Wars 2022 02/24 Monitoring Russian and Ukraine War.

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Biden signs bill to provide new aid for Ukraine

US President Joe Biden today signed legislation authorising desperately needed military aid for Ukraine, saying Washington would begin sending new assistance to Kyiv within hours

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Biden signs bill to provide new aid for Ukraine

Photo: AFP US President Joe Biden speaks after signing the foreign aid bill at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2024.

US President Joe Biden today signed legislation authorising desperately needed military aid for Ukraine, saying Washington would begin sending new assistance to Kyiv within hours.

The passage of the $95 billion package -- which also includes aid for Israel and Taiwan and a measure to potentially ban TikTok in the United States -- comes after months of delay that saw Ukrainian forces run short of ammunition and suffer battlefield setbacks.

"I just signed into law the national security package that was passed by the House of Representatives this weekend, and by the Senate yesterday," Biden told reports, saying he is "making sure the shipments start right away, in the next few hours."

"It's going to make America safer, it's going to make the world safer and it continues American leadership in the world and everyone knows it," Biden said of the legislation.

"It gives vital support to America's partners so they can defend themselves against threats to their sovereignty and to the lives and freedoms of their citizens."

The aid legislation only passed the House of Representatives after months of acrimonious debate among lawmakers over how or even whether to help Ukraine -- which Russia invaded in February 2022 -- defend itself.

A similar aid package passed the Senate in February but had been stalled in the House while Republican Speaker Mike Johnson -- heeding calls from ex-president Donald Trump and his hardline allies -- demanded concessions from Biden on immigration policies, before a sudden reversal.

The United States has been a key military backer of Ukraine, but Congress had not approved large-scale funding for Kyiv for nearly a year and a half, and the financing of the war has become a point of contention ahead of a presidential election in November.

Ukraine's military is facing a severe shortage of weapons and recruits as Moscow exerts constant pressure from the east, with frontline circumstances expected to worsen in the coming weeks.​

 

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Russia threatens West with severe response if its assets are touched

Russian officials threatened the West on Sunday with a “severe” response in the event that frozen Russian assets are confiscated, promising “endless” legal challenges and tit-for-tat measures. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Russia would never cede

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Russia threatens West with severe response if its assets are touched
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Apr 28, 2024 18:39
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Apr 28, 2024 18:39

A Russian state flag flies over the Central Bank headquarters in Moscow, Russia, August 15, 2023. A sign reads: "Bank of Russia". Photo : Reuters/Shamil Zhumatov/Files

Russian officials threatened the West on Sunday with a "severe" response in the event that frozen Russian assets are confiscated, promising "endless" legal challenges and tit-for-tat measures.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Russia would never cede territories seized from Ukraine in exchange for the return of frozen assets.

"Our motherland is not for sale," Zakharova wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

"An Russian assets must remain untouched because otherwise there will be a severe response to Western thievery. Many in the West have already understood this. Alas, not everyone."

In response to Russia's war in Ukraine, the United States and its allies prohibited transactions with Russia's central bank and finance ministry and blocked about $300 billion of sovereign Russian assets in the West, most of which are in European not American financial institutions.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a separate comment that there was still a lot of Western money in Russia which could be targeted by Moscow's counter-measures.

"The prospects for legal challenges (against the confiscation of Russian assets) will be wide open," he said. "Russia will take advantage of those and will endlessly defend its interests."​

 

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Russia says downed four US long-range missiles

Russia on Saturday said it had downed four US-made ATACMS long-range missiles recently supplied by Washington to Kviv over the Moscow-annexed...

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Russia says downed four US long-range missiles
Agence France-Presse . Moscow 04 May, 2024, 22:45

ATACMS. | AFP photo

Russia on Saturday said it had downed four US-made ATACMS long-range missiles recently supplied by Washington to Kviv over the Moscow-annexed Crimean peninsula.

The defence ministry said it had 'foiled' the night attack but did not specify if the falling debris had caused any damage.

In April, the United States confirmed it had sent these missiles to Ukraine, which had been pressing for them to strike targets way beyond the front line.

Ukraine used US ATACMS missiles against Russia for the first time in October, but the recently supplied versions have a farther range of up to 300 kilometres (190 miles).

Russia insists these missiles will not fundamentally change the outcome of the conflict.

Ukrainian forces have been suffering from ammunition shortages, partly due to months-long delays in US deliveries, which were lifted only last month after Congress finally approved an aid package.

Russia has added Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to its list of wanted criminals, a government database showed on Saturday.

Zelensky appeared in the Russian interior ministry's 'wanted' list, an online database of alleged criminals sought by the authorities.

It stated that the Ukrainian leader was wanted 'under an article of the criminal code,' without providing further details.

There was no immediate comment from Russian officials on why Zelensky had been added to the list.

Moscow has targeted Zelensky since the start of its military offensive in February 2022.

The Ukrainian president said last year he was aware of at least 'five or six' assassination attempts against him had been foiled.

The day after sending troops into Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an address to the nation in which he called on the Ukrainian army to overthrow Zelensky.

Russia has placed several foreign politicians and public figures on its wanted list, which has tens of thousands of entries.

In February, Moscow said it was seeking Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas for what the Kremlin said was the 'desecration of historical memory' for the Baltic country's move to destroy Soviet era monuments.

Last year the International Criminal Court (ICC) ordered the arrest of Putin on war crimes charges related to the abduction of Ukrainian children -- accusations rejected by Moscow.​

 

[Lulldapull]

Something which probably the most incompetent person should be able to understand that manned air power/ legacy weapons are long obsolete:

 

[Lulldapull]

Uki don’t wanna fight for NATO bhai…..…..
Ghareeb de maut, qaum de wafaat.
Shaheed da jo lahu hae vo hae qaum da chutiapa:

 

[Lulldapull]

There's only one sure way to turn around da fortunes of da Ukraine war in the Wests favor. Muslim jihadi cannon fodder is the need of the hour. I'm secretly just hoping we get tapped by the US to start sending upto a million Muslim fighter recruits into the Ukraine meat grinder. Hendu-pak converts, poor Arab fighters and Afghani dalit are great choices.

This, right here might just tip da balance in the Wests favor, or else wes just bullshitting here. Jahil dying for the empire (no diff to WW2) is like today's Eff-sola muzlim dyin n goin ta heaven.

Is Munira whiskey on da ball? or should somebody hold his hand? Sawdi/ Qatari can finance dis wida bit of prodding. Turkey can provide erthaghrul ghazi support, and the Pakistani/ Afghani can provide the warm bodies/ cannon fodder.

This is on de agenda now, as a last resort:

New batch of ex-ISIS members transferred from Syria to Ukraine: Report

Since the start of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, hundreds of members of Al-Qaeda and ISIS have reportedly been transferred to fight in Ukraine

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Russia threatens strikes on UK military targets in Ukraine

Moscow on Monday said it that it could launch strikes at British military targets inside Ukraine and elsewhere if Kyiv’s forces used British-supplied long-range missiles to strike Russia...

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Russia threatens strikes on UK military targets in Ukraine
Agence France-Presse . Moscow 06 May, 2024, 23:35

Moscow on Monday said it that it could launch strikes at British military targets inside Ukraine and elsewhere if Kyiv's forces used British-supplied long-range missiles to strike Russia.

The statement issued by the Russian foreign ministry came after British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said during a visit to Ukraine that Kyiv 'absolutely has the right to strike back at Russia'.

He also said that London did not put 'caveats' on how Ukrainian forces use weapons supplied by Britain.

The Russian foreign ministry announced it had summoned the UK's ambassador in Moscow, Nigel Casey, and warned him that if Ukrainian forces use British-supplied weapons to strike Russia, Moscow could hit 'any UK military facility and equipment on Ukrainian territory and beyond.'

'The ambassador was urged to reflect on the inevitable catastrophic consequences of such hostile steps by London and to immediately refute in the strongest and most unequivocal manner the bellicose provocative statements by the head of the Foreign Office,' the statement added.

Russia earlier announced that it was planning new nuclear weapons drills, citing 'threats' issued by Western leaders, including French leader Emmanuel Macron and British officials.

Russian forces currently occupy several regions of Ukraine and the Kremlin has claimed to have annexed them and that they are part of Russian territory.​

 

[Lulldapull]

Ukraine front lines collapsin gents…..it’s happening now pretty hard core…Russians have broken through in multiple sectors ….its on like donkey Kong bhai. Our ghareeb badbakht jharrnail and their brainwashed online toady minions shitting bricks realizing Eff-Sola and handfull of Shaheen Mayzile just junkyard toys. The west got no oomph no? How will a Ukrainian collapse/ defeat affect our ghareeb converts? Anybody contemplating this eventuality?