“Rather than take a side, these campaigns create decision paralysis that leads to inaction” As war envelops Ukraine, Russian sources have strived to create a miasma of disinformation about the invasion. Among ample efforts to MORE
Ukraine’s military said on Thursday that it had destroyed a Russian ship at a port under Russian occupation in southern Ukraine, in what would be a success for the Ukrainians as they seek to keep MORE
A Russian court sentenced Aleksei A. Navalny to nine years in a high-security prison on Tuesday, imposing a new punishment on the imprisoned opposition leader at a time when the war in Ukraine has made him even MORE
President Biden took a chilling message to a Business Roundtable meeting in Washington on Monday, warning the private sector that it was time to immediately harden its online defenses as a “patriotic obligation.” “The magnitude MORE
Russia has sanctioned President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and several administration officials in retaliation for U.S. sanctions on various Russian banks, oligarchs, and commodities over the Ukraine invasion. Included in the Russian MORE
Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor of Russia’s state Channel One television station, stormed the set during a live broadcast to protest Putin’s War; she’s now missing. The anchor began speaking louder in an attempt to drown out MORE
This week, we will combine both blogs, In Case You Missed It and the Russia-Ukraine Conflict. Please feel free to share any headlines we may have missed or new developments occurring in Ukraine or Russia MORE
Fiona Hill, Russian affairs and Vladimir Putin expert, explained who Putin should be worried about if his Ukraine invasion doesn’t go as planned. Putin shouldn’t worry about the Russian citizens or the oligarchs, but the MORE
The White House is not interested in banning Russian oil imports warning of price increases for Americans. “We don’t have a strategic interest in reducing the global supply of energy and that would raise prices MORE
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has called on Russians to stage daily protests against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, depicting President Vladimir Putin as an “obviously insane tsar.” Navalny called for protests across the country and MORE
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Ukraine’s defense forces, outmanned and outgunned, waged a ferocious resistance to the Russian invasion on Saturday, battling to keep control of the capital, Kyiv, and other cities. There was intense street fighting, and bursts of MORE
Join our Live Blog for updates on the Russian-Ukraine conflict. Feel free to post your own updates so we can discuss them but make sure they come from credible sources. We won’t accept any parroted, MORE
Ukraine’s government said it faced “a full-scale attack from multiple directions.” World leaders condemned President Vladimir Putin’s actions. Chuhuyiv, in eastern Ukraine, was hit by bombs Thursday as Russian military forces attacked the country from MORE
Several Ukrainian government websites were offline Wednesday as a result of a mass distributed denial of service attack, Mykhailo Fedorov, head of Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation, said in his Telegram channel. The attack, which also MORE
Of all the former secretaries of state under Democratic and Republican presidents, only one is taking to cable news and social media during a moment of peril in Europe to praise Russian President Vladimir Putin MORE
The German Response: Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday that Germany would halt certification of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline that would link his country with Russia, one of the strongest moves yet MORE
The United States continues to warn that Russia could invade Ukraine “any day” amid escalating tensions in the region, with President Joe Biden telling reporters Friday he’s “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to MORE
Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday in Munich spoke of the Western alliances “defining moment” in which Russia’s leaders would face “swift, severe, and united” consequences if a Ukraine invasion occurred. Harris argued in her MORE
Biden is speaking to key world leaders now; additional troops have beens sent to Hungary, also a Nato Nation. Putin is planning several practice nuclear missile launches tomorrow; President Zelensky has been planning to travel MORE
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that Putin himself will oversee massive drills of its strategic forces on Saturday. Those exercises will involve multiple practice launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. The MORE