Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace provide the latest analysis and perspective on the world’s critical hot spots, U.S. and global security and issues involved in violent conflict, based on the Institute’s work on the ground and with key individuals, governments and organizations. They give interviews and background briefings to journalists and write for news outlets around the world.
As winter comes to Kyiv, Ukrainian and U.S. commanders are making cold and unsentimental assessments of the lessons of the summer’s failed counteroffensive against Russian forces. The stalled counteroffensive was a signal that the war in Ukraine is deadlocked. Drones and other high-tech weapons have made Ukrainian and Russian tanks largely obsolete. In this conflict, it’s now clear that...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he's considering a new military strategy to move forward faster in the Ukraine-Russia war. BBC News correspondent Jenny Hill has more on the war, and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor joined CBS News to discuss why progress has slowed for the...
Ukrainian authorities said a Russian missile killed two civilians in the southern part of the country Wednesday. The attack came on the same day Russia's foreign minister met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang. William Taylor, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, joins CBS News to discuss the emerging alliance between the...
Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office Andriy Yermak met with William Taylor, vice president for Europe at the U.S. Institute of Peace and a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace also took part in the meeting, Ukrinform reports with reference to the President’s Office. Yermak noted the importance of the recent visit of the President of Ukraine to the United States, where many...
A group of Ukrainian Army soldiers pierced by Russian grenades and mortar shells arrived at a hospital recently in need of surgery. It would have been a familiar scene from the bloody war grinding on in Ukraine, except for two crucial differences: Most of the wounded soldiers were American, and so was the hospital — the U.S. Army’s flagship medical center in Germany. The Army has quietly started to treat wounded Americans and other fighters evacuated from...
President Zelenskyy meets with U.S. lawmakers on Capitol Hill in a direct plea for more aid, as some GOP members question the need for the funding. NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Ali Vitali, former U.S. Ambassador to...
Ukraine’s strongest supporters are rallying around Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to remove the country’s wartime defense minister after a series of corruption scandals have plagued the ministry. Kyiv’s backers say...
Russia has accused Ukraine of the largest drone attack on Russian soil since the war began. William Taylor, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, joins CBS News to examine what the move...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit China this fall, in a rare trip abroad that would undermine Kremlin excuses for his absence from other high-profile summits. “He now feels that he cannot go almost anywhere,” Dr. Sergey Radchenko, an expert in the history of Russian and Chinese...
More than 40 countries were in Saudi Arabia over the weekend to hear a peace pitch from Ukraine and its allies, but notably absent was Russia. In light of not being invited, Moscow has referred to the talks as a "hoax." Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor joined CBS News to discuss the meeting...