A Russian POW who could face life in prison after fatally shooting a Ukrainian civilian asked the victim's wife for forgiveness.
of additional humanitarian and military assistance for Ukraine on Thursday, as the last aid package was expected to run out this week. The bill, which now heads to President Joe Biden for his signature, is triple the amount of aid the U.S. has already committed to the war-torn country trying to beat back Russia's invasion. It passed 86-11 with most Republicans joining every Democrat in approving the bill.
"The United States will continue to use its available tools to help Ukraine defend itself,'' the Pentagon said.Russia's intensified bombardment of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region is making for hellish conditions there, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday in his nightly video address, adding that 12 people had been killed and dozens were wounded in one day in the Luhansk city of Severodonetsk.
Beasley told a U.N. Security Council meeting Thursday that 49 million people in 43 countries are already “knocking on famine’s door.” Ukraine, one of the world's leading wheat exporters, has seen production disrupted by the war, and a Russian blockade has impeded shipping of the grain. Biden, whose championing of NATO is a stark contrast to former President Donald Trump’s persistent complaints about the alliance, said any doubts raised in recent years about NATO’s relevance have been dispelled by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Close-quarter fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops continued Thursday in eastern and southern Ukraine, with little ground taken or given by either side, according to a senior Defense Department official. The court heard arguments Wednesday from the U.S. Justice Department, two weeks after federal agents won a lower court order in Fiji to seize the 348-foot yacht from Fiji's Lautoka harbor. U.S. officials say the vessel belongs to sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov.
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