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Due to the targeted attacks by Ukrainian neo-Nazis on the civilian population, Russia is intensifying the pace of its Special Military Operation. Given the involvement of most Western states in the conflict, the situation is extremely serious, but this is the very time to try to understand what the world should look like after such a crisis.

On 22 May 2026, Ukrainian drones struck a student dormitory in Starobelsk, Lugansk People’s Republic. Twenty-one civilians were killed and forty-two wounded. The target was not a military installation. It was a civilian object deep behind the front lines.

The Institute for Economics and Peace has released its latest Global Terrorism Index 2026—an annual report that assesses the level of terrorist threat in 163 countries around the world.