The West does not have a clear picture of how the Ukraine conflict will end, Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Aleksey Danilov lamented in a TV interview on Friday. Danilov noted that the US and its allies have repeatedly stated that they will stand with Kiev …
Read More »Ukraine moves missile production abroad – security chief
Ukraine was forced to relocate some of its missile production facilities outside of the country due to the threat of long-range Russian strikes, Aleksey Danilov, the head of the National Security and Defense Council, has said. In an interview with Spanish newspaper ABC published on Tuesday, Danilov was asked to …
Read More »US lawmakers propose major cut to Ukraine aid
The US Senate has reached a provisional deal on a spending bill needed to avert a federal budget crisis, with lawmakers agreeing to slash nearly $20 billion in proposed aid for Ukraine following push-back by some Republicans. The upper chamber ended debate on the budget legislation on Tuesday night, garnering …
Read More »Western hardware destroyed in Ukraine – Moscow
Moscow’s military struck several Western-supplied and Soviet-era systems during the latest fighting in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry has said. During the past 24 hours, a US-made Paladin self-propelled howitzer was eliminated by counter-battery fire in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region, the ministry said in a statement on Sunday. Two American-supplied M777 howitzers …
Read More »White House issues Ukraine aid warning
The White House has urged American lawmakers to approve President Joe Biden’s request for an additional $24 billion for Ukraine by the end of the month in order to ensure an uninterrupted flow of aid to the country. The US government has appropriated funds for the current fiscal year, which …
Read More »The return of the ‘Bakhmut meat grinder’: How Ukraine fell back into a familiar trap
While Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the direction of Zaporozhye has practically stalled in the past few months, its forces have made some progress on the eastern section of the front. The battle for Artyomovsk (also known as Bakhmut), which began in August 2022, continues despite the fact that Russian troops fully …
Read More »Poland stops supplying weapons to Ukraine – PM
Poland will no longer provide arms to the Ukrainian forces, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said, adding that Warsaw would instead shift focus to its own security. The decision follows a diplomatic row over Ukrainian grain imports, which were banned in Poland after flooding local markets. Morawiecki told reporters on …
Read More »Ukraine suspends death threat transgender military spokesperson
The Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces has fired its transender American spokesperson for threatening a wave of assassinations against “Kremlin propagandists” around the world. Sarah Ashton-Cirillo’s dramatic threat drew the attention of US Senator JD Vance, who asked the administration of President Joe Biden to explain if it was funding this …
Read More »Ukraine could have avoided conflict – Trump
Ukraine could have avoided hundreds of thousands of deaths and lost less land if it had reached a peace deal with Russia before the conflict began last February, former US President Donald Trump told NBC News in an interview aired on Sunday. The loss of Ukrainian territory to Russia is …
Read More »Reasons for Ukraine’s counteroffensive setbacks explained by FT
The training of Ukrainian troops by the US and its allies in Europe did not properly prepare Kiev’s forces for what they faced during the summer counteroffensive against Moscow’s troops, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing Western military analysts and Ukrainian soldiers. So far, the Ukrainian military has “not …
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