President Joe Biden worked Sunday to assure Ukraine that American support will continue after Republican members of the House omitted Kyiv funding from its stopgap bill to keep the government funded until 17 November.
Tag: Ukraine
SLOVAKIA VOTES FOR PM WHO WANTS TO END SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE
Robert Fico, the two-time former prime minister in Slovakia, watched his populist SMER party outperform in the country’s parliamentary election, paving the way for its leader to form a coalition government and regain control of the country.
NO PEACE, ONLY WAR: U.S. HOUSE SHOOTS DOWN AMENDMENT THAT WOULD HAVE BANNED TRANSFER OF CLUSTER BOMBS TO UKRAINE
An amendment to the 2024 military spending bill that would have banned the U.S. from providing Ukraine with cluster bomb munitions was defeated in a vote last week as the Biden administration continues its effort to arm Kyiv in its war against Russia.
MEDVEDEV: NUMBER OF ‘IDIOTS’ IN NATO GROWING AS U.K., GERMANY CONSIDERS ESCALATORY MEASURES
Medvedev, the former Russian president and close associate to Vladimir Putin, took to X on Sunday to lash out at reports that the U.K. is considering sending troops inside Ukraine to train Kyiv’s forces, and Germany may approve its long-range Taurus missiles.
MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX MOVING TO UKRAINE
Western politicians are beginning to push Ukraine to start building the infrastructure so it can produce its own weapons during its war with Russia—which could be an economic windfall for Western military contractors.
WWIII: UKRAINE URGED WESTERN ALLIES TO BOMB DRONE-MAKING FACILITIES IN SYRIA, IRAN
Ukrainian officials sent a letter to its Western allies last month urging them to strike drone-making facilities in Syria and Iran that have been providing Russia with these unmanned aircraft that have been used to carry out attacks in cities throughout Ukraine, according to a report.
LAVROV AGREES WITH TRENDS JOURNAL: U.S. IS AT WAR WITH RUSSIA
Sergey Lavrov, the top Russian diplomat, said the U.S. and its NATO allies are in a direct war with Moscow—no matter how these countries try to officially frame it.
CANADIAN MPs GIVE NAZI VETERAN A STANDING OVATION, SUPPORTING PUTIN’S CLAIM THAT RUSSIA IS IN A FIGHT AGAINST UKRAINIAN NAZIS
Russian President Vladimir Putin was ridiculed in the Western media when he announced—at the onset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—that one of his chief goals was to smash the neo-Nazis in the country who have been waging a Hitleresque assault in Russian-speaking Donbass region that killed over 14,000 residents since the U.S. led 2014 coup that overthrew the democratically elected government of Viktor Yanukovych.
BIDEN TELLS ZELENSKY THAT LONG-RANGE ATACMS COMING SOON
U.S. President Joe Biden told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky last week that Washington will provide his country with a number of long-range ATACMS missiles, which would be the latest escalatory move by the White House during Ukraine’s war against Russia.
JOE BIDEN USES UN SPEECH TO URGE SUPPORT FOR MORE WAR IN UKRAINE
U.S. President Joe Biden used his speech at the UN’s General Assembly last week to urge countries not to agree to any peace deal for Ukraine that would mean ceding land to Russia because if the body allows Kyiv to be “carved up, is the independence of any nation secure?”