Three and a half decades of disaster have brought the former Soviet country to a state of collapse. Riven by corruption, in the grip of a toxic hardline nationalism that has devoured the body politic, and consumed by a sense of its own exceptionalism, Ukraine has proven easy pickings for an increasingly fractured, radicalized and militarized neo-liberal West. 

In this exclusive series, we assess Ukraine's position in 2026 under three themes dictating the country's future, but which remain unexplored in the Western mainstream reporting.   

This is the Ukraine assessment that the EU and NATO don't want you to read or share.