Former president’s comments are being described as a shift in tone days before Republicans vote on a multibillion-dollar aid package. What we know on day 786See all our Ukraine war coverageDonald Trump has said the survival of Ukraine is important to the US, in what Reuters describes as a shift in tone days before Republicans are due to vote on a $61bn aid package in the US House of Representatives. “As everyone agrees, Ukrainian Survival and Strength should be much more important to Europe than...
Much-vaunted US-supplied glide bombs given to Ukraine “didn’t work” due to a combination of mud and Russian signal jamming, the Pentagon has admitted. ]]>
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Donald Trump and Polish President, Andrzej Duda discussed the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East over dinner Wednesday in New York, the former US president’s reelection campaign said. Real estate magnate Trump, on a one-day break from court appearances in his hush money criminal trial, hosted Duda at his Trump Tower property in Manhattan. Read More
A propagandist dubbed the "Iron Doll of Putin TV" due to her slavish devotion to Russian President Vladimir Putin is panicking over the United States delivering long-range missiles to Ukraine.U.S. defense officials announced on Wednesday that President Joe Biden secretly authorized the shipment of a significant number of Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) of Ukraine in February, shortly before the president announced a $300 million aid package in mid-March.A larger shipment of the long-range...
Missiles delivered this month have been used to strike Russian targets in Crimea, US media say.
US defence secretary announces aid as Zelenskiy pleads with west for more Patriot systems to defend Ukrainian citiesThe US will provide Ukraine with additional Patriot missiles for its air defence systems as part of a massive $6bn additional aid package, the defence secretary has announced.“This is the largest security assistance package that we’ve committed to date,” Lloyd Austin said after the conclusion of a virtual meeting of dozens of Kyiv’s international supporters. Continue reading
House Speaker Mike Johnson and the United States House of Representatives last Saturday finally put aside partisan gamesmanship and did what they needed to do — vote and approve funding for Ukraine
In a deep dive into how the Manhattan hush money trial is affecting Donald Trump emotionally, the New York Times' Maggie Haberman is reporting that members of Trump's inner circle are starting to accept that he will be found guilty.As Haberman notes, there is an aura of doom in the Trump camp that the trial is diminishing the former president as he is forced to sit at the defendant's table for four days a week which is crippling his ability to campaign.Along with that, there is a growing...
A huge $61bn support package that could help reshape Kyiv's war effort will go to a vote in coming days.