President Biden and House Democrats lean into sending more aid to Ukraine…
Democrats will try to force a House aid vote and the Foerign Affairs and Defense Spending bill’s are up for votes the end of next week….
The US and Demark to send more ammo. and rockets …
A small number of Ukraine F-16’s are expected to go operational by July….
The EU agree’s to $5.6B in aid for Ukraine…..
Russia and Ukraine STILL shooting at each other…
“The White House is expected to announce as soon as Tuesday that it will send a new package of weapons worth $300 million to Ukraine, and it will include a number of Army Tactical Missile Systems,” Politicoreports.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told Democrats they should sign on to the discharge petition for aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan before leaving town this week, the Washington Post reports.
Playbook: “With some progressive Democrats likely to oppose the bill, the discharge petition would have to rustle up probably a dozen Republicans or more.”
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Schools in the Russian city of Kursk are switching to online classes, local authorities said, after an attempted Ukrainian incursion into the region.
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Ukraine pounded targets in Russia with dozens of drones and rockets in a sweeping attack that inflicted serious damage on a major oil refinery and sought to pierce the land borders of the world’s biggest nuclear power with armed proxies.
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Russia said its forces prevented incursions from Ukraine on Tuesday and inflicted heavy losses on the attackers, after Ukraine-based armed groups said they had launched cross-border raids.
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French President Emmanuel Macron’s Ukraine strategy will be put to a symbolic vote in parliament’s lower house on Tuesday as political tensions rage in the run-up to June’s European Parliament elections.
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Denmark will provide a new military aid package including Caesar artillery systems and ammunition to Ukraine worth around 2.3 billion Danish crowns ($336.6 million).
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The United States is preparing a new military aid package for Ukraine that could be worth as much as $400 million, two US officials told Reuters.
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European Union countries are set to agree on a new 5 billion euro ($5.46 billion) top-up to a fund used to finance military shipments to Ukraine, the Financial Times reported….
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Mar 12, 2024 – ISW Press
The All-Russian pro-Ukrainian Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), Freedom of Russia Legion (LSR), and Siberian Battalion conducted a limited cross-border incursion into Belgorod and Kursk oblasts on the morning of March 12. Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) Spokesperson Andriy Yusov stated on March 12 that elements of the RDK, LRS, and the Siberian Battalion were involved in clashes in Belgorod and Kursk oblasts. Russian sources initially denied reports of the incursion but later claimed that Russian forces repelled Russian pro-Ukrainian forces with tank, armored vehicle, and drone support attacking near Odnorobivka, Kharkiv Oblast and Nekhoteevka and Spodaryushino, Belgorod Oblast. Footage published on March 12 shows Russian pro-Ukrainian forces operating near Nekhoteevka and Spodaryushino in Belgorod Oblast and in Tetkino, Kursk Oblast.