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Far From the Front Lines, Javelin Missiles Go Unused in Ukraine

BY AMY MACKINNON, LARA SELIGMAN Source Link During a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week, U.S. President Donald Trump took a shot at his predecessor, claiming that …

How Much Damage Will Trump’s Scandal Do to Zelensky in Ukraine?

Candace Rondeaux Source Link It’s hard not to feel a little sorry for Ukraine’s president. The content of Volodymyr Zelensky’s now-infamous July 25th call with U.S. President Donald Trump will doubt…

How Much Damage Will Trump’s Scandal Do to Zelensky in Ukraine?

Candace Rondeaux  Source Link It’s hard not to feel a little sorry for Ukraine’s president. The content of Volodymyr Zelensky’s now-infamous July 25th call with U.S. President Donald Trump will doub…

What We Know and Don’t About the Trump-Ukraine Affair

By Michael Crowley, Kenneth P. Vogel and Charlie Savage Source Link WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry on Tuesday amid mounting furor over President Trump’s ef…

Russia and Ukraine Seek a Contentious New Gas Transit Deal

Source Link Russia, Ukraine and the European Union have a shared interest in avoiding economic losses by reaching a new deal on gas transit before the current agreement expires.  But significant obst…

Fresh Approaches Enable Russia-Ukraine Prisoner Swap

Source Link For the Kremlin, key conditions for the prisoner exchange were President Zelensky’s reference to joint work by two states and two presidents, recognition that there were advantages to the…

Heading for (another) Ukraine-Russia gas figh

Steven Pifer Source Link Gazprom, a large Russian parastatal, now transits a significant amount of gas to European destinations via Ukrainian pipelines. The volume totaled 87 billion cubic meters (bc…

Can Zelensky, Riding High, Negotiate an End to the War in Eastern Ukraine?

Candace Rondeaux   Source Link Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is on a roll. In April, he trounced incumbent Petro Poroshenko at the polls. Last month, Zelensky’s Servant of the People p…

Deterring Hybrid Threats: The Need for a More Rational Debate

Source Link By Michael Rühle  Michael Rühle writes that following Russia’s use of hybrid warfare in Ukraine, it wouldn’t take long before the Western strategic community would examine how to best det…
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