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Ian Proud
Ian Proud was a member of HM Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. From July 2014 to February 2019 Ian was posted to the British Embassy in Moscow. He was also Director of the Diplomatic Academy for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Anglo-American School of Moscow.
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The European Union presses on with plans to seize Russian assets permanently
Zelensky’s offer to rush to early elections appears just another Kvartal 95 inspired piece of theatre.
Russians reciprocate with friendship as vigorously as they do with hostility, so the possibility of peace is not a mirage at all.
This is just a smokescreen for the economic cliff edge that Ukraine is hurtling towards
They keep trying to derail the ongoing U.S.-brokered peace talks.
Ukraine’s future leaders will need to be driven by pragmatism and realism
Russia’s immobilised assets will stay immobilised until the end of the war in one way or another.
The truth is that Russia has the money to fight on for as long as it takes and Ukraine does not, Ian Proud writes.
Intrappolati tra l’incudine e il martello, i leader europei continuano a negare l’evidente realtà della situazione disastrosa in Ucraina
Caught between a rock and a hard place, European leaders continue to deny the obvious realities of the dire situation in Ukraine.