No Breakthrough in Ukraine Talks

The first talks aimed at stopping the fighting between Ukraine and Russia ended Monday with no agreement except to keep talking, while an increasingly isolated Moscow ran into unexpectedly fierce resistance on the ground and economic havoc at home, as the Associated Press reports.

Bombing of Kharkiv

Ukrainian officials on Monday accused Russian forces of launching a barrage of rockets on a residential neighborhood in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, killing at least nine civilians and injuring dozens of others, as the NYT reports.

And, as the Times reports, the United Nations will announce an appeal on Tuesday for nearly $2 billion in donations for Ukrainians who have been forced from their homes.

U.S. Sanction Russia’s Central Bank

The U.S. is sanctioning Russia’s central bank to prevent the government from using its emergency reserve currencies to protect the economy from the Western pressure campaign, as the WSJ reports.

Crisis Crossroads: Ukraine

The “Crisis Crossroads” page highlights the timely and impactful analysis CSIS scholars are providing on the evolving situation in Ukraine and its security, economic, energy, and humanitarian effects.

Executive Education

Inside DOD's FY 2023 Budget, a CSIS executive education course, offers key insights from CSIS experts and practitioners on what the Biden administration's FY 2023 budget and strategy documents reveal about strategic priorities, major budget movements, force structure adds and cuts, and acquisition program changes.

Video Shorts

Check out CSIS’s new series of video shorts: “Data Unpacked,” Testify,” “What's Happening,” “Preview,” and “High Resolution.” And don’t forget to subscribe to the CSIS YouTube Channel!

In That Number

500,000

About 500,000 people have fled Ukraine in recent days, according to the United Nations refugee agency, making it the most intense week of human flight within Europe’s borders since at least the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

Source: NYT

Critical Quote

“It’s not just a war, it’s murder.”

— Ihor Terekhov, mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine

iDeas Lab

The gender implications of Afghanistan's fall to the Taliban are particularly profound as dangerous migration is highly gendered, leaving women and girls behind, compounding vulnerabilities. Analysis from CSIS examines historical cases of migration from Afghanistan and what it can tell us about the present and future.

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and multimedia.

Optics

(Photo credit: Wojtek RADWANSKI/AFP/Getty Images.) Refugees from Ukraine are seen resting in a temporary reception point organized in the main railway station in Przemysl, in eastern Poland, on February 28, 2022.

This Town Tomorrow

At 12:00 p.m., CSIS Trustee Ray Dalio is joined by CSIS Counselor and Trustee Dr. Henry A. Kissinger to discuss Mr. Dalio's newest book, “Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail.”

And, at 9:00 a.m., the Atlantic Council hosts a discussion on a root cause of financial exclusion in the Caribbean and the implications for the United States.

Then, at 2:30 p.m., the Wilson Center holds a conversation on the British view of the Ukrainian crisis.

Video

Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) recently participated in a bipartisan delegation to Ukraine to demonstrate U.S. support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Watch Democracy in Danger: The Russian Threat to Ukraine, featuring Rep. Malinowski and Andrew Lohsen of the CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program, here.

Podcasts

CSIS's Andrew Lohsen, who lived in Ukraine until recently, joined The Truth of the Matter this morning to discuss Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and how it might backfire on the Russian leader.

Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.

Smiles

I posted this Playing for Change video when it came out in September of 2021, but it’s worth a rewatch now.

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