Robbie Gramer is a diplomacy and national security reporter at Foreign Policy, covering the State Department. Before he joined FP in 2016, he managed the NATO portfolio at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank, for three years. He’s a graduate of American University, where he studied international relations and European affairs.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and others listen as U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the closing ceremony of the NATO summit in Washington.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky leans forward with his arms braced against the back of an armchair as he waits for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ahead of a bilateral meeting at a hotel in Washington. Various officials and security officers stand around him.
Bands that wrap the bottom of artillery shells made for the U.S. military and used by Ukraine in its war against Russia are pictured at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on April 16.
Groundskeepers prepare the baseball field before NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg throws out the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and the St. Louis Cardinals in Washington, D.C. on July 8.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. C. Q. Brown, Jr. speak during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington on April 26.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (left) and U.S. President Joe Biden shake hands after signing a bilateral security agreement on the sidelines of the G-7 summit in Italy's Apulia region on June 13.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to review the honor guards of the presidential regiment following his inauguration ceremony at the Kremlin’s Sobornaya Square in Moscow on May 7.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Joe Biden walk past a Ukrainian flag as they depart following the announcement of the G-7 nations’ joint declaration for the support of Ukraine in Vilnius, Lithuania.