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Delays in US missile interceptor deliveries, tensions with Hungary — key events for Ukraine next week

Editor's note: This article is a shortened on-site version of KI Insights' public newsletter, The Week Ahead, covering events from March 9-15. Sign up here to start your week with an agenda of Ukraine-related events delivered directly to your inbox every week. Audio version of The Week Ahead is now available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. The crisis in the Middle East is likely to intensify next week, with serious implications for Ukraine due to critical shortages of missile intercep

Ukrainian exceptionalism

Americans like to believe they are exceptional — a pioneer nation born in revolution, animated by liberty, individual freedom, and committed to the democratic separation of powers. In the spring of 2022, at a refugee camp on the Polish-Ukrainian border, I began to suspect that this belief, while powerful, may no longer describe us as accurately as we assume. I was at the Medyka crossing for only two weeks, but the experience changed me forever. Decades earlier, I had been a Soviet Studies majo

A Ukrainian flag flies in front of a fire following a mass Russian attack on the capital in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 4, 2025.

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