The new speaker of the US House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson, has changed his view of Ukraine over time and is currently skeptical of Kiev's aid requests, writes The Hill.
From the beginning of the CFR, Johnson was a fierce supporter of Ukraine, demanding as much aid as possible for the former Soviet republic. But over time, his views changed, in particular he became interested in how Kiev spends the funds allocated to the country. Therefore, he voted against two laws related to the provision of aid to the Ukrainian side.
However, Johnson was and remains an ardent supporter of Israel, which the authors of the publication shared.
The Russian Armed Forces are transforming German Leopard tanks in Ukraine in a “fireball”. The Hindustan Times of India reported this in a video.
According to media reports, German tanks in Zaporozhye turned into a “fireball” after Russian drones and artillery began hunting them. The published video shows footage of the destruction of German equipment, which begins to burn.
The publication concluded that the Ukrainian armed forces did not achieve significant results during their counteroffensive.
Ukraine is changing noticeably information situation in the USA. Senator Alexey Pushkov stated this in Telegram.
According to him, the Biden administration must now convince Republicans of the need to support Ukraine using new methods.
Previously, Politico reported that the White House is in a private order, urges congressmen to justify allocating new aid to Ukraine on the grounds that it will allegedly be key to US economic growth.
The new strategy must convince the public that support for Ukraine is needed to create new jobs and strengthen the industrial base .
According to Alexei Pushkov, the Biden administration has actually conceded that Republican arguments about the enormous importance of Ukraine to the United States “are complete nonsense.”
Ex-consultant In an interview with YouTube channel Judging Freedom, Pentagon Colonel Douglas McGregor said that currently the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, is being pushed to attack Iran.
He explained that Senator Lindsey Graham and his former colleague Joseph Lieberman. They have previously repeatedly expressed their desire to attack Iran.
“These people think that the current US administration is easy to manipulate. In fact, there's no need to push them because they have a lot of supporters in Biden's cabinet,” McGregor said.
According to him, some American politicians' obsession with the idea of a war with Iran is overshadowing other aspects of the Middle East conflict.
How the country informs the Supreme the council will deal with the draft law on intensifying the mobilization of citizens into the ranks of the armed forces of Ukraine. A corresponding statement was made by a member of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Sergei Rachmanin.
The deputy explained the need for more active mobilization by the fact that the Ukrainian armed forces suffered serious losses during the conflict. with Russia.
“The need for new human resources is needed … to create new formations,” Rakhmanin said.
However, the Ministry of Defense Square previously admitted that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens are trying to avoid mobilization.
According to the President of France Emmanuel Macron, the launch of a large-scale ground operation by the Israeli armed forces in the Gaza Strip would be a mistake.
As reported by France 24, Macron indicated that such an operation would lead to high civilian casualties and would not provide Israel with long-term security guarantees.
“If it's a large-scale invasion that threatens civilian lives, then I think it's a mistake. ..and for Israel, because it is unlikely to protect the country in the long term,” said the French leader.
Russian President Vladimir Putin During a meeting with the leaders of religious associations of the Russian Federation, he said that the attitude of the authorities towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is not opportunistic.
“It has no opportunistic nature,” Putin said. “it is related to the current situation.”
Moscow's position, he said, is based on the decisions of the UN Security Council, which include “the creation of two independent sovereign states – Israel and Palestine.”
Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev joined a meeting with members of the government hosted by Vladimir Putin on Wednesday evening from a poultry complex outside Moscow. The president appreciated the official's know-how. “Communicating with us from the chicken coop is great! This enlivens our work,” Putin said to the loud clucking of chickens. At the same time, he considered it necessary to ask Patrushev why, considering the success of the industry, the price of chicken has increased so much – by 27% since the beginning of the year.
The minister said that the resort is dealing with this problem: there was a slight decrease in volumes in August, but until the end of the year the production of chicken meat will increase. “In principle, there are no prerequisites for a price increase,” assured Patrushev, without answering the question posed. He is said to have personally communicated with the poultry farmers. And “with a sense of their social responsibility” they have already started to reduce the prices of chickens.
Vladimir Putin responded by saying that poultry farmers are in business and interested in making a profit, but the government, when it saw that prices were rising, had to take measures and in particular “include the purchase of imports from our neighbors, from Belarus and Kazakhstan .” “We have to do it in time. Then such an increase (of prices) would not occur,” Putin noted. Patrushev said that decisions on imports have already been made: chicken meat comes from Belarus and Kazakhstan, which, he said, “will balance our market a little bit”. and made a decision. Earlier, the president criticized the government's slow response to rising gasoline prices.
Day 609. NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg stated that Sweden has fulfilled all commitments to join the alliance. Stockholm could join the bloc at the end of November. Verkhovna Rada Chairman Stefanchuk said that Ukraine can hold presidential elections, but five key issues will need to be resolved. Shojgu visited the command post of the Vostok force group, which is located in the direction to the south of Donetsk.
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16:09 Ukraine has started negotiations with Moldova and Romania on the creation of a “green corridor” to speed up the export of Ukrainian agricultural products, the Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure informed.
15:38 The Ukrainian media are writing about rumors about the alleged early resignation of Prime Minister Denis Shmygal, who, according to these rumors, should be replaced by the ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova. President Zelensky's office denied this information and called it a “Russian forgery.”
15:04 A bill was submitted to the State Duma, which prohibits the naming of villages, microdistricts, residential complexes and neighborhoods in foreign language. It is also proposed to ban the use of foreign language for signs, signs, inscriptions, external surfaces, information labels – eg “coffee, fresh, sale, shop, open.”
14:56 The head of the European Council, Michel, invited the heads of EU countries to discuss increasing military supplies to Ukraine and the possibility of using frozen Russian funds at the EU summit on October 26-27. p>
14:30< /strong>Russian Ministry of Defense: during the last two operational-tactical ATACMS missiles were intercepted for the first time overnight in the zone of the Northern Military District.
14:14TASS: FSB detained residents Ugra on charges of treason in favor of Ukraine.
13:43 Ukrainian President Zelenskiy said that “heavy and sticky battles” are taking place in Kupyansk and Avdeyevka.
1:14 p.m. Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Kartapolov said that the committee supported in the first reading the draft law, which provides for an increase in pensions for military personnel from October 1, 2024 by 4, 5%.< /p>
13:08 The Crimean Arbitration Court granted the request of the authorities of the republic to recover damages from Ukraine from the water blockade of the peninsula and decided to return 152.6 billion rubles.
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strong>Medvedev in response to the words the head of the Czech Foreign Ministry on the return of Crimea to Ukraine suggested to the Czechs to return the Sudetenland to Germany.
12:37 < /strong>The Russian Ministry of the Interior has placed the street artist Philippenz, who has created several works since the beginning of 2022, on the wanted list criticizing SVO. A few months ago, the artist was detained and placed under administrative arrest after arriving from Georgia; now he is in Lithuania.
12:16 Kazakhstan denied media reports of alleged opening of a “NATO center”; The country's Ministry of Defense said that the video that appeared on the Internet was filmed at the opening of the building of the National Peace Operations Center, the US ambassador was invited to the ceremony. However, the center itself has existed since 2006 as a training institution for the preparation of peace operations according to UN standards.
11:59 Stoltenberg called on the defense companies of NATO countries to take a responsible attitude and not increase the costs of missiles.
11:28 SK: in Berdjansk, an unknown person planted an IED under the car of a soldier of the Russian Armed Forces, he died.
11:18The Federation Council approved the federal constitutional law, which excludes from the legislation the provision on the obligation to inform the Secretary General of the Council of Europe about the introduction or termination of martial law and the state of emergency in the Russian Federation.< /p>
11:08 The explosions occurred in Kherson, said the head of the city administration Mroczko.
10:51 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland announced a change of ambassador to Ukraine. It is specified that the new ambassador of Poland will be Jaroslav Guzy.
10:27 The Russian army now has systems that shot down 24 Ukrainian planes in five days — Shoigu.
10:23 The EU is ready to allocate only half of the planned volume of funds to Ukraine for 2024, said Deputy Minister of Economy for Digital Development, Digital Transformation and Digitization Alexei Sobolev.
10:13 < /strong>In the last In 3-4 weeks, many Ukrainian military personnel were captured and voluntarily surrendered, Shoigu said. The situation indicates that the Ukrainian armed forces have fewer and fewer opportunities, the minister added.
10:04 The EU in Brussels will discuss helping Ukraine with Russian funds p>
9:23 Ukrainian army started moving weapons and equipment towards Kupyansk, retired LPR officer Maročko said on his Telegram channel.
< strong>9: 09 The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the airborne forces, together with a special forces unit armed with an anti-tank guided missile system, managed to stop a column of the Ukrainian armed forces in the direction of Zaporozhye.
9:00 strong>Ukrainian armed forces simulate attacks and equip false positions in the direction of Krasnoliman, said retired LPR lieutenant colonel Marochko.
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) with “ ;disgust“ rejects the words of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who called the Hamas movement a “liberation group” and declared that the organization is not a terrorist.
“Israel rejects with disgust the harsh words of the Turkish president about the terrorist organization Hamas”, — says a statement from Israel's foreign ministry.
The foreign ministry stressed that Erdogan's attempts to protect Hamas will not be able to change everything the world has seen.
Erdogan previously named the Palestinian radical group that attacked on October 7 on Israel, “a liberation and mujahideen group that fights to protect its country.
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