Ukraine: Two Key Questions for Washingnton

Plus: How to follow our crisis Telegram updates

Hello from Lviv. Today we begin these daily email updates, sharing some voices and insights from Ukrainians and Ukraine experts, amid warnings of war.

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**At 8am central time today 21 Feb, I will speak from Lviv about the situation in Ukraine on American channel News Nation. **

—Joe Lindsley, American journalist in Ukraine, with a team of Ukrainian journalists

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Real Ukraine Podcast

The Kharkiv Hustle: How Ukrainians Adapt and Thrive

Andriy Tavrin, a young Ukrainian entrepreneur speaks about the opportunities in his city just twenty miles from Russia:

Read more: “Being Ukrainian Means You Have Opportuity to Do Something Great for Others, For Yourself’: Kharkiv Entrepreneur Andriy Tavrin On Why His City is a Great Place for Business”

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Two Key Questions for Washington

In Ukraine people feel like they are in the middle of a global chessboard, trying to make sense of what is going on.

In that spirit, here are two key questions to ask about Ukraine vis-a-vis Washington, light of President Zelenskiy's speech at the Munich Security Conference, comments that left former U.S. congresswoman Jane Harmon, MC of the subsequent panel, clearly touched "at this crucial moment when we are all being tested."

Here in this video are two questions I think we need to ask as we try to sort out who is angling for what:

1. Why amid this crisis is there no official ambassador from Washingnton to Kyiv?

2. Why don't we know more about the Biden family's connections with Burisma, a firm with ties to Moscow and that seemingly benefited from Moscow’s taking of Crimea from Ukraine?

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News from LvivNow.com:

How Ukrainian Businesses are Reacting to the News of a Possible Russian Invasion

Five Reasons Why Ukrainians Will Win and Putin Will Lose

«Bad Moon Rising?» It Doesn’t Feel Like It In Lviv.”

The Church of the Holy Eucharist this past weekend in Lviv. Formerly a Dominican church, it became a museum of atheism during Soviet times and now is part of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Orthodox in stye but in union with Rome.

Other Media:

NPR Features ‘Jazz-Loving’ Lviv, a City That Has Become a ‘Safe Haven’