 action. And for its part, the U.S. State Department issued a press statement that “[o]ver the coming weeks, we will work with [the E3] and other Members of the UN Security Council to successfully complete the snapback of international sanctions and restrictions on Iran…” On one hand, the United States is an essential player in getting negotiations back on track if it’s even viable to do so. But after joining Israel’s bombing campaign and striking Iran’s nuclear program earlier this summer, its credibility is badly damaged. Assuming U.S. President Donald Trump still wants a deal (perhaps a big assumption at this stage), if there is a path for diplomacy that could avert snap back coming into effect, what does that look like?

KD: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Iran is still interested in “fair and balanced” negotiations over its nuclear program. But to resume talks, Araghchi said that Iran is looking for assurances that its nuclear rights under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty will be respected and there will be no military aggression against Iran while negotiations are ongoing.

To address Iran’s concerns and the proliferation risks identified by the E3 in their Aug. 28 statement on snapback, the United States and Iran could negotiate an interim arrangement. The arrangement could include a commitment from Iran to allow IAEA inspectors back into all nuclear facilities and cooperation on accounting for its stockpiles of 60 percent enriched uranium, which remain unknown after the Israeli and U.S. bombings in June. An interim arrangement could also recognize Iran’s rights to a peaceful nuclear program under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

In exchange, the United States could also work with E3, Russia, and China on a UN Security Council resolution to extend the snapback mechanism for six months. The resolution could also encourage all states to support the negotiation of a comprehensive agreement. To be a more credible player in this process, the United States would likely need to commit to refrain from military action against Iran or supporting military action by any other state. Any further strikes on Iran would likely be unlawful and although the Trump administration may be loath to give up the threat to military force, Trump no longer views Iran’s nuclear program as an imminent threat and wants to avoid a broader U.S.-Iran conflict. Therefore, committing to forgo military action for six months would solidify and strengthen the ceasefire agreement that President Donald Trump announced in June without undermining U.S. security, reduce tensions, and buy time for negotiations on a comprehensive agreement.

Q. If diplomacy does not succeed in this compressed timeframe and sanctions snap back is completed next month, what would the U.N. sanctions architecture on Iran’s nuclear program look like? And for the rest of the world, what activity that’s currently permitted under UNSCR 2231 would be prohibited?

KD: The reimposition of UN sanctions on Iran will have little economic impact, but alongside other types of impacts, it would mark an official end of the JCPOA era. That’s because the pre-JCPOA UN Security Council posture would be reinstated, and without the significant reformulations, carve-outs, and other innovative mechanisms in Resolution 2231, implementation of many of the JCPOA’s provisions becomes impossible.

On economic impacts, when Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in May 2018, despite Iran’s compliance with the accord, and reimposed U.S. sanctions, the breadth of those measures ended nearly all of the economic engagement with Iran that was permitted under the JCPOA. The reimposition of the arms embargo and the prohibitions on the import and export of ballistic missiles and drones, however, will make certain transactions, such as Iran’s provision of drones to Russia, illegal.

More directly relevant to Iran’s nuclear program are the UN provisions regarding the country’s nuclear activities. Snapback will restore prohibitions on Iran’s nuclear activities that Tehran views as infringing on its nuclear rights under the NPT, including the binding requirement on Iran to suspend uranium enrichment and prohibit any work on heavy-water reactors. It also prohibits plutonium reprocessing and investment in nuclear activities overseas. Additionally, it will restore the prohibition on any activities relevant to ballistic missile development.

In addition to implementing the sanctions, all UN member states will be prohibited from providing any materials or equipment to Iran that could be used for its nuclear and/or missile programs and providing finances, training, or resources that would be relevant to advancing the nuclear program.

Q. Sanctions enforcement is often less of an uphill battle when there is alignment among key stakeholders (including countries that want to trade with Iran) on the goals of the sanctions and when there is a diplomatic process in place that has a realistic prospect of achieving them. Do you think there is any agreement on goals for Iran’s nuclear program, or any prospect of a viable diplomatic process going forward? If not, do you foresee difficulty getting states to comply with the U.N. sanctions regime?

KD: There is broad agreement that Iran should remain a non-nuclear weapon state and party to the NPT, but significant disagreements between key states over the strategies to prevent a nuclear armed Iran, the role that sanctions should play, and who is to blame for the current crisis.

Russia and China, for instance, oppose the snapping back of UN sanctions. There is a real risk that neither country will enforce the reimposed UN measures, despite being legally obligated to do so, if snap back becomes effective after 30 days. Snapping back sanctions after Israel and the United States struck Iran before diplomacy was exhausted risks additional states viewing the reimposition as unjust and a further example of nuclear weapon states undermining the NPT’s guarantee that states can pursue peaceful nuclear programs.

The Security Council has little leverage to compel states to implement resolutions, including those that are legally binding. It essentially relies on member states to do so. So there is a real possibility that the E3’s attempt to build leverage backfires by pushing states to ignore the Security Council’s provisions and driving Iran to retaliate.

Q. What are the best and worst case scenarios that we could see over the next few months?

KD:In the best case scenario, the E3 and the United States have a plan for a quick, pragmatic negotiation with Iran that extends the snapback mechanism, restores transparency on Iran’s nuclear program, addresses Iran’s concerns about the security of its nuclear facilities, and sets the table for further diplomacy.

In the worst case, Iran responds to snapback by withdrawing from the NPT and either overtly or more likely covertly, embarks on a path toward weaponization. In this scenario, it is highly likely that conflict between Iran, Israel and the United States re-erupts.

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Shaping the AI Action Plan: Responses to the White House’s Request for Information https://www.justsecurity.org/109203/us-ai-action-plan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-ai-action-plan Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:34:54 +0000 https://www.justsecurity.org/?p=109203 A thematic roundup of proposals aimed at shaping the Trump administration's new AI Action Plan.

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In February, the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a Request for Information (RFI) aimed at shaping the Trump administration’s new AI Action Plan. Stakeholders from across industry, academia, civil society, and the media submitted comments before the March 15 deadline, laying out their visions for AI policy under a second Trump term.  Respondents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, the Center for Data Innovation, the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Business Roundtable, News/Media Alliance, MITRE, and other organizations offered perspectives on how the Trump administration can advance U.S. technological leadership without stifling innovation.

While diverse in approach, the submissions converge around several core themes: infrastructure and energy development, federal preemption of state AI laws, export controls to maintain U.S. competitiveness against rivals like China, promoting domestic AI adoption, safeguarding national security, and defining clear copyright and licensing frameworks for AI data. What follows is a thematic roundup of these proposals, culminating in a reference table at the end.

Innovation, Workforce Adoption & Economic Impacts

A dominant concern among commenters is how the federal government can accelerate AI growth and create a robust domestic workforce. Many commenters worry that a patchwork of state laws might create a “fragmented regulatory environment.” Google, OpenAI, and the Business Roundtable — an association representing U.S. CEOs — explicitly support federal preemption of state-level AI regulations that create a fragmented regulatory environment which could “undermine America’s innovation lead.”

The News/Media Alliance, CDT, and CSET, meanwhile, call for measures that support “Little Tech” to avoid a market dominated by a few large AI providers. The latter two, in particular, highlight the importance of supporting open-source models, which can enable “greater participation” in the AI domain by lowering barriers to entry for smaller firms with fewer resources.

Additionally, some organizations (Anthropic, Business Roundtable, Google, Center for Data Innovation, MITRE) spotlight the labor market implications of AI, urging the administration to invest in technical education and workforce training. To address labor shortages in high-demand, AI-related jobs, CNAS and Google both propose leveraging immigration authorities, including expediting visa applications. Anthropic also recommends that the White House monitor and report on how AI reshapes the national economy, including its effect on the tax base and labor composition.

Export Controls and Global AI Leadership

Concern over China’s rapid AI progress permeates nearly every submission. OpenAI cites the rise of DeepSeek as an example of the country’s swiftly narrowing AI gap, warning that the Chinese Community Party’s (CCP) subsidized efforts could undermine U.S. advantages. Anthropic and CNAS similarly stresses the urgency of preventing smuggling of advanced chips to China, recommending new government-to-government agreements to close supply chain loopholes. Most of the submissions include calls to strengthen the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, such as by increasing its funding, instituting scenario planning assessments prior to implementing export controls, and consulting with the private sector.

On the other hand, the Center for Data Innovation warns that current, often “reactive” U.S. export controls hamper U.S. firms’ global competitiveness “without meaningfully slowing China’s progress.” The Center suggests a pivot toward enhancing domestic AI capabilities, streamlining export licensing, and collaborating with allies to promote a democratic vision for AI standards.

Google’s position is that any new rules — particularly the AI Diffusion Rule, set forth by the Biden administration — should avoid imposing “disproportionate burdens on U.S. cloud service providers” and factor in potential adverse impacts on American market share. Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic underscore that effective export controls should avoid inadvertently accelerating foreign AI development.

CDT, CNAS and CSET underscore the strategic importance of the United States to “remain at the frontier” of open-source models in the AI race against China. They argue that without compelling U.S. alternatives,  China could embed “authoritarian values” in AI models adopted by developing countries. To counter this, CNAS proposes that the United States rapidly release modified versions of open-source Chinese models to “strip away hidden censorship mechanisms” and promote democratic values abroad.

Infrastructure and Energy

Submissions from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, CNAS, and Business Roundtable eachpress for robust infrastructure and energy reforms to meet AI’s skyrocketing computational demands. OpenAI and CNAS propose establishing special zones to attract massive private investment in new data centers and transmission lines, as well as to “minimize barriers” and “eliminate redundancies” through tax incentives, streamlined permitting, and partial exemptions from the National Environmental Policy Act.

Anthropic proposes a national target of “50 additional gigawatts of power dedicated to the AI industry by 2027,” cautioning that if the United States fails to supply reliable, low-cost energy, domestic AI developers might relocate model training to authoritarian countries, exposing U.S. intellectual property to theft or coercion. Google underscores the need for consistent federal and state incentives to promote grid enhancements, data center resilience, and advanced energy-generation projects.

Government Adoption of AI

The majority of submissions highlight lagging AI adoption by federal agencies. OpenAI characterizes government usage as “unacceptably low,” proposing to waive or streamline certain compliance requirements to accelerate pilot programs. Anthropic goes further, calling for a government-wide audit to “systematically identify” every text, image, audio, and video workflow that could be AI-augmented.

Proposals also emphasize removing procurement barriers in both civilian and national security contexts. Anthropic wants to mobilize the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) to expedite AI adoption, while Google and CSET urge the government to avoid duplicative or siloed AI compliance rules across agencies. The Center for Data Innovation warns against the government’s “risk-only” mindset, imploring the administration to pivot to an “action” framework that proactively integrates AI where it can transform mission delivery. CNAS also advises that the U.S. military take “full advantage” of AI and autonomous systems, provided that the DoD develops “rigorous and streamlined” testing procedures and “permit warfighters an early and ongoing role.”

On the other hand, CDT’s proposal cautions against the government rushing forward on AI adoption, claiming that it could lead to “wasted” tax dollars on ineffective, “snake oil” AI tools. CDT instead advocates for stronger guardrails on government AI usage, including the establishment of an independent external oversight mechanism to monitor AI deployment in national security and intelligence contexts. It further recommends that agencies expand existing use case inventories to transparently catalogue how AI systems are being utilized. Notably, CDT urges that the Trump administration should “clarify and proactively communicate” how the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an unofficial federal body led by Elon Musk, is reportedly using AI to make high-risk decisions.

AI Security and Safety

Anthropic, Google, and the Center for Data Innovation each underscore the national security implications of frontier AI models. Anthropic’s submission notes that new AI systems are trending toward capabilities that could facilitate the development of biological or cyber weapons, emphasizing the need for “rapidly assessing” advanced models for potential misuse. To mitigate such risks, the Center for AI Policy (CAIP) recommends that the U.S. government establish a clear definition of frontier AI so that national security regulations effectively address the most high-risk models.

Anthropic and others also advocate for keeping the U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI) intact while bolstering it with statutory authorities and interagency coordination to test AI models for national security risks. The Center for Data Innovation, CNAS, and CSET, meanwhile, propose creating a national AI incident database and a vulnerability database — akin to the National Vulnerability Database for cybersecurity — to track AI failures, identify systemic weaknesses, and coordinate risk mitigation. CAIP takes this a step further, urging the Trump administration to create an “AI Emergency Response Preparedness Program” involving “realistic simulations” of AI-driven threats — including AI-enabled drone and cyber attacks — requiring AI developers to respond to these scenarios.

Google, CNAS, and CSET call for collaboration with private labs and the IC to evaluate and mitigate potential security threats, including espionage and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) vulnerabilities. Google also opposes mandated disclosures that could reveal trade secrets or model architecture details, warning that such transparency “could provide a roadmap” for malicious actors to circumvent AI guardrails.

CDT  suggests the U.S. AI Action Plan should incorporate measures to address other AI safety risks, including privacy violations and discrimination concerns. It recommends that the National Institute of Standards and Technology should “holistically and accurately” assess the efficacy and fairness of AI systems, as well as issue guidance on evaluating the validity of measurements used. Lastly, CSET proposes that the Trump administration create “standard pathways” to challenge “adverse” AI-enabled decisions and implement whistleblower protections at frontier AI firms to discourage “dangerous” practices.

Obligations for AI Developers, Deployers, and Users

A recurring theme, particularly in Google’s submission, is the need to clearly delineate liability throughout the AI lifecycle. Google argues that developers cannot be held responsible for every downstream deployment — particularly when they lack control or visibility into final uses. Instead, they advocate “role-based” accountability: Developers should provide transparency around model training, but the ultimate deployers should bear liability for misuse in their applications.

At the same time, Google concedes that certain minimal disclosures (for instance, about synthetic media) may be warranted, but it resists broad, mandatory “AI usage” labels that could inadvertently help adversaries “jailbreak” or circumvent AI security features.

Copyright Issues and Development of High-Quality Datasets

OpenAI, Google, the Center for Data Innovation, and MITRE each argue for policies that expand access to robust, high-quality datasets while preserving fair use protections. OpenAI maintains that applying fair use to AI is a “matter of national security” in the face of Chinese competitors who “enjoy unfettered access” to copyrighted data. The company warns that narrowing data access could give Beijing an irreparable advantage in the race to develop state-of-the-art AI models.

The News/Media Alliance, representing over 2,000 media organizations, focuses on publisher rights. It raises concerns that generative AI models are trained on vast quantities of copyrighted material without permission, threatening traditional news revenue streams. The Alliance proposes collaborative licensing agreements and clearer guidelines about disclosing when and how AI-generated content uses news materials.

Finally, the Center for Data Innovation recommends a National Data Foundation, analogous to the National Science Foundation, that would fund the creation, structuring, and curation of large-scale datasets across both public and private sectors. Business Roundtable also highlights the importance of unlocking access to government datasets from the perspective of producing more representative, less biased AI models.

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The table below highlights key aspects of public submissions responding to the White House’s RFI.

ThemeOrganizationSubmission
Innovation and RegulationBusiness Roundtable• “The Administration should assess regulatory gaps to ensure that any new regulations, if necessary, are appropriately narrowly scoped to address identified gaps without harming U.S. companies’ ability to innovate. Many AI applications are covered under topic-and sector-specific federal statutes. Where regulatory guardrails are deemed necessary, whether in new or existing rules covering AI systems, policymakers should provide clear guidance to businesses, foster U.S. innovation, and adopt a risk-based approach that carefully considers and recognizes the nuances of different use cases, including those that are low-risk and routine. Reporting requirements should be carefully crafted to avoid unnecessary information collection and onerous compliance burdens that slow innovation.”
• “Companies have experienced the challenges of dealing with a fragmented and increasingly complex regulatory landscape due to the patchwork of state data privacy laws, which hinders innovation and the ability to provide consumer services. Federal AI legislation with strong preemption should provide protection for consumers and certainty for businesses developing and deploying AI.”
Center for Data Innovation• “Scientific breakthroughs powered by AI—whether in medicine, climate science, or materials—are critical to progress, however, without AI-driven improvements to the systems that apply these discoveries, even the most advanced innovations risk being trapped in inefficient, outdated structures that fail to serve people effectively.”
• “The administration should preserve but refocus the AI Safety Institute (AISI) to ensure the federal government provides the foundational standards that inform AI governance. While AISI, housed at NIST, does not set laws, it plays a critical role in developing safety standards and working with international partners—functions that are essential for maintaining a coherent federal approach. Without this, AI governance will continue to lack a structured federal foundation, leaving states to introduce their own regulations in response to AI risks without clear federal guidance. This risks creating a fragmented regulatory landscape where businesses must comply with conflicting requirements, and policymakers struggle to craft effective, evidence-based laws.”
Center for Democracy & Technology• "The AI Action Plan should set a course that ensures America remains a home for open model development… Restricting open model development now would not improve public safety or further national security — rather, it would sacrifice the considerable benefits associated with open models and cede leadership in the open model ecosystem to foreign adversaries. Rather than restricting open model development, the AI Action Plan should ensure that open models retain their central position in the American AI ecosystem, while promoting the development of voluntary standards to enable their safe and responsible development and use.”
Center for Security and Emerging Technology• “To promote U.S. AI R&D leadership, the government should incentivize and award projects that take interdisciplinary approaches, encourage research findings to be disseminated openly and widely, and support public sector research in coordination with private sector innovation. Since AI is a general-purpose technology, basic R&D supports downstream model development for commercial use, application, and, eventually, profits.”
• “The U.S. government should support the release of open-source AI models, datasets, and tools that can be used to fuel U.S. AI development, innovation, and economic growth. Open-source models and tools enable greater participation in the AI domain, allowing lower-resource organizations that cannot develop base models themselves to access, experiment, and build upon them.”
Google• “Long-term, sustained investments in foundational domestic R&D and AI-driven scientific discovery have given the U.S. a crucial advantage in the race for global AI leadership. Policymakers should significantly bolster these efforts—with a focus on speeding funding allocations to early-market R&D and ensuring essential compute, high-quality datasets, and advanced AI models are widely available to scientists and institutions.”
• “The Administration should ensure that the U.S. avoids a fragmented regulatory environment that would slow the development of AI, including by supporting federal preemption of state-level laws that affect frontier AI models. Such action is properly a federal prerogative and would ensure a unified national framework for frontier AI models focused on protecting national security while fostering an environment where American AI innovation can thrive. Similarly, the Administration should support a national approach to privacy, as state-level fragmentation is creating compliance uncertainties for companies and can slow innovation in AI and other sectors.”
News/Media Alliance• “The AI Action Plan should support measures to promote competition amongst actors, reduce abusive dominance by Big Tech, and prevent unfair competition in the marketplace. Without transparency and other guardrails to protect the marketplace, AI risks being captured by Big Tech, discouraging competition, reducing investments, undermining innovation and ultimately hurting American consumers.”
OpenAI• “We propose creating a tightly-scoped framework for voluntary partnership between the federal government and the private sector to protect and strengthen American national security… Overseen by the US Department of Commerce and in coordination with the AI Czar, perhaps by reimagining the US AI Safety Institute, this effort would provide domestic AI companies with a single, efficient “front door” to the federal government that would coordinate expertise across the entire national security and economic competitiveness communities.”
Workforce Adoption and Economic Impacts of AIAnthropic• “We anticipate that 2025 will likely mark the beginning of more visible, large-scale economic effects from AI technologies”
• “We believe that computing power will become an increasingly significant driver of economic growth. Accordingly, the White House should track the relationship between investments in AI computational resources and economic performance to inform strategic investments in domestic infrastructure and related supply chains.”
• “The White House should engage with Congress on and task relevant agencies with examining how AI adoption might reshape the composition of the national tax base, and ensure the government maintains visibility into potential structural economic shifts.”
Business Roundtable• “America needs a workforce with the skills and training required for the in-demand jobs of today and tomorrow, including developing AI models, using AI applications and tools, and building and supporting AI infrastructure… Policymakers should complement these private-sector initiatives with reforms to the workforce development system that support employers’ ever-evolving workforce needs and worker advancement in an increasingly technology-based economy.”
Center for Data Innovation• “The U.S. AI Action Plan should make rapid AI adoption across all sectors of the U.S. economy the cornerstone of its policy. It can take a leaf out of the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan and, as the UK rightly puts it, “push hard on cross-economy AI adoption.”
Center for a New American Security• To “leverage America’s talent advantage once more,” the U.S. government should add “high-demand AI jobs with demonstrated shortages to the Schedule A list… Employers in Schedule A categories can hire foreign talent while bypassing cumbersome recruitment and labor certifications requirements, filling critical roles more expeditiously.”
• The Trump administration should also “expedite appointments, vetting, and processing for visa applicants with job offers in cutting-edge AI research, development, and innovation.”
Center for Security and Emerging Technology• The U.S. government should “increase funding for the federal National Apprenticeship system, with an emphasis on technical occupations and industry intermediaries,” “fund and reauthorize career and technical education programs,” and “support the creation of an AI scholarship-for-service program.”
• The Trump administration should also “work with Congress to support AI literacy efforts for the American people” and provide them with the “necessary education and information to make informed decisions about their AI use and consumption.
Google• “This moment offers an opportunity to ensure that AI can be integrated as a core component of U.S. education and professional development systems. The Administration and agency stakeholders have an opportunity to ensure that access to technical skilling and career support programs (including investments in K-12 STEM education and retraining for workers) are broadly accessible to U.S. communities to ensure a resilient labor force.”
• “Where practicable, U.S. agencies should use existing immigration authorities to facilitate recruiting and retention of experts in occupations requiring AI-related skills, such as AI development, robotics and automation, and quantum computing.”
Global AI LeadershipBusiness Roundtable• “The domestic AI ecosystem can be further strengthened by U.S. efforts to shape international AI policies, ensuring they promote security and prosperity while avoiding conflicting legal obligations. U.S. leadership helps set global AI standards that align with democratic values, including transparency, fairness and privacy. Without American influence, authoritarian regimes could shape AI development and regulatory structures in ways that undermine human rights and increase surveillance.”
Center for Data Innovation• “AISI should take a leading role in collaborating on open-source AI safety with international partners, industry leaders, and academic experts. 18 While nations may compete aggressively to drive innovation and diffusion of open-source models, they need not compete on developing the foundational safety standards that underpin open-source AI… By aligning on shared protocols for incident reporting, safety benchmarks, and post-deployment evaluations, the United States can support the robust diffusion of open-source AI while mitigating its inherent risks.”
• “The United States is losing ground to China in the race to become Africa’s preferred AI partner. Over the past few years, the U.S. government has only offered vague commitments and diplomatic statements to the continent, while China has taken concrete action…. The United States should get proactive about strengthening strategic ties and better positioning itself as the preferred partner for AI innovation in emerging markets… DeepSeek’s open-source approach has already made it a preferred choice for many developers in Africa. If the United States wants to remain competitive, it should ensure its own AI companies stay at the forefront of open-source innovation. That means continuing to resist undue restrictions on open- source AI and open model weights, ensuring American-developed models remain accessible and widely adopted.”
Center for Democracy & Technology• “If America remains at the frontier of open model development, its models will likely become the basis for AI-based technologies in much of the world. But if the U.S. stifles domestic open model development, the basis for those technologies would likely be models developed by authoritarian governments.”
Center for a New American Security• “DeepSeek-R1 demonstrates China's success in projecting cost-effective, open source AI leadership to the world despite embedding authoritarian values in its AI. The United States can counter this strategy by rapidly releasing modified versions of leading open source Chinese models that strip away hidden censorship mechanisms and the ‘core socialist values’ required by Chinese AI regulation. In doing so, the United States can expose the contradiction in China's approach, erode the appeal of Chinese AI, and position America as the legitimate champion of authentic open source AI.
• “The Biden administration created the U.S.-China AI Working Group but it only convened twice, with few tangible outcomes. The Trump administration’s new AI Action Plan should reframe this group as a technical expert body to tackle shared AI risks and reduce tensions without undermining America's AI lead. This reformulated group would serve as a body to discuss shared AI risks, instead of acting as a forum for comprehensive political changes in the U.S.-China relationships. This means avoiding politically contentious or overly broad areas of discussion, such AI disinformation or its effect on human rights, and focusing instead on narrow, less politically contentious technical problems ripe for scientific collaboration, such as identifying and responding to dangerous behaviors in AI models, including deception, attempted self-replication, or circumventing human control.”
• “Establishing frameworks for international cooperation and discussion channels for emerging AI- accelerated biotech issues remains crucial, despite anticipated Chinese resistance to joining such an initiative. Following the model of the U.S. ‘Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of AI and Autonomy,’ articulating guiding principles during early development stages can positively influence technological trajectories for both participating and non-participating nations.”
Center for Security and Emerging Technology• The U.S. government should “prioritize, alongside AI capability advancements, the diffusion of American AI models in the U.S. and global AI ecosystem. Adoption of U.S. open models abroad builds reliance on U.S. technology, thereby endowing the U.S. government with soft power, serving as a foundation for stronger relationships and alliances with partners, and encouraging further paid use of related U.S. AI technologies like enterprise subscription services and cloud platforms. Promotion of U.S. AI technology abroad can also combat the growing influence of Chinese models especially in developing and emerging economies, and prevent China from providing the foundation for large parts of the global digital infrastructure, with implications for the diffusion of Chinese ideologies on the world.”
Google• “We encourage the Department of Commerce, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in particular, to continue its engagement on standards and critical frontier security work. Aligning policy with existing, globally recognized standards, such as ISO 42001, will help ensure consistency and predictability across industry.”
• “The U.S. government should work with aligned countries to develop the international standards needed for advanced model capabilities and to drive global alignment around risk thresholds and appropriate security protocols for frontier models. This includes promulgating an international norm of “home government” testing—wherein providers of AI with national security-critical capabilities are able to demonstrate collaboration with their home government on narrowly targeted, scientifically rigorous assessments that provide ‘test once, run everywhere’ assurance.”
• “The U.S. government should oppose mandated disclosures that require divulging trade secrets, allow competitors to duplicate products, or compromise national security by providing a roadmap to adversaries on how to circumvent protections or jailbreak models. Overly broad disclosure requirements (as contemplated in the EU and other jurisdictions) harm both security and innovation while providing little public benefit.”
OpenAI• “As with Huawei, there is significant risk in building on top of DeepSeek models in critical infrastructure and other high-risk use cases given the potential that DeepSeek could be compelled by the CCP to manipulate its models to cause harm. And because DeepSeek is simultaneously state-subsidized, state-controlled, and freely available, the cost to its users is their privacy and security, as DeepSeek faces requirements under Chinese law to comply with demands for user data and uses it to train more capable systems for the CCP’s use.”
• “While America maintains a lead on AI today, DeepSeek shows that our lead is not wide and is narrowing. The AI Action Plan should ensure that American-led AI prevails over CCP-led AI, securing both American leadership on AI and a brighter future for all Americans.”
Export ControlsAnthropic• “We strongly recommend the administration strengthen export controls on computational resources and implement appropriate export restrictions on certain model weights.”
• The U.S. government should require countries “to sign government-to-government agreements outlining measures to prevent smuggling. As a prerequisite for hosting data centers with more than 50,000 chips from U.S. companies, the U.S. should mandate that countries at high-risk for chip smuggling comply with a government-to-government agreement that 1) requires them to align their export control systems with the U.S., 2) takes security measures to address chip smuggling to China, and 3) stops their companies from working with the Chinese military.”
• The U.S. government should also “consider reducing the number of H100s that Tier 2 countries can purchase without review to further mitigate smuggling risks.”
Business Roundtable• “The Administration should collaborate closely with the business community to ensure that all new controls on emerging and foundational technologies effectively advance U.S. national and economic security objectives. Business Roundtable recommends that the White House National Security and Economic Councils create a standing, private-sector Export Control Advisory Board (ECAB) with security clearance to ensure that private sector members understand the national security reasons for contemplated controls and policymakers are appraised of their potential commercial and economic implications.”
• The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security should analyze the “potential commercial, economic and competitiveness effects” of export controls and consult with potentially affected industries, as well as “advocate that key allies embrace comparable controls to ensure that U.S. companies are not uniquely disadvantaged.”
Center for AI Policy• “Even the best-designed export controls will be porous without adequate staff to enforce them. Smuggling of advanced AI chips is rampant, largely because the BIS is severely under-resourced… To solve this problem, the Trump Administration should work with Congress to ensure that BIS receives the $75 million in additional annual funding it requested to hire an adequate staff, along with a one-time additional payment of $100 million to immediately address information technology issues.”
Center for Data Innovation• “The current reactive, whack-a-mole approach to AI export controls doesn’t meaningfully slow China’s progress, but it does erode the global position of U.S. AI companies. The U.S. government should maintain targeted export restrictions of advanced AI technologies to countries of concern, even if these restrictions act more as hurdles than roadblocks. However, the government’s priority should be to expand the global market share of American AI firms. export controls are misaligned with the realities of market competition. While intended to weaken China’s AI sector, they are increasingly disadvantaging U.S. firms instead. Chinese companies are adept at circumventing these controls by leveraging stockpiles, utilizing inference-optimized chips, and ramping up domestic semiconductor production.”
• “Rather than focusing narrowly on restricting access, U.S. policy should pivot towards bolstering domestic AI capabilities, enhancing global export competitiveness, and advocating for reciprocal market access. If China continues gaining ground despite restrictions while U.S. firms lose opportunities abroad, the current approach will have done more harm than good.”
• “The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) should take a more proactive approach by tightening and enforcing export controls. Current export controls focus on restricting finished AI chips, but gaps in the supply chain undermine their effectiveness… To close these gaps, BIS should expand restrictions to cover upstream components and advanced packaging materials, apply U.S. controls to any technology using American IP regardless of where it is manufactured, and strengthen enforcement on suppliers facilitating these workarounds. Without these measures, China will continue stockpiling essential AI hardware while U.S. firms lose market access without achieving meaningful strategic gains.”
Center for a New American Security• “The current approach of annual export control updates fails to keep pace with rapid technological change in AI and emerging new evidence. The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) should instead adopt a quarterly review process with the authority to make targeted adjustments to controls as new capabilities emerge.”
• To address chip smuggling into China, Congress should “significantly increase BIS's budget to enhance its monitoring and enforcement capabilities, including hiring additional technical specialists and field investigators.”
Center for Security and Emerging Technology• “The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) in the Department of Commerce should institute scenario planning assessments before implementing new export controls and rigorously monitor the effectiveness of current export control policies… BIS should also conduct regular post-implementation assessments that track progress toward stated control objectives, second-order effects, impact on China's semiconductor manufacturing equipment industry, developments in China's semiconductor fabrication capabilities, and advancements in China's AI sector.”
• For the “broader U.S. export strategy to work,” BIS should “clearly articulate and justify the objectives of the export controls to allies.”
Google• “AI export rules imposed under the previous Administration (including the recent Interim Final Rule on AI Diffusion) may undermine economic competitiveness goals the current Administration has set by imposing disproportionate burdens on U.S. cloud service providers. While we support the national security goals at stake, we are concerned that the impacts may be counterproductive.
• “The U.S. government should adequately resource and modernize the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), including through BIS’s own adoption of cutting-edge AI tools for supply chain monitoring and counter-smuggling efforts, alongside efforts to streamline export licensing processes and consideration of wider ecosystem issues beyond limits on hardware exports.”
OpenAI• “We propose that the US government consider the Total Addressable Market (TAM), i.e., the entire world less the PRC and its few allies, against the Serviceable Addressable Market (SAM), i.e., those countries who prefer to build AI on democratic rails, and help as many of the latter as possible commit, including by actually committing to deploy AI in line with democratic principles set out by the US government.”
• OpenAI proposes maintaining the three-tiered framework of the AI diffusion rule but expanding the countries in Tier I (countries that commit to democratic AI principles by deploying AI systems in ways that promote more freedoms for their citizens could be considered Tier I countries.)
• “This strategy would encourage global adoption of democratic AI principles, promoting the use of democratic AI systems while protecting US advantage. Making sure that open-sourced models are readily available to developers in these countries also will strengthen our advantage. We believe the question of whether AI should be open or closed source is a false choice—we need both, and they can work in a complementary way that encourages the building of AI on American rails.”
Infrastructure and EnergyAnthropic• “The federal government should consider establishing an ambitious national target: build 50 additional gigawatts of power dedicated to the AI industry by 2027.”
• The U.S. government should “task federal agencies with streamlining permitting processes by accelerating reviews, enforcing timelines, and promoting inter-agency coordination to eliminate bureaucratic bottlenecks.”
• “Some authoritarian regimes who do not share our country’s democratic values and may pose security threats are already actively courting American AI companies with promises of abundant, low-cost energy. If U.S. developers migrate model development or storing of model weights to these countries in order to access these energy sources, this could expose sensitive intellectual property to transfer or theft, enable the creation of AI systems without proper security protocols, and potentially subject valuable AI assets to disruption or coercion by foreign powers.”
Business Roundtable• “Business Roundtable supports Administration actions to facilitate investment in data centers, including streamlining permitting processes to expedite project approvals for both new data centers and related infrastructure.”
• “The Administration should work to shorten decision timelines on environmental reviews, provide preliminary feedback on application completion and accuracy, and digitize operations to streamline processes, including application submissions, necessary document uploads, feedback for revisions and status updates.”
Center for a New American Security• “While U.S. energy infrastructure languishes in a quagmire of red tape, China can expeditiously direct large-scale build outs, underscored by its unprecedented speed in nuclear power plant construction. Other nations, such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, also have the capital, energy, and government cut-through to expedite AI and energy infrastructure to meet anticipated demand. Paired with sufficient access to chips, this creates a risk that they could leapfrog U.S. AI leadership with world- leading AI computing infrastructure.”
• The U.S. government should “partner with state and local regulators to create designated special compute zones that aim to—as much as possible—align permitting and regulatory frameworks across jurisdictions and minimize barriers to AI infrastructure development.”
Google• “The U.S. government should adopt policies that ensure the availability of energy for data centers and other growing business applications that are powering the growth of the American economy. This includes transmission and permitting reform to ensure adequate electricity for data centers coupled with federal and state tools for de-risking investments in advanced energy-generation and grid-enhancing technologies.”
OpenAI• “Today, hundreds of billions of dollars in global funds are waiting to be invested in AI infrastructure. If the US doesn't move fast to channel these resources into projects that support democratic AI ecosystems around the world, the funds will flow to projects backed and shaped by the CCP.”
• The U.S. government should adopt a “National Transmission Highway Act” to “expand transmission, fiber connectivity and natural gas pipeline construction” and streamline the processes of planning, permitting and paying to “eliminate redundancies.”
• The U.S. government should also develop a “Compact for AI” among U.S. allies and partners that streamlines access to capital and supply chains to compete with Chinese AI infrastructure alliances, as well as institute “AI Economic Zones” that “speed up permitting for building AI infrastructure like new solar arrays, wind farms, and nuclear reactors.”
Government Adoption of AI Anthropic• “We propose an ambitious initiative: across the whole of government, the Administration should systematically identify every instance where federal employees process text, images, audio, or video data, and augment these workflows with appropriate AI systems.”
• The U.S. government should also “eliminate regulatory and procedural barriers to rapid AI deployment at the federal agencies, for both civilian and national security applications” and “direct the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community to use the full extent of their existing authorities to accelerate AI research, development, and procurement.”
• “We also encourage the White House to leverage existing frameworks to enhance federal procurement for national security purposes, particularly the directives in the October 2024 National Security Memorandum (NSM) on Artificial Intelligence and the accompanying Framework to Advance AI Governance and Risk Management in National Security.”
• “Additionally, we strongly advocate for the creation of a joint working group between the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to develop recommendations for the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FARC) on accelerating procurement processes for AI systems while maintaining rigorous security and reliability standards.”
Center for Data Innovation• “Former President Biden’s 2023 executive order instructed federal agencies to integrate AI, but it was overwhelmingly focused on risk mitigation—requiring oversight boards, governance guidelines, and guardrails against potential pitfalls. The government needs to do more than just play defense. Many U.S. government officials recognize AI’s transformative potential in fields like education, energy, and disaster response, as highlighted at the recent AI Aspirations conference. What’s missing isn’t vision, it’s action.”
• “Agencies should establish clear visions for how AI will be used in sectors and AI adoption “grand challenges” (i.e., highly ambitious and impactful goals for how AI can transform an industry) to accelerate deployment in critical sectors.”
Center for Democracy & Technology• The Trump administration should “ensure compliance with these principles in its existing use of AI, most significantly in DOGE efforts which appear to be leveraging AI without transparency or these other necessary guardrails in place.”
• The AI Action Plan can develop public trust in federal government’s use of AI by “building on agencies’ existing use case inventories – a key channel for the public to learn information about how agencies are using and governing AI systems and for industry to understand AI needs within the public sector – and by requiring agencies to provide public notice and appeal when individuals are affected by AI systems in high-risk settings.”
• “The AI Action Plan should recognize that independent external oversight is also critically important to promote safe, trustworthy, and efficient use of AI in the national security/intelligence arena. Many such uses will be classified and exposure of them could put national security at risk. At the same time, because the risk of abuse and misuse is high when such functions are kept secret, an oversight mechanism with expertise, independence and power to access relevant information (even if classified) should be established in the Executive Branch. CDT has recommended that Congress establish such a body, and the AI Action Plan should support such an approach.”
Center for a New American Security• “The U.S. military can take full advantage of AI and autonomy, but only if DoD develops rigorous and streamlined processes that allow systems to be tested thoroughly and permit warfighters an early and ongoing role. Developing warfighter trust is a complex process and requires their active participation from conception to fielding of an AI-enabled and/or autonomous system.”
• The U.S. military can address the concerns of potential coordination conflicts “by working across services to clarify concepts of employment and identify potential points of conflict between friendly heterogeneous AI and autonomous systems.”
Center for Security and Emerging Technology• “If all federal agencies agree to abide by a unified set of minimum AI standards for purposes of acquisition and deployment, this would greatly reduce the burden on companies offering AI solutions, accelerate the adoption of standard tools and metrics, and reduce inefficiencies caused by the need to repeatedly draft and respond to similar but different requirements in government contracts.”
• The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) has “not empowered a DOD-wide entity to set AI policies for the services. This results in duplication of efforts across the military services, with multiple memos guiding efforts across the DOD in different ways. For example, within each service, different commands have different network ATO standards, which require substantial rework by the government and AI vendors to satisfy before deployment. Continuous ATOs and ATO reciprocity must be enforced across OSD and an entity should be empowered to synchronize policies, rapidly certify reliable AI solutions, and act to stop emerging security issues.”
Google• “The U.S. government, including the defense and intelligence communities, should pursue improved interoperability and data portability between cloud solutions; streamline outdated accreditation, authorization, and procurement practices to enable quicker adoption of AI and cloud solutions; and accelerate digital transformation via greater adoption of machine-readable documents and data.”
• “Federal agencies should avoid implementing unique compliance or procurement requirements just because a system includes AI components. To the extent they are needed, any agency-specific guidelines should focus on unique risks or concerns related to the deployment of the AI for the procured purpose.”
OpenAI• “AI adoption in federal departments and agencies remains unacceptably low, with federal employees, and especially national security sector employees, largely unable to harness the benefits of the technology.”
• The U.S. government should establish a “faster, criteria-based path for approval of AI tools” and “allow federal agencies to test and experiment with real data using commercial-standard practices—such as SOC 2 or International Organization for Standardization (ISO) audit reports—and potentially grant a temporary waiver for FedRAMP. AI vendors would still be required to meet FedRAMP continuous monitoring requirements while awaiting full accreditation.”
AI Security and SafetyAnthropic• “Our most recent system, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, demonstrates concerning improvements in its capacity to support aspects of biological weapons development—insights we uncovered through our internal testing protocols and validated through voluntary security exercises conducted in partnership with the U.S. and U.K. AI Safety and Security Institutes. This trajectory suggests, consistent with scaling laws research, that numerous AI systems will increasingly embody significant national security implications in the coming years.”
• The U.S. government should “preserve the AI Safety Institute in the Department of Commerce and build on the MOUs it has signed with U.S. AI companies—including Anthropic—to advance the state of the art in third-party testing of AI systems for national security risks.”
• The White House should also “direct the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST), in consultation with the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and other relevant agencies, to develop comprehensive national security evaluations for powerful AI models, in partnership with frontier AI developers, and develop a protocol for systematically testing powerful AI models for these vulnerabilities.”
• “To mitigate these risks, the federal government should partner with industry leaders to substantially enhance security protocols at frontier AI laboratories to prevent adversarial misuse and abuse of powerful AI technologies.”
Center for AI Policy• The U.S. government should “develop and apply a practical definition of frontier AI so that national security regulations target only the largest and most dangerous AI models. Most AI systems – especially the smaller systems that are more likely to be developed by startups, academics, and small businesses – are relatively benign and do not pose major national security risks.”
• “AI systems are advancing at an unprecedented pace, and it’s only a matter of time before intentional or inadvertent harm from AI threatens U.S. national security, economic stability, or public safety. The U.S. government must act now to ensure it has insights into the capabilities of frontier AI models before they are deployed and that it has response plans in place for when failures inevitably occur. To fill this critical preparedness gap, President Trump should immediately direct the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish an AI Emergency Response Program as a public-private partnership. Under this program, frontier AI developers like OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Meta, and xAI would participate in emergency preparedness exercises.”
• “These preparedness exercises would involve realistic simulations of AI-driven threats, explicitly requiring participants to actively demonstrate their responses to unfolding scenarios. Similar to the DHS-led ‘Cyber Storm’ exercises, which rigorously simulate cyberattacks and test real-time interagency and private-sector coordination, these AI-focused simulations should clearly define roles and responsibilities, ensure swift and effective communication between federal agencies and frontier AI companies, and systematically identify critical gaps in existing response protocols… Most frontier AI developers have already made voluntary commitments to share the information needed to create these exercises. To encourage additional companies to participate, this type of cooperation should be treated as a prerequisite for federal contracts, grants, or other agreements involving advanced AI.”
• “In the near future, small autonomous drones will pose a threat to U.S. civilians on par with large strategic missiles. To meet this threat, the Administration should procure and distribute equipment for disabling unauthorized drones, and ensure that there are clear lines of legal authority for civilian law enforcement to deploy this equipment.”
Center for Data Innovation• “The administration should direct AISI to establish a national AI incident database and an AI vulnerability database, creating essential infrastructure for structured reporting and proactive risk management. AI failures and vulnerabilities are currently tracked inconsistently across different sectors, making it difficult to identify trends, address systemic weaknesses, or prevent recurring Issues… Additionally, an AI vulnerability database—similar to the National Vulnerability Database used for cybersecurity—would catalog weaknesses in AI models, helping organizations mitigate risks before they escalate.”
Center for Democracy & Technology• “The AI Action Plan should direct NIST to continue building on the foundation it set with the AI RMF and subsequent work… The standards-development process should center not only the prospective security risks arising from capabilities related to chemical, biological, and radiological weapons and dual-use foundation models, but also the current, ongoing risks of AI such as privacy harms, ineffectiveness of the system, lack of fitness for purpose, and discrimination. NIST’s standards should also include a multifaceted approach for holistically and accurately measuring different qualities of an AI system, such as safety, efficacy, or fairness, and provide guidance on determining the validity and reliability of the measurements used.”
• “Federal agencies should take steps to align all AI uses with existing privacy and cybersecurity requirements – such as requirements for agencies to conduct privacy impact assessments – and to proactively guard against novel privacy and security risks introduced by AI.”
Center for a New American Security• “AI datacenters and companies will become increasingly attractive targets for adversarial nations seeking to steal advanced models or sabotage critical systems. The private sector alone is neither equipped nor incentivized to effectively counter sophisticated state actors. The federal government must deploy its security expertise to protect this critical technology and infrastructure. As an immediate priority, the National Security Agency and broader national security community should partner with leading labs and AI datacenters to build resilience against espionage and attacks. The National Institute of Standards and Technology should also play an active role in co-developing best practice security standards for model weights—the sensitive intellectual property that encapsulates the capability of an AI model.”
• “The administration should empower the AISI as a hub of AI expertise for the broader federal government to ensure AI strengthens rather than undermines U.S. national security. The administration could further support this AI hub of expertise with continued implementation of the AI National Security Memorandum, which strengthens engagement with national security agencies to better integrate expertise across classified and non-classified domains.
• “The federal government needs a systematic way to track and learn from real-world incidents. A central reporting system for AI-related incidents would allow the government to investigate and update its approach to evaluations where appropriate.”
Center for Security and Emerging Technology• The U.S. government should “significantly expand open-source intelligence (OSINT) gathering and analysis on AI. This work is particularly neglected in the intelligence community, which remains focused on classified sources.”
• “The federal government should significantly ramp up efforts to monitor China's AI ecosystem, including the Chinese government itself (at all relevant levels and organizations), related actors such as state-owned enterprises, state research labs, and state-sponsored technology investment funds, and other actors, such as universities and tech companies.”
• “The U.S. government should partner with AI companies to share suspicious patterns of user behavior and other types of threat intelligence. In particular, the Intelligence Community and the Department of Homeland Security should partner with AI companies to share cyber threat intelligence, and the Department of Homeland Security should partner with AI companies to prepare for potential emergencies caused by malicious use or loss of control over AI systems. In addition, the Department of Commerce should receive, triage, and distribute reports on CBRN and cyber capabilities of frontier AI models to support classified evaluations of novel AI-enabled threats, building on a 2024 Memorandum of Understanding between the Departments of Energy and Commerce.”
• The Trump administration should “implement a mandatory AI incident reporting regime for sensitive applications across federal agencies. Federal agencies deploy AI systems for a wide range of safety- and rights-impacting use cases, such as using AI to deliver government services or predict criminal recidivism. AI failures, malfunctions, and other incidents in these contexts should be tracked and investigated to determine their root cause, inform risk management practices, and reduce the risk of recurrence.”
• “The Trump administration should establish a secure line for employees to report problematic company practices, such as failure to report system capabilities that threaten national security.”
• The U.S. government should “Define capabilities of concern and support the creation of threat profiles for different types of AI models… . A coalition of government agencies should develop frameworks that clearly define risky capabilities, including chem-bio capabilities of concern, so evaluators know what risks to test for. These frameworks could draw upon Appendix D of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) draft Managing Misuse Risk for Dual-Use Foundation Models. In addition, government agencies should build threat profiles that consider different combinations of users, AI tools, and intended outcomes, and design targeted policy solutions for these highly variable scenarios.
• “The Trump administration should empower AISI to develop quantitative benchmarks for AI, including benchmarks that test a model’s resistance to jailbreaks, usefulness for making CBRN weapons, and capacity for deception… AISI should develop standards that cover topics including model training, pre-release internal and external security testing, cybersecurity practices, if-then commitments, AI risk assessments, and processes for testing and re-testing systems as they change over time.”
Google• “Policymakers should also consider measures to safeguard critical infrastructure and cybersecurity, including by partnering with the private sector. For example, pilots that build on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s AI Cyber Challenge and joint R&D activities can help develop breakthroughs in areas such as data center security, chip security, confidential computing, and more. Expanded threat sharing with industry will similarly help identify and disrupt both security threats to AI and threat actor use of AI.”
• “It is particularly valuable for the U.S. government to develop and maintain an ability to evaluate the capabilities of frontier models in areas where it has unique expertise, such as national security, CBRN issues, and cybersecurity threats. The Department of Commerce and NIST can lead on: (1) creating voluntary technical evaluations for major AI risks; (2) developing guidelines for responsible scaling and security protocols; (3) researching and developing safety benchmarks and mitigations (like tamper-proofing); and (4) assisting in building a private-sector AI evaluation ecosystem.”
Obligations for AI Developers, Deployers, and UsersGoogle• “To the extent a government imposes specific legal obligations around high-risk AI systems, it should clearly delineate the roles and responsibilities of AI developers, deployers, and end users. The actor with the most control over a specific step in the AI lifecycle should bear responsibility (and any associated liability) for that step. In many instances, the original developer of an AI model has little to no visibility or control over how it is being used by a deployer and may not interact with end users. Even in cases where a developer provides a model directly to deployers, deployers will often be best placed to understand the risks of downstream uses, implement effective risk management, and conduct post-market monitoring and logging. Nor should developers bear responsibility for misuse by customers or end users. Rather, developers should provide information and documentation to the deployers, such as documentation of how the models were trained or mechanisms for human oversight, as needed to allow deployers to comply with regulatory requirements.”
• “The U.S. government should support the further development and broad uptake of evolving multistakeholder standards and best practices around disclosure of synthetic media—such as the use of C2PA protocols, Google’s industry-leading SynthID watermarking, and other watermarking/provenance technologies, including best practices around when to apply watermarks and when to notify users that they are interacting with AI-generated content.”
Copyright Issues and Development of High-Quality DatasetsBusiness Roundtable• “An important technical resource for AI innovation is government datasets, which are typically much larger in size and scope and more representative of diverse populations than non-governmental datasets. This makes them uniquely valuable for conducting research, testing, reducing bias and producing better AI models. But while open data is encouraged and often required in government, federal agencies do not prioritize publishing high-impact unclassified datasets. Increasing access to advanced computing resources and tools empowers more organizations to engage in AI research and development by reducing barriers to entry.”
Center for Data Innovation• “Unlike other foundational inputs to AI, such as physical infrastructure or scientific research, the United States treats data more as a regulatory challenge than a national asset. The result is an AI ecosystem constrained by gaps, inconsistencies, and bottlenecks, leaving businesses and researchers struggling to find and use the data they need. The AI Action Plan should correct this by establishing a National Data Foundation (NDF), an institution dedicated to funding and facilitating the production, structuring, and responsible sharing of high-quality datasets. An NDF would do for data what the National Science Foundation (NSF) does for research—ensuring the United States isn’t just competing on AI models but on the quality and availability of the data that powers them. It could fund data generation, creating large-scale, machine-readable datasets”
• “In contrast, an NDF recognizes that in many critical areas, the U.S. lacks the necessary high-quality, AI-ready data not just in the public sector, but also in key private-sector domains. Rather than just improving discoverability, the NDF would fund the creation, structuring, and strategic enhancement of both public and private-sector datasets”
Google• “Policymakers should move quickly to further incentivize partnerships with national labs to advance research in science, cybersecurity, and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) risks. The U.S. government should make it easier for national security agencies and their partners to use commercial, unclassified storage and compute capabilities, and should take steps to release government datasets, which can be helpful for commercial training.”
• “Balanced copyright rules, such as fair use and text-and-data mining exceptions, have been critical to enabling AI systems to learn from prior knowledge and publicly available data, unlocking scientific and social advances. These exceptions allow for the use of copyrighted, publicly available material for AI training without significantly impacting rights holders and avoid often highly unpredictable, imbalanced, and lengthy negotiations with data holders during model development or scientific experimentation.”
OpenAI• “Applying the fair use doctrine to AI is not only a matter of American competitiveness —it’s a matter of national security. The rapid advances seen with the PRC’s DeepSeek, among other recent developments, show that America’s lead on frontier AI is far from guaranteed. Given concerted state support for critical industries and infrastructure projects, there’s little doubt that the PRC’s AI developers will enjoy unfettered access to data—including copyrighted data—that will improve their models. If the PRC’s developers have unfettered access to data and American companies are left without fair use access, the race for AI is effectively over.
• To ensure the copyright system “continues to support American AI leadership,” the U.S. government should work to “prevent less innovative countries from imposing their legal regimes on American AI firms and slowing our rate of progress” and encourage “more access to government-held or government-supported data. This would boost AI development in any case, but would be particularly important if shifting copyright rules restrict American companies’ access to training data.”
• The U.S. government should also partner with industry to “develop custom models for national security. The government needs models trained on classified datasets that are fine-tuned to be exceptional at national security tasks for which there is no commercial market—such as geospatial intelligence or classified nuclear tasks. This will likely require on-premises deployment of model weights and access to significant compute, given the security requirements of many national security agencies.”
News/Media Alliance• “Publishers should not be forced to subsidize the development of AI models and commercial products without a fair return for their own investments, no more than cloud providers would be expected to bear the costs of compute without payment for their input. The future of generative AI requires sustaining the incentives for the continued production of news and other quality content that, in turn, builds and powers generative AI models and products. Without high-quality, reliable materials, these tools will become less useful to consumers, and may jeopardize our country’s leadership in the sector. IP laws also protect AI companies, including when their original creations are misappropriated by foreign companies.5 We are committed to establishing a symbiotic, mutually beneficial framework between content production and AI development that respects intellectual property, facilitates technological development, and takes a balanced, market-based approach to AI innovation and regulation.”
• “The sufficiency of existing copyright law notwithstanding, we remain concerned that many AI stakeholders have used copyright protected material to build and operationalize their models without consent, in ways damaging to publishers. While the legality of such activities are the subject of litigation, there is a danger that it will not be possible to undo the damage before a judicial resolution can occur. The AI Action Plan should therefore encourage AI developers to engage more collaboratively with content industries in a manner that serves the broader national interest and a win-win result for our global aspirations.”
• “The Administration should push back on the flawed text and data mining (TDM) opt-out frameworks being considered or recently adopted in various countries. These opt-out policies do not work, have the potential to harm American creators and businesses through the uncompensated taking of their property, overregulate content licensing, and turn copyright law and free market licensing upside down.”
IMAGE: Visualization of an AI chip (via Getty Images)

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The Just Security Podcast: Understanding the Congressional Investigations Landscape https://www.justsecurity.org/108858/podcast-congressional-investigations-landscape/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podcast-congressional-investigations-landscape Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:09:52 +0000 https://www.justsecurity.org/?p=108858 Ronak D. Desai explains what to expect for congressional investigations and oversight with unified Republican control of both chambers.

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Alongside the new Trump administration, a new Congress has also taken power in Washington, D.C. The 119th Congress brings unified Republican control of both chambers with key votes – such as confirming many of President Trump’s cabinet nominees – complete, another focus will be on congressional investigations and oversight.

What might the oversight landscape look like? What investigative priorities will take center stage? And what role will key actors, both inside and outside of Congress, play in shaping policy and accountability over the next year?

Joining the show to discuss what we can expect when it comes to congressional investigations is Ronak D. Desai. Ronak is the firmwide leader of the Congressional Investigations Practice at Paul Hastings LLP, where he advises clients facing high-stakes oversight inquiries and regulatory scrutiny. Ronak previously served on Capitol Hill in multiple roles, including most recently on a prominent select committee with members, including Adam Schiff, Adam Smith, Jim Jordan, and Mike Pompeo. In private practice, Ronak has handled a number of high-profile congressional investigations on behalf of clients on Capitol Hill both behind closed doors and publicly in the glare of the media spotlight.

Show Notes:

  • Just Security’s coverage of Congress
  • Just Security’s coverage of the Trump administration’s executive actions
  • Music: “Broken” by David Bullard from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/david-bullard/broken (License code: OSC7K3LCPSGXISVI)

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The Just Security Podcast: Politicization and Weaponization of the Justice Department in the Second Trump Administration https://www.justsecurity.org/108789/podcast-doj-politicization-and-weaponization/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podcast-doj-politicization-and-weaponization Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:52:46 +0000 https://www.justsecurity.org/?p=108789 Just Security recently published a timeline of actions regarding the level of politicization and weaponization of the Department of Justice.

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In just his first six weeks in office, President Donald Trump has issued more than 80 executive orders and other actions, many of them targeting the federal workforce and the structure of the federal government.

Just Security’s Co-Editor-in-Chief, Ryan Goodman, recently published a timeline of actions that highlight the alarming level of politicization and weaponization of the Department of Justice under the second Trump administration. Politicization includes the misuse of the Department’s powers for political purposes rather than the independent and impartial enforcement of the laws. Weaponization includes a deliberate and systematic misuse of the Department’s powers for political or personal purposes and in defiance of the rule of law.

Goodman discussed the timeline with Just Security Senior Fellow Tom Joscelyn and Mary McCord, Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP), Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and former Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Justice Department.

Show Notes:

  • Ryan’s Just Security article (with Audrey Balliette) “Timeline: Politicization and Weaponization of Justice Department in Second Trump Administration”
  • Just Security’s coverage of the Trump administration’s executive actions
  • Music: “Broken” by David Bullard from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/david-bullard/broken (License code: OSC7K3LCPSGXISVI)

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The Just Security Podcast: What Just Happened Series, CIA Officers’ Lawsuit at Intersection of DEI and National Security https://www.justsecurity.org/108645/podcast-cia-officers-dei-lawsuit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=podcast-cia-officers-dei-lawsuit Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:37:40 +0000 https://www.justsecurity.org/?p=108645 A small number of intelligence officers who were fired because one of their duties involved DEI efforts at CIA have sued to keep their jobs.

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In his second term in office, President Donald Trump has already taken sweeping measures on immigration, the environment, the U.S. military, and the structure of the federal government.

With so many executive orders, policy changes, and novel actions, it’s easy to wonder, “What just happened?” In this podcast mini-series we help to answer exactly that question.

On each episode of “What Just Happened,” we’ll talk with leading experts, from former government officials to professors – the people who understand how government works from the inside and have studied the issues for years. They will explain the legal background and implications of how the Trump administration’s actions affect how the U.S. government operates in Washington, across the country, and around the world.

This is not a political podcast. We are explaining the meaning and consequences of policy changes that may not be immediately apparent. Any opinions expressed are those of the speaker.

Today, we are looking at a relatively narrow example of the Trump administration’s broad policies of eliminating federal jobs and eliminating what it considers to be DEI efforts from federal agencies. Specifically, we will talk about a small number of seasoned intelligence officers who were fired because one of their duties involved agency DEI efforts. They have sought an injunction against their termination in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia. After a brief administrative stay, a federal judge denied their application for a temporary restraining order while the case proceeds.

Our guest today is the fired officers’ attorney, Kevin Carroll. Kevin is a partner at the Fluet law firm in Northern Virginia. Kevin is a retired Army Colonel and a former CIA case officer. He also served as a senior counsel to Republican congressman Peter King of New York and a political appointee in the first Trump administration, and later as a surrogate for the 2024 Kamala Harris campaign.

Show Notes:

  • Just Security’s coverage of the Trump administration’s executive actions
  • Music: “Broken” by David Bullard from Uppbeat: https://uppbeat.io/t/david-bullard/broken (License code: OSC7K3LCPSGXISVI)

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