The US House of Representatives is handing over a $ 40 billion aid package to Ukraine
Rescuers pass by debris and car wreckage in front of a shopping and entertainment center in the Ukrainian Black Sea city of Odessa on May 10, 2022, destroyed after a Russian missile strike late on May 9, 2022.
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The US House of Representatives has passed a bill to deliver $ 40 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, according to a report by NBC News.
The House voted 368-57 after President Joe Biden called for swift Congress action to boost support for Kyiv in its war against Russia, the report said.
All 57 votes did not come from Republicans, according to NBC News.
Representative Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., Who opposed the measure, tweeted: “I oppose the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but we cannot help Ukraine by spending money we do not have.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, of California, praised the bipartisan vote, saying on Twitter that the package would be based on “stable support already provided by Congress” and “helping Ukraine defend not only its nation but and democracy for the world. “
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The United States has allocated more than $ 4.5 billion to Ukraine since Biden became president
Ukrainian troops unload missiles provided by the United States to Ukraine as part of military support on February 11, 2022. The United States has committed more than $ 4.5 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the Biden administration began.
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Leonid Kravchuk, the first president of independent Ukraine, has died
Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk delivered a speech in 2016.
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Leonid Kravchuk, who led Ukraine to independence amid the collapse of the Soviet Union and was its first president, has died, Ukrainian authorities said on Tuesday. He was 88 years old.
Andriy Ermak, head of the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, confirmed Kravchuk’s death in the Telegram application for social networks, without giving details about the circumstances. Kravchuk was in poor health and underwent heart surgery last year.
Kravchuk led Ukraine as its leader of the Communist Party during the weakening of the Soviet Union and played a key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union before taking over the Ukrainian presidency from 1991 to 1994.
He was a driving force in Ukraine’s declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, and later that year joined the leaders of Russia and Belarus to sign an agreement on December 8, 1991, officially declaring that the Soviet Union ceases to exist.
As president, Kravchuk agreed to transfer other Soviet nuclear weapons to Russian-controlled Ukrainian territory in a deal backed by the United States.
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UK Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace to meet with Secretary of Defense Austin, the Pentagon said
Aerial view of the United States military headquarters, Pentagon.
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British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace will meet with US counterpart Lloyd Austin on Wednesday, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said during a daily press briefing.
The ongoing war in Ukraine is expected to take the lion’s share of the discussion between the two leaders, Kirby said.
Earlier this week, Wallace told an audience at the National Army Museum in London that Putin “must come to terms with the fact that he is lost in the long run.”
“He absolutely lost in the long run. You know, Russia is not what it used to be. As a result, it’s less, not more,” Wallace said, referring to coordinated global sanctions against Ukraine.
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Russian forces are at least two weeks behind schedule on Donbass targets, says US defense official
A Ukrainian serviceman stands guard at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Barvinkove, eastern Ukraine, on April 15, 2022. Fighting in Donbass is “intensifying” and the accumulation of Russian military forces on Ukraine’s eastern border continues to increase, the British reported. Department of Defense
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The Pentagon said Russian forces were about two weeks behind schedule in their attack on Donbass in eastern Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin “has not achieved any of the successes we believe he wanted to achieve, certainly not on schedule,” a senior US defense official said in an interview with reporters.
The official, who declined to be named under the Pentagon’s basic rules, said the United States considered Putin’s forces “slightly behind by two weeks or even more.”
“We would not appreciate that the Russians have made any noticeable or significant progress,” the official added.
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Germany becomes the last country to reopen an embassy in Kyiv
German Foreign Minister Analena Burbock raises the national flag in front of the German embassy as the Russian attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 10, 2022.
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German Foreign Minister Analena Burbock has reopened Berlin’s diplomatic mission in Kyiv after it closed two months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Burbock said that while German Ambassador to Ukraine Anka Feldhusen would initially work with skeletal staff at the embassy, citizens should not travel to the war-torn country.
Burbock also met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky while in Kyiv and promised additional support, including assistance in investigating and prosecuting war crimes.
German Foreign Minister Analena Berbock meets with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Kyiv on May 10th. 2022
Courtesy: The press service of the Ukrainian President
Germany is the last country to reopen its diplomatic mission in the Ukrainian capital, after the Netherlands, France, Italy, Canada, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Belgium and Austria. The European Union has also reopened its diplomatic mission in Kyiv.
On May 8, the interim US embassy, Christina Quien, and a small group of US diplomats returned to Kyiv for their first visit since the Russian invasion.
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Russia has about 20 ships in the Black Sea, but far from the Ukrainian coast, said a US defense official
The Russian missile cruiser Moscow was set on fire and evacuated after a Ukrainian attack on the ship. Here Moscow is shown off the coast of Syria in 2015.
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The Pentagon said the Russian navy had maintained its position in the Black Sea after the sinking of the warship Moscow.
A senior US official, speaking on condition of anonymity to share current information on the ongoing war in Ukraine, said Russia currently has about 20 ships scattered across the Black Sea. “Moscow”, a missile cruiser with a guided missile cruiser with a crew of 510 people, was hailed as the crown of the Russian Black Sea Fleet before sinking on April 14.
“Since the sinking of Moscow, they have not brought their ships closer to Odessa,” the senior US defense official said, adding that the Pentagon had indications that Russian forces did not appear to be at risk.
“It is quite difficult to carry out a landing attack if you cannot put your Marines on shore and they do not show any signs or desire to do so,” the official added when asked about the strategic port city of Odessa. The official said Russian forces still have the ability to target Odessa by air strikes or long-range counter-missiles.
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Ambassador McCain says Russian forces commit war crimes by arming Ukraine’s food supplies
Cindy McCain speaks on stage during the USVETS Salute gala concert on November 5, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.
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Ambassador Cindy McCain said Russian forces were committing war crimes by attacking Ukraine’s food supplies and that the world was “extremely close” to a new food crisis.
McCain, the US permanent representative to the UN food agencies in Rome, told reporters during a conference call that Russia uses food and access to it as a weapon.
“We heard they were stealing grain. We heard that some of the silos have been emptied. “The critical cruelty they have done is that they have planted anti-personnel mines in most agricultural fields,” McCain said when asked to give examples of Russian forces attacking Ukraine’s food supplies.
“I stay behind what I said, I think what they are doing is war crimes,” she added.
McCain said the diversion of railways to Ukraine and the bombing of the country’s ports have further deteriorated food security around the world.
“Amanda Macias.”
The WHO says at least 3,000 have died in Ukraine due to a lack of medical services
Doctors are caring for a patient, 58-year-old Oleh, on a medical evacuation train en route to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on April 10, 2022.
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The head of the World Health Organization said at least 3,000 people had died in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion in February because they did not have access to treatment for chronic diseases.
So far, the UN Health Agency has documented about 200 attacks in Ukraine against health facilities and few hospitals are currently operational, said Hans Kluge at a regional meeting of the 53 WHO member states, as well as senior colleagues from the agency.
“Forty percent of households have at least one member in need of chronic treatment they can no longer find, leading to approximately 3,000 avoidable premature deaths,” he said in a speech, citing diseases such as HIV. AIDS and cancer.
Matilda Bogner, head of the UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, said the death toll had risen due to a lack of access to care. In a narrow school basement in Yahidne, 10 elderly people died because it was not safe to leave the shelter, she said at a separate briefing.
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The EU and the United States have accused Russia of cyberattacking an Internet satellite company before the invasion
The European Union and the United States have accused Russia of carrying out a devastating cyber attack that has crippled the networks of the Internet satellite company Viasat.
The cyberattack was carried out an hour before the unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Russia in Ukraine on the 24th …
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