U.S. officials said Austin and Blinken pledged new assistance worth $713 million for Zelenskyy's government and other countries in the region. An extra $322 million in military aid for Ukraine would take the total U.S. security assistance since the invasion to about $3.7 billion.
Russia's defense ministry said the fire on the Soviet-era missile cruiser Moskva had been contained, but left the ship badly damaged. It did not acknowledge the ship had been attacked and said the cause of the fire was under investigation.
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By Pavel Polityuk and Oleksandr Kozhukhar / Reuters
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the Western leaders to go further and repeated his call for a no-fly zone over his country, where thousands of people have been killed, millions become refugees.
After struggling to find a new post-Cold War role, countering terrorism following the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States in 2001 and a humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, NATO is back defending against its original nemesis. But there's a difference.
From the letter: "Considering Russian President Vladimir Putin’s goal to re-establish the Soviet Union’s empire, his next targets will be nearby individual nations that are part of NATO. ... Who is listening to them?"
