Prime Minister David Cameron’s attempt to persuade Donald Trump to allow US Congress to push through $60 billion in military aid to Ukraine appears to have failed.After the British Foreign Secretary was not even granted a meeting with Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson, who could theoretically put the package to a vote. Instead, Mr. Johnson came under attack from Georgia’s far-right lawmaker, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who renewed her threat to immediately vote him out of office if the vote was even withheld.
At a private dinner at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago headquarters in Florida., Prime Minister Cameron urged Made the former president aware that it is in the United States I am concerned that President Vladimir Putin will not be rewarded for stealing land from Ukraine. He also insisted that by the time of the NATO summit in Washington this July, plans will be in place for all NATO members to meet or exceed their defense spending targets. He had hoped that Mr. Trump would at least signal a change of course by easing the path to a meeting with Mr. Johnson. But that may not have been enough.
Russia claimed that Ukraine attacked the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant with drones for three days. However, Ukrainian officials denied that Kiev had anything to do with the attack. Ukraine has denied being behind a series of drone attacks on the plant in the past three days, including three on Sunday, which the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said jeopardized nuclear safety. . A recent drone reportedly landed on the roof of a training center. There were no injuries.
A woman and a child have been killed by shelling in the Russian village of Krymov, the region’s governor has announced. Bryansk region governor Alexander Bogomaz claimed that the shelling was carried out by “Ukrainian terrorists.” “The blow was struck in the center of the village,” he wrote in a telegram.
Three people were killed by Ukrainian military shelling on Monday in Russian-controlled areas of southern Ukraine’s Kherson region.Vladimir Sardo, the Russian-installed regional director, said on Tuesday.
Ukraine’s military intelligence agency GUR attacked the main production facility of a Russian aviation factory in the Voronezh region, Ukrainian intelligence sources told Reuters. The sources did not provide details such as the scale of the damage or the weapons used in the attack.
Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oreshchuk announced on Tuesday that all 20 attack drones launched by Russia targeting Ukraine have been destroyed by Ukraine’s air defense systems. Oreshchuk said on the messaging app Telegram that the drone was destroyed over the Mykolaiv, Odessa, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Vinnytsia and Lviv regions. He added that Russia also fired four missiles from its S-300 surface-to-air missile system, but did not say what happened to those missiles.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Tuesday that a Ukrainian anti-ship Neptune missile was destroyed over the Black Sea, and four unmanned aircraft were shot down over the Belgorod and Voronezh regions. “The mission’s air defense systems destroyed four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the territory of the Belgorod (two unmanned aerial vehicles) and Voronezh (two unmanned aerial vehicles) regions, and (Neptune) Ukrainian missiles were destroyed in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea. ” the ministry said on the messaging app Telegram.
An extraordinary meeting of the 35-member board of the United Nations nuclear watchdog, convened by Russia to discuss the attack on the Russian-held nuclear power plant in Ukraine, will be held on Thursday, three diplomats said. I made it. The International Atomic Energy Agency has not yet announced the date of the meeting. Council rules state that any country on the council, including Russia, can convene a meeting. Russia’s ambassador to the IAEA said on Monday that Russia had done so.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in China on Tuesday, underscoring the ever-friendly relations between Moscow and China. Wang said China and Russia will continue to strengthen international cooperation and cooperate in maintaining supply chain stability. The two countries agreed to start a dialogue on Eurasian security. In a speech after the meeting, Wang said the two countries should “oppose hegemonism and authoritarianism.”
Russia and China will continue to cooperate in the fight against terrorism as part of increasingly strengthening ties, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Beijing on Tuesday after a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. “We would like to thank the Chinese side for its condolences for supporting Russia’s fight against terrorism in connection with the terrorist attack in the Moscow region on March 22 this year,” Russian News Agency quoted Lavrov as saying. I told him.
