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The article conceptualizes war-related mobilities and immobilities during Russia’s war against Ukraine as shaped by two interconnected dynamics: cross-border solidarity and entanglement between Ukraine and Europe, and cross-border disentanglement of both from Russia’s authoritarian political context. Building on mobility studies, the article argues that these frameworks gain analytical depth when combined with critical refugee and migration studies. The editorial proposes four key directions to expand mobility studies: (i) the notion of ‘entangled (im)mobilities’: highlighting temporal and spatial interdependencies between mobility and immobility in times of war; (ii) empire-sensitive approaches: treating post-Soviet spaces as postcolonial contexts shaped by imperial legacies; (iii) intersectional vulnerability: examining how vulnerability is produced through overlapping forms of marginalization; (iv) reflexive knowledge production: interrogating how war shapes epistemologies and research practices. Together, these perspectives enable a more nuanced understanding of war-induced (im)mobility dynamics, collective suffering, and selective immobilization. The article concludes with an overview of the contributions in the special issue.
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