BRUSSELS, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Ukraine will soon get another 4.2 billion euros ($4.4 billion) in funds after the European Union’s member states approved the planned payment of the money, said the EU Council on Monday. The money, which forms part of the EU’s Ukraine facility, will help Ukraine’s economy, as the country continues to…
Ukrainian armed forces fired UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for the first time on Wednesday, the second long-range assault after the US approved their usage earlier this week. Officials said the use of the Storm Shadows, Britain’s equivalent of the US Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), was approved in direct response to the presence…
Ukraine has fired US-supplied longer-range missiles at Russian territory for the first time, the Russian government said, a day after Washington gave its permission for such attacks. US officials also confirmed use of the Army Tactical Missile System (Atacms) to CBS news, the BBC’s US partner. Ukraine has not commented. Russia’s defence ministry said the…
MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied missiles to strike deeper inside Russia, easing limitations on the longer range weapons as Russia deploys thousands of North Korean troops to reinforce its war, according to a U.S. official and three other people familiar with the matter. The decision allowing Kyiv…
It is a rare, almost non-existent thing, to hear someone articulate the Russia-Ukraine Conflict the way I do on my radio show. In the brief video below, Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University outdoes even . . . me. While I relate my reporting from memory after having observed this conflict in the making, Professor…
Greetings from Tyler, They’re going all out now. We’ve entered the name-calling phase of the race. Not only are the candidates being called every rotten creature that has infested history, but they’re giving the rest of us trouble too. The dyed hair crowd is giving us what for. They’re calling us all Nazi’s, even shedding tears. …
WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS, Oct 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. will not impose new limits on Ukraine’s use of American weapons if North Korea enters the fight, the Pentagon said on Monday, as NATO said North Korean military units had been deployed to Russia’s Kursk region. The North Korea deployment is fanning Western concerns that the 2-1/2-year conflict…
KYIV, Sept 14 (Reuters) – European governments should halt welfare benefits to Ukrainian men of military age who are living in their countries, Poland’s foreign minister said, a measure he said would help Ukraine call up more troops to fight Russian forces. Following a meeting in Kyiv with his Ukrainian counterpart, Poland’s Radoslaw Sikorski said…
Mykola Oleshchuk’s dismissal thought to be linked to death of pilot and loss of plane newly delivered to Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy has fired the head of Ukraine’s air force a day after it emerged that a recently delivered F-16 jet had crashed earlier this week, killing the pilot. “I have decided to replace the commander…
WASHINGTON – Ukraine is on an “irreversible” path to NATO membership after Russia’s war on Europe’s largest country brought Kyiv and the security alliance closer than ever, member nations said in the 2024 NATO Summit’s official declaration. “Ukraine’s future is in NATO. Ukraine has become increasingly interoperable and politically integrated with the alliance,” the declaration said. “As…