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Michael McFaul

A woman walks past a destroyed tank in the town of Trostsyanets, Ukraine, Monday, March 28, 2022.

West remains divided on sanctions, weapons to Ukraine, former amb to Russia says

Ukraine

“The West, in order to help diplomacy, needs to help President [Volodomyr] Zelenskiy produce stalemate on the battlefield,” former Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul said. He joined The World’s host Marco Werman to discuss the West’s diplomatic push to the end the war in Ukraine.

Former US ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, speaks with a reporter in Sochi, Russia, Feb. 7, 2014. 

Former Amb McFaul weighs in on escalating tensions between the US and Russia

Global Politics
President Trump sits next to Mike Pompeo

The president’s action in Ukraine ‘was wrong,’ experts say

Trump impeachment
A man behind a desk with the American flag on it

Trump’s ad hoc diplomacy makes him look ‘extremely weak,’ says Amb McFaul

Foreign policy
Close up of a white man in front of a star emblem

Trump-Putin ‘happy talk’ isn’t in US national interest, says McFaul

Global Politics
US President Donald Trump walks toward steps leading to an airplane

What does the end of the Mueller investigation mean for US-Russian relations?

The Mueller probe is over and investigators said there was no collusion. What does this mean for US-Russian relations now? A former ambassador says he’s worried.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at Trump Doral golf course in Miami, Florida, U.S., July 27, 2016.

What does the former US ambassador to Russia think of Trump’s hacking request?

Global Politics

Donald Trump held a news conference in Miami in which he called on Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s missing emails. So what does the former US ambassador to Russia think of Trump’s comments?

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.

Today’s Kerry-Putin photo op doesn’t mean Moscow is coming in from the cold

Global Politics

The top US diplomat John Kerry sat down today in the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin to talk about Syria and Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the Kremlin in Moscow, March 5, 2015.

Putin isn’t just trolling for votes. His dislike of the West is real

Global Politics

Former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul says he’s seen a change in Russian President Vladimir Putin over the years. And the propaganda from the Kremlin is becoming more and more unhinged.

Pro-Russian armed men take positions near the town of Slaviansk, eastern Ukraine, May 5, 2014. Pro-Russian separatists ambushed Ukrainian forces on Monday, triggering heavy fighting on the outskirts of the rebel stronghold of Slaviansk, Interior Minister

When do you start calling the situation in eastern Ukraine a war?

Conflict & Justice

With Ukraine’s military in heavy fighting with pro-Russian separatists, has Ukraine slipped into a civil war?