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  • Blinken points to wider pledges to support Ukraine in case US backs away under Trump

    07/19/2024 5:45:06 PM PDT · by McGruff · 30 replies
    AP ^ | July 19, 2024 | ELLEN KNICKMEYER
    Ukraine is on its way to being able to “stand on its own feet” militarily, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday, noting that more than 20 other countries have pledged to maintain their own military and financial aid to the country even if the U.S. were to withdraw its support under a different president. Blinken for the first time directly addressed the possibility that former President Donald Trump could win the November election and back away from commitments to Ukraine. Trump’s public comments have varied between criticizing U.S. backing for Ukraine’s defense and supporting it, while his running mate,...
  • Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion profile quietly removed from Stanford extremist group list

    06/30/2024 4:50:04 AM PDT · by delta7 · 28 replies
    Noir ^ | 29 June 25 | Sam Carlen
    The government-funded research project's mysterious removal of Azov’s profile was followed by a State Department decision to allow the controversial right-wing unit to receive U.S. military aid Stanford University’s Mapping Militants Project (MMP), a U.S. Government-funded initiative that conducts research on “violent militant or extremist organizations,” quietly removed their profile on the Azov Battalion early last month. The Azov Battalion (now known as the 12th Special Purpose Brigade “Azov”) is a Ukrainian National Guard unit infamous for its use of neo-Nazi insignia, recruitment of far-right foreign fighters, and alleged war crimes. The Stanford MMP’s mysterious removal of its Azov profile...
  • European allies call on Democrats to axe Joe Biden following disastrous debate amid fears a win for Trump could impact support for Ukraine

    06/29/2024 6:17:36 PM PDT · by blueplum · 85 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | 29 Jun 2024 | JAMES REYNOLDS
    Senior European officials have called on the US Democratic Party to axe Joe Biden following his disastrous Thursday night performance over fears a win for Trump could spell disaster for Ukraine. 'We're very concerned because we, more or less, understand what it means for Ukraine, a Biden presidency, and we really don't know a Trump presidency,' Oleksiy Goncharenko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, told CNN. ....Trump has meanwhile boasted that he could stop the war in Ukraine in just 'one day'. Speaking on GB News last year he said: 'If I were president, I [would] end that war in...
  • House passes defense bill automatically registering men 18-26 for draft

    06/14/2024 4:00:30 PM PDT · by hardspunned · 175 replies
    FOX ^ | 6/14/24 | Elizabeth Elkind
    House of Representatives passed a measure on Friday automatically registering men aged 18 to 26 for selective service. It was part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets out the U.S. government’s military and national security priorities over the next fiscal year. This year's NDAA authorizes $895.2 billion in military spending, a $9 billion increase from fiscal 2024. While it hasn’t been invoked in over half a century, it’s mandatory for all male U.S. citizens to register for the selective service, also known as the military draft, when they turn 18. Failure to register is classified as...
  • The US is said to be sending a second Patriot to Ukraine, where it's played havoc with Russian jets and missiles

    06/13/2024 8:41:45 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 54 replies
    Yahoo! ^ | June 12, 2024 | Mia Jankowicz, Sinéad Baker
    The US has agreed to send a second Patriot system to Ukraine, according to reports. Ukraine has been given a handful of the missile systems from its allies, but says it needs more. Patriots help stop Russian attacks, but Ukraine's allies are reluctant to reduce their own arsenals. A second US Patriot system is headed for Ukraine following appeals for further air defenses, according to reports. The MIM-104 Patriot missile system has been hailed as a major success in Ukraine, shooting down Russian missiles and aircraft as Ukraine fights back against Russia's invasion.
  • Biden and Zelensky to ink 10-year deal meant to lock in U.S. military support for Ukraine: framework could box in Trump with U.S. election up for grabs

    06/13/2024 1:59:01 AM PDT · by Libloather · 52 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 6/13/24 | Geoff Earle
    resident Joe Biden is set to sign a deal with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky intended to commit the U.S. to a decade of military support – a move that could pressure rival Donald Trump if he takes the White House. The move is a key 'deliverable' of Biden's G7 meetings set to begin in the Apulia region of Italy Thursday. The president arrived last night, and meets one on one with Zelensky before the two leaders are set to hold a joint press conference Thursday evening local time. 'We want to demonstrate that the U.S. supports the people of Ukraine,...
  • Biden apologies to Zelenskyy for holdup over military aid: 'We’re still in. Completely'

    06/07/2024 7:56:00 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 11 replies
    Just the News ^ | June 7, 2024 10:24am Updated: June 7, 2024 10:27am | Nicholas Ballasy
    President Joe Biden publicly apologized to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday for a congressional holdup over $61 billion in military aid.Observers have said that the delay allowed Russia to make advances in Ukraine.Biden met Zelenskyy in Paris when the apology was made.“I apologize for those weeks of not knowing what’s going to happen in terms of funding,” Biden said, describing the roughly 6 months of debate in Congress over a $61 billion military aid package for Ukraine. “We’re still in. Completely. Thoroughly."Zelenskyy emphasized the importance of unity between the U.S. and Ukraine.“It’s very important that in this unity, United...
  • Revealed - NATO plan to get US troops to the front line to fight RUSSIA: Alliance prepares for rapid deployment of American soldiers amid fears Moscow is plotting major war with Europe

    06/04/2024 8:37:41 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 126 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 06 04 2024 | James Reynolds
    NATO is drawing up plans to send American troops to the frontlines of Europe in the event of an all-out conflict with Russia, it has been revealed. New 'land corridors' are being carved out to quickly funnel soldiers through central Europe without local bureaucratic impediments, allowing NATO forces to pounce in an instant should Putin's devastating war in Ukraine move further west. The plans are said to include contingencies in case of Russian bombardment, letting troops sweep into the Balkans via corridors in Italy, Greece and Turkey, or towards Russia's northern border via Scandinavia, officials told The Telegraph. Tensions have...
  • Ukraine 'fires first US missile into Russia' just days after President Joe Biden gave permission for the High Mobility Rocket Artillery System to be used to strike inside Russia....

    06/04/2024 4:58:59 PM PDT · by caww · 148 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 6/4/2024 | Mark Nicol defence editor
    Ukraine last night claimed it successfully hit a missile system inside Russia using U.S. weapons. It said the country’s forces destroyed Russian missile launchers with a strike in the Belgorod region. Senior politician Yehor Chernev claimed Ukrainian forces used a High Mobility Rocket Artillery System, or HIMARS, The New York Times reported. It comes just days after the U.S. granted permission for Ukraine to fire American weapons into Russia.
  • Ukraine war: Blinken says US 'rushing' weapons to the front lines

    05/15/2024 4:31:06 PM PDT · by Mariner · 35 replies
    BBC via Yahoo ^ | May 15th, 2024 | Tiffany Wertheimer - BBC News, Washington
    The US is "rushing ammunition, armoured vehicles, missiles [and] air defences" to Ukraine's front line, Anthony Blinken has said.During a trip to Ukraine, the US secretary of state announced that $2bn would be spent to speed up delivery. His comments came as Russian advances forced Ukrainian to retreat from several villages in the Kharkiv region. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has cancelled all his foreign trips to concentrate on the new incursion. Speaking in Kyiv on Wednesday, Mr Blinken said weapons would be rushed to the front lines to "protect soldier, to protect citizens". He said that the air defence systems,...
  • U.S. could allow for American troop deployment to Ukraine - Democratic House leader Jeffries

    05/06/2024 4:14:18 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 77 replies
    New Voice of Ukraine ^ | 5/6/24 | New Voice of Ukraine
    Should Russia succeed in its war on Ukraine, the United States will likely have to intervene with more than just money - but also with troops, said U.S. Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries. "We cannot allow Ukraine to fall, because if it does, there is a significant possibility that America will have to intervene in the conflict — not just with our money, but with our troops," he told CBS News.
  • Ukraine Warns of Third World War if They Don’t Beat Russia

    04/18/2024 10:30:27 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 47 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/18/2024 | OLIVER JJ LANE
    The global security system will be destroyed if Russia is allowed to prevail in Ukraine, leading to “many” new conflicts and a Third World War, that country warns while calling the U.S. to pass a major aid package. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal visited Washington D.C. to drum up support for the forthcoming votes on the “$100 billion foreign aid package” , and brought a message of looming disaster if it isn’t passed. Speaking to British state broadcaster the BBC in Washington, Shmyhal cautioned that allowing Russia to win would signal the multilateral international rules based order had collapsed which...
  • Russia’s Top Investigative Body Accuses U.S. Senior Officials and Hunter Biden-Linked Burisma of Terror Attacks

    04/10/2024 11:54:23 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 4 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | April 9, 2024 | Anthony Scott
    Russia’s highest investigative body announced on Tuesday that it has launched an official criminal probe into senior officials in the United States and other NATO countries who are suspected of financing terrorism acts. According to The Moscow Times, Russia’s Investigative Committee, which is the primary federal investigating authority of Russia, has accused U.S. Senior officials, NATO members, and the Hunter Biden-linked Bursima Holdings of financing terror attacks that have occurred both inside and outside of Russia. The statement was made in a video released by the Committee but did not refer to a specific terror attack. The Investigative Committee’s probe...
  • Listen to Zelensky: Pass Ukraine aid NOW or watch it fall to Russia

    04/08/2024 5:14:21 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 53 replies
    New York Post ^ | April 8, 2024
    As US lawmakers return from their Easter break, they need to take Volodymyr Zelensky’s warning Sunday seriously: Without US military aid, Ukraine “will lose the war.” And if that happens, “other countries will be attacked.” Yes, it’s that simple. Ukraine’s military has been short of ammo and struggling to hold back Russia for weeks. Moscow is reportedly probing for weaknesses and planning new offensives to capture more Ukrainian territory. If US help fails to arrive, it’s just a matter of time before Zelensky & Co. are annihilated or forced to surrender. And anyone who thinks that outcome won’t endanger the...
  • Kremlin says Russia and NATO are now in "direct confrontation"

    04/04/2024 1:46:06 PM PDT · by McGruff · 98 replies
    REUTERS via MSN ^ | April 4, 2024
    Russia and NATO are now in "direct confrontation", the Kremlin said as the U.S.-led alliance marked its 75th anniversary on Thursday. NATO's successive waves of eastern enlargement are a fixation of President Vladimir Putin, who went to war in Ukraine two years ago with the stated aim of preventing the alliance from coming closer to Russia's borders. Instead, the war has galvanised NATO, which has expanded again with the entry of Finland and Sweden. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: "In fact, relations have now slipped to the level of direct confrontation." NATO was "already involved in the conflict surrounding...
  • Ukraine Will Join NATO, Says Antony Blinken

    04/04/2024 8:03:39 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 51 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/04/2024 | OLIVER JJ LANE
    NATO is going to “build a bridge” towards Ukraine becoming a member state of the defensive alliance, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on the organisation’s 75th birthday. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member states met in Brussels at the alliance’s headquarters on Thursday to toast the 75th anniversary of its founding, among them U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken who like others used the occasion to discuss renewed Russian aggression and the potential place of Ukraine among its members. He emphasised the view, already articulated multiple times by NATO leaders in recent years, that “Ukraine will become a member...
  • Pentagon to give Ukraine $300 million in weapons even as it lacks funds to replenish US stockpile

    03/12/2024 12:18:03 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 13 replies
    Yahoo! - AP ^ | Tue, March 12, 2024 at 12:52 PM CDT· | TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will rush about $300 million in weapons to Ukraine after finding some cost savings in its contracts, even though the military remains deeply overdrawn and needs at least $10 billion to replenish all the weapons it has pulled from its stocks to help Kyiv in its desperate fight against Russia, the White House announced Tuesday. It's the Pentagon's first announced security package for Ukraine since December, when it acknowledged it was out of replenishment funds. It wasn't until recent days that officials publicly acknowledged they weren't just out of replenishment funds, but $10 billion overdrawn....
  • Jeffries: ‘Pro-Putin faction’ led by Trump, Tucker Carlson stopping Ukraine aid

    03/10/2024 11:03:59 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 39 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/10/2024 | Nick Robertson
    Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) blamed former President Trump and conservative media host Tucker Carlson for the rise in anti-Ukrainian sentiment in the House, dubbing the pair the leaders of a “pro-Putin faction” of the Republican Party. Ukraine aid has languished in the House for months as Republicans refuse to pass foreign spending without major border security reforms. Jeffries called on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to bring a Senate bill to the floor once again on Sunday.
  • Ukraine arrests priest for branding ‘Azov’ Nazis

    03/06/2024 1:43:53 PM PST · by Navy Patriot · 9 replies
    The Press United ^ | March 6, 2024
    The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has arrested a cleric in the Cherkasy Diocese for allegedly making pro-Russian social media posts and defaming the members of “Azov” as Nazis, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) confirmed on Wednesday. Ukrainian authorities did not name the suspect, but the SBU had posted on its Telegram channel on Tuesday that it searched the residence of Archpriest Boris Brodovsky, suspecting him of “anti-Ukrainian and pro-Russian statements.” “We tried to contact him, but we can’t get through to him,” Archpriest Georgy Pogranichny of the Cherkasy Diocese told the media. “The SBU officers probably confiscated the phone...
  • Putin has new cyber-tools that threaten democracy.......

    02/28/2024 3:13:32 AM PST · by Chad C. Mulligan · 55 replies
    Times (London) ^ | February 27 2024 | Tom Ball
    ussian spies have developed an artificial intelligence tool that Moscow is using to meddle in elections in Britain and the United States on a scale “exponentially greater” than ever before, Ukraine’s national security adviser has warned. In an interview with The Times, Oleksiy Danilov said that AI had enabled Russia to substantially ramp up its disinformation campaigns, designed to sow division and influence public opinion, and that Moscow now had specific units dedicated to every country holding an election in Europe. He said: “Artificial intelligence is a huge step forward for Russia and it makes the impact [of their meddling]...