US works to gauge peace prospects as it warns Putin ‘misinformed’ by advisers | CNN Politics

President Joe Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for nearly an hour Wednesday as airstrikes near Kyiv seemed to bear out Western skepticism that peace talks could ease Russia’s assault on Ukraine. Biden told his counterpart the US would provide Ukraine another $500 million in “direct budgetary aid,” the White House said afterward, and discussed “how the United States is workin

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""One of the Achilles' heels of autocracies is that you don't have people in those systems who speak truth to power or who have the ability to speak truth to power."" "Putin has become aware of the misinformation, leading to a rift between the Russian leaders and his top defense officials."