American Advisor to Ukrainian Military Says Russia Wants Talks Over ‘2014 Lines’

American Advisor to Ukrainian Military Says Russia Wants Talks Over ‘2014 Lines’

Dan Rice, an American serving as an advisor to the commander of Ukraine’s armed forces, told CNN’s Outfront on Tuesday that he believes Russia is looking to negotiate to return to positions it controlled before the February 24 invasion. Rice made the comments when discussing Russia’s strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure and outlining what weapons he thinks Ukraine needs. “They are attacking the cities, trying to attack the grid, making it a very difficult winter,” he said. “They are trying to, in my opinion, trying to get to the negotiating table, to try to go back to the 2014 lines.” A...

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House GOP Leader Says Future Majority Will End ‘Blank Check’ to Ukraine

House GOP Leader Says Future Majority Will End ‘Blank Check’ to Ukraine

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) suggested on Tuesday that major Ukraine aid may be more difficult to pass if the House is controlled by Republicans after the upcoming mid-term elections. “I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine. They just won’t do it…It’s not a free blank check,” McCarthy told Punchbowl News. While spending billions on the war in Ukraine still has strong bipartisan support, 57 House Republicans voted against the $40 billion Ukraine aid bill that was passed in May. McCarthy and other Republican...

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Russia Launches Massive Strikes Against Ukrainian Infrastructure

Russia Launches Massive Strikes Against Ukrainian Infrastructure

Russia on Monday launched one of its largest barrages of missile strikes in Ukraine in its first major coordinated attack on Ukrainian energy and communication infrastructure across the country, marking a significant escalation of the war. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the missile strikes targeted the “energy, military command and communications facilities of Ukraine.” The missile barrage came after the truck bombing of the Kerch Bridge, which connects the Russian mainland to Crimea. A day earlier, Putin called the Kerch Bridge bombing a Ukrainian “terror act” and Ukrainian...

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Polish Government Requests American Nuclear Missiles to Be Stationed In-Country

Polish Government Requests American Nuclear Missiles to Be Stationed In-Country

Polish President Andrzej Duda said in an interview published Wednesday that Poland is open to hosting US nuclear weapons and has approached Washington about the idea. Currently, NATO members Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey host US nuclear weapons under NATO’s nuclear sharing program. The US and NATO have previously said that they wouldn’t place nuclear weapons in countries that joined the alliance after the Cold War, but Duda said discussions on the issue are happening. “There is always a potential opportunity to participate in the nuclear sharing program,” Duda told the...

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Zelensky: Peace Talks Are an ‘Impossibility’

Zelensky: Peace Talks Are an ‘Impossibility’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday signed a decree that ruled out any talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, declaring they would be an “impossibility.” The decree was first put forward by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, the decree states “the impossibility of holding negotiations with the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.” The move formalized comments that Zelensky made on Friday following Putin’s approval of annexing four Ukrainian territorites. “He does not know what dignity...

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