Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov will be replaced this week with Rustem Umerov, a Crimean Tatar lawmaker. Zelenskyy made the announcement on his official Telegram account, writing that new leadership was needed after Umerov “has gone through more than 550 days of full-scale war.” Later in his nightly address, Zelenskyy said he believes “that the Ministry needs new approaches and different formats of interaction both with the military and with…
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The Senate voted 86 to 11 to pass a $40 billion Ukraine aid package Thursday in the latest bipartisan signal of Washington’s deepening commitment to Ukraine’s grinding war against Russia. The bill includes a huge one-time outlay of military and security assistance, along with funding for mounting economic and humanitarian needs. This latest legislation comes in addition to the $13.6 billion in emergency assistance for Ukraine that Congress approved in March, bringing the total of…
"US approves $40 billion in aid for Ukraine’s war with Russia"
On March 21, Natali called her father to wish him a happy birthday. It was Viktor Maruniak’s 60th, but, on the phone, he sounded sad and nervous. Maruniak is the starosta, or elected head, of Stara Zbur’ivka, a village more than an hour outside of Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine. Russian forces now occupied it, Maruniak told Natali. He would call her back later. “And I told him, ‘Okay, I will wait for you,…
"Ukraine’s disappeared: How Russia uses abductions to win control"
WASHINGTON Even if the Russian invasion of Ukraine does not occur in the next few day, the crisis has reached a crucial inflection point where European stability and future East-West relations are at stake. The next week will determine whether the impasse is resolved peacefully or if Europe is at war. The post-Cold War security structure of Europe and the long-agreed limits to nuclear and conventional military forces deployment there are at stake. “The next…
"War, peace, stalemate? Ukraine’s fate may be decided in the coming weeks"