#Russian aggression

“The cell is cold, rats run around, the light is on constantly.” This is how a civilian journalist abducted in Russian-occupied Melitopol describes her detention. Like many other Ukrainian media workers, Yana has been reclassified by Russia as a “terrorist” and sentenced in a closed, staged trial, effectively erased from public view and from prisoner-exchange talks.

With the New START treaty expired, the world’s two largest nuclear powers now operate without any binding arms control framework for the first time since the Cold War—prompting European states to explore new approaches to deterrence.