U.S. Approves $2.1B Patriot Interceptor Sale to Ukraine, Paid by Allies
The State Department approved 500 Patriot missiles for Ukraine, funded by Canada, Germany and Norway, after Kyiv accused the Pentagon of delays.
The State Department approved 500 Patriot missiles for Ukraine, funded by Canada, Germany and Norway, after Kyiv accused the Pentagon of delays.
The pause is meant to let an aid mission reach up to 2,000 people trapped in the Russian-occupied town later this week.
The localized pause, set to begin Oct. 29, is meant to let aid in and elderly residents out.
The 74-year-old, designated wrongfully detained by the U.S., was serving nearly seven years after being captured in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine’s president said recent Russian strikes came without enough notice; U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff is headed to St. Petersburg.
The remarks deepened a rift with Kyiv after the U.S. waived new sanctions on Moscow and signed a deal to import Russian diesel.
Brent rose 1% to $105.74 a barrel and U.S. crude reached $92.77 as early trading opened for the week.
Four Republicans and two Democrats said the deal gives Putin ‘a financial lifeline’ and skipped required notice to Congress.
The attack in Vladimir, east of Moscow, halted operations and caused outages across Yandex services, the company said.
The Justice Department has charged two employees of the Russian state-controlled media outlet RT in connection with a purported $10 million influence campaign aimed at bolstering right-wing media voices in the United States. The indictment alleges that Kostiantyn Kalashnikov, 31, and Elena Afanasyeva, 27, acted as unregistered foreign agents and laundered $9.7 million to a…