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Poland's President Andrzej Duda announced Thursday that his country plans to provide four MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine to support its fight against Russia. Poland is the first NATO country to provide fighter planes to Ukraine, though Ukraine has requested fighter jets from several countries, including...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor was last in Ukraine shortly after the Russian invasion began. On one of his last stops in Louisville, Taylor toured the operations at the nonprofit, SOS International. “I was last in Kiev in September of last year during the war,” Taylor told...
As the Ukraine war moves into its second year, Russian forces seem unable to achieve Vladimir Putin’s goals, but victory also seems unlikely for NATO-backed Ukraine. If fighting is leading to a stalemate, what is Putin’s likely endgame? Terence McKenna interviews the world’s top military experts about where the...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor gave the keynote address for the Colorado State University International Symposium Feb. 28 at the Lory Student Center. His address focused on what the war in Ukraine looked like over the past year, what the future of the conflict may entail and why the war matters to the...
There’s one specific image that comes to Ambassador William Taylor’s mind whenever he thinks of the war in Ukraine. The photo came to him from a friend, and it shows her young daughter looking out over the eerily dark cityscape of Kyiv after the Russian invasion knocked out electricity in the heart of winter. “Since they...
A former US ambassador to Ukraine says if Ukraine succeeds in turning things in its favor on the battlefield, it then may try to retake Crimea diplomatically. William Taylor was speaking to NHK amid the growing prospect of Ukrainian troops ramping up their counteroffensive in the coming spring and summer. Taylor...
How the Russian invasion has changed Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, and catapulted his stature on the world stage.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor and former Commander of the U.S. Army Europe Lieutenant General Ben Hodges join Meet the Press NOW one year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the U.S. response. There should be “zero pressure” from the U.S. on Ukraine to give up Crimea,” Hodges said.
William Taylor, former Ambassador to Ukraine, and Andrei Kozyrev, former Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, join Yahoo Finance Live to discuss takeaways from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine one year later, military support for Ukraine from NATO and its allies, and the outlook for the conflict in 2023.
Former ambassador to Ukraine responds to Ukraine entering second year of war with provision from U.S.