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American-made F-16 fighter jets are on their way to Ukraine, United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday, announcing the follow through of a key commitment years in the making.

A US military pier, built two months ago as a way to bring seaborne humanitarian aid into Gaza, is to be permanently dismantled within a few days, according to a new report.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is mulling a layover in Europe during his trip to Washington later this month, despite concerns over an arrest warrant application from the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the Gaza war, according to local media.

Virtually no quantity of arms and military equipment that the US and its allies supply to Kiev for its fight with Russia will be enough, Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky has stated.

The Group of Seven “likely” abandoned the West's plan to expropriate Moscow’s frozen central bank funds due to a “veiled threat” from Riyadh, Bloomberg has reported.

US President Joe Biden has announced that NATO allies will be providing Ukraine with a significant air defense package, in remarks kicking off the 75th anniversary celebrations of the alliance and a three-day summit focused on shoring up support for the war-torn country.

Moscow has vehemently denied responsibility for the tragedy at the Okhmatdet children’s hospital in Kiev, after a missile hit the facility on Monday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has claimed that the incident was caused by a Ukrainian air defense missile.

NATO is a threat to global peace, security and stability because of its “deep-rooted Cold War mentality and ideological bias”, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian has stated.

Dozens of people have been killed and wounded after Russia launched a barrage of missiles targeting what it called defence sites across Ukraine, with one missile striking a children’s hospital in the capital, Kyiv, Ukrainian officials have stated.

A plot by Ukraine’s intelligence service to hijack a Russian Tu-22M3 nuclear-capable strategic bomber has been intercepted, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has claimed.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has stated the military alliance is expected to agree to a five-point plan to support Ukraine in the war against Russia, including shifting international support to a unified command and establishing pledges from nations to sustain military support to Kyiv for at least another year.

Russia’s Investigative Committee has announced it will probe war crimes allegedly committed by a mercenary unit fighting for Ukraine, as Moscow accuses the West of ignoring Kiev's human rights violations in the war.

NATO is seeking a lasting resolution to the Ukraine conflict, with Kiev strong enough to “deter” Moscow after the hostilities end, the military bloc's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has stated.

Kiev has the “desire” to launch a new counteroffensive against Moscow but lacks the means to do so, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed, blaming the situation on the "slow flow of military aid" from his Western backers.

Moscow wants to fully resolve the Ukraine conflict, rather than just agreeing to a ceasefire or freezing the hostilities, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated.

Ukraine does not intend to cave in to Russian demands and consider formally ceding the territories it claims as its own to Moscow in order to end the conflict, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andrey Yermak, has stated.

Any Western talk of peace in the Ukraine conflict is merely a “decoy” as Washington and its allies remain intent on inflicting a strategic defeat on Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has stated

NATO allies have agreed to fund military aid for Ukraine with 40 billion euros ($43 billion) next year, two Western European diplomats told Reuters on Wednesday. It comes a week before the military alliance's leader's scheduled meeting in Washington.

Global confidence in Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to do the right thing has declined across a broad grouping of countries, including in Europe, according to a Pew survey.

The government in Kiev can’t hope to launch offensive operations against Russia without more manpower, but even prison recruiting has fallen short of its needs, according to reports by the Wall Street Journal and Die Welt.

Azerbaijan and Armenia may finalize the text of a peace treaty within a few months, President Ilham Aliyev stated while accepting the credentials of Canada's new ambassador to the country, Kevin Hamilton.

Kiev is not ruling out peace talks on the conflict with Moscow, but they can only be held through intermediaries, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has stated. He suggested that the format used to broker the 2022 Black Sea grain deal could provide a foundation for negotiations.

All American military bases in Europe have been placed on high alert due to a potential terrorist threat against facilities or personnel, several US media outlets have reported, citing sources at the Pentagon.

Iran has protested to the United Kingdom over hostile action by anti-Tehran elements outside polling stations in the European country aimed at disrupting the 14th presidential election.

Russian strikes on villages across Ukraine killed at least 12 people on Saturday, leading Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky to call for "accelerated" Western weapons deliveries.