Hungary blinks….Decide’s to ok up to $54B to Ukraine from the EU if they can get something out of the deal….
Turkey just got F-16’s for going along with Sweden joining NATO….
Russia claims progress in teritory gains…Ukraine denies this….
Zelensky plays the WWIII card in pleading for more aid against Russian territor gains….
Did the Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief step down ?….Or NOT?
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Hungary is open to using the EU budget for a proposed €50bn ($54bn) aid package to Ukraine, the prime minister’s political director said. Balázs Orbán, the chief political aide to Viktor Orbán, confirmed that Budapest had sent a proposal to Brussels on Saturday showing it was open to using the budget for the aid package and issuing common EU debt to finance it if other “caveats” were added.
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Representatives of the EU member states will meet on Monday evening to discuss funding for Ukraine as pressure mounts on Viktor Orbán to cave in and agree to a €50bn four-year package on the table.
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Russia said on Monday its forces had taken control of the village of Tabaivka in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, but Ukraine denied this. The Russian claim was made in a defence ministry statement. Volodymyr Fityo, the head of communications for Ukraine’s ground forces, said on national TV: “This does not correspond to reality. There are battles taking place near this locality.”
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The Ukrainian foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, met his Hungarian counterpart, Péter Szijjártó, in western Ukraine on Monday ahead of an EU summit aimed at unlocking aid for the war-torn country.
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy has spoken about the risk of the Ukraine conflict escalating into a third world war, as he pressed his case for foreign aid in an interview with the German state broadcaster ARD on Sunday. Zelenskiy said that if Russia attacked a Nato country, it would be “the beginning of the third world war”.
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US military funding for Ukraine carries a key deterrent message for China, the head of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Sunday at the start of a visit to Washington aimed at lobbying Congress to continue funding the war against Russia. Joe Biden has asked Congress to approve $61bn in fresh aid to Ukraine…..
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Jan 29, 2024 – ISW Press
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (MoD) denied rumors about the purported resignation or dismissal of Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief General Valerii Zaluzhnyi on January 29. Ukrainian People’s Deputy Oleksii Honcharenko claimed on January 29 that “Zaluzhnyi announced his resignation, but there is no decree yet.” Former Ukrainian People’s Deputy Boryslav Bereza claimed that the Ukrainian Presidential Office “dismissed” Zaluzhnyi. Western media amplified Honcharenko’s and Bereza’s posts, and Russian sources and state media outlets also picked up claims of Zaluzhnyi’s dismissal or resignation. The Ukrainian MoD apparently responded to the rumors by saying “no, this is not true,” but has not yet offered additional information on the situation as of the time of this writing. ISW cannot independently confirm rumors about Zaluzhnyi‘s dismissal or resignation at this time.
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If and when the US approves aid for Ukaine and the EU also?
The Ukraine could be into over a $100B……