ANDREA KENDALL-TAYLOR is Senior Fellow and Director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. From 2015 to 2018, she was Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council.

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Kyiv experienced a “particularly terrible night,” with brutal attacks by drone groups and missiles, including ballistic missiles, Ukrainian official Sybiha wrote on X. “Putin rejects any peace efforts and diplomacy in favor of terror and war crimes,

China hopes the European Union would make fewer accusations, the Chinese commerce ministry said on Thursday in a retort to EU criticism that European firms had limited access to the Chinese market.

China’s foreign minister touted the three-year war as keeping the US focused on Ukraine, claiming that if the war were to end, Washington would start putting its full attention in the

Europe’s largest port prepares for war with Russia by creating spaces for NATO ships and mapping logistics for military supplies.

The senior official said Russia has been forced to rely increasingly on such amateurs since hundreds of Moscow’s spies were expelled from Western countries following an operation to poison former Russian intelligence officer Sergey Skripal in the U.K. in 2018. That led to the death of a British woman — and a major response from the West.