If Congress approves the funds as expected, $1 billion will go to Ukraine, while the rest will go to Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, the State Department said.
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Iran delivered dozens of kamikaze drones to Putin’s army to reinforce their attacks
The “liberation of Kherson is not far away,” the head of the Mykolayiv regional military administration, Vitaly Kim Kim, confirmed in a video posted on Twitter that “heavy fighting” is ongoing today in the south, stressing that the military Ukrainians “are working”.
The official warned that drones and cars are in short supply, so he asked volunteers to “redouble efforts” to repair the necessary equipment. For their part, the Ukrainian forces destroyed Russian ammunition depots in the course of their counter-offensive in the Kherson region, Regional Council Deputy Serhiy Khlan told the Ukrinform agency.
Ukraine increases pressure on Pope Francis for a visit to kyiv and strains diplomatic relations
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB, formerly KGB) has arrested an alleged spy from that country who would have provided information to Ukrainian military intelligence in the Russian city of Kursk, near the border with Ukraine.
The detainee worked for the Main Intelligence Department of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, for which he was recruited in February 2018 by an employee of the special services.
The man, originally from the Ukrainian city of Sumy, across the border, is accused of having collected and transferred information regarding “installations of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation” to be used once morest Russian security.
a drone attacked the headquarters of the Russian Fleet in the Black Sea in Crimea
At least 19 people were killed, including a child, and 44 others were injured.in a series of bombings carried out by Russian troops in the Kharkov region on August 17 and 18, the region’s police chief, Volodimir Tymoschko, revealed on Friday.
The police chief said rescuers are still searching under the rubble of a building destroyed in the attacks because he believes two people are still trapped, the Kyiv Independent website reported.
Overnight, Russian artillery continued to shell Kharkov, in particular three districts in the region, the city’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov, told the Ukrinform agency.