(Senior FBI counterintel official charged for work helping Russian oligarch Deripaska)
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Rachel Maddow reports on shocking new charges against former senior F.B.I. official Charles McGonigal for working to help Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska evade sanctions, as well as taking money a former Albanian intelligence operative.
(Why is this Russian private army so effective? See what military documents reveal)
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CNN has exclusively obtained military documents outlining Kyiv's assessment of the Wagner group, a brutally-effective private Russian army finding success on the battlefield. CNN's Fred Pleitgen has the latest.
(US and Germany finalizing plans to send tanks to Ukraine)
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The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send US-made Abrams tanks to Ukraine and could make an announcement as soon as this week, according to three US officials familiar with the deliberations. Germany is also set to send its sought-after Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine to help bolster the country’s war effort, Der Spiegel reported, attributing to unnamed sources. CNN's Oren Liebermann and Jim Sciutto have more along with Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.).
('Suffering will increase': Hear Russia's response to German tanks for Ukraine)
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Germany has confirmed that it will send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine following weeks of diplomatic pressure. Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced the move in a cabinet meeting, according to federal government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit. CNN's Fred Pleitgen has more on Russia's response. Then, CNN's Don Lemon and Poppy Harlow speak with Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations.
(Retired general on what will happen after Ukraine gets tanks)
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The United States and Germany announced they are sending Abrams and Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. CNN's John King speaks with Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling on when the tanks will be ready for use.
(Gen. McCaffrey: ‘One battalion of M1 tanks is inconsequential on the battlefield’)
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Retired Four Star General Barry McCaffrey joins Andrea Mitchell to break down the significance of the decision by the U.S. to send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. “One battalion of M1 tanks is inconsequential on the battlefield,” says McCaffrey. “They need an armored division in fairly short order before the spring, and we could do that and in fairly short order.”
(Ukraine welcomes Western tanks as Russian missile strikes continue – BBC News)
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Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky has thanked Western leaders for sending tanks to support the fight against Russia, but said they needed to be delivered quickly.
In recent days, the US and Germany announced they would send Abrams and Leopard tanks to Ukraine, while Berlin also cleared the way for other European countries to donate German-made tanks from their own stocks.
Russia condemned the announcement as a "blatant provocation" and said any supplied tanks would be destroyed, while missile attacks on Ukraine’s capital have continued.
President Zelensky has also urged the West to send long-range missiles and fighter jets, to assist in the war effort.
(What to know about Western tanks going to Ukraine - BBC Newsnight)
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One month short of a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, it's testament to how far the Western allies have come in their engagement with the conflict that Germany has confirmed it will send its tanks into combat - so far 14 Leopard 2s.
Now other countries with Leopard 2s will follow suit. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in a hugely significant moment told the country, "Trust me ... the decision is the right one."
At the beginning of the conflict there was outrage when Germany sent just 5000 helmets and a field hospital.
Now, the country is in the top three donors of both military and humanitarian aid. President Biden said that Chancellor Scholz has been "a strong voice for unity, and a close friend," as he announced the US is sending 31 Abrams tanks, insisting the new deployments were "no offensive threat to Russia".
Newsnight’s International Correspondent Joe Inwood reports on the West’s commitments to Ukraine from London’s National Army Museum.
(Is the tank announcement proof the US isn’t afraid of Putin?)
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CNN's Poppy Harlow speaks with Fareed Zakaria about the US and Germany announcing shipments of Abrams and Leopard 2 tanks to support the Ukrainian military and what this means for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
(Retired general on what it would take to convince Putin war is unsustainable)
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Gen. David Petraeus (Ret.) speaks with CNN's Jim Sciutto on the US and its NATO allies announcing shipments of tanks to the Ukrainian military, how that will affect the risk of Russian escalation, and what the West can do to help Ukraine reduce civilian casualties.
(Dmitri Alperovitch: Russia ‘effectively getting around the sanctions that have been put in place’)
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Chairman and Co-Founder of Silverado Policy Accelerator Dmitri Alperovitch joins Andrea Mitchell to break down his organization’s report showing that “while Russia prosecuted this military campaign very competently, their trade and economics people have been much much better at making the country much more resilient to the sanctions and export controls that the West has instituted against Russia.”
(Retired maj. general predicts where Ukraine’s renewed offensive will take place)
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On Thursday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said his government is aware of Russian plans for future operations in Ukraine and indicated that they were working to counter Moscow's moves. Maj. Gen. James "Spider" Marks (Ret.) joins CNN's Wolf Blitzer to discuss the opportunities of Ukraine's renewed offensive as they expect the delivery of western tanks.
(Hear why Putin’s latest problem is his own military)
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Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov says that Russian President Vladimir Putin has turned to recruiting convicts to staff military factories that are low on manpower.
(Hear what Russians think about Western tanks for Ukraine)
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After the announcement of Germany and the US to supply tanks to Ukraine, Russia's propaganda machine is working at full throttle. Russian state TV playing down risks to Russian troops in Ukraine seems to be working on some - but not everyone is buying the hype. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.
(‘Caldron of fire’: Battle between Ukrainian forces and Wagner group intensifies in Bakhmut)
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Wagner fighters have been locked in a long battle of attrition with Ukrainian forces as they've taken the town of Soledar and are now engaged in the assault on Bakhmut and surrounding villages. Ukrainian officials say Wagner has sent waves of infantry toward their positions and have suffered heavy losses in the process. CNN’s Fred Pleitgen reports.
Following much consternation, Germany now plans to send 14 sophisticated Leopard-2 tanks to Ukraine while authorizing other European nations to send more, as the U.S. pledges 31 advanced Abrams M1 tanks. Former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Adm. James Stavridis says those tanks will help, but combat aircrafts are the “next big need on the battlefield” for the Ukrainians.
(Ukraine tank commander says his unit has just one problem)
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CNN Senior International Correspondent Frederik Pleitgen goes to the front lines near Bakhmut, Ukraine, with a unit fighting Russian forces in a Soviet-era T-64 tank.
(Hear what experts think about a compromise to end Putin's war in Ukraine)
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Anne-Marie Slaughter, Carl Bildt and Kishore Mahbubani discuss the decision to send tanks to Ukraine and what it will take to end Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
The former prime minister has alleged the Russian leader told him "I don't want to hurt you, but with a missile, it would only take a minute" in an "extraordinary" conversation which took place in February after he had visited Kyiv.
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(Retired colonel shows Russia’s strategy in eastern Ukraine)
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Retired US Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton maps out the strategies of the Russian and Ukrainian armies as they battle over key positions in eastern Ukraine.
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(Zelensky calls on allies to send fighter jets to Ukraine)
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With tanks checked off the list, Ukrainian leaders have renewed their public appeals for Western fighter jets, discussions of which were not officially on the agenda of a meeting between Ukraine and its allies in Ramstein, Germany, last week. CNN Sam Kiley is in Ukraine with the report.
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