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Diplomacy intensifies as shelling and fighting increases in eastern Ukraine. The United States again warned that Russia could invade Ukraine at any moment. Moscow responded by calling the allegations baseless. Beyond the war of words, fighting in eastern Ukraine is worsening...
That’s what two former ambassadors to Ukraine told Nightly this week as the world waits to learn whether the Russian president will begin the largest war in Europe since the 1940s. Despite the widespread sentiment that Putin has the West playing by his rules, the Russian president doesn’t seem to understand Ukraine too well, said William Taylor, a former ambassador to Ukraine and the vice president of Russia and Europe at the U.S. Institute of Peace...
President Biden says he is “convinced” Putin has decided to invade Ukraine as the U.S. learns there could be as many as 190,000 Russian troops at the border. It comes as Russia-backed separatists call for every woman and child to evacuate, falsely claiming that Ukraine is about to launch an attack. Meantime, the National Archives confirms some of the documents Trump took from the White House after he left office were classified...
William B. Taylor, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, joins Washington Post Live to discuss the latest developments from the Ukraine border, what he learned from his recent visit to Ukraine and the prospects for a diplomatic solution...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is urging Russia to withdraw its forces from near Ukraine's borders. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor joins CBS News' Tanya Rivero and Meg Oliver to break down the latest on the crisis...
Last summer, following the collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan, the Taliban seized control of the country. In the months since Afghanistan’s economy has been devested by the Taliban’s policies and by international sanctions against the country. On this episode of CNA Talks Jon Schroden welcomes economists Torek Farhadi and Bill Byrd, to discuss this crisis and what can be done to alienate it...
Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor breaks down how a potential Russian invasion could play out and how the Biden administration might respond.
Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor says the Russian president has put himself in a corner...