The Russian military is ill-prepared for the Ukraine war, Marat Gabidullin says. Ukrainian military makes gains in east, stops Russian gas at one hub. World Health Organization members pass resolution against Moscow.
"Combined with the reality that Putin faces a mismatch between his ambitions and Russia's current conventional military capabilities, likely means the next few months could see us moving along a more unpredictable and potentially escalatory trajectory," Avril Haines tells US lawmakers.
The French president urges the establishment of an alternative bloc, warning that it could take "several decades" before Ukraine meets the criteria to join the EU.
Russia pounds Odesa as civilian bodies uncovered elsewhere. Biden signs act to streamline aid to Ukraine. US Congress plans nearly $40 billion more in aid to the war-torn country, with COVID budget to wait. United Hatzalah founder brings medical supplies to Ukraine, sees volunteer team on ground.
NGO Monitor claims the Akevot movement, which claims to promote "peacebuilding efforts" but is allegedly dedicated to cementing the Palestinian narrative, has received $503,320 from the Swiss government since 2018.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is "in a frame of mind in which he doesn't believe he can afford to lose," William Burns says. G7 nations move to phase out Russian oil imports; Canada to send Kiyv additional military aid.
This is the third consecutive year in which the parliament has condemned the Palestinian Authority’s textbooks.
New arsenal designed to carry out strikes from air, land, and sea, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov says. Last month, Moscow announced plans to integrate new intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Zelenskyy "speechless" after shelling destroys museum dedicated to poet. Last women and children evacuated from Ukrainian steel mill. Prince Charles donates to British charity working to assist Ukrainian refugees.
Defiant in the face of deep Western isolation since he ordered the Feb. 24 invasion of Russia's neighbor, Putin casts war in Ukraine as a battle to guard against what he terms the US threat to Russia posed by NATO enlargement.