The Evening: Kyiv Bombarded, Biden to Europe, Brokedown Palace, and More

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Good Evening,

It's Tuesday, March 15th.

Russia Bombards Kyiv as European Leaders Visit

The Prime Ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovenia arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday night to meet with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky as Russia lobbed more missiles at the embattled capital amid heightened fighting in the city’s outskirts, as the WSJ reports

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Biden to Europe

President Biden will travel to an extraordinary NATO summit meeting in Brussels on March 24 and will also attend the European Union’s summit meeting the same day, as the NYT reports

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Zelensky to Canadian Parliament

Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other Canadian lawmakers to support a no-fly zone over his country, asking them to imagine what it would be like if bombs were raining down on cities such as Vancouver, as the Washington Post reports

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Executive Education

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Video Shorts

Check out CSIS's YouTube Channel

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for the latest releases in our “Crisis Crossroads: Ukraine” video series.

In That Number

2,400

Officially, 2,400 civilians killed in Mariupol, Ukraine have been identified, but city officials believe the toll to be much higher.

Source: NYT

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Critical Quote

“Please close the sky.”

— Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky

iDeas Lab

In the latest installment

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of our “Crisis Crossroads: Ukraine” series, CSIS's Mvemba Dizolele discusses the African Union's response to the war in Ukraine, and what its political and economics impacts will be on Sub-Saharan Africa.

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: Justin Tang/POOL/AFP/Getty Images.) Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky virtually addresses the Canadian Parliament in the House of Commons, on March 15, 2022, in Ottawa.

Recommended Reading

“Cryptocurrency’s Role in the Russia-Ukraine Crisis

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” by CSIS's Aidan Arasasingham and Gerard DiPippo.

This Town Tomorrow

At 2:00 p.m.

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, CSIS hosts four former Supreme Allied Commanders of Europe—generals Philip M. Breedlove, James L. Jones, Joseph W. Ralston, and Wesley K. Clark—who will discuss how the invasion of Ukraine shapes relations among NATO allies and how Europe can leverage this moment to build a stronger security framework.

Then, at 3:30 p.m

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., join the CSIS Global Food Security Program for an event on the food security impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war.

And, at 9:00 a.m.

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, the Peterson Institute for International Economics holds a discussion on creating a carbon tax that can prevent carbon leakage and avoid trade conflicts.

Video

Earlier today, CSIS hosted an event with the American Academy of Diplomacy to discuss their new report, “Bringing America’s Multilateral Diplomacy into the 21st Century.” Watch the event here

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Podcasts

In today's episode of The Truth of the Matter, CSIS’s Jake Harrington joins the podcast to talk about his new report, “The Case for Cooperation: The Future of the U.S.-UK Intelligence Alliance.”

Listen on Spotify

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& Apple Podcasts

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Smiles

The world can use all the beauty it can muster right about now. This performance

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by Bobby Weir and Billy Strings does the trick.

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