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»
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»
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday invoked the Pearl Harbor attacks ahead of World War II and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, while urging the United States to do more to stop the Russian war against his country. ... Read more»
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly called for NATO countries to institute a "no-fly zone" over his embattled nation. He addressed the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, invoking memories of the Pearl Harbor and 9/11 attacks to evoke sympathy as Russian rockets continue to batter Ukraine.... Read more»
As Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky virtually addressed Congress today, I wondered, “What did they do with Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert, and Madison Cawthorn? For that matter, how dare any member of the Republican Party attend who had refused to impeach Donald Trump for his attempt to extort the Ukrainian president?... Read more»
When Russian President Vladimir Putin talks about the war in Ukraine, he often uses words to mean exactly the opposite of what they normally do - a tactic out of George Orwell's novel 1984 on how totalitarian regimes perversely warp language to gain and retain political power.... Read more»
Vladimir Putin’s aggression signals a rollback of the ideals of a free Europe that emerged after 1991 - but also portends the end of something else: global supply chains that Western companies built after the Berlin Wall fell over three decades ago.... Read more»
More than 1 million Ukrainians are now refugees, having left their homes as Russia invaded. Hundreds of thousands more are displaced inside that country, such as Veronika, who told the Tucson Sentinel her family's story.... Read more»
Según el censo estadounidense, hay más de un millón de personas con raíces ucranianas viviendo en este país, aunque no se cuenta para Arizona. Pero la gente se está uniendo en Phoenix, como en muchas ciudades del país, para mostrar solidaridad con su patria.... Read more»
In his first State of the Union address, President Biden pledged to stand with Ukraine and pointed out other nations doing the same.... Read more»
President Joe Biden authorized on Tuesday the release of 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, part of an international boost to the global oil supply that has been disrupted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.... Read more»
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky went from being an actor, the voice of Ukraine's version of Paddington Bear, and the winner of the first season of Ukraine’s Dancing with the Stars (that’s a thing?) to being the man inspiring his nation to fight.... Read more»
The shelling of Ukrainian cities intensified on Monday as Ukraine and Russia exchanged accusations about war crimes and blamed each other for starting a war that has brought the world to the brink of a global catastrophe. ... Read more»
Hundreds of demonstrators marched from the Ukrainian American Cultural Center to Colter Park in central Phoenix on Sunday in support of Ukraine after Russia launched a full-scale invasion last week.... Read more»
The national flower of Ukraine might be the sunflower — and the story of a grandmother instructing Russian soldiers to carry seeds in their pockets, so they can fertilize them when they die, is ominous enough. But the Russian bear has more to worry about than grandmothers.... Read more»
If you’re standing with Russia, or blaming Biden for something Putin did, or you’re deflecting for Putin and spreading Russian propaganda, then as the great Cee Lo Green once sang, “F you too.”... Read more»
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