Mark Galeotti

Ukraine’s sabotage tricks are causing concern in Washington

29 October 2023 6:30 pm

There has never been any doubt that Ukraine was the focus of an intelligence war as much as a physical…

ATACMS missiles alone won’t change the game in Ukraine

21 October 2023 5:30 pm

America’s ATACMS long-range missiles were a potential ‘game changer’ to the war in Ukraine to some, a potential source of…

Putin has been blindsided by the Israel attack

12 October 2023 6:16 pm

Inevitably, some have tried to suggest the terrorist invasion of Israel was in some ways orchestrated by Moscow. ‘Russia is…

Why a gangster’s death in Central Asia matters

5 October 2023 11:03 pm

Such is the globalisation of the modern underworld, that the fate of a gangster you may never have heard of,…

By striking Crimea, Kyiv shows Putin that nowhere is safe

27 September 2023 6:23 pm

Admiral Viktor Sokolov, commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, appears to be Schrodinger’s admiral, alive according to Moscow, dead according…

The EU needs a coherent strategy on Russian sanctions

16 September 2023 4:30 pm

This week, the European Union opted to extend sanctions on some 1,800 Russian companies and individuals for another six months,…

Putin’s North Korea summit was pure theatre

14 September 2023 7:11 pm

If a little tyrant theatre is your goal, then rumbling across the border in an armoured train decked out like…

Why Putin is pointing the finger at Britain

13 September 2023 3:17 am

Perfidious Albion is, we are told, at it again. In the course of a wide-ranging and often quite surreal speech…

Prigozhin’s death has exposed Putin’s weakness

24 August 2023 4:51 pm

So much is still unclear about the fate of Wagner group head Yevgeny Prigozhin, from whether he really did die…

Sanctions are failing to turn Putin’s oligarchs against him

21 August 2023 4:59 pm

When personal sanctions on Russian oligarchs and officials were imposed by the UK, US and EU after Putin’s invasion, the…

Why the Kremlin sees Britain as the ultimate bogeyman

17 August 2023 10:37 pm

Perfidious Albion is at it again. The Kremlin’s increasingly unhinged obsession with seeing a British hand behind its various upsets…

Was Putin behind the Electoral Commission hack?

9 August 2023 10:45 pm

The hacking of the Electoral Commission’s databases highlights the way that in the interconnected modern world, ‘warfare’ can be as…

Will MI6’s Russian recruitment drive work?

20 July 2023 6:48 pm

Sir Richard Moore, head of the Secret Intelligence Service – MI6 – follows the tradition of only giving one public…

Moscow’s Pyrrhic Nato victory

14 July 2023 4:45 pm

Despite the inevitable and performative expressions of anger, regret and dismay following this week’s Nato summit, Moscow feels it has…

Putin is struggling to solve his Prigozhin problem

11 July 2023 1:32 am

It’s satisfying when a jigsaw piece slots into place. Today we heard that Wagner leader Evgeny Prigozhin met Vladimir Putin in the…

Yevgeny Prigozhin

The Kremlin is trying to humiliate Prigozhin

7 July 2023 8:33 pm

When corrupt Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was toppled in 2014, his private estate at Mezhyhirya turned out to contain an…

After Putin: how nervous should we be?

1 July 2023 9:00 am

The next generation is waiting for Putin to fall

Putin faces challenge from his own creation

24 June 2023 11:12 pm

It took a characteristically long time for Vladimir Putin to respond to the coup-that-dare-not-speak-its-name launched by Yevgeny Prigozhin, but when…

The Kremlin is still afraid of Alexei Navalny

21 June 2023 3:11 am

As Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is once again in court, facing charges that could extend his time in prison…

Putin is lining up a lengthy list of scapegoats for his war

15 June 2023 6:21 pm

Lately Vladimir Putin has been strikingly unwilling to subject himself to any serious debate about his war in Ukraine. On…

Will Putin manage to spin Kyiv’s counter-offensive as a victory?

10 June 2023 8:32 pm

The Ukrainian counter-offensive has duly started and, needless to say, there is a rush to judgement. It is going to…

Russia flounders as Kyiv gears up for its counter-offensive

5 June 2023 8:34 pm

According to Moscow, Ukraine’s long-awaited counter-offensive has begun, and has begun badly for Kyiv. Of course, we need to treat…

Ukraine’s next move: can Putin be outsmarted?

27 May 2023 9:00 am

Ukraine cannot afford to play it safe

Russia’s fake news machine has a fresh target

21 May 2023 3:30 pm

There is a certain perverse cachet in one’s words being wilfully distorted by someone who thinks it gives their argument…

Why has Ukraine admitted that it assassinates people in Russia?

19 May 2023 8:35 pm

After months of flat denials, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence has admitted that Kyiv is carrying out a campaign…