united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. today we devote the program to that sobering anniversary. one year since russia s full-scale invasion of ukraine. i ll bring you my interview with the national security adviser jake sullivan and usaid administrator samantha powell about where the war and america s assistance go from here. also, who should foot the bill for the hundreds of billions of dollars in damage to ukraine? former treasury secretary larry summers says the answer is easy. listen to him explain his plan. then why putin s war in ukraine may not be proceeding as he hoped. the russian president may be getting exactly what he always wanted back home in russia. the new york times valerie hopkins will explain. but first, here s my take. one year into russia s naked aggression against ukraine, it s become clear that neither side is strong enough to win the war nor weak enough to sue for peace. the conflict has settled into a stalemate. after m
one year later. almost exactly a year ago missile attacks against the capital of ukraine, kyiv. to most this was a surprise attack and invasion. the ukrainians didn t see it coming, nor did the europeans. the one consistent voice cautioning that an invasion was likely, the u.s. intelligence community. another surprise for the world, the intense resolve about entertainer turned president volodymyr zelenskyy, unlike others in his position he didn t flee but only left the country a handful of times to plea for guns and ammunition. and for the last year he s faced off from across the border with vladimir putin who has ruled russia for more than two de decades. the key player who is not a participant in the war, the united states of america. it is the country that has organized the sanctions against russia, it is the country that has been the single biggest provider of military and nonmilitary assistance and tonight on this special program, you ll hear from two top officials on am
the another surprise for the world the intense resolve of that entertainer turned president, volodymyr zelenskyy. unlike others in his position, he did not indeed, he s only left the country a handful of times to plea for guns and ammunition. and for the last year, he has faced off from across the border with vladimir putin, who has ruled russia for more than two decades. a key player who is not a participant in the war, the united states of america. it is a country that has organized the sanctions against russia. it is the country that has been the single biggest provider of military and non-military assistance, and tonight, on this special program, you will hear from two top officials on america s national security team. first, the biden administration s key player on countering russia s war in ukraine, the national security adviser jake sullivan, who is with president biden in kyiv this week. also, usaid administrator samantha power, the official responsible for making
Todd a fox news alert. Defense secretary lloyd austin is meeting with Israeli Defense minister and netanyahu today as the war enters a new phase. You are watch ing fox and friends. Im todd piro. Carley im carley shimkus. This is expected to be a significant and forceful Ground Invasion by Israeli Forces. Trey yingst is live on the ground in southern israel. Hi, trey. Trey hi, guys good morning. After a 10hour lull in rocket fire, hamas and Islamic Jihad have started to fire again. There were sirens sounding in the Southern City of ashkelon and people headed to bomb shelters. Israel is bracing to find more scenes of devastation along gaza and preparing for orders to enter gaza. Evacuation order was given to Northern Gaza telling them to leave within 24 hours. Yesterday we visited the site of the Music Festival massacre. Many are at the hospital behind me. I will show you the scene close to the gaza border. Trey you can see here in the Parking Lot Motorcycle used by hamas militants when
civil society organizations, judges we just launched a new initiative with the gao in the united states to help ukraine build out its supreme audit institution and that would be incredibly important reconstruction for the resources flowing in with regard to the very large investments in providing monthly, direct budget support so that health workers can be paid and educators can be paid and people with disabilities can get to support when the ukrainian budget is under such strain and such pressure. that, we do is basically on a reimbursable basis. we don t provide resources unless we see a receipt for the expenditure. at this point, we don t have any evidence that u.s. assistance is being misused or misspent. the key is not resting on anybody s good will or virtue. it s checks and balances, the rule of law and the integrity of officials and when something is spotted because there are going to be issues that that gets