by Raffaele Crocco
It’s not just the Twin Towers in New York that make 11 September a date to remember. Back then, 22 years ago, the world stood on the brink of change. As we watched the towers collapse, brought...
by Raffaele Crocco
The Azov Battalion is back. For the Ukrainians, the heroes of Mariupol are back, those who resisted the Russian invader and barricaded themselves in the Azovstal steelworks until May 2022. For the Russians, the worst representatives of...
by Raffaele Crocco
News, death and contradictions mark the 73rd week of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The fighting continues, Kyiv’s offensive continues at a pace that is always too slow compared to expectations, including international expectations. The Russians are...
by Raffaele Crocco
The 72nd week since the Russian invasion of Ukraine brings news of another Russian general who has been killed. He had two stars and his name was Oleg Tsokov. He died in Berdyansk on the Sea of...
by Raffaele Crocco
The matter is one: NATO countries are moving at two speeds. The problem is that one of these two speeds, the apparently faster one, the running one, leads to only one result: war with Russia, while the...
by Raffaele Crocco
The days pile up, as do the dead. Soldiers are dying - perhaps 300,000 by now, the losses of both armies - civilians are dying. In Lviv, Russian bombs hit a block of flats. Four dead, all...
by Raffaele Crocco
Politics, diplomacy, coups and uprisings: the reality is that people are still dying in Ukraine. Civilians are still dying, killed by bombs that make no difference. They know this well in Kramatorsk, in southeast Ukraine. The famous...
by Raffaele Crocco
It is hard to know what’s going on. Ukrainians and Russians agree on at least one thing these days: to keep journalists away from the front line. History is left to the words of the General Staff...
by Raffaele Crocco
In this war, time seems to have stopped. There are no winners, only losers. Now, the great Ukrainian counter-offensive has begun, according to reports from the battlefield. The advance is slow, the fighting fierce. Ukraine's deputy defence...
by Raffaele Crocco
As Italians, we'll soon forget the way he treated women: remember Bunga Bunga, his private harem, his lies when he claimed that one of his “escort girls”, a minor, was Mubarak's niece. We'll forget the dirty jokes...
