Ukrainian president will travel to US as Congress debates providing $24bn in aid; summit between Russian and North Korean leaders ends
request to provide as much as $24bn in military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine as it fights the Russian invasion.Cuba is not against the legal participation of its citizens in Russia’s war in Ukraine
. The US said the move was unprovoked and wholly without merit. Separately, Slovakia has expelled a diplomat based in Russia’s embassy, the Slovak foreign ministry said on its website on Thursday. The ministry said: “The reason is his activities, which were in direct violation of the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations.”
The images of activity in recent weeks showed tents being taken down at the Tsel military base in Mogilev region, and may indicate the winding down of the Russian mercenary company’s presence in the country after a brief mutiny inside Russia.
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