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Transnistria appeals to Russia for ‘protection’, reviving fears for Moldova breakaway region
The US has said it is closely watching the situation in the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria, after pro-Russian officials in the territory appealed to Moscow for “protection”.
Transnistria, which borders war-stricken Ukraine to the east, has maintained autonomy from Moldova for three decades with support from Russia, which has more than a thousand troops stationed there since a brief war in 1992.
From the Secretary’s Desk: Why We Are Not Giving Up on Ukraine
In this war, there is an aggressor and there is a victim. One side is attacking the core principles of the UN Charter; the other fights to defend them.
We will continue to rally countries around the world to support Ukraine’s freedom and independence and to ensure that Russia’s aggression remains a strategic failure.
Johnson can change the course of history | Member of the Supervisory Board NGO ”EuroAtlantic Course” Vitaliy Portnikov
Президенту Байдену не вдається домовитися із спікером Джонсоном щодо прискорення допомоги України. Джонсон тягне час.
Two Years On, What’s Next in Ukraine?
As Russia’s war in Ukraine enters its third year, the apparent impasse on the battlefield masks decisive shifts. The war’s main front is now political, with Russian President Vladimir Putin betting that divisions and hesitations in the West will hand him the victory he has failed to achieve on the ground.
Robert Gates: Is Anyone Still Afraid of the United States? | The Foreign Affairs Interview
Last fall, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Bob Gates took to the pages of Foreign Affairs to issue a warning: with America facing the most dangerous geopolitical landscape in decades, dysfunction in Washington threatened to turn that danger into disaster.
Why the West is losing Ukraine
Vladimir Putin must be enjoying this moment.
Not only did the Russian president manage to snuff-troll the Munich Security Conference with news of the death of his main political rival, Alexei Navalny (“slowly murdered” by his jailers in Siberia, according to the European Union’s top diplomat Josep Borrell); he also scored a well-timed battlefield success when, over the weekend.