WASHINGTON — House Republicans will move forward with a $17.6 billion package that provides military aid to Israel and replenish U.S. weapons, but leaves out more help for Ukraine, underscoring the challenges facing supporters of a comprehensive national security package that would also include billions of dollars for immigration enforcement. The move gives Speaker Mike […]
More than two dozen people, mostly journalists, were detained Saturday at a protest in central Moscow, as wives and other relatives of Russian servicemen mobilized to fight in Ukraine called for their return, according to independent Russian news reports. The relatives gathered to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, just outside the […]
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced plans to bring the immigration and Ukraine funding bill to the floor of the Senate next week, setting up a crucial showdown with Republicans. Schumer said the text of the bill could be released as soon as Friday with a vote scheduled […]
Well, this was a bit unexpected, given what Trump supporters have been implying about what Trump’s Ukraine policy would be. Far from cutting off funds or ending the war (the latter of which Trump has indeed promised), Trump, at a rally, told the audience that the US has been bearing a disproportionate portion of the […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine has repeatedly asked Russia to hand over the bodies of scores of prisoners of war who Moscow claimed were killed in the downing of a Russian military transport plane by Ukrainian forces, but Russia has refused, a Ukrainian intelligence official said. Andrii Yusov, the spokesperson for Ukraine‘s military intelligence, in […]
The European Union has agreed to provide Ukraine with a major financial support package to help bolster an economy that has been ravaged by two years of fighting against Russian invaders, with holdout Hungary unexpectedly dropping its opposition to the move at the last minute. On Thursday, leaders of the 27 members of the European […]
BRUSSELS (AP) — The leaders of the 27 European Union countries sealed a deal Thursday to provide Ukraine with a new 50-billion-euro ($54 billion) support package for its war-ravaged economy despite weeks of threats from Hungary to veto the move. European Council President Charles Michel announced the agreement that was reached in the first hour […]
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg made the rounds with Pentagon officials and congressional leaders during a quick Washington visit this week to rally support for a new aid package for Ukraine in its nearly two-year war to repel Russian invaders. But on Wednesday, the NATO chief may have faced his most skeptical audience at the […]
House investigators Wednesday threatened to subpoena the White House to obtain drafts and revisions of a 2015 speech delivered by President Biden to the Ukrainian parliament while he was serving as vice president. The National Archives and Records Administration has the speech, given in December 2015, and all drafts and associated documents. But the agency […]
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia and Ukraine have exchanged about 200 prisoners of war each, the countries said Wednesday, despite tensions stemming from last week’s crash of a military transport plane that Moscow claimed was carrying Ukrainian POWs and was shot down by Kyiv’s forces. After the Jan. 24 crash of the Il-76 plane in Russia’s […]
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