He led the channel’s coverage of the 2014 war in Gaza reported on the Syrian war from Syria's Turkish, Lebanese and Jordanian borders and covered the annexation of Crimea. Prior to PBS NewsHour, Schifrin was Al Jazeera America's Middle East correspondent. He was a member of the NewsHour teams awarded a 2021 Peabody for coverage of COVID-19, and a 2023 duPont Columbia Award for coverage of Afghanistan and Ukraine. In 2020 Schifrin received the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Arthur Ross Media Award for Distinguished Reporting and Analysis of Foreign Affairs. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence. The PBS NewsHour series “Inside Putin’s Russia” won a 2017 Peabody Award and the National Press Club’s Edwin M.

He leads NewsHour’s daily foreign coverage, including multiple trips to Ukraine since the full-scale invasion, and has created weeklong series for the NewsHour from nearly a dozen countries.

Nick Schifrin is PBS NewsHour’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent. support, and, Geoff, get that critical Global South support that it needs for this long war. Ukraine vows - and every soldier we talk to repeats this - that it will continue to fight until victory, and it defines that victory as reseizing Crimea.īut Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley recently said that Ukraine only has about four to six weeks left of decent weather before it gets bogged down in the mud, literally, and can't make much progress.Īnd given the political context that you just heard Laura report on in the United States, some doubts about support for Ukraine at the top of the Republican Party, Ukraine knows that it needs to make progress in this counteroffensive in the next few weeks if it's going to continue U.S. And they describe incredibly, incredibly challenging circumstances, especially what are the largest minefields in the world, hundreds of miles of mines that Ukrainians are having to basically hand by hand try and explode, and that they tell us Russia is then remining after they have demined it from the air with small butterfly mines.Īnd so success right now really is being measured in feet.

We have seen very able National Guard units fighting inch by inch, despite not having many resources.īut we have also seen army brigades with shortages of ammunition, and army soldiers telling us repeatedly that there are shortages of weapons and ammunition up and down the front. We have seen very able special forces units and drone units try and attack Russian positions that are currently being reinforced in that area. As you said, we have spent the last week in Southern Ukraine on the front line, specifically in what Ukraine calls its most critical front, an offensive south toward the city Melitopol, on the road to Crimea, to cut into Russian-occupied territory and threaten Russian supply lines.

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