Mar 01 Russia holds drills with nuclear submarines, land-based missiles amid Ukraine invasion By Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press Russian nuclear submarines have sailed off for drills in the Barents Sea and mobile missile launchers are roaming snow forests in Siberia after President Vladimir Putin ordered his nation's nuclear forces put on high alert. Continue reading
Mar 01 Russia takes steps to cushion itself from international economic punishments over Ukraine invasion By Associated Press Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said Tuesday the government has readied measures to temporarily restrict foreign investors from divesting Russian assets, saying the step would help them make “a considered decision” rather than succumb to political pressure of sanctions. Continue reading
Mar 01 Blinken calls on UN Human Rights Council to 'hold Russia accountable' for Ukraine invasion By Associated Press The top U.S. diplomat also singled out Russia in recorded remarks delivered to the Human Rights Council for repression within the country, citing reports that thousands of protesters in Russia who were opposed to the invasion had been detained. Continue reading
Mar 01 Russian forces fired at Kyiv TV tower and Holocaust memorial, Ukrainian officials say By Associated Press Ukraine’s State Service for Emergency Situations said the strikes on the TV tower killed five people and left five more wounded. Continue reading
Mar 01 60 million barrels of oil to be released from global strategic reserves amid war By David McHugh, Associated Press Russia plays an outsized role in global energy markets as the third-largest oil producer. Continue reading
Mar 01 Zelensky calls Russia's deadly strike on center of Kharkiv a 'war crime' By Associated Press A Russia military strike on Tuesday hit the center of Ukraine’s second-largest city, killing at least six people as it badly damaged the symbolic Soviet-era regional administration building. Continue reading
Feb 28 WATCH: At rare U.N. Security Council session, Russia is pressed to stop war in Ukraine By Jennifer Peltz, Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Reflecting escalating global alarm, both of the U.N.'s major bodies — the 193-nation assembly and the smaller, more powerful Security Council — took the unusual step of holding simultaneous, hastily scheduled meetings on the war. Continue reading
Feb 28 Watch 8:12 Ukraine resists advancing Russian forces as the West imposes tough new sanctions By Nick Schifrin, Morgan Till In less than a week since Russia began its attack on Ukraine, more than 500,000 Ukrainians have fled their nation and are now refugees. This comes as fierce fighting continues across the country, the U.S. and Europe imposed harsh new… Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch 6:12 USAID's Samantha Power on Europe's response to a flood of refugees By Nick Schifrin, Ali Rogin The movement of more than a half-million people out of Ukraine and into surrounding countries is creating a dire humanitarian situation. U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power, who was at the Polish border Sunday, joins Nick Schifrin from… Continue watching
Feb 28 Watch 9:59 Why the war in Ukraine could get 'much more brutal' in the days ahead By Judy Woodruff, Dan Sagalyn Doug Lute, a retired Army lieutenant general and former U.S. ambassador to NATO, Andrew Weiss, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Adam Smith, a former U.S. Treasury official who served on the National Security Council staff, join Judy… Continue watching