Germany has prepared a new military aid package for Ukraine worth €500 million, announced German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius at a press conference during a meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine, reports Tageschau. At the 20th meeting of the "Ramstein" format, Pistorius promised continued support. The head of the defense ministry emphasized that Germany would support Ukraine's defense against the ongoing Russian aggression by supplying further ammunition in the short term. He also...
Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent for USA Today, talks about the news from Washington including the United State's shifting policy on a ceasefire for Israel and Palestine, updates about aid to Ukraine, and more.
Speaker Mike Johnson averted government shutdown but faces far-right threat of removal over $60bn national security packageWith the government funding fight resolved, the US House of Representatives is expected to soon turn to a long-stalled national security package that would send military assistance to Ukraine, as well as Israel and other US allies.Despite increasingly desperate pleas from Kyiv, the Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, had refused to bring the wartime aid bill to the floor...
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby admitted that he is worried about aid to Ukraine depleting U.S. weaponry inventories. Kirby appeared on This Week Sunday, where host Martha Raddatz asked him if he worries about military readiness in the U.S. after so much weaponry has been sent to Ukraine after Russia invaded the country more […]
AP reporters join US Air Force flight dropping humanitarian assistance into Strip, get aerial view of extensive damage in enclave after months of fighting between Israel and Hamas
Estonia's defense officials say the U.S. Congress has passed a bill that involves a total of $228 million in military and defense aid to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this year under the Baltic Security Initiative
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin vows the U.S. will continue to support Ukraine’s war effort against Russia, even as the U.S. Congress remains stalled over funding for additional weapons. Austin and other defense leaders are meeting in Germany to discuss aid for Ukraine. The meeting comes a week after U.S. defense officials found and used $300 million in contract savings to fund a new package of military aid for Ukraine, pulling weapons from Pentagon stocks. It was the first tranche of weapons...
Britain is being cut adrift by European allies after failing to provide enough military aid and political support to Ukraine, senior defence sources have claimed.
The US Congress will head out on a two-week break without any clear plan to provide military aid requested by the White House to help Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that his country is in dire need of support to replenish dwindling ammunition stocks. He has also voiced hope the United States will approve a $95 billion package stalled on Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, Ukrainian PM Denis Shmygal said the financial aid provided to Ukraine by Western states and the IMF will...
As Israel continues its military campaign to destroy the genocidal, Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hamas following the savage Oct. 7 attacks, some members of the House and Senate seek to condition U.S. security assistance to Israel on other factors. President Joe Biden had called proposals to condition aid “a gigantic mistake” and an “absolutely outrageous” idea […]
Military assistance to Ukraine from the West in fact turned out to be nothing more than industrial support for the American military-industrial complex. While the next support package for Kiev is in an uncertain state between the chambers of the US Congress, Joe Biden assures that the bulk of the allocated taxpayer funds will actually […]
Rapido Trains has announced a tour across the continental United States. The tour, which began on March 17th at the California Southern Model Railroad Club in Los Angeles, will make stops at model railroad clubs, rail museums, and hobby shops from California to Michigan en route to Rapido Trains headquarters in Toronto. Per a statement []Read More