President Biden is set to travel to Poland this week to discuss Western efforts to help Ukraine resist Russia’s year-long invasion, as pressure builds on his administration to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets to help Kyiv win the conflict. Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, in a weekend interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” said he believes that eventually “there will be fighter jets from the West” — as was the case with other advanced weapons whose provision was “unimaginable” when the war began.
On Monday, European Union officials will meet to discuss an urgent ammunition shortage, including a proposal to procure ammunition jointly — similar to the way that the bloc procured vaccines during the coronavirus pandemic. In the short term, though, the E.U.’s foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, is urging European nations to draw from their own stocks. “This shortage of ammunition needs to be solved quickly. It’s a matter of weeks,” he said.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
Although many oligarchs and state officials believe Putin’s gambit has unwound 30 years of progress made since the collapse of the Soviet Union, they’re powerless to act.
“Among the elite, though they understand it was a mistake, they still fear to do anything themselves,” said the only Russian diplomat to publicly quit office over the war, Boris Bondarev, formerly based at Russia’s U.N. mission in Geneva. “Because they have gotten used to Putin deciding everything.”
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