Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that the conflict with Russia will only end after Kyiv liberates Crimea, which was annexed by Moscow in 2014. Zelensky’s comments came as mystery explosions occurred at a Russian air base in Crimea that raised the possibility that Kyiv was expanding its war effort with a focus on...
The Ukrainian ambassador to Germany faced backlash last week after defending Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist leader who Wikipedia notes lead “the militant wing (OUN-B), served as head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, organization responsible for massacres and ethnic cleansings, also implicated in collaboration with Nazi Germany.” Notes from Poland reported that Melnyk made the...
Victoria Nuland, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, is playing a key role in the U.S.’s response to the current crisis in Ukraine despite a controversial history that included orchestrating the overthrow of a democratically elected president in Ukraine that led to a civil war. Salon ran a profile on Nuland last year that...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a televised interview last week he has noticed Joe Biden’s “sharp, anti-Russian rhetoric” during his presidential campaign, while giving credit to President Trump for improving the two countries’ relationship. Putin has largely stayed quiet on the U.S. election. Democrats have been critical of what they see as a cozy...