FIONA HILL

Ukraine is waiting for battle tanks and other new weapons pledged by the West for it to reclaim occupied areas. NEW OFFENSIVES, NEW OBJECTIVESIn recent months, Russian forces have tried to encircle the Ukrainian stronghold of Bakhmut and push deeper into the Donetsk region. Along with fulfilling its goal of capturing the entire Donbas, Moscow aims to wear down Ukrainian forces and prevent them from starting offensives elsewhere. Bakhmut has become an important symbol of tenacity for Ukraine, as well as a way to tie up and destroy the most capable Russian forces. Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow at RUSI in London, predicted any Russian offensive would fail, but said it could drain Ukraine’s resources and keep it from preparing its own large-scale counteroffensive.

One year after President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine both countries are preparing for offensives that could set the stage for a potentially even more disastrous phase of the war.

For Russia, it's been a year of bold charges and bombardments, humiliating retreats and grinding sieges. Ukraine has countered with fierce resistance, surprising counteroffensives and unexpected hit-and-run strikes. Now, on the anniversary of Russia's invasion that has killed tens of thousands and reduced cities to ruins, both sides are preparing for a potentially even more disastrous phase that lies ahead.

Western leaders feared for the life of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a year ago and the U.S. offered him an escape route as Russian forces bore down on Ukraine’s capital.

The following is a transcript of an interview with Fiona Hill and John Sullivan that aired Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, on "Face the Nation."

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan and more will appear on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" this Sunday.

The following is a transcript of an interview with Fiona Hill and Chris Krebs that aired Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022, on "Face the Nation."

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, and more, will appear on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" this Sunday.

"People's sense of the civil and civic ways of resolving disputes" is "out the window," Fiona Hill told Insider, warning of the potential for "civil conflict."

"In this country, we don't do that," the vice chairman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time said. "It's not who we are."

The Jan. 6 congressional hearings have paused, at least for now, and Washington is taking stock of what was learned about the actions of Donald Trump and associates surrounding the Capitol attack.

Putin's frustration over Trump's poor understanding of geopolitics played into Moscow's decision on the timing of Russia's war in Ukraine, Hill said.

Former Trump advisor Fiona Hill said Putin smelled "almost like he had stepped out of some special preparatory bath" when she met him.

On this "Face the Nation" broadcast, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Fiona Hill join Margaret Brennan.

The following is a transcript of an interview with Fiona Hill, the former senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council during the Trump administration, that aired Sunday, April 3, 2022, on "Face the Nation."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Fiona Hill, and more appear this Sunday on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan"

As Russia has escalated its invasion, the U.S. and its allies have escalated sanctions. The sanctions, however, won't stop Russian tanks.

Thanks to his skills at the influence game, Putin knew how to "soften up the enemy" — and get a swath of the U.S. public cheering for him.

Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast/GettyThe subject is Putin’s brain.Is President Putin clinically insane? Is he choreographing madness and threats of a nuclear holocaust to frighten the West? Or does Putin know precisely what he’s doing? The questions are reasonable, but ultimately unanswerable. There is a data point, however: Russian and German scientists at Moscow’s aptly named Research Institute of the Brain in 1925 sliced and diced 30,953 sections of Vladimir Lenin’s cytoa

There's one unsung group the Russian president "probably has to worry about," the former National Security Council analyst said.

"So if anybody thinks that Putin wouldn't use something that he's got that is unusual and cruel, think again," Hill said.

"So if anybody thinks that Putin wouldn't use something that he's got that is unusual and cruel, think again," Hill said.

Donald Trump's former Russia advisor, Fiona Hill, was critical of his approach to dealing with Russia, saying he was driven by self interest.

For much of his political career, Joe Biden has watched democracy expand in Europe.

The AP Interview Fiona Hill FILE - Former White House national security aide Fiona Hill, testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Nov. 21, 2019. Russia could hit Ukraine with paralyzing cyberattacks, hobble its economy or even poison the Ukrainian president, Hill said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. “Just in the thinking of the Kremlin and Putin in particular, Ukraine belongs to Russia,” Hill said. Trump “thought he could charm Putin, but it’s Putin who manipulates people, not the other way around,” she said. Hill said Putin also could keep Russian forces along Ukraine’s borders and position nuclear-capable missiles just across the border in Belarus to keep up the pressure.

Fiona Hill, a Russia scholar who has served in the past three U.S. administrations, is offering a sober assessment of the Ukraine crisis.

The Kremlin has become a top destination for European leaders spooked at the prospect of war in Ukraine.

Rarely in recent years has the Kremlin been so popular with European visitors. French President Emmanuel Macron arrives Monday. All are hoping to get through to President Vladimir Putin, the man who singlehandedly shapes Russia's course amid its military buildup near Ukraine and whose designs are a mystery even for his own narrow inner circle.

Russia’s decision to send paratroopers into Kazakhstan, where a crackdown on violent anti-government protests has left dozens dead, injects additional uncertainty into upcoming talks over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Russia’s decision to send paratroopers into Kazakhstan, where a crackdown on violent anti-government protests has left dozens dead, injects additional uncertainty into upcoming talks over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. The question is whether the unrest in Kazakhstan has changed the calculations of Russian President Vladimir Putin as he weighs his options in Ukraine. The instability in Kazakhstan may even add new urgency to Putin's desire to shore up Russia's power in the region.

A year after the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol, the United States is split in nearly every way.

From Dr. Anthony Fauci to Sacha Baron Cohen, the year's most popular Fresh Air web pages reflect the show's strength as a place where artists, authors and journalists speak to the moment.

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy appear on "Face the Nation" Sunday.

The biggest foreign policy challenge for President Biden is coming not from Asia, but from a more traditional nemesis, Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

"You've got to take it seriously because Russia has crossed the Rubicon many times before when people said they wouldn't," one expert warned.

Steele argues that it's largely inconceivable that his report contained Russian disinformation. But his defense is too neat and tidy.

Even the president’s closest allies are alarmed that he’s not making voting rights a front-and-center issue.

Fiona Hill, a former National Security Council official, served as a key witness in the 2019 Trump impeachment hearings.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — Vladimir Putin paid scant attention to Fiona Hill, a preeminent U.S. expert on Russia, when she was seated next to him at dinners. Putin’s people placed her there by design, choosing a “nondescript woman,” as she put it, so the Russian president would have no competition for attention. The questions at the news conference "got right to the heart of his insecurities," Hill writes. It was clear to Putin that the resulting backlash would undermine even the vague commitments he and Trump had made. “Trump sees that and says what’s there not to like about that kind of situation?” Hill told the AP.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — Vladimir Putin paid scant attention to Fiona Hill, a preeminent U.S. expert on Russia, when she was seated next to him at dinners. Putin’s people placed her there by design, choosing a “nondescript woman,” as she put it, so the Russian president would have no competition for attention. The questions at the news conference “got right to the heart of his insecurities,” Hill writes. “Trump sees that and says what’s there not to like about that kind of situation?” Hill told AP. Hill calls Russia a cautionary tale, “America’s Ghost of Christmas Future,” if the U.S. is unable to heal its political divisions.

In her new book, Fiona Hill lays out her experiences as the Russia adviser in Donald Trump’s White House and the circumstances behind her riveting congressional testimony in Trump's first impeachment.

Vladimir Putin paid scant attention to Fiona Hill, a preeminent U.S. expert on Russia, when she was seated next to him at dinners. Hill expected not to be similarly invisible when she later went to work for another world leader, Donald Trump, as his Russia adviser in the White House.

Fiona Hill, a former National Security Council official, served as a key witness in the 2019 Trump impeachment hearings.

The following is a transcript of an interview with Former National Security Council Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs, Fiona Hill, that aired Sunday, October 10, 2021, on "Face the Nation."

"They thought that he was going to cut through these flawed political groupings," said Fiona Hill on the mindset of voters for former President Trump.

Rep. Adam Schiff, Chris Krebs, and more appear on Sunday's "Face the Nation"

Fiona Hill was a key witnesses at Trump's first impeachment hearing. Now she's warning about the threat to American democracy that comes from within. Her memoir is There is Nothing For You Here.

Fiona Hill wrote that women faced unique challenges working in Trump's White House because of an overt emphasis on physical appearance and style.

Richard Grenell, who would go on to become Trump's Dir. of National Intelligence, also accused Fiona Hill of being "Anonymous," according to her book.

Hill wrote in her memoir that she was "busted" by Ivanka Trump walking into the room in stilettos and "flashing me a look of surprise."

He attacked Obama, Bush, and Clinton "for failing to do something or simply for being 'idiots'" and claimed "success for himself wherever they had failed," Hill wrote.

According to details from a new book by Trump's former press secretary, Putin tried to distract Trump at a 2019 G20 meeting in Osaka.

Trump is famously averse to germs and sickness, and Putin is often accused of trying to unsettle other world leaders at their meetings.

The fall book season will be packed with new works by such high-profile authors as Jonathan Franzen, Sally Rooney and Colson Whitehead.

Did Putin get 'exactly what he wanted' out of Biden summit?

Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent.

The following is a transcript of an interview with Fiona Hill that aired Sunday, June 20, 2021, on "Face the Nation."

Rep. Adam Schiff, Fiona Hill, and more appear on Sunday's "Face the Nation"

On the eve of the Biden-Putin summit in Geneva, Navalny's chief of staff is in Washington talking to American officials on confronting Vladimir Putin.

Hill said Russia was ruthless in terms of its pursuit of intelligence and indifferent to any damage inflicted in the process.

But Trump’s imprint on America’s place in the world — viewed as good or bad — will not be easily erased. U.S. allies aren’t blind to the large constituency of American voters who continue to support Trump’s nationalist tendencies and his belief that the United States should stay out of world conflicts. The national security and foreign policy staff that he has named so far are champions of multilateralism. The United States has pledged to pull all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by May 1, just months after Biden takes office, but it's unclear if he will. IRANIn 2018, Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal, in which world powers agreed to lift sanctions on Tehran if it curbed its nuclear program.

Then it became an assault, a riot, an insurrection, domestic terrorism or even a coup attempt. The language used by the American media to describe last week's Capitol siege proves one thing whatever your perspective: Words matter. Phrases like “mob,” “riot” and “insurrection” were appropriate, noted John Daniszewski, vice president and editor at large for standards. There was no riot, insurrection or storming” at the Capitol. The New York Times, Washington Post, CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN have all used riot to describe the day.

Experts say its going to take months to kick elite hackers widely believed to be Russian out of U.S. government networks. The hackers have been quietly rifling through those networks for months in Washingtons worst cyberespionage failure on record. Experts say there simply are not enough skilled threat-hunting teams to duly identify all the government and private-sector systems that may have been hacked. Many federal workers — and others in the private sector — must presume that unclassified networks are teeming with spies. The Pentagon has said it has so far not detected any intrusions from the SolarWinds campaign in any of its networks — classified or unclassified.

WASHINGTON Fiona Hill, a key witness in President Donald Trump's impeachment inquiry, is going to be sharing her views about the future of a polarized America. The New York-based Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media announced on Wednesday that it has acquired a book by Hill, former deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council at the White House. Senior editor Alex Littlefield acquired North American rights to the book from Andrew Nurnberg Associates, based in London. Hill's book, titled There Is Nothing for You Here: Opportunity in an Age of Decline," is to be released in the fall of 2021. She said she joined the Trump White House because she shared the Republican presidents belief that relations with Russia needed to improve.

Former White House national security aide Fiona Hill, and David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, right, testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Hill was the senior director for Russia and Europe on the White House National Security Council. She is testifying in the House impeachment hearings that Vindman, who testified earlier in the week, could handle Ukraine policy. Hill is testifying Thursday before lawmakers in the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. ___11:15 a.m.An impeachment witness is describing in detail a phone call that he overheard between President Donald Trump and Ambassador Gordon Sondland. ___9:30 a.m.House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff says Democrats will decide “in the coming days” what response is appropriate after hearing from a dozen witnesses in seven House impeachment hearings.