35 Burst results for "Ukraine"
AP News Radio
Moscow drone attack exposes Russia's vulnerabilities, fuels criticism of military
"Breaches in Russia's air defenses are exposed after a drone attack on Moscow. Russian president Vladimir Putin is wowing to beef up air defenses after another drone attack targeted the capital in underlined its vulnerability. He's now facing criticism after only 5 of 8 drones were shot down in the attack, which damaged three apartment buildings. Putin is stressing that Moscow's air defenses did work, but admits that protecting a huge city is difficult. Ukraine did not claim responsibility for the attack, but it happened as more Russian soils under fire amid expectations of a Ukrainian counter offensive. I'm Mimi Montgomery.
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UN nuclear chief urges Russia and Ukraine to ban attacks at Europe's largest nuclear power plant
"UN nuclear chief urges Russia and Ukraine to ban attacks on the zephyria power plant. Raphael grossi, who leads the International Atomic Energy Agency, is asking UN Security Council members to support 5 principles to avoid a nuclear accident at the tsaritsa plant, Europe's largest. It comes after fighting there on 7 occasions as recently as last week and disruptions to critical power supply. The principles include banning attacks prohibiting heavy weapons storage and ensuring uninterrupted offsite power supply, Kremlin's forces took over the plant after Russia's invasion, and Ukraine opposes any proposed legitimizing Russia's control of it. I'm Mimi Montgomery
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New US aid package for Ukraine will total about $300 million and include munitions for drones
"A new U.S. aid package for Ukraine will likely include munitions for drones. I'm Lisa dwyer. A U.S. Military aid package where you crane that is expected to be announced this week will total up to $300 million and will include additional munitions for drones. The drone decision comes after new attacks by unmanned aircraft targeted Moscow. There has been no suggestion that U.S. made drones or munitions were used in the recent attacks and U.S. officials have repeatedly said that Ukraine has agreed not to use any American provided weapons for attacks on Russian soil. U.S. officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the latest aid package has not yet been publicly announced. I'm Lisa dwyer
AP News Radio
Russia says drones lightly damage Moscow buildings before dawn, while Ukraine's capital bombarded
"A rare drone attack in Moscow has caused light damage and forced evacuations. It's the first time residential buildings have been struck in the Russian capital since the war in Ukraine began. The Russian defense ministry says 5 drones were shot down and the systems of three others were jammed, causing them to veer off course. Moscow's mayor says two people have received treatment for unspecified injuries, but were not hospitalized. President Putin claims it's an attempt from Kyiv to intimidate Russia and that it's a clear sign of terrorist activities. Ukraine has made no direct comment on the attack. The Kremlin, meanwhile, has pursued its relentless bombardment of Kyiv with a third assault on the city in 24 hours. I'm Lawrence Brooks
AP News Radio
Russia launches pre-dawn air raid on Kyiv; Moscow attacked by drones
"Russia has launched a pre dawn air raid on Ukraine's capital, killing at least one person. It sent Kyiv's residents again scrambling into shelters to escape her relentless wave of daylight and nighttime bombardments before daylight the buzzing of drones can be heard above the city, followed by loud explosions. As they were taken down by air defense systems. Early information from the key of military administration says air defense forces destroyed at least 20 Shah had explosive drones in the city's airspace, its Russia's third attack on the capital in the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, in Moscow, residents there have reported hearing explosions and the defense ministry says 8 drones had been fired at the city. Moscow calls it a terrorist attack by the key of regime. It said 5 drones have been shot down and the systems of three were jammed, causing them to veer off course Ukraine hasn't commented on the Moscow attack, which would be one of its deepest strikes in Russia since the invasion began. I'm Lauren Brooks
AP News Radio
Russia issues arrest warrant for Lindsey Graham over Ukraine comments
"Russia has issued an arrest warrant for a U.S. senator. Russia wants to arrest senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina after what he said about the war in Ukraine. Graham met with Ukraine's president zelensky on Friday, zelensky's office later released an edited video in which senator Graham says the Russians are dying and describes U.S. Military assistance to Ukraine as the best money we've ever spent. Senator Graham appears to have made the remarks at different times in the conversation, but the short video by Ukraine's presidential office put them next to each other. It caused outrage in Russia. The Russian interior ministry then issued the arrest warrant. I'm Rita foley
AP News Radio
South African president appoints judge to oversee weapons-for-Russia inquiry
"The South African president Cyril ramaphosa has appointed a judge to oversee an inquiry into allegations the country supplied arms to Russia. The U.S. ambassador to South Africa claims weapons and ammunition were loaded onto a Russian flagged cargo ship that secretly docked at a naval base near Cape Town in December last year, ambassador Ruben brickett indicated that the allegations were based on U.S. intelligence and that he would bet his life on the accuracy of his claim. The container carrying ship named lady R is already under U.S. sanctions for being tied to a company that has transported weapons to aid the Russian war effort in Ukraine, South Africa has denied there was any government sanctioned deal to provide weapons to Russia, although it hasn't categorically ruled out that an unofficial transaction took place involving another entity. The South African president's office says the panel has 6 weeks to complete its investigations and another two weeks from then to provide a report to ramaphosa. I am Lawrence Brooks
AP News Radio
Sleepless in Kyiv: Nighttime Russian air campaign terrorizes citizens in Ukrainian capital
"Russia has unleashed one of its biggest air strikes on Kyiv since the war began as the Ukrainian city suffers its second overnight assault in a row. Officials say its defense forces have shot down more than 40 targets during what Kyiv's mayor of Vladimir Klitschko describes as another difficult night in the capital. Ukraine's air force claims to have shot down 37 out of 40 Russian launched cruise missiles and 29 out of 35 drones, the latest wave of Russian strikes on the city come as Ukraine prepares to launch a counteroffensive to reclaim areas that Russian forces have taken. I'm Lauren Brooks
AP News Radio
Ukraine claims Russia is plotting 'a provocation' at nuclear plant, offers no evidence
"Ukraine claims Russia is plotting a large scale provocation at a nuclear plant, but offers no evidence. A statement by Ukraine's military intelligence says Russian forces would strike the zaporizhia nuclear power plant and report a radioactive leak in order to trigger an international probe that would stop the fighting as a way to give Moscow's forces a reprieve they badly need to regroup ahead of the looming Ukrainian counteroffensive. However, it did not offer evidence to back up any of the claims. The White House says its watching the situation closely and has seen no indication that radioactive material has been leaked. I'm Julie Walker
AP News Radio
'Crunch' time in debt ceiling talks, as McCarthy and Biden reach for a deal with deadline looming
"The International Monetary Fund's chief is comparing the standoff over America's looming default deadline to something out of a fairytale. Think Cinderella. Having to leave the ball exactly at midnight. And IMF managing director kristalina Gregg Eva says it's now the 12 hour. So before our cartage turns into a pumpkin, could we please get this soft? Gorgie Ava says the US Treasury market is the global financial systems anchor. The world economy, the ship on which we all travel is in choppy and even worse uncharted waters. Which would inevitably lead to contraction in both the U.S. and world economies. That would come as a shock upon shock upon shock. A self inflicted wound for economy still recovering from the pandemic and dealing with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Washington.
AP News Radio
Russia acknowledges Vatican peace initiative, says no steps yet for a mission to Moscow
"Russia has indicated that it views Pope Francis's peace initiative, positively. The statements from the Russian foreign ministry was the first public acknowledgment by Moscow of the Pope's move. However, Moscow stressed there are no immediate plans for a Vatican mission to the country. It followed the Vatican's recent announcements that Italian cardinal Matteo zupi had been tapped by Francis as his envoy at a news conference told reporters the scope of his mission. This mission aims at helping ease the tensions of the conflict in Ukraine. His still unscheduled talks would lead to pass of peace, much like he achieved on his mission to Mozambique in the 1990s, where he helped to mediate peace talks that ended the Civil War. I am Karen Chammas
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Scarred by war, Ukrainian children carry on after losing parents, homes and innocence
"UNICEF says an estimated 1.5 million Ukrainian children are at risk of depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues. In lviv near the border with Poland, Ukrainian children dance with adults trying to bring some joy in wartime, one of the kids playing 9 year old Andrea recalls the day their house was shelled in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. We ran out of the house but everything was in a white fog. I was wounded right there, then we didn't see dad. When the fog lifted, he found his father on the porch, motionless and covered in blood, after being struck by a Russian projectile, their foster mother, Nina poliakova, told the AP and three is usually calmer than his sister Olga, but that's. At night, there are still births. Sometimes they are screaming hundreds of kids have been killed in Ukraine for the survivors, the wide ranging trauma is certain to leave psychological scars that will follow them into adolescence and adulthood. I am Karen Chammas
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Pentagon says allies will unite to train Ukrainians on F-16s, but warns jets aren't 'magic weapons'
"The Pentagon says European allies are developing a program to train Ukrainian forces on flying F-16 fighters, but it's also issuing a warning about expecting too much from the jets. There's no magic weapons in war. Joint chiefs chairman Mark milley says for one thing, F-16s are expensive. The jets themselves. And the pilots to go with them and the system costs and the missiles and the maintenance do the math. $2 billion for ten aircraft. The Russians have a thousand fourth and 5th generation fighters. And Ukraine will need a substantial amount if it wants to contest Moscow in the air. The smartest thing to have done is exactly what we did do. Which was spend money first on getting Ukraine air defenses and ground capabilities that have allowed them to hang in the fight. Millie says had the F-16s come first. You wouldn't have tanks you wouldn't have Bradley's. You wouldn't have anti army weapons. You wouldn't have anything else. You'd spend all your money on just that. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
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Companies are finding it's not so simple to leave Russia. Others are quietly staying put
"Global companies are finding it's not so simple to leave Russia. Others are quietly staying put more than a year after many companies left Russia in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, something became clear, leaving Russia was not as simple as it might have seen, increasingly, Russia has put hurdles in the way of companies that want out, requiring approval by a government commission and imposing painful discounts and taxes on prices. Feeling the push and pull between western sanctions and outrage public opinion on one side and Russia's efforts to discourage and penalize departures on the other, some companies are staying puts. Meanwhile, Russian consumers are not feeling a big difference, as many companies that have left, are taken over by Russian owners, providing almost identical products. I'm Karen Chammas
AP News Radio
Austin hopes F-16 fight jet training for Ukrainian pilots will begin in coming weeks
"Defense secretary Lloyd Austin says he hopes Ukrainian pilots will soon start training on American made fighter jets. Speaking virtually to global defense leaders about ongoing military aid for Ukraine, Austin says the aim is to start the F-16 training in coming weeks. This will further strengthen and improve the capabilities of the Ukrainian air force in the long term. But not necessarily help Ukraine's anticipated counter offensive against Russia. The defense officials are expected to get an update from Ukrainian leaders about preparations for the fight. Austin says they'll also have to look for creative ways to boost production of more key systems for Kyiv. We're going to have to dig deeper. Washington.
AP News Radio
Head of Russian private army Wagner says his forces are handing control of Bakhmut to Moscow
"The head of the Russian private military contractor, Wagner has claimed that his forces have started pulling out of bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and handing over control to the Russian military, the announcement by yevgeny prigozhin, the owner of the private military company, comes days after he said Wagner troops had captured the ruined city, the millionaire owner, with longtime links to Russian president Vladimir Putin, said in a video published on telegram that the handover would be completed by June 1st. We are handing over military positions, ammunition, everything including dry Russian to the Russian military. Nevertheless, a day earlier Ukrainian general staff said that heavy fighting was continuing inside the eastern city after a 9 month battle that killed tens of thousands of people, I am Karen Chammas
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Russia's Wagner boss says more than 20,000 of his troops died in Bakhmut battle
"The fact that militia, which is aiding Russia wage war on Ukraine. Says thousands have lost their lives. Wagner's chief says his false has lost more than 20,000 soldiers in the drawn out battle for bakhmut, with about 20% of the 50,000 Russian convicts he recruited to fight in the 15 month war dying in the eastern Ukrainian city. The figures in stark contrast with claims for Moscow for its lost just over 6000 troops in the war. It's also higher than the official estimate of the Soviet losses in the Afghanistan war of 15,000 troops between 1979 and 1989, the Ukrainian general staff says that heavy fighting is continuing in days after Russia said it's completely captured the devastated city. I'm Charles De Ledesma
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Russia says it shot down drones in border region after raid from Ukraine territory
"A local official says Russian forces shot down drones in the southern Bulgarian region, a day after Moscow had announced its forces had crushed across border raid. In a telegram post, Belgrade's governor says a large number of drones were intercepted overnight, adding no one had been hurt, but administrative buildings, residential buildings, and cars had been damaged. Ukrainian officials haven't immediately commented. Details on the raid are unclear, Moscow's blaming the incursion that had begun on Monday on Ukrainian military saboteurs, while Keith has described it as an uprising against the Kremlin by Russian partisans. I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Philosopher's Zone
"ukraine" Discussed on The Philosopher's Zone
"I mean, these people are not just, you know, bronze stages for us. It's just the people with whom we have the conversation. At the same time, I do feel that there is a demand of Ukrainians for culture because culture can do two things. You can tell the truth sometimes even much better than just reporting just news, et cetera. It can really tell the truth emotionally, and this is what happened with Ukrainian music with Ukrainian cinema with Ukraine and visual arts. And secondly, it can provide consolation. And this is something that, for example, people are reacting to another podcast that we are doing with my wife, which is in Ukrainian, which is about culture, which is called podcast, and we'll surprise then that after the full scale invasion, we kind of a halted this podcast with thought it was not relevant anymore. But then we, after half of the year, we were renewed it. And our audience increased dramatically. I mean, it doubled to tripled on some episodes, and people were writing to us before this full scale invasion. But now they are writing and saying that look, it provides so much consolation to us. Because it kind of opens up the horizon, we need to think about also different things, not only about the war, not just to close our eyes on the war, but I think if you would think about other things as well, we kind of have a capacity to think and to act better in terms of the war as well. In pen Ukraine we started a small community gatherings in which we are reading poetry and playing music and we made the first thing last week and the whole was full of people. Despite the fact that it is not a very comfortable place to find, so we are a little bit far from the metro station.
UN News
"ukraine" Discussed on UN News
"To collect this information is to actually document that and as we collect more data from what has been damaged because we know what land uses existed, we knew where we know with the factories have been, et cetera, then we're actually able to almost develop up a matrix as to how we would then go in and assist that. Nature actually doesn't stop at the border, right? How will countries of the region, including Russia itself, be affected? So again, because the conflict is ongoing. It's actually very hard to answer that question, but again, if you have damage to a particular hazardous facility in Ukraine and you have air emissions from that facility on a border with another country, of course that's going to impact that country. Even the fact that you have so many people who have been displaced and who have moved from their homes, many of whom have been living in other areas. They've been living in forests. There are waste issues there. There are water issues there. So we've got not only has nature been degraded. It's also being further impacted from environmental damage from the ongoing conflict. And of course, that's a risk for Ukraine, but also for neighboring countries because water and land and nature don't stop at borders. We are not there yet, of course, but what it will take to restore the environment after this war. Yeah, wow. I mean, firstly, we clearly would like to see the complex cease and end. And as soon as possible because the longer it goes on, the more issues that will occur. And I say, from our June report to the number of incidents now, clearly, we just compiling more information about more damage and hence there will be environmental releases and issues.
On The Media
"ukraine" Discussed on On The Media
"The refugee crisis. The vast majority of the Ukrainian refugees are fleeing through Poland. It is a 5 two 7 day wait right now in a car. Lottie and keefe started searching Google Maps, looking for places where the family might be able to safely weigh out the logjam. Small out of the way, close to the border, sub 5000 people with like a road that run straight through it one way in and one way out. When Bobby and his family arrived at their suggested village on February 28th, they went into a grocery store. There was a queue for bread because it's shortage of course. And we spent two hours with 30 babushka, which is 30 all gram mass in the queue. Being so welcome, so helpful, so thoughtful. This little town mostly just had kids and their grandparents because the combat aged adults seem to be off fighting the Russians. For me it was heartbreaking. Of seeing the grandma when I see how much money she's having in her wallet, you can see her counting and her fingers will she have enough to buy a bread. At that moment, the grandma gets a call from her daughter, who is out there at war, asking if she's okay if the kids are okay. And her grandma with absolute peace and smile laughing, yes, everyone is fine. We have money in staff and as soon as she openly says to all the grandmas that her pension didn't arrive yet because the postman is not walking so she actually struggling. And this was the instance when I said, I'm done running. Let's use this moment of what we have. Let's stay here and help those who are really forgotten this whole conflict because if I'll run to pollen now what used from Ukraine I'll hear your mom or grandma who is blind suffering going through it on her own without us, I'll feel like cover I will not be able to watch myself into a mirror. They have a plan to escape if things get bad, but for now they're doing humanitarian work with the money they're raising from Bobby's growing fame. With kefir and lottie's help, Bobby set up gamers for Ukraine dot com. That's for like the number four. He sent me a picture of packed grocery carts, he says, or for families passing through. He told me he's already driven countless people to bus stops and train stations and that they've also begun renovating a building which will serve as a free hostel for refugees. But for the last few days when we are actually actively helping families to run to safety, it changed my life forever. Because the mental and moral reward for help with no interest can not be replaced by any other action on activity in life. And I love
Can We Talk?
"ukraine" Discussed on Can We Talk?
"Brutal invasion has brought the plight of Ukraine to the world's attention. Many of us have heard about the courageous leadership of Ukraine's Jewish president, volodymyr zelensky. Lesser known are the experiences of Jewish women and families in Ukraine. There are several 100,000 Jews in Ukraine. Tens of thousands have been among the millions of Ukrainians displaced.
Yeah, That's Probably an Ad
"ukraine" Discussed on Yeah, That's Probably an Ad
"So I wasn't given this day and but I went away with my friends in a first day when it starts and now we are on a west side of Ukraine in the mountains that's why sometimes I have a really bad connection here. But we are still in Ukraine and we keep going we are doing projects as creative agency and in this issue it's my first experience as an editor and it's a great experience and that's it. Wow. You have been such a wonderful editor to work with and I can't say enough about it. I've been a big fan of angry the agency where dasha works for years angry has done some of the best just different work. I don't really know the right word for it and I'm sure angry also has trouble communicating the kind of work it's not just ads that create really fascinating ideas and it's an agency I've just been intrigued by for so many years and your team were the first I mean, I feel a little bad saying the first people I thought of. But in terms of our industry, when the war broke out, angry was immediately on my mind because it has always been such a stellar representation of the Ukrainian creative spirit and what made it different. So it was an honor getting to have you on this team and getting to work with you. Thank you. Sophia, tell us about yourself and how your life has changed since the war began. Usually and right now I'm an editor, a journalist and screenwriter, usually I focus on creativity, culture, human rights issues. And I'm born in I was born in the town in the west of Ukraine, called lutsk. But for the last 8 years, I was living in gyp..
Yeah, That's Probably an Ad
"ukraine" Discussed on Yeah, That's Probably an Ad
"You're listening to yeah, that's probably an ad, it's the AdWord podcast where we talk about marketing media technology, pop culture, because in the end, everything is an ad. This is a very special episode. I'm so excited about it. We have a tremendous project to share with you that goes live today as you're listening to this. We have for the last, wow. It's been over a month. I forget exactly when we started this. We have been working with a wonderful team based in Ukraine or from folks who have left Ukraine over the last two months amid the war. And we basically handed over an entire issue of ad week to our peers and designers, editors, writers, illustrators, in Ukraine, from Ukraine to take over an entire issue and to make it whatever they wanted in whatever they wanted the world to know. About Ukraine about what is happening in the country right now. And with me to talk about that are the three editors who ran this issue. Like I said, this was fully 7 more than 20, I think we ended up with well over 20 folks working on this issue. All of whom are outside of Adweek. So with that, I'll start by introducing Hannah rodenko, who is our editor in chief for this issue. Hannah, you and I have been working closely together for many weeks now and it is such a pleasure to be at the finish line and to have this issue ready to go. Thank you so much for all your work. Thank you. Hello. Thank you for inviting us. Absolutely. So Hannah, let's start and then I'll introduce our other two guests too, but why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself and then we'll go from there..
The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"ukraine" Discussed on The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"So two months in, what is less think about his country's future? He struggled to answer that question, actually. He's very worried about kind of the long-term effects of the war just from a trauma perspective on him and other people doing this kind of work. I'm just worrying that I'm going to have some consequences like mentally after this. I had to go to terrific or something. He does think Ukraine will prevail eventually. I know that we will win this war. We already won this war, actually. A mentally and culturally the only thing I just don't want more people to die in this war. But I think he has a pretty realistic understanding that it's going to be a really long, bloody, painful slog until then. The war is not ended, that something everybody has to sometimes run is already starting to talk about the end.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"ukraine" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"6 8 7 51 at number is 802 four 6 8 7 51 I'll go to balance of nature dot com and use discount code balance. I'm back with Rebecca coughler, Russian born U.S. intelligence expert author of the book, Putin's playbook Rebecca, you were talking in the last segment about an irony, which is that you've got all these U.S. intelligence experts, and they seem to be participating in a scheme in America to contract and repress liberty. Certainly to oppose a truth from coming out, sometimes they deploy their power to go after political opponents. They're deploying these kind of socialist tactics in America and that are undermining, as you say, democracy. And at the same time, their rhetoric is consistently one of promoting democracy abroad. In fact, this is their whole justification for trying to mobilize a global campaign on behalf of Ukraine. We got to protect democracy against authoritarianism, what do you think is the actual agenda of these guys? Normally when I find that people are acting in a double standard, there's some single standard hiding behind the double standard. So what's the single standard? What's the agenda of these guys in promoting let's call it authoritarianism at home, freedom abroad? I'm actually just a stunned as you dinesh. It is a mystery to me what these people are up to because it is really not only ironic, but it is scary that they are talking about promoting democracy in every nook and cranny of the world, even willing to go to war over it, sacrifice thousands of lives of American servicemen and women the real patriots. You know, these are the people in the Washington establishment who make decisions that affect people's lives. And yet they are willing to suppress democracy here. I do not know. I'm at a lost dinesh, all I know is that this needs to stop and we need to expose these people these 50 people need to really lose their security clearances right now and anyone who suppressed alternative analytic view, whether it's COVID, whether it's the Russian interference in 2016 election, they need to be fired right now. Rebecca, where do you think this Ukraine war is going? I mean, I'm kind of, I'm assuming you agree with me that some of this attempt to cancel Russia, you know, to, in other words, block Russian banking from going on and make sure that the Russian singer at the Met does not allow to perform or all this kind of stuff. I'm assuming that Putin's not going to be particularly fazed by any of this. Now he might be a little more phase. We talked about this last time by the campaign against the Russian oligarchs. That might actually hit a little bit closer to home, but do you think that his goal is to level Ukraine and take it over? Or do you think he wants to bring the Ukrainian government into a position of abject submission to Russia in which Ukraine would remain remain quasi independent but nevertheless it will do Russia's bidding going forward? So remember how this war started dinesh Putin stated several times that Ukraine's potential membership in NATO was a red line. The reason it is a red line for Putin is because NATO is a military alliance, which specifically was created to counter the Soviet Union. And so the distance right now between NATO forces and St. Petersburg, which is the second largest city in Russia, has reduced from the Cold War to today from a thousand miles to 100 miles, okay? Putin wants to enforce his version of the Monroe doctrine. She believes that is part of his vital interests. You know, the strategic security perimeter, it was true that Russia has relied on that strategic buffer zone for centuries for wars and most wars have come from the west, right? So that's a pure military calculation. So right now, even though tactically, the Russians have performed horribly miserably, it's embarrassing. So Putin's strategic plan has not survived contact with the adversary. He has achieved and is achieving his strategic goal, which is to prevent Ukraine from becoming part of NATO. Why is because so long as Ukraine remains in active conflict and so long as there's no territorial integrity and sovereignty, it can become part of NATO, okay? Second, the several Ukrainian cities have just been obliterated. Foreign investment is not flowing in Ukraine. Ukraine has been destroyed both physically and economically. And that just suits fine for Putin. And so this is a very, very long game. It's not going to end any time soon, not in a month, not in two months. He's in it for a very, very long haul. Rebecca, you just said something to me, but that's very fascinating, which is that, you know, you would hardly be accused of being a Putin apologist. You are in fact your book is a kind of scorched earth expose of Putin and the bandits around him. And yet you made a point that anyone who takes a kind of, let's call it America first way of thinking about the world. We have to say that if we think about American interests and of course, America came up with the Monroe doctrine just as you said in order to protect its own backyard, that there is an element of rationale in what Putin is saying when he says, in effect, I need to protect my backyard. I don't like the idea of NATO troops breathing down my neck a hundred miles away from St. Petersburg any more than you would if the situations were reversed. Do you think that in fairness that the west has been a little dismissive of Russia's legitimate security concerns and in that sense did the west through its own recklessness? Obviously Putin's doing it. We're not trying to say that the west is doing it, but did the west contribute to this, this is kind of mere shimmer's point in a realist analysis of the situation. And is it the case that the Biden administration in the west does bear a little bit of the blame here? So I 100% agree with John Mia shyama. In fact, this is a highly intelligent person. West Point graduate, right? But look, nobody invites John Mayer shy, I just speak on TV. Even, you know, even on regular networks that are conservative leaning because his version of events, like the reality that he's describing to us. Real politic, right? Which drives every single statesman, real estate, right? Whether not just authoritarians. So he describes that how it is. So he is the cracks of their matter, dinesh. We have refused to acknowledge that Putin has legitimate security concerns and we pretend that those don't exist. But they do exist. And the longer we are going to deny that reality, we are not going to be able to predict how far Putin is going to go in order to defend his perceived security concerns and his perceived fear of influence. And we also are going to underestimate what he can potentially do. And what he can potentially do, and I've said it many times, and this is why, in some quarters, I'm no longer invited is because I talk realistically, I provide sober intelligence analysis instead of making people feel good. He may use tactical nuclear weapons to deescalate conflict in Ukraine and to achieve victory that he believes is very important for him to achieve. Rebecca, that's very sobering analysis. I'm assuming it applies not just to Putin, but also to the way we understand China, as you say, all countries in the world.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"ukraine" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"Guys, I'd like to welcome back to the podcast Rebecca coughler. I had Rebecca on the show on March 23rd, Debbie reminds me. So about ten days ago and I meant to get into the discussion of the Ukraine war and we cover, we went down some fascinating trails, but we didn't even get there. So I thought, well, we got to have Rebecca back. Let me tell you a little bit about it. She's a Russian born U.S. intelligence expert. She's worked with the defense intelligence agency, the CIA, she's brief The Pentagon, The White House, and NATO, she's received the national intelligence professional award. She's also the author of this book. Putin's playbook. Russia's secret plan to defeat America Rebecca, welcome back. Thanks for joining me again. And we've got this war raging in Ukraine. Now, it seems to have lasted maybe longer than people expected and what I mean by this is I saw some early estimates which were attributed to intelligence officials, basically saying this was going to be like a three day or a 5 day war. I think they were expecting the Russians to be in Kyiv or Kyiv, that is apparently not happened. Were the original estimates off and why is it that the Russians who seem to be so much bigger and stronger than Ukraine having so much difficulty here? Yes, danesh, the estimates were completely off. And that is nothing new for the intelligence community. Remember, they were wrong on three key things. And this is just a recent recent fiasco. The intelligence community assessed that the Russians wanted to elect Donald Trump in 2016. Nothing can be further from the truth. Fear Trump. The Russians by intervening in our elections wanted to sow Discord and foment social unrest and polarized our society and regretfully our intelligence officials, the corrupt ones helped the Russians to do that. We're still polarized. Number two, you know, with regard to COVID origins, they did the same thing. They suppressed a very viable analytic line which did not align with the group thing. And believe me, the intelligence community is all about the groupthink. So what do we learn now is that COVID origins likely stand from a some biological weapons lab, right? So number Hunter Biden's laptop, 50 intelligence officials from the spy agencies, not one, not two, 50 dinesh. Signed a petition saying that Hunter Biden's lap laptop story was Russian disinformation. So are we surprised about this complete failure to understand the adversary, Vladimir Putin? So Rebecca, let's talk about the Hunter Biden laptop for just a minute because it's hard for me to believe that these 50 intelligence officials genuinely believed that it was Russian disinformation, right? Isn't it more likely that they had a political interest in Biden winning the election? Maybe they felt that Biden would be more protective of the deep state. And so in a sense, they went to work for Biden, didn't they? And put their credentials at his disposal to sort of make this story go away. And in fact, they helped it to go away because many people appeal to that many media sources said, well, look, if they say, these are the people who supposedly know, then we can write this off as we can justify not covering the laptop story because we don't want to be just replicating Russian disinformation. 100% dinesh, the intelligence officials, the corrupt ones and they are part of the deep state. Some people don't believe that such a thing exists, but it does. When you and when you're listening to finish my book, you will know what I mean by the deep state. And so just like the Russians sought to divide the United States, my adopted homeland, as you said, I was born and raised in the totalitarian state. In this manner, the corrupt intelligence leaders wanted also to divide America by hiding the information and effectively intervening in our democratic process, the electoral process. Imagine that they had just worse than the KGB basically. And it's the same people who are trying to democratize other countries. They are fighting right now, trying to help Ukraine become a democracy. They are destroying democracy in our own land. This is not the same country that I came to in 1989. Democracy is being eroded and becoming more and more as a word like a word with nothing real behind that. Rebecca, we'll come back to Ukraine in the next segment, but let me ask you about Russia because you were raised in Russia in the era of the Cold War. And what now in a post Cold War era. I remember going back to the 1970s and 80s gene cook Patrick whom you might remember was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. She made an important distinction between authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, which as I understand it, that totalitarian regime tries to run your life from beginning to end. They care about what you eat. They care about how your family is organized. They want to tell you whether you should go to church, yes or no. They want you to only work in a certain sector that they assign to you, but an authoritarian regime is not like that. So if you think of say a Pinochet in Chile, he was an authoritarian dictator, he wanted to be in power. If you came out in the street to oppose him, he would send goons to beat you up, but he didn't care how you lived or what you ate or what religion you practice. That was an important to him. You could live your life normal. So the way I look at it is an authoritarian regime is a tyrannical regime, but it is not as tyrannical as a totalitarian regime. Could ask you to reflect on this distinction and apply it if it applies at all to the difference between, let's call it the old Soviet Union and Russia after the Cold War. Well, to be honest with you, to me, it's just semantics, dinesh, because I grew up there and perhaps you could describe the Soviet Union, the USSR, right?.
Monocle 24: The Urbanist
"ukraine" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Urbanist
"He tragic we saw his mother murdered by Nazis before his own eyes, but if you read some of his work, chernivtsi is very recognizable in his novel. So yeah, this is to say that for hundreds of years, writers have been living in coming to visit chair and you see and they are still doing that. There is always something to do our restaurants are very beautiful. We have even local artists who are hired to create neural so people really love to visit these places because they are made to look like works of art. It's a quiet city overall though. A lot of people come here and talk about how cozy it is compared to give or hard key for even before the war it was really in ideal place every single person told me how beautiful champions he was. So before the war started, it was very typical to go to a cafe walk down the street with your friends or go to the tarasov chanco park where there's a ping Pong tables for people to play on or to walk your dog. But now since the war in Ukraine has started, it's been a week. And January has become a city of refugees, according to the local city officials. We have taken in over 11,000 refugees from across Ukraine since Russia's war with us began. And please keep in mind that this is only after one week. Almost 2000 of those 11,000 refugees are children. The board of China C is less cozy, but the locals are mobilizing. They are frantically trying to collect as many materials for refugees as possible, blankets, food, medicine, and not only for refugees, but for soldiers, a lot of these literary people in general are leading that effort. And so it's a city that's really has tried to take in as many people from across Ukraine as we can so I can say it is a caring city and one that I'm very proud to live in. I have many good memories of this city. I first came here in 5 years ago when I was a volunteer for an organization called go global. Which was created to invite foreigners from all over the world to come to Ukraine. And to teach English. Not in the big cities in the small cities in the villages to inspire curiosity in kids to learn about the world. I used to live and study in New York. So I'm a student in French literature originally, and so New York and Paris were my two great loves when it comes to cities, but to live in a small city is also kind of like an art form because you walk down the street just to go to the supermarket and you will recognize like two or three people that you know. And it can be perhaps Costa phobic at times, but it also fosters beautiful sense of community that you simply can't have in a larger city. I have a home here. I can't imagine myself living anywhere else. I have a husband, he's from chair and you see. He has very deep ties to this city. So I hope that after this war that I will have a chance to visit other cities like Keith Paris, London, Rome, but January became my home. Well, we can only hope that in the months and years to come, we will be back on the streets in Ukraine, seeing a resurrection of many of these places that are going to suffer terrible destruction and loss. But for now, this brings us to the end of this week's edition of the urbanist. Today's episode was produced by Colorado Bello, and David Stevens, David also edited the show. To help fund and protect independent Ukrainian journalism, check out the work of the 24 O two foundation. Head over to 24 O two dot org to donate and find out more information. And to play you out this week, his ochin LZ with obi moi. Thank you for listening city lovers. Slava Ukraine. I'll be there don't like all that will stop me baby I'll be better I'll be there. When I got
Monocle 24: The Urbanist
"ukraine" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Urbanist
"So by the end of the month, I started thinking that, you know, I should call my mom and take it to Kyiv because this sounds bizarre and awful and so stupid that Russia might launch a full scale attack. But I think I need to take her out. So I started begging my mom, mom, can you please come to Kyiv so I don't want you to stay there because, you know, you allocate something like 20 kilometers away from the front line. I know it's stable. I know it's quite I know it's nothing's happened, but please, let's make sure you're in a safe place, come to Kyiv. It's my birthday on the February 25th. It was really hard for her to embrace this, understand that the silence the sick for peace is going to land. So nothing is known to be the same anymore. So I literally forced her into leaving one of our just several hours before the invasion. The vision started early in the morning. The night before, I forced her into leaving, so she took night train to Kyiv and basically she came to Kyiv in the wartime Kyiv. And meanwhile, while she was taking her train, Russia launched the full scale attack, I was lucky to get her out without this, I'm afraid she'd be Elaine basement right now trying to escape the Russian bombs. As a human being, I really appreciate you know memories, you know, sweet memories and all the experience of good old days. I'm pretty emotional about places that have been in something that happened to me in those places. So I do not normally go to Mombasa very often other than work related trips..
Monocle 24: The Urbanist
"ukraine" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Urbanist
"Dreaming of making simple product comfortable city for everyone. The Russian occupation that began 8 years ago smashed everything out. Most of my friends have left Crimea. I went to Kyiv and started a new life to Crimea has become an island of fear. The Russian authorities intimidated the crimeans so that they would not take it into the house to oppose the occupation. There are no more music festivals, no more artists put on bold exhibitions. No one else gathers in public spaces to discuss urban planning. Everything is covered in a thick layer of dust. Many of those who remain there live in an internal immigration. It is terrible. But even more terrible is the fact that the territory of Crimea has become a large military base for Russian army. And it was from there, the invaders landed on the south of mainland Ukraine on February 24 and began to attack Ukrainian cities. I still keep the keys to my house in central and I dream of returning there when Crimea becomes part of Ukraine again. However, these keys are now in my key apartment, which has been bumped by Russian troops..
Monocle 24: The Urbanist
"ukraine" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Urbanist
"My name is itali roseman and this is my love letter to Odessa. My home city where I was born and raised. Oh, this is a pearl of Ukraine actually the pearl of the Black Sea, every single person in Ukraine who has been to there's a loves it to the bones. Not only from Ukraine, I have many friends visiting the deaths of from U.S. or Europe, a lot of Russia's visiting and they all love it. So for me, it's basically terrifying to see what's happened. And right now and pretty unimaginable. We'll just build 200 plus years ago by French and Italian architects and this city center reminds of Paris a lot every time I've been to Paris actually to remind me of odes at a scale of course, but if you've been to Paris, you can imagine what other es like. It's beautiful, beautiful city built on the Black Sea with lots of amazing architecture and one which is the opera house, which is one of the most beautiful opera houses in Europe, and part of that we have many UNESCO spots, which are protected by UNESCO, like heritage, lovely parks, mason beaches. I see the center for that. I see the opera house the square next to it with a fontaine, with lots of flowers, with children playing and some artists showing their pieces of.
Monocle 24: The Urbanist
"ukraine" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Urbanist
"We got a warning from the creative Greek Catholic Church that the Russian invaders will try to bomb our safiya's cathedral. You must go site. It's also from the 11th century, and was built by prince yaroslav the wise. It's one of my favorite places in Kyiv. There was just some data. I don't know where they got it. The Russian invaders might try to bob it and that is totally plausible because they're setting cruise missiles into apartment buildings. Totally demolished the central squared car key. It's just devastated when I imagine the severe might be gone. It's just hard breaking. You know, my grandparents still lived for the war, World War II, and they told me after that how the whole population of the city went out to restore to rebuild everything that was established. And I remember these pictures of just the rubble crash out street and all the old buildings from the 19th century that were destroyed there. But I'm just thinking, will we have to rebuild croissant again? Will it be demolished like car cubes, freedom square? Or foreign administered said that there will be hard times ahead and a lot of beautiful buildings will be destroyed, but we will rebuild everything together with our friends. And I'm just seeing these images of my grandfather and proud mother building camp out of ashes after the Second World War. You know, yes, cube was rebuilt, but so much was lost so much history and culture, but I also know that the most important thing is for a nation to be strong enough to be resilient enough and to be deep enough to produce these monumental works again because really the beautiful buildings in cities. They're only the product of the human spirit. And if that is strong then they will be rebuilt and maybe even better than they were. I do not know what our cities will look like after..
Monocle 24: The Urbanist
"ukraine" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Urbanist
"The most important thing is for a nation to be strong enough to be resilient enough and to be deep enough to produce these monumental works again because really the beautiful buildings in cities, they're only the product of the human spirit and if that is strong and they will be rebuilt and maybe even better. There's a war at the heart of Europe. Russia's invasion of Ukraine tilts at many targets, democracy, and nations right to determine its own path in the world. But physically, it's bombardments are targeted at Ukraine's many glorious and storied cities, and the people who call them home. From the Black Sea to the borders of Poland, the future, the existence of these towns and cities, is now one of discombobulating uncertainty..
The Kicker
"ukraine" Discussed on The Kicker
"Overall. And so yesterday there was a mass announcement with a Ukraine to be careful with trusting videos of zelensky that essentially reversed his position. And so once again, we see Ukrainian authorities and Ukrainian media essentially pre bunking what they think might be a.
Today, Explained
"ukraine" Discussed on Today, Explained
"For 2022. The biggest story of our newest year is one that feels super old, right? Like east versus west, democracy versus authoritarianism, former KGB member, not terribly nice when given free reign over Russia. Yeah, but it's all very important. You've surely noticed that the president's talking about it. It's all over the news. So today on the show, we're going to try and take a step back to explain why. Why is this Ukraine Russia story such a big.