Tag: Russia -Ukraine war

Top US Official Says Long-Awaited Military Aid No “Silver Bullet” For Ukraine

April 25, 2024 admin

Joe Biden said the Ukraine aid package bill “should have gotten there sooner” Washington: The United States is the first to acknowledge that its long-awaited $61 billion aid package for Ukraine is not a “silver bullet.” As weapons and ammunition are rushed to the country, other issues such as manpower shortages in Kyiv’s struggling military…

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Russia, Ukraine To Exchange Nearly 50 Displaced Children After Rare Talks

April 24, 2024 admin

Ukraine believes Russia has illegally taken more than 19,000 of its children Doha: Russia and Ukraine have agreed in a Qatari-brokered deal to exchange almost 50 children displaced by Moscow’s invasion, the Kremlin’s children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova announced in Doha Wednesday. Moscow has been accused of forcibly taking Ukrainian children into Russian territory during…

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Joe Biden pledges swift weapons delivery to Ukraine

April 24, 2024 admin

President Joe Biden speaks before signing a $95 billion Ukraine aid package that also includes support for Israel, Taiwan, and other allies, in the State Dining Room of the White House on April 24, 2024, in Washington. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Joe Biden vowed to send fresh weapons to Ukraine within days as…

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Russian drone attack injures nine in Ukraine’s Odesa, officials say

April 23, 2024 admin

A view shows damaged buildings at the site of a Russian drone strikes, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine on April 23, 2024. Photo: Mayor of Odesa Hennadii Trukhanov via Telegram, via Reuters Russia launched a drone attack on Ukraine that injured nine people in the Black Sea port of Odesa, four of…

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Ukraine warns situation on front will worsen in May

April 22, 2024 admin

People look at fragments of the television tower which was broken in half after it was hit by a Russian missile in Kharkiv, Ukraine on April 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP The situation for Ukraine on its front line is likely to steadily deteriorate in coming weeks, Ukraine’s head of military intelligence said in…

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240-Meter TV Tower Collapses In Ukraine After Russian Strike: Report

April 22, 2024 admin

There were no casualties because workers were in shelters, Oleh Syniehubov said. (Representational) Kharkiv: The 240-meter television tower in Ukraine’s city of Kharkiv broke in half and fell to the ground on Monday, footage obtained by Reuters showed, after what local officials said was likely a Russian missile attack on television infrastructure. The broadcasting signal…

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‘US Aid Shows Ukraine Will Not Be Second Afghanistan’: Zelensky To Russia

April 21, 2024 admin

Washington: The decision by the US House of Representatives to earmark $61 billion in long-delayed aid for Ukraine shows the country will not become “a second Afghanistan,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday. The House on Saturday approved the latest massive package of military and economic assistance for Ukraine as it struggles to hold off Russian…

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Russia Slams US Aid To Ukraine, Links It With “Humiliation” In Vietnam, Afghanistan

April 21, 2024 admin

Russian said it was clear that the US wanted Ukraine “to fight to the last Ukrainian” Moscow: Russia said on Sunday US lawmakers’ support for $60.84 billion more in aid for Ukraine showed that Washington was wading much deeper into a hybrid war against Moscow that would end in humiliation on a par with the…

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Russia Says US Aid To Ukraine Will Hurt Ukraine, Cause More Deaths

April 20, 2024 admin

Russia invaded Ukraine more than two years ago. (File) Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday that US House of Representatives’ approval of security aid to Ukraine would lead to more damage and deaths in the conflict there. The decision “will make the United States of America richer, further ruin Ukraine and result in the…

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US House of Representatives Passes Massive Aid Packages For Ukraine, Israel And Taiwan

April 20, 2024 admin

Some hardline Republicans have voiced strong opposition to further Ukraine aid Washington: The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives on Saturday passed the first in a series of bills in a $95 billion legislative package providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, over bitter objections from party hardliners. More than two months have passed since…

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