🇬🇧🇺🇦 #Britain's support for #Ukraine remains unwavering, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday, in response to comments by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy who said London's support was weakening.
Zelenskiy said at the weekend that although Britain's leadership had saved thousands of lives since the start of the war with Russia, support had recently "slowed down".
🇷🇺 #Russia’s Defense Ministry on Monday published an interview with a former Massachusetts city councilman who is wanted in the United States on child pornography charges, an apparent confirmation of previous reports that he fled the U.S. and enlisted in the Russian army.
🇩🇪🇺🇦 A government spokesman on Monday insisted that #Germany would continue to supply necessary aid to support #Ukraine against Russia's invasion, despite plans to halve its budget for helping Kyiv in 2025.
🇺🇦 #Ukraine has set up storage facilities in its northern region of Sumy to hold and send humanitarian aid to Russian civilians in the Kyiv-held part of #Russia's western region of #Kursk, the interior minister said on Friday.
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine's army chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Friday that Kyiv's forces were advancing between one and three kilometres in some areas in #Russia's Kursk region.
🇭🇺 #Hungary's decision to ease entry rules for Russian citizens "may constitute a serious security risk," leaders of Nordic and Baltic countries said in a joint letter to European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson on Aug. 16.
🇪🇺 🇷🇸 The European Union has told #Serbia that maintaining ties with #Russia during its war of aggression against Ukraine is not compatible with EU values and the accession process.
🇺🇦🇺🇸 Discussions between #Ukraine and U.S. President Joe Biden's administration about supplies of long-range cruise missiles are "in the advanced stages," a source close to President Volodymyr Zelensky's administration told the Kyiv Independent.
🇺🇸 The U.S. so far deems #Ukraine's surprise incursion into #Russia's Kursk region a protective move appropriate for Kyiv to use U.S. equipment, officials in Washington said, but they expressed worries about potential complications as Ukrainian troops push further into enemy territory.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia appears to have diverted several thousand troops from occupied territory inside #Ukraine to counter a surprisingly successful Ukrainian offensive inside Russian borders in a move that potentially weakens Moscow’s war effort, two senior US officials told CNN.
'Russia has vulnerabilities that the West has simply not been exploiting. On the contrary, US incrementalism has helped the Kremlin offset and mask its weaknesses.'
🇺🇲🇺🇦 The Biden administration is “open” to sending long-range cruise missiles to #Ukraine, a move that would give Kyiv’s F-16s greater combat punch as it seeks to gain further momentum in its fight against #Russia
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine says it has begun talks with #Russia over the exchange of prisoners captured by Kyiv as it presses on with its startling counter-incursion in the Kursk region.
🇷🇺 «Putin's so-called "special military operation" (the full-scale invasion of #Ukraine) was presented to the Russian people as a way of boosting Russia’s national security.
Two and a half years into this war there isn’t much sign here of "safe and secure".»
🇷🇺 Dozens of Chechen prisoners were granted early release from Russian prisons last year to fight in Ukraine due to the lobbying efforts of Chechen autocrat Ramzan Kadyrov, a source in the Chechen Interior Ministry has told Novaya Europe.
🇷🇺 Reports of Russian young men on their compulsory military service being drawn into combat in the #Kursk region have prompted their families to appeal to the authorities.
🇷🇺 A Russian court has ordered that assets worth around $1.15 billion of a British subsidiary of German industrial gases company Linde be frozen in a dispute over a gas processing plant, court filings showed on Wednesday.
🇳🇪🇲🇱 Niger and Mali's decisions to cut diplomatic ties with #Ukraine earlier in August "were not made by these countries alone," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said at a press briefing on Aug. 13.
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