TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sullivan,John Joseph
AU  - Mattis,James N.
TI  - Midnight in Moscow: a memoir from the front lines of Russia's war against the West 
SN  - 9780316571098
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Little, Brown, and Company
KW  - Sullivan, John Joseph,
KW  - Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022
KW  - Personal narratives, American
KW  - Security, International
KW  - 21st century
KW  - World politics
KW  - Ukraine
KW  - Military relations
KW  - Russia
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Kyïv (Ukraine)
KW  - History
N1  - Includes index
N2  - "For weeks before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, John J. Sullivan, the U.S. ambassador in Moscow, was warning that it would happen. When troops finally crossed the border, he was woken in the middle of the night with a prearranged code. ... Sullivan leads readers into the offices of the U.S. embassy and the halls of the Kremlin during this climactic period--among the most dangerous since World War II. He shows how the Putin regime repeatedly lied about its intentions to invade Ukraine in the weeks leading up to the attack, while also devoting huge numbers of personnel and vast resources to undermining the U.S. diplomatic mission in Russia. And he explains how, when Putin ultimately gave the order to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he proved that Russia was not just at war with its neighbor: it was also at war, in a very real sense, with the United States, and with everything that it represents"--
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