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William Taylor, former ambassador to Ukraine, Tuesday night joined Andrew Natsios, director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the Bush School, and more than 400 attendees to discuss the Ukraine-Russia crisis...
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns of “humanitarian catastrophe” if NATO does not close the air space over Ukraine, Russian airstrikes hit a maternity ward causing pregnant women to be rushed to safety, disturbing videos appear to show school staffers kneeling on students’ necks in two separate incidents and the woman accused of being a Russian spy is charged in the U.S. as the FBI says she met with American politicians...
As the war in Ukraine continues, the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M hosted a virtual discussion with former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor to provide his insight on the conflict. Taylor serves as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine under three different presidents, first from 2006 to 2009, then again as acting ambassador from 2019 to 2020. Over 400 people joined a virtual event to hear his views and expertise on the conflict in the country where he once served as a top diplomat...
Former US Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor analyzes the Russia-Ukraine war on 'The Claman Countdown.'
ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks to former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor about calls for a 'no-fly' zone over Ukraine, and if there’s any off-ramp for Vladimir Putin...
Former Obama Administration National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor join Andrea Mitchell to assess President Putin’s actions in Ukraine and Russia and to predict his next moves in the region. “There's not a system around Putin. This just one person and I think increasingly isolated, I think exacerbated by Covid,” says Donilon. “The way these dynamics work in an autocracy like this is, you don't get a lot of reward for coming in and being the truth teller.”
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Ambassador William Taylor, and Ukraine’s Minister of Culture and Information Policy, Aleksander Tkachenko, join MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss the escalating conflict and the cultural history Putin’s forces are destroying...
Mariya Gut sipped water at a restaurant near the Baruch College campus in Manhattan – where students squinted into the cool glare of laptops and the only sign of war was a message spray painted on scaffolding across the street demanding Russia remove its “bloody hands from Ukraine!” For the 18-year-old business management major from the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, her freshman year has become an afterthought...
Russia’s attack on Ukraine has resulted in strong, international actions aimed at punishing Russia. But restrictions on Russia also put pressure on other countries. Clay Lowery is an official at the Institute of International Finance, a trade group of banks. “We know there are consequences that we cannot predict," he said. Most major economies have only limited trade with Russia. For the United States, it is 0.5 percent of total trade. For China, it is around 2.4 percent...
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and other leaders are calling for NATO to impose a no-fly zone over the country, but thus far, NATO leaders haven't signaled they're willing to make that move yet, fearing it could be seen as a direct act of war against Russia and risk escalating the conflict...