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Russia has started to make steady progress against Ukraine as Kyiv’s forces face dwindling ammunition supplies, much to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s frustration. “There can be no question, Ukraine could be quickly overwhelmed by both men and arms by odds as great as 10 to 1 within weeks without additional U.S. assistance,” Kenneth Braithwaite, a former ambassador and former Navy …

The stalled $60 billion military aid package to Ukraine is not stopping the Biden administration from getting weapons and other military assistance to the war-torn country as it battles back against a Russian invasion. On Tuesday, the State Department approved an emergency $138 million in foreign military sales for Ukraine to provide critical repairs and spare parts for Kyiv’s HAWK …

A Chechen warlord has added 3,000 former Wagner mercenaries to his growing forces, giving him control over a sizable force inside the Russian army. “One of the Wagner commanders with the call sign Ratibor will join the legendary Akhmat special forces,” Chechen commander Ramzan Kadyrov said. “With him, 3,000 former fighters of the Wagner PMC [private military company] will join …

Former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron met with former President Donald Trump in a surprise visit to Mar-a-Lago on Monday. Cameron, who now serves as the U.K. foreign secretary, is in the U.S. to urge lawmakers to back additional funding to Ukraine in its war against Russia and a spokesperson for the British government’s Foreign Office described it as “standard …

President Vladimir Putin vowed Tuesday to track down the masterminds of the Moscow concert hall attack that left 144 people dead in the worst assault on Russian soil in two decades, and urged its law enforcement agencies to tighten security at mass gatherings. Putin has repeatedly sought to link the March 22 killings to Ukraine and the West despite the …

In an explosive new report CBS’s 60 Minutes,The Insider and Der Spiegel found new evidencethat hundreds of U.S. government employees complaining of sudden neurological symptoms known as Havana Syndrome may have been attacked by Russiawitha weapon using directed energy. “Well, there’s a number of reasons why we think the U.S. doesn’t want to blame Moscow, i.e. Putin and the Russians. …

A special Russian intelligence unit could be behind a series of attacks that have left dozens of U.S. officials serving overseas with mysterious illnesses. Russian intelligence unit 29155, a highly secretive military unit under the direct control of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has potential links to the mysterious cases of “Havana Syndrome” that have stricken more than 100 Americans since …

President Biden said Friday, on the one-year anniversary of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich’s detention in Russia, that the U.S. government is working every day to secure his release and is “not giving up.” Gershkovich, 32, was arrested on espionage charges for allegedly collecting secret military information while he was on a work trip to the Russian city of …

The Wall Street Journal put a massive blank space on its front page on Friday in honor of Evan Gershkovich, its correspondent who’s been imprisoned in Russia for exactly one year. The media outlet shared the image to its X account early Friday morning, noting, “Here is an early look at the front page of a special section wrapping today’s …

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovichonly ever wanted to do his job and stay out of the spotlight. Now internationally famous as a political prisoner of Russia for exactly one year on dubious espionage charges, he’s won admirers worldwide for his strength of spirit, as his family, friends and colleagues remain devastated by his plight. “It’s been a nightmare for …