Dmitri Rylko News Today

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his “special military operation” against Ukraine in an early-morning TV address on February 24. Over a month later, beyond inflicting massive suffering and damage, few of Putin’s initial objectives in Ukraine have been accomplished, from defeating the Ukrainian Armed Forces to removing the government of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. While the Russian Federation never made a …

DAY 1 - INTO MOSCOW Saturday, April 2, 2011 My flight from London to Warsaw is on the Polish airline Lot ("Flight"). I sit next to 37-year-old Kristopher, a chatty post-doctorate university professor and researcher on mathematics in the city of R...