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When I agreed to write this column, I assumed the State of the Union would be delivered to a Congress so divided and choked with partisanship that we couldn’t get 65 percent of either the House or Senate to agree that Christmas falls on Dec. 25. My advice to Joe BidenJoe BidenRubio skipping SOTU over …

Diplomats from mainly Western countries staged walkouts of two meetings when Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov began a remote address on Tuesday. Driving the news: Ukraine’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva led the walkout at the UN Human Rights Council and was followed by approximately 100 people, a council spokesperson told Axios. The walkout …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky received a lengthy standing ovation before and after delivering an impassioned speech to the European Parliament. Zelensky urged the European Union during an emergency session of the EU Parliament to “prove that you are with us” as Russia continues its assault against Ukraine. It came a day after Zelensky officially asked …

“Military equipment and armored vehicles are coming from different directions,” he told The Washington Post in a phone interview shortly after the main city government building was hit by a projectile, causing a massive explosion. Story continues below advertisement Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who signed a decree late Monday to temporarily life visa requirements for …

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is turning into a geopolitical test for Bitcoin as a digital currency in a time of crisis. So far, it appears to be passing. Bitcoin jumped more than 15% on 28 February as the Treasury Department announced sanctions against Russia’s central bank and froze some Russian assets. The US measures prohibit Americans …

KYIV, Ukraine — (AP) — A 40-mile convoy of Russian tanks and other vehicles threatened Ukraine’s capital Tuesday, the sixth day of the war. But even as Russia intensified shelling of the country’s second-largest city, the Kremlin has found itself increasingly isolated by tough economic sanctions that have sent its currency plummeting. After a first, …

The 40-mile-long (64-kilometer) Russian military convoy made up of armored vehicles, tanks, towed artillery and other logistical vehicles has reached the outskirts of Ukraine’s capital, according to satellite images from Maxar Technologies. Maxar said it saw plumes of smoke rising from a number of homes and buildings near the roads where the convoy is traveling, …

The Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island — who were all feared dead after their defiant response to threats from a Russian warship — are actually “alive and well,” according to the Ukrainian Navy.Related video above: Russia’s attack on Ukraine slowed by fierce resistanceAll of the soldiers on the tiny island in the Black Sea were …

Russia has said it deployed extra personnel to its nuclear forces, upping the geopolitical stakes as its invasion of Ukraine entered its fifth day.  But Western nations aren’t taking the bait, with President BidenJoe BidenBiden approval near record low amid economic frustration: poll Barr says Trump ‘lost his grip’ in forthcoming memoir Capitol Police to …

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Russia has some of the best hackers in the world, but in the early days of the war in Ukraine, its ability to create mayhem through malware hasn’t had much of a noticeable impact. Instead, it’s Ukraine that’s marshalled sympathetic volunteer hackers in an unprecedented collective global effort to make the …