On Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Kyiv and announced $700 million in fresh aid for Ukraine, including funds for repairing the country's battered energy infrastructure. Blinken made the announcement alongside his British counterpart, David Lammy,...
Rep. McCaul Thinks Biden Will Allow Long-Range Ukrainian Strikes in Russia
Rep. Michael McCaul, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, believes the Biden administration will lift restrictions on Ukraine's use of US missiles to allow long-range strikes inside Russian territory, which would mark another significant escalation of the...
US Accuses Iran of Supplying Russia With Ballistic Missiles, Imposes New Sanctions
The US on Tuesday formally accused Iran of providing Russia with ballistic missiles and imposed new sanctions on Russian-flagged ships allegedly involved in the weapons transfers. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the new sanctions at a press conference in...
Ukraine Launches Major Drone Attack on Russia, Killing at Least One Civilian
On Tuesday, Ukraine launched a major drone attack on Russia that targeted Moscow and several other Russian regions, killing at least one civilian. The civilian who was killed was a 46-year-old woman in Ramenskoye, a town in the Moscow Oblast. Moscow Governor Andrei...
Victoria Nuland Admits US Discouraged Ukraine From Signing Peace Deal With Russia in 2022
Former US State Department official Victoria Nuland has acknowledged that the US discouraged Ukraine from signing a peace deal with Russia during the early days of the Russian invasion. Nuland, who recently resigned from her post as Under Secretary of State for...
CIA, MI6 Praise Ukraine’s Kursk Invasion for Bringing War to ‘Ordinary Russians’
CIA Director William Burns and Richard Moore, the head of the UK's MI6 foreign intelligence agency, spoke at an unprecedented joint public event in London on Saturday, where they praised Ukraine's invasion of Russia's Kursk Oblast. Moore said the Kursk invasion was...
US Announces $250 Million Arms Package for Ukraine
The US on Friday announced a new $250 million weapons package for Ukraine that includes HIMARS ammunition, air defenses, Stinger missiles, artillery rounds, and other equipment. The weapons package is being provided through the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which...
Austin Says Long-Range Strikes in Russia Wouldn’t Be a Game Changer for Ukraine
On Friday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin pushed back on Ukraine's requests to use US and other NATO-provided weapons to launch long-range strikes inside Russian territory. At a meeting of Ukraine's backers at the Ramstein airbase in Germany, Austin was asked if...
Putin Says Ukraine’s Kursk Offensive Failed To Distract Russia from Donbas
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Ukraine's invasion of Russia's Kursk Oblast has failed to distract Russian forces from the frontline in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, where Russia continues to make steady gains. "The enemy’s goal was to make us...
US Takes Action Over New Claims of Russian ‘Election Interference’
The Biden administration on Wednesday took several actions over new, unsubstantiated claims about Russian "election interference." Most of the actions targeted employees of RT, a Russian state-funded media outlet. The US has accused RT of interfering in presidential...