Yes…
Ukraine needs MORE anti-missile systems against Russian attacks….
Russia IS trying to join of all things?
U.N. Human Rights Council?
(They bombed a funeral service held in a cafe yesterday, killing 52 people….)
Sweden offering Ukraine fighter jets is fine….
But it’s about Turkey and Hungry pleasing Putin…..
Drone , missle and artellery strikes contiune…
It appears that Russia is working Moldova as it’s next place to try brink back into the Russian fold…..
Ukraine entre into the 27 nation European Union could take years like Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania and Bosnia have been in membership talks for years. Turkey has been hold since 1987….
Britain and France have already provided them, and a U.S. announcement is expected soon.
Here’s what we’re covering:
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Pressure is building on Germany to send long-range missiles to Ukraine.
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Russia is trying to rejoin the U.N. Human Rights Council. The vote could be close.
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E.U. leaders hold talks on the consequences of accepting Ukraine as a member.
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Stockholm offers fighter jets for Ukraine if Sweden is allowed to join NATO.
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Europe pledges more air defense systems to help Ukraine fend off attacks on infrastructure…..
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Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
Several relatives of the fallen Ukrainian soldier were killed in the attack on Hroza, including his widow. Two more artillery shells struck near the village Friday, as workers with excavators arrived to clear out trees to make space in the cemetery for the 52 fatalities — around one-sixth of the population of the village.
All of the victims were sent to a morgue in the regional capital, Kharkiv, which looked like the scene of a massacre Friday as dozens of employees sorted the bodies. The workers recovered the body of a boy, Ivan, who appeared to be the only child killed in the Hroza attack. Post reporters at the scene witnessed the body of only one person wearing a uniform. The morgue workers said they had seen no evidence of multiple military personnel among the dead — despite Moscow’s claims that Russia attacks only military targets. The United Nations, citing Ukrainian authorities, said one soldier who was attending his father’s funeral was among the dead.
The U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has identified 35 of those killed in the attack on Hroza, including 19 women, 15 men and an 8-year-old boy, a U.N. spokeswoman said Friday. The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, deployed a field team to the site to speak to survivors and gather more information about the attack, spokeswoman Liz Throssell said in a statement.
The Hroza attack is “incredibly horrifying for the people of Ukraine,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. She said the Russian attack showed why the United States should continue to support Ukraine. Imagine “just walking to the grocery store with your kids, trying to figure out what is it that you’re going to make for dinner, and you see an explosion happen where bodies are everywhere,” she said.
A separate strike in the same region Friday killed a 10-year-old child and his grandmother, according to a local official. Oleg Synyehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional administration, wrote on Telegram that 30 others were injured in the attack on the city of Kharkiv, including an 11-month-old child.
Moldova’s pro-Western president said the Wagner Group was seeking to mount a coup against her. “The information that we have is that it was a plan prepared by [Prigozhin’s] team,” Maia Sandu said in an interview with the Financial Times published Friday. The Post previously reported on a trove of documents that showed how Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) had funneled tens of millions of dollars into the country to cultivate a network of politicians who would be more favorable to Russia.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday that any Russian decision to revoke its ratification of a nuclear test ban treaty with the United States would “not constitute a statement of intention to conduct nuclear tests.” On Thursday, President Vladimir Putin said Russia could revoke its own ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which Washington has signed but not ratified, while the speaker of Russia’s lower house said Friday that lawmakers would consider the decision next week.
Hand grenade fragments were found in the bodies of Wagner Group mercenary leader Yevgeniy Prigozhin and his deputies, who died in a plane crash in August, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in remarks Thursday, citing the results of a Russian investigation. The wreckage showed no “external impact” on the aircraft, he said, in an apparent denial that the Kremlin had ordered the outspoken mercenary leader’s plane shot down. Western analysts say Putin probably ordered Prigozhin’s death.
President Biden is preparing a “major speech” on Ukraine, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters. Biden has acknowledged concern that disarray in Congress in the wake of the ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from the House speakership could impede future U.S. aid to Ukraine, telling reporters earlier this week: “It does worry me.”
Russia has successfully tested an experimental nuclear-powered cruise missile, Putin said. The missile, known as the Burevestnik in Russia and as Skyfall by NATO, is believed to be able to carry a nuclear warhead and can fly farther and for longer periods than other missiles because of its nuclear propulsion, the AP reported. Putin first mentioned the weapon in 2018.