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My oped about my father in The Sunday Times thetimes.com/article/9c1e84…

Zelensky shows a brief chink in his impenetrable layer of gratitude to western partners: "the entire naïve, illusory concept of so-called red lines regarding Russia, which dominated the assessment of the war by some of our partners, has crumbled these days somewhere near Sudzha.”

How the Ukrainian #Kursk offensive exposes Putin’s crisis management as well as the NATO strategy for assisting #Ukraine - an update from ⁦Clare Sebastian⁩ ⁦CNN⁩ cnn.com/2024/08/23/wor…

What can you tell from a photo? Enjoyed getting to grips with our Magic Wall for this. With Clare Sebastian cnn.com/2024/10/23/wor…

Russian drone attacks on Ukrainian went up exponentially in the 2nd half of this year. We know why: this is a war or attrition. Here’s a glimpse at how:

Russia's drone strikes on Ukraine have increased sixfold in four months. A secretive plant is fueling the onslaught -- significantly expanding and ramping up production with a workforce of Russian teens and African women. Clare Sebastian and team investigate: edition.cnn.com/2024/12/27/eur…

If he does, this will be useful counter-programming to Putin's meeting with Iranian President Pezeshkian in Russia (and it may help neutralize some of the European-disunity optics of Fico's December trip to Moscow)

Some of the most complicated piece on Trump's foreign policy chessboard cnn.com/2025/01/16/eur…

Trump says Putin told him he "will accept" European troops as peacekeepers in Ukraine. So...Putin now gets to decide which deterrent -- directed against Russia -- he's ok with?

What Russia may hope to gain from a Victory day ceasefire: - Prove to Trump it is committed to peace and Kyiv is the problem - Prevent Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow on V-day - Bring back a few bits of battlefield kit for the parade/ hide extent of losses

A story that reveals the subtlety and sophistication of Moscow's russification project in occupied Ukraine, even as the US pushes for peace talks, which would inevitably include the question of territory

The summit of NATO leaders has begun in The Hague, Netherlands. Clare Sebastian spoke with Estonia's defense minister, Hanno Pevkur, about the plan to raise annual military spending targets to 5% of GDP.

"If Ukraine doesn't win, NATO loses," Finnish President Alexander Stubb told CNN's Clare Sebastian at the NATO Summit this week in The Hague. Hear this exchange along with a wrap up of the summit below👇