President Joe Biden is expected to sign it.Īround half the $13.6 billion measure was for arming and equipping Ukraine and the Pentagon’s costs for sending U.S. The House easily passed the compromise bill on Wednesday. The measure passed with a 68-31 bipartisan margin. Senate has given final congressional approval to a $13.6 billion emergency package of military and humanitarian aid for besieged Ukraine and its European allies. and allies to impose tariffs on Russian imports.Īssociated Press Writer Zeke Miller contributed to this report. That’s according to a source familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the announcement.īiden’s move comes as bipartisan pressure has been building in Washington to revoke what is formally known as “permanent normal trade relations” with Russia. will move to revoke “most favored nation” trade status for Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden will announce Friday that, along with the European Union and the Group of Seven countries, the U.S. He released video showing flashes over residential areas of the city, home to nearly 1 million people.
One strike hit a shoe factory, sparking a fire, he said. Three Russian airstrikes hit the important industrial city of Dnipro in eastern Ukraine on Friday, killing at least one person in strikes that hit near a kindergarten and apartment buildings, according to Interior Ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko. Rough weather on the Azov and Black Seas has stalled Russian ships’ efforts to come ashore, the general staff said. Russian forces are blockading Kharkiv and pushing their offensive in the south around Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia and Kryvyi Rih, Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown. The general staff said Russian troops had been halted in efforts to take the northern city of Chernihiv, notably by Ukraine’s re-taking of the town of Baklanova Muraviika, which Russian troops could use to move toward Kyiv. LVIV, Ukraine - Russian forces are continuing their offensive toward Kyiv on Friday from the northwest and east, notably trying to break through Ukrainian defenses from Kukhari, 90 kilometers (56 miles) to the northwest through to Demidov, 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Kyiv, the general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said in a statement. The strikes were far to the west from the main Russian offensive and could indicate new direction of the war. The mayor of Lutsk also announced an airstrike near the airport.
The mayor of Ivano-Frankiivsk Ruslan Martsinkiv ordered residents in the neighboring areas to head to shelters after an air raid alert. LVIV, Ukraine - Local authorities say Russian strikes hit near airports in the western Ukrainian cities of Ivano-Frankiivsk and Lutsk, far from Russia’s main attack targets elsewhere in Ukraine. The latest developments on the Russia-Ukraine war:
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