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US. Will Send Abrams Tanks to Ukraine Ahead of Expected Russian Offensive
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The sudden U.S. about-face follows weeks of hesitation on whether to send the tanks. The administration mulled whether they would offer Ukraine an advantage because they take ...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Ukraine’s Ambitions in Crimea Limited by US Hesitance to Supply Heavy Arms
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Jeffrey Edmonds, senior adjunct fellow with the Center for a New American Security, said that the decision by the Biden administration to hold back on some of the longer-range...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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The M1 Abrams, the Powerful US Tank That Kyiv Wants but Can’t Have
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Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy said this week at Ramstein Air Base that "hundreds of thank yous are not hundreds of tanks."Jeffrey Edmonds, a Russia expert at the Cent...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Ukraine Zeroes In on Western Tanks in Bid to Rout Russia
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Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, told The Economist last month that Kyiv needs 300 tanks to achieve a decisive victory on the battlefield again...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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The U.S. Will Send a Patriot Air Defense System to Ukraine. How Will It Help?
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The announcement was made on a day that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in Washington, D.C. — his first trip outside of Ukraine since the war began — to plead for ...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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West ‘Dead Set’ against Russia’s Sham Annexation
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The move to politically seize control of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in Ukraine’s south and east was relatively costless for Putin. He played to his...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Russia and the U.S. are entering ‘dangerous and uncharted’ nuclear territory
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When President Joe Biden and Russian leader Vladimir Putin met face to face last year, they proudly touted how, “even in periods of tension,” Washington and Moscow could coope...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Ukraine turning point? The offensive against Russia that may decide the war
We don’t know exactly when this offensive will begin, and the people who do know have no incentive to tell us. But it’s likely to be sooner rather than later, perhaps in a mat...
By Chris Dougherty & Jeffrey Edmonds
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Momentum shifts in Ukraine war as Russia advances in the Donbas
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Haggard faces stare blankly from inside minivans ferrying survivors from towns and villages bludgeoned by Russian armor. Ukrainian ambulances carry the wounded and dead from t...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Putin is increasingly angry in public but top US intel and military experts warn there's no 'credible' evidence that he's ill
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Rumors have been swirling in recent weeks that Russian President Vladimir Putin is unwell and somehow losing his grip. The strongman and former KGB operative, who is pushing 7...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Putin’s choices filled with peril on eve of Victory Day parade
On the brink of its May 9 Victory Day celebrations, Russia looks very far from triumph in its war in Ukraine. And all of its options going forward are fraught with danger. Aft...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Why Russia gave up on urban war in Kyiv and turned to big battles in the east
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Just weeks into its war in Ukraine, Russia has shifted its focus to the country’s east, redeploying weapons and troops and increasing attacks on key towns and cities. The sudd...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Kremlin spokesperson admits Russia has suffered 'significant losses,' calling the Ukraine invasion a 'huge tragedy' for Putin's forces
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The Russian army has suffered "significant losses" in the country's unprovoked war with Ukraine, Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, acknowledged Thursday. "We have significan...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Russia ‘is trying to salvage a military fiasco’
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The White House today reacted with deep skepticism to Russia’s promise to reduce violence in Ukraine as a means of paving the way for possible peace talks, with government off...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Russian generals are getting killed at an extraordinary rate
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The war in Ukraine is proving extraordinarily lethal for Russian generals, the gray men bedecked in service medals, who are being aggressively targeted by Ukrainian forces and...
By Margarita "Rita" Konaev & Jeffrey Edmonds
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The Russian military's heavy losses from Ukraine in charts
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For Jeffrey Edmonds, a former US Army tanker and CIA military analyst, the US intelligence estimate of 7,000 losses seems too high. But he said even more conservative guesses ...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Reported Detention of Russian Spy Boss Shows Tension Over Stalled Ukraine Invasion, U.S. Officials Say
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“It is hard to imagine some senior intelligence person talking with Putin and not telling Putin what he wants to hear, especially if it is a belief that is deeply held, like P...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jeffrey Edmonds
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Drones flying into NATO territory have forced the alliance to decide how to respond — if at all — to incidents inside its borders
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Jeff Edmonds, a senior analyst at the Center for a New American Security and former director for Russia on the National Security Council, said the risk to NATO territory will ...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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Pentagon says some Russian jets are avoiding Ukraine's airspace during sorties to avoid being shot down
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The skirting of Ukrainian air space suggests Russia warplanes are aware of these still considerable dangers. In an interview on Wednesday, an expert on the Russian military sa...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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'A rush to failure': How the Russian military started off so badly in Ukraine
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The first week of Russia's invasion of Ukraine does not appear to have gone to plan. Russia's attempts at a fast-paced assault haven't brought its forces inside Kyiv, the capi...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
