French President Emmanuel Macron went beyond merely talking about the possibility of deploying NATO troops in Ukraine, taking steps to form a coalition of military trainers who would work inside the former Soviet republic preparing Kiev’s soldiers to fight Russian forces.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened for a second time to send arms to Western adversaries, in response to the Western military support for Ukraine, while declining to name any countries or groups.
Some 40 percent of Germans said Berlin should recognize Palestine as an independent state, while 27% said they were against such a move, a new survey revealed on Friday. About 33% indicated that they were not sure.
US President Joe Biden has blocked a proposal by his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to dispatch Western instructors to train Kiev’s forces in Ukraine, Politico has reported.
Paris has no plans to dispatch troops to Ukraine, however, the deployment of French instructors to Ukraine is not a taboo subject, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has stated.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are losing at least 50,000 service personnel a month, five times more than the Russian military, President Vladimir Putin has claimed.
Ukraine has struck inside of Russia with US weapons for the first time since permission was granted by the administration of US President Joe Biden last week, according to a Ukrainian official.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov referred to the United States as an “enemy” while speaking to reporters, an apparent hardening of rhetoric between Moscow and Washington.
Washington and its allies are nearing an agreement on plans to provide Ukraine with a multibillion-dollar loan which would be linked to profits accrued from blocked Russian sovereign assets, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has claimed.
NATO is working on plans to rush tens of thousands of US forces along “land corridors” in Western Europe in the event of war with Moscow, a senior strategist has told The Telegraph.
US President Joe Biden does not want the standoff with Russia over Ukraine to trigger a global war, the White House national security spokesman has stated.
China is acting as an “instrument” of Russia by pressing other nations to shun an upcoming “peace summit” on the Ukraine conflict, President Volodymyr Zelensky has alleged. The Ukrainian leader also accused Beijing of providing military support to Moscow, without giving specific evidence.
The European Union is considering imposing tariffs on up to €42 billion ($46 billion) worth of imports from Russia that until now have been spared from the bloc’s sanctions regime, Financial Times has reported.
The first group of French military instructors are coming to Ukraine, high-profile Ukrainian politician Aleksey Goncharenko has claimed. Russia has repeatedly warned against NATO's involvement in Ukraine's conflict.
Moscow is aware that US-made weapons are already being used in attempted strikes on Russian territory, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Friday, stating that this is proof of Washington’s involvement in the Ukraine conflict.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has fired several senior officials viewed as being close to the US, the Washington Post has reported. The apparent dismissals came amid Kiev’s growing frustration with its Western backers over military support.
A US Department of Defense official confirmed to TASS that the administration of president Joe Biden allowed Ukraine to use US weapons against targets on the Russian soil during counter-battery warfare.
Moscow will perceive deliveries of the US-designed F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine as a “deliberate” signal from NATO in the nuclear sphere, indicating that the military bloc is “ready for anything”, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned.
The Afghan government formed by the Taliban movement assesses the latest statements of the Russian authorities on relations with Afghanistan as positive, the spokesman of the Taliban government Zabihullah Mujahid has said in a commentary to TASS.
The US wants to seize frozen Russian sovereign funds and hand them over to Ukraine, but for some G7 member states that is a “red line,” the White House’s architect of sanctions against Russia has confirmed.
Former US President and current Republican candidate Donald Trump has told campaign donors that he “would have bombed” Moscow and Beijing if they’d attacked Ukraine and Taiwan on his watch, the Washington Post has reported, citing sources.
