Nolan Peterson

Foreign Correspondent

Nolan Peterson, a former special operations pilot and a combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, is The Daily Signal’s foreign correspondent based in Ukraine. Send an email to Nolan.

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    Ukraine’s Zelenskyy Pivots Back to Peace Talks With Russia’s Putin

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    KYIV, Ukraine—As Ukraine’s coronavirus lockdown incrementally winds down, Kyiv is pivoting its focus back to ending the war in the eastern Donbas region, where Ukrainian troops have held a Russian invasion force at bay since spring 2014. At a press conference last week to mark his first year in office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made…
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    Ukraine Extends Quarantine on Russian Social Media

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    In Ukraine the ‘Great Patriotic War’ Is History

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    In Europe, Russian Military Aggression Proves Immune to the Pandemic

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    European Countries Scramble to Recoup Ukrainian Workers

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    With Ukraine Already on Lockdown, Chernobyl Burns

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    Can America Continue to Defend Europe From Russia Amid COVID-19?

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    China Swoops in to Help Ukraine Fight Coronavirus

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    Trench Warfare in the Time of Coronavirus

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    Ukraine’s Coronavirus Lockdown Invokes Memories of Life in the Soviet Union

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    Massive US Military Exercise in Europe Is Still a Go, Despite Travel Restrictions

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    Coronavirus Outbreak Is Bad News for Ukraine’s Economy

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    What It’s Like to Travel Internationally During the Coronavirus Outbreak

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    The War in Ukraine Was Supposed to End 5 Years Ago. But It Didn’t.

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    Rebuking Russia, Turkey Pledges to Fund Ukraine’s Military

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    Amid Impeachment, Pompeo Visit to Ukraine Underscores US Support

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    Ukrainians Mark a Bittersweet Beginning to 2020

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    Auschwitz Reminds Us That the Fight Against Evil Is Never Over

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    Ukrainians React to Iran’s Admission of Guilt in Shooting Down Airliner

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    Iran Admits to Shooting Down Ukrainian Airliner

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    Questions Mount as Ukrainian Airliner Crashes in Iran, Killing All Onboard, Hours After Missile Attack

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    Why Ukrainians Are Skeptical About Peace With Russia in 2020

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    Kurdish Opposition Prepares for War After Iran’s Top General Dies in US Drone Strike

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    In Round 1 of Ukraine Peace Talks, Zelenskyy Holds His Own With Putin

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    What My Ukrainian In-Laws Taught Me About Freedom and Rock ’n’ Roll

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    What Climbing Kilimanjaro and Going to War Taught My Brother and Me

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    Setting the Record Straight on the Value of US Military Aid to Ukraine

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    How Russian Hybrid Warfare Has Weaponized Disinformation

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    China Poised to Benefit If Ukraine’s Western Relationships Fray

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    US Troops Prepare to Fight in a Way That Looks More Like World War II

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    Ukraine Is Now Europe’s Bulwark Against Russian Aggression

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    Ukrainians Protest Leader’s Olive Branch to Russia

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    Why Impeachment Isn’t the Top Story in Ukraine

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    How Ukraine Uses US Military Aid

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    Why Russia’s War Against Ukraine Matters to America

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    US Politics Threaten to Derail Ukraine’s Peace Talks With Russia

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    ‘A Force for Good’: Pompeo Explains the Trump Administration’s Vision for America’s Role in the World

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    Ukraine-Russia Prisoner Swap Renews Hopes for Peace Deal

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    EXCLUSIVE: Secretary of State Calls on Iran to Act Like a ‘Normal Nation’

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    EXCLUSIVE: Pompeo Affirms US Still Rejects Russia’s Seizure of Crimea

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    EXCLUSIVE: Pompeo Says US ‘Delivered’ on Mission in Afghanistan

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    Under Shadow of War With Russia, Ukraine Celebrates Independence

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    To Counter China in the Pacific, America Reboots the ‘Island-Hopping’ Campaign of World War II

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    Pompeo Calls for US, Australia to Present United Front to China

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    US Slaps New Sanctions on Russia for 2018 Nerve Agent Attack

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    Despite North Korea’s Missile Tests and Diplomatic Snub, Pompeo Holds Out Hope for Renewed Talks

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    Media ‘Got It Wrong’ on US Withdrawal From Afghanistan, Pompeo Says

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    After Defeat of ISIS, Iraq’s Christians and Yazidis Adjust to Uneasy Peace

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    The ‘Spirit of Apollo’ Inspires a New Generation of Ukrainian Spaceflight Pioneers

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    Iran Is Using Russian ‘Gray Zone’ Tactics, in Echoes of Ukraine War

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    US Sanctions Send Iranians to Northern Iraq Looking for Work and War

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    ‘A Moment of Maximum Danger’: As US-Iran Tensions Rise, Kurdish Opposition Prepares for War

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