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While the Russian invasion of Ukraine reaches day 712, US senators have reached agreement on a package that links increased border funding to release of aid for Ukraine. But the speaker of the US House, Mike Johnson, rejected the agreement. “If he gets to the House, he will already be dead,” she wrote on
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Frenchmen killed in Ukraine, Paris summons the Russian ambassador
The Russian ambassador to France “will be summoned” to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs today to reiterate condemnation of Russian attacks that killed two French aid workers in Ukraine last week, a diplomatic source told AFP. Paris “will also denounce the resurgence of disinformation against France”, added the same source, a few days after the Ministry of the Armed Forces had identified a “coordinated maneuver by Russia” to spread false information involving France. Tensions between France and Russia recently ratcheted up a notch over Ukraine, with Moscow castigating France's “militaristic frenzy” following the announcement of new arms deliveries to Kiev.
Kiev: “389 thousand Russian soldiers killed since the beginning of the war”
Russia has lost 389,560 soldiers in Ukraine since the war began, on February 24, 2022. This was reported by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This number includes over 810 casualties Russian forces suffered over the past day. According to the report, Russia also lost 6,348 tanks, 11,822 armored combat vehicles, 12,412 fuel vehicles and tanks, 9,349 artillery systems, 979 multiple launch rocket systems, 664 air defense systems, 332 aircraft, 324 helicopters , 7,173 drones, 24 boats and a submarine.
The speaker of the US House rejects the agreement on aid to Ukraine
The speaker of the US House, Mike Johnson, rejected the agreement reached in the Senate on border security and aid to Ukraine, claiming that “if it reached the House, it would already be dead”. “This agreement – he wrote on
Moscow: “Two Ukrainian drones destroyed in Bryansk”
Russian air defense forces destroyed two drones flying over the Bryansk region. Governor Alexander Bogomaz reported this and The Kyiv Independent reported it. No casualties or damage were reported. Reports of drone attacks and attempted attacks within the Russian Federation have increased in recent weeks. 1.30
US Senate, bipartisan agreement on aid to Kiev in exchange for more funds for the borders
US senators have reached agreement on a package that links increased border funding to the release of aid for Ukraine. The initial vote is expected mid-week. Senators have been negotiating a deal to combat illegal immigration for months, with Republicans insisting on increased border security in exchange for approval of a White House request for more than $60 billion for Kiev.
President Joe Biden said he “strongly” supports the bipartisan deal that, if approved, would provide billions of dollars in new aid to Ukraine and Israel, while increasing funding for U.S. borders and toughening asylum laws. It is unclear whether the bill has the 60 supporters needed to pass the first procedural vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate. House Speaker Mike Johnson had previously declared the package “dead on arrival,” though he appeared to change course when he told Fox Business on Friday that he had “no bias.”
The so-called supplemental national security legislation provides total funding of $118.3 billion, including $60 billion in support for war-torn Ukraine, which corresponds to the White House's request, and $14.1 billion dollars for security assistance to Israel, according to a summary released by Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray. The deal also includes $20.2 billion for U.S. border security and myriad changes to immigration policies.
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