Michael Weiss

April 14, 2022
The Stench of Death in a Kyiv Suburb
A parlay with our driver, Vadym, soon establishes that the only way to reach Borodyanka, a small town once home to 12,000 in northwest Ukraine and occupied by the Russians until only...
April 7, 2022
Russia Uses Syria to Evade Sanctions
The Russian Federation extended two loans totaling $1 billion to Syria with the condition that the money be used exclusively for payment to specific Russian companies during a...
March 28, 2022
Russia Backs Europe's Far Right
Emails and documents show just how closely Italian, French, German and Austrian politicians coordinate with Moscow
March 9, 2022
Ukraine's Insurgency-in-Waiting
The voice on the other end of my Signal chat speaks fluent English, with an accent tinctured slightly by a Western education, which I’m soon to discover isn’t just any...
March 3, 2022
Is Poland Sending Fighter Jets to Ukraine?
It all started with a shocking disclosure. Josep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, stated on Feb. 28, that the EU will finance the transfer of fighter jets to Ukraine.
February 14, 2022
In Kyiv, War is Both Remote and Ever-Present
As the West girds for an ‘imminent’ Russian offensive, Ukrainians are calm and resolved