The New Energy Stalemate in Ukraine
Tatiana Mitrova, a fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and former energy scholar at Moscow’s Russian Academy of Sciences, and Sergey Vakulenko, an oil and gas expert at Carnegie’s Russia Eurasia Center, argue that Russia and Ukraine are locked in an energy war that has bec
Source: Foreign Affairs
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DW NOTE
This article is dated October 23, 2026 — nine months in the future. Foreign Affairs appears to be publishing speculative scenario fiction as analysis, complete with citations and author bios formatted as if it were contemporaneous reporting. The practice erases the line between forecasting and documentation, which is useful to exactly no one trying to understand what is actually happening in Ukraine's energy infrastructure today.