In his first public remarks in over a month about the crisis that he manufactured on Ukraine’s border, Vladimir Putin blamed it all on the United States.
U.S. President Joe Biden has dispatched the White House’s top cybersecurity official to NATO to prepare allies to counter Russian cyberattacks against Ukraine.
The United States has also deployed thousands of troops to protect frontline states on NATO’s eastern flank.
And in a phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin has called on Moscow to de-escalate the crisis and remove its troops from Ukraine’s borders.
But as more than 100,000 Russian troops continue to encircle Ukraine and as Moscow begins shipping supplies of blood and plasma to the front, war fears are very much in the air.
On this week’s Power Vertical Podcast, host Brian Whitmore speaks with Volodymyr Dubovyk, director of the Center for International Studies at Mechnikov National University in Odessa and and Aleksandr Khara, a Fellow at the Center for Defense Strategies in Kyiv about how the escalating crisis looks from inside Ukraine. Enjoy…