The United States announced new military aid for Ukraine and vowed to disrupt Russian ties with Iran, which a British envoy said involved Moscow seeking hundreds of ballistic missiles and offering unprecedented military support in return. | Reuters
Washington was sending a $275 million package of aid to Ukraine to strengthen air defences and defeat drones, he said.
The Iranian and Russian missions to the United Nations did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Yashin had discussed in a YouTube video evidence uncovered by Western journalists of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Moscow denies committing war crimes. In a post on his Telegram channel, Yashin urged supporters to continue opposing the war.The entire front line in eastern Ukraine was being shelled, the governor of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, which is partly occupied by Russia, said, adding that five civilians were killed and two wounded in Ukrainian-controlled areas.
“They deliberately multiply chaos and aggravate the international situation,” Putin said in a video message to a summit of defence ministers from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and a group of ex-Soviet states. Putin, who was speaking in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, also said Russia – the world’s biggest exporter of energy – might cut its oil production and would refuse to sell oil to any country that imposed the West’s “stupid” price cap on Russian oil.
Putin said further prisoner swaps were possible and the White House said it would work to gain the release of Paul Whelan, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran convicted of espionage in 2020 in a trial that U.S. diplomats said was unfair and opaque.
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