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... from countries such as Uganda, Kenya, Togo and South Africa, over 1,400 citizens of 36 African states are currently fighting for Russia, according to Ukraine's Foreign Ministry. Russian recruiters target active-duty servicemen across African countries, promising salaries 10 times what they make at home, sign-up bonuses ...
EU promises more money for Ukraine European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU would disburse Thursday a 6 billion euros ($7 billion) loan to Ukraine and promised more money for Kyiv. “We will cover the financial needs of Ukraine for the next two years,” she said in ...
“We are doing whatever is necessary to support Ukraine," Anand said. Zelenskyy has said he wants to order 25 Patriot air defense systems from the United States. Russian missile and drone strikes on the power grid have coincided with Ukraine’s efforts to hold back a Russian battlefield push ...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Friday made it harder for Russian citizens to enter Europe’s ID-check free travel area due to Russia's continued war on Ukraine, increasing acts of sabotage blamed on Moscow and the potential misuse of visas. Russian nationals can no longer get multiple ...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The latest in a sustained Russian campaign of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure brought power outages and restrictions in all the country’s regions Thursday, officials said, with the Ukrainian prime minister describing Moscow’s tactic as “systematic energy terror.” The strikes ...
Putin repeatedly has brandished Russia’s nuclear might since he launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, declaring that Moscow was prepared to use “all means” to protect its security interests. He again turned to nuclear messaging now as Trump has put a planned summit in Budapest ...
WATCH: How European leaders are responding as Trump urges Ukraine to cede territory to Russia Details of the potential future “reassurance force” are scant, and the London meeting seeks to further develop the idea — even though any peace agreement appears at the moment to be only a distant possibility. The ...
... confirms a report first in The Wall Street Journal this afternoon that the Trump administration has lifted restrictions so that that intelligence can go to Ukraine, so Ukraine can use those British weapons, as they did just yesterday to fire at targets inside Russia. Geoff Bennett: Nick Schifrin, our thanks ...
... Wednesday in Oslo, Norway, and after that flew to Stockholm, where he and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson signed an agreement exploring the possibility of Ukraine buying up to 150 Swedish-made Gripen fighter jets over the next decade or more. Ukraine has already received American-made F-16s and ...
... and Moscow to "stop where they are" in the more than three-year war. On Sunday, Trump said that the industrial Donbas region of eastern Ukraine should be "cut up," leaving most of it in Russian hands. Trump said Monday that while he thinks it is possible that Ukraine can ...
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