Category: Russia-Ukraine War

Moscow Blames ‘Ukrainian Saboteurs’ for Attack in Western Belgorod Region

May 22, 2023
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Ukrainian saboteurs have attacked Russia’s Belgorod region, injuring three people and causing significant material damage, the region’s governor claimed on May 22. Kyiv, for its part, denies complicity in the attack, attributing it instead to “violent resistance movements” opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin. One of Russia’s westernmost regions, Belgorod shares a roughly 540-mile-long border…

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Zelenskyy Denies Ukrainian City of Bakhmut Occupied by Russian Forces

May 21, 2023
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HIROSHIMA, Japan—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Russian forces weren’t occupying Bakhmut, casting doubt on Moscow’s insistence that the eastern Ukrainian city had fallen. Responding to a reporter’s question about the status of the city at the Group of Seven (G-7) summit in Japan, Zelenskyy said: “Bakhmut is not occupied by the Russian Federation…

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Biden Says Zelenskyy Gave ‘Flat Assurance’ He Won’t Use F-16s in Russia

May 21, 2023
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President Joe Biden said on May 21 that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy personally assured him that Ukraine would not use Western-supplied F-16s in Russian territory. “I have a flat assurance from Zelenskyy that they will not use [the F-16s] to go on and move into Russian geographic territory,” Biden said at a Sunday press conference in…

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F-16 Jets to Ukraine: Russian Minister Warns of ‘Escalation Scenario’

May 21, 2023
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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko has warned that supplying F-16 jets to Ukraine comes with “enormous risks” to Western nations, including raising already-simmering tensions between the countries and Russia. “We can see that Western countries continue to stick to an escalation scenario, which carries enormous risks for them. In any case, we will take…

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Biden Announces New Military Aid in Meeting With Ukraine’s Zelenskyy in Japan

May 21, 2023
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U.S. President Joe Biden met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on May 21, on the sidelines of the G-7 summit of world leaders in Hiroshima, Japan. At a press conference following their bilateral meeting, Biden announced the United States would provide Ukraine with a new military aid package of up to $375 million. “The United States continues to…

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Biden Announces New Military Aid for Ukraine During Meeting With Zelenskyy

May 21, 2023
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HIROSHIMA, Japan—President Joe Biden announced a new $375 million package of military aid to Ukraine during a May 21 meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the G-7 leaders’ summit in Hiroshima, Japan. “The United States continues to help Ukraine respond, recover, and rebuild. We are also supporting peace,” Biden said during his first face-to-face meeting with Zelenskyy since making a…

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Biden to Meet With Zelenskyy at Hiroshima Summit: White House

May 20, 2023
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President Joe Biden will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the Hiroshima Summit, the White House said. The meeting will happen in the afternoon of May 21 local time. “We do expect that the president will have a bilateral meeting with President Zelenskyy … In that meeting, the president will continue to reiterate the…

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Russia’s Prigozhin Claims Capture of Bakhmut, Ukraine Claims Fighting Goes On

May 20, 2023
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Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday his Wagner fighters had completed the capture of Bakhmut, but Ukraine rejected the claim and said fighting was still going on. Prigozhin made the claim in a video in which he appeared in combat fatigues in front of a line of fighters holding Russian flags and Wagner banners. “Today, at…

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Biden Tells G-7 That US Will Support Joint Fighter Jet Training for Ukraine

May 20, 2023
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President Joe Biden told his G-7 counterparts on Friday that the United States will support a joint effort to train Ukrainian pilots on fourth-generation fighter aircraft, a senior U.S. official said. As part of the decision, the United States will permit its Western allies to supply Ukraine with fighter jets, which include U.S.-made F-16s. “The…

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Gen. Flynn Assesses FBI Whistleblower Hearing, Durham Report, and $3 Billion Ukraine Military Aid Mix-Up

May 19, 2023
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Retired U.S. Army Gen. Michael Flynn is warning that the United States needs to address corruption within the highest levels of its government after recent allegations of politicization within the FBI, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the intelligence community. On Monday, special counsel John Durham published his report into the origins of an FBI…

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