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Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to take reporters’ questions Friday in the State Department briefing room, with the main topics expected to surround Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas peace efforts, and the Trump administration’s increasing military pressure on Venezuela. Watch Rubio's news conference live in the video ...
... want to stop this war, but he can if United States will pressure more.” As European allies gathered for the high-stakes summit, Russia and Ukraine exchanged more aerial attacks. Ukraine’s air force said that Russia fired 82 drones of various types at Ukraine overnight, 63 of which were ...
... drones, jamming equipment and air defense assets. Aerial attacks continue As Russia continues its grinding advances in many sectors of the front, it also pummeled Ukraine with daily missile and drone strikes.At least 26 people were injured by Russian glide bombs in Zaporizhzhia and its vicinity, according to regional ...
... coronavirus pandemic. Belgium prefers this option. But plan B would require all 27 leaders to agree for it to work, and Hungary refuses to fund Ukraine. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sees himself as a peacemaker. He's also Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest ally in Europe. In contrast ...
... the land issue. Zelenskyy reiterated that Kyiv rules out recognizing Moscow's control over any part of the Donbas, an economically important region in eastern Ukraine made up of Luhansk and Donetsk. Russia's army doesn't fully control either but Trump has previously indicated that Ukraine will have to ...
... s aim is “to challenge, limit, divide and ultimately destroy NATO.” Knighton said at the Royal United Services Institute think tank that the war in Ukraine shows that Putin “threatens the whole of NATO, including the U.K.” He argued that Britain needs both a stronger military and more resilient ...
The Russian president has cast Ukraine’s bid to join NATO as a major threat to Moscow’s security and a reason for launching the full-scale invasion in February 2022. The Kremlin has demanded that Ukraine renounce the bid for alliance membership as part of any prospective peace settlement ...
In our news wrap Sunday, Zelenskyy met with U.S. representatives for more talks on how to end the war in Ukraine, crowds gathered in Gaza for the funeral of a top Hamas commander killed by an Israeli strike, and the National Weather Service forecasts an arctic blast across the ...
... claims. The latest attacks came after Kremlin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov reaffirmed Friday that Moscow will give its blessing to a ceasefire only after Ukraine’s forces have withdrawn from parts of the Donetsk region that they still control. Ukraine has consistently refused to cede the remaining part of ...
... Today, the coalition of the willing, that's led by the United Kingdom and France, they met virtually to talk about how they can support Ukraine in the future, including sending troops into Ukraine to enforce a cease-fire. And, afterward, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte had a really stark ...
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