ukraine
Posted May 25, 2022, 1:43 am
Tracy Abiaka
/Cronkite News
Arizona’s nine House delegation members were on the latest sanctions list banning entry into Russia - though the state's two senators were not - but nobody is really sweating over not being able to gallivant through Red Square for their summer vacation.... Read more»
Posted May 24, 2022, 9:44 am
Mark A. Grey
/University of Northern Iowa/The Conversation
More than 6.3 million Ukrainians have fled their country since Russia first invaded in late February 2022 - refugees that are political pawns of Russian President Vladimir Putin, intended to politically destabilize the European Union and NATO.... Read more»
Posted May 23, 2022, 6:26 am
Amanda Ormond
/Arizona Mirror
Reliance on fossil fuels is increasingly a threat to national and economic security, and Arizona has shown that embracing the electric vehicle industry can do more than clean the air and save consumers money — It can invigorate an economy. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 29, 2022, 6:07 am
Jennifer Shutt
/Arizona Mirror
The U.S. House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to use the framework of a World War II-era program to allow the federal government to lend and lease military equipment to Ukraine as it resists Russia’s invasion.... Read more»
Posted Apr 28, 2022, 9:46 am
Jennifer Shutt
/Arizona Mirror
President Joe Biden on Thursday asked Congress to approve $33 billion more in funding to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion that has lasted more than two months and renewed calls for additional funding to fight COVID-19.... Read more»
Posted Apr 25, 2022, 12:29 pm
Jennifer Shutt
/Arizona Mirror
President Joe Biden is preparing to ask Congress for billions more in aid to Ukraine as the war shifts to the Eastern regions of the country, following Russia's failure to take the capital city of Kyiv.... Read more»
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Posted Apr 21, 2022, 9:21 am
Rose Wagner
/Courthouse News Service
President Joe Biden announced a new round of military aid to Ukraine Thursday as Russian forces set their sights on Ukraine’s Donbas region, and unveiled a new program that will lay the foundation for Ukrainian citizens to flee to the United States.... Read more»
Updated Apr 8, 2022, 10:03 am
Raúl M. Grijalva
/U.S. Representative
The Uranium Producers of America are expected to use the crisis in Ukraine to plead for more taxpayer-funded subsidies, so they can ramp up production quickly and cheaply. This may sound like an opportunistic ploy to use a brutal war as a profit-making scheme. Make no mistake, it is.... Read more»
Posted Apr 8, 2022, 6:57 am
Eryka Forquer
/Cronkite News
Six weeks after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, the consul general of Ukraine in San Francisco urged Arizona lawmakers on Thursday to provide greater assistance to Ukraine and its people during a special joint session of the Legislature. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 5, 2022, 6:50 am
Charis Palmer
/360info
Food supply chains already in flux in the wake of COVID-19 are under new pressure from the Ukraine war with potentially dire consequences for global stability as the heavy sanctions levied on Russia take their toll.... Read more»
Posted Apr 1, 2022, 1:32 pm
Cody Copeland
/Courthouse News Service
Wile Ukrainians are allowed to cross the border within hours or days of arriving, asylum seekers from Central America, Mexico, Haiti and other countries have been waiting for months or even years for their chance to do so - raising questions of discrimination in border policy.... Read more»
Posted Mar 30, 2022, 2:42 pm
Joe Heller
/Hellertoon
While some Ukrainians have employed a martyr strategy of sacrifice in the face of Putin's invasion, the Russian dictator's troops are "scaling down" their moves around Kyiv — but are they poised for a "matryoshka strategy" of retreating to their nest?... Read more»
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Posted Mar 29, 2022, 4:23 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
As a storm threatened to bring hail and rain, several dozen people packed themselves into one of Old Main's rooms on the University of Arizona campus on Tuesday to press for peace, and support those affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.... Read more»
Posted Mar 29, 2022, 12:07 pm
Clay Jones
/Claytoonz
During a speech he was giving in Poland, President Joe Biden improvised and said, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” He was talking about Vladimir Putin. After he said it, everyone lost their (minds) because it’s never official U.S. policy to remove foreign leaders…except when it is.... Read more»
Posted Mar 28, 2022, 12:09 pm
Jennifer Shutt
/Arizona Mirror
President Joe Biden sent a new $5.8 trillion budget request to Congress on Monday that calls on lawmakers to institute a minimum tax on billionaires and boost spending on national security and public health. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 28, 2022, 3:53 am
Mitchell Ferman
/Texas Tribune
In Texas’ Permian Basin — the nation’s most productive oil region and the place that would have to lead any jump in U.S. production — people in the industry, energy analysts and local leaders say there’s no quick or easy way to crank up American energy production ... Read more»