Situation in besieged town of Bakhmut appears dire as Joe Biden and Olaf Scholz meet to coordinate support for Ukraine
Russia is deploying the most experienced units of the mercenary Wagner group and its army in an attempt to seize the besieged eastern town of Bakhmuton Friday for briefings with local commanders on how to boost defence capacity.in a video posted online in which he called on the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to abandon the town. His claims could not be verified.amid evidence that Ukraine was preparing extensive new defensive positions, including around the nearby city of Kramatorsk.
“As Nato allies, we’re making the alliance stronger and more capable,” Biden said. Scholz told Biden that it was important that the US and Germany organised in “lockstep” since the Russian invasion of Ukraine last February. Garland had traveled to the western city of Lviv on an invitation from the Ukrainian prosecutor general, USA Today reported officialsFollowing Moscow’s demand on Thursday to know whether Serbia provided thousands of rockets to Ukraine in its fight against Russia, Ivica Dačić said that zero weapons have been exported from the country to any parties involved in the “conflict”.
The package will be funded using presidential drawdown authority, which authorises the president to transfer articles and services from US stocks without congressional approval during an emergency, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said.
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