By Sarah K. Burris Speaking to Tetiana as she sits in Kharkiv means hearing the explosions on the other end of the line. She is with her elderly mother, who is ill and injured after falling trying to get to a bomb shelter last week. Tetiana and her mother, daughter and granddaughter would normally be […]
By Brad Reed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine is not getting the uniform backing on state media networks that greeted the 2014 annexation of Crimea. The Daily Beast’s Julia Davis reports that the crippling economic sanctions are causing some second thoughts even among television personalities who normally give the government their full backing. […]
Twelve days into his invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has “no sustainable political endgame,” the heads of U.S. intelligence agencies told Congress in a somber assessment Tuesday. That military reality means even greater humanitarian costs lie ahead, they said. “Putin is angry and frustrated right now,” Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns told […]