Unease and alarm are rising across many European states over the weakened state of national armed forces and depleted military arsenals as the United States takes an increasingly isolationist stance in the Ukrainian conflict, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
The European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has sounded a serious alarm about the extent of destruction caused across the besieged Gaza Strip as a result of Israel's war on the Palestinian territory.
Ukraine’s possible accession to the EU will not be on the agenda at the bloc’s summit this week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said. She added that the 27 leaders of the European Union would merely discuss whether to launch membership talks with Kiev, with the road to actual accession likely to be lengthy.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has stated it is unacceptable that Israel is using Hamas’s October 7 offensive as justification for a collective punishment of Palestinians in Gaza. He has called for international monitoring of the situation on the ground in the besieged strip.
Americans are increasingly turning against funding Ukraine’s conflict with Russia, two recent opinion polls have shown. Partisan divisions have had a serious impact on attitudes towards the provision of aid in the United States.
Persistent persecution of ethnic Russians in Ukraine was one of the key reasons behind the decision to launch the military operation in February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin has explained. He stated that he believes the authorities in Kiev have since gone completely “crazy”.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian urged the European Union to work for a permanent end to Israeli atrocities towards the Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Moscow will not allow Ukraine to continue being a “Nazi state” that poses a threat to both Russia and other nations, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has stressed.
Kiev needs to understand that Washington earns billions on the war in Ukraine while ordinary Ukrainians die, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stressed.
A meeting in the Kremlin between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, lasted more than five hours and was over just before midnight Moscow time, the Russian president’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters.
Ukraine can’t expect additional funding from the US until it is approved in the Congress, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has stated.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi left Tehran for the Russian capital Moscow earlier on Thursday at the head of a high-ranking political and economic delegation.
Warplanes supplied by NATO member states to Ukraine will be a legitimate targets for Moscow, increasing the risks of a direct military clash with the alliance, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has stated.
UK special forces were embedded with Ukrainian troops in the early days of the conflict, Declassified UK reported on Wednesday, citing the newly published book by Polish journalist Zbigniew Parafianowicz.
Moscow is ready to resolve the ongoing conflict with Kiev through diplomatic means at any moment, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. He added Russia has never rejected such an option, and it was Kiev that withdrew from the talks in spring 2022.
The White House has made an urgent appeal to American lawmakers to approve additional aid for Ukraine, saying the country is “nearly out of time” as US agencies spend the last remaining funds from previous security packages.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is bypassing General Valery Zaluzhny, the country’s top military leader, to give orders directly to commanders, the Ukrainskaya Pravda news outlet has reported, citing sources close to the leadership in Kiev.
US and British officers helped plan the Ukrainian spring-summer campaign against Russia and provided all the asked-for vehicles, but Kiev decided to divide its forces in three directions, while Washington wanted a single focused advance sooner, according to a Washington Post feature.
Western states are pressuring Liberia, the Marshall Islands, and Panama to boost checks of ships sailing under their flags to ensure they are not used to help Russia bypass sanctions, Reuters has reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The White House urgently needs supplemental funding to continue supporting Ukraine, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has admitted. The official stated that the administration of President Joe Biden effectively only has until the end of the year until it gets “really hard” to continue propping up Kiev.
Moscow is aware that Washington will try to maintain its illegal embargos, but the US is not the entire world, Russia's presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stated.
