President Joe Biden barely slept as he rolled in the dark toward Kyiv earlier this week, sitting awake as his curtained-off train car crossed into the warzone that has come to shape so much of his presidency. Source: CNN
US and its allies face even more daunting challenges to come
Last October, a weeklong barrage of Russian missiles and kamikaze drones destroyed nearly a third of Ukraine’s power stations, plunging millions of Ukrainians into darkness ahead of winter and signaling a significant Russian tactical shift to target civilian infrastructure. Source: CNN
Analysis: Why China may not be in a hurry to see Russia's war in Ukraine end
President Joe Biden’s trip to mark the anniversary of the war in Ukraine is highlighting an even more grave challenge — a new era of simultaneous and sometimes intertwined US confrontations with nuclear rivals Russia and China. Source: CNN
Aerial video shows Russian convoys destroyed in night attack
New video appears to show Ukrainian paratroopers fend off a night attack by Russian convoys. Source: CNN
Biden's rallying cry: 'Kyiv stands strong' a year after invasion
The last time President Joe Biden spoke from the courtyard of the Royal Castle in Poland, the content of his 27-minute speech was mostly obscured by what he ad-libbed about Russian President Vladimir Putin at the end. Source: CNN
Putin: Pulls back from last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the US
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he is suspending his country’s participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States, imperiling the last remaining pact that regulates the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals. Source: CNN
Analysis: With an arms-control threat, Putin tries to up the ante
Russian President Vladimir Putin punctured the balloon of anticipation in his state of the union speech Tuesday. He didn’t declare martial law or announce a new wave of military mobilization; he recycled the same lines about his rationale for invading Ukraine nearly one year ago; and he outlined no vision of how the war he launched might end. Source: CNN