The U.S. will send Ukraine another 18 howitzers as part of its latest $100 million military aid package announced Thursday, chief Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.
The package also will include 18 tactical vehicles to tow the 155mm M777 howitzers, 18 artillery tubes and three counter-artillery radars, he said.
Exploring the role of facts and analysis in European public life
The uncertainties of the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the need for accurate information to support sound decisions. However, having access to more information can make it harder for people to decide what to believe or not believe.
Η σημειολογία της επίσκεψης του Κυριάκου Μητσοτάκη στην Ουάσινγκτον είναι η ισχυρότερη που έχουμε δει τα τελευταία χρόνια στις σχέσεις της Ελλάδας με τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες. Μπορείτε να φανταστείτε το αίσθημα στη χώρα μας αν ο Μπάιντεν φορούσε γραβάτα με την ημισέληνο δίπλα στον Ερντογάν και έλεγε, «για εσάς είμαι Μπαϊντένογλου»;
Ξέρεις τι πάει να πει να έχεις έναν πιστό υποτελή στη δούλεψή σου; Να σου κάνει όλα τα χατίρια, να σου δίνει τις βάσεις τη μία πίσω από την άλλη, να αγοράζει αεροπλάνα και φυσικό αέριο αβέρτα, να θυμάται μόνο την υπέροχη δημοκρατία που έχεις εγκαθιδρύσει και όχι τις δικτατορίες, τα πραξικοπήματα και τις εισβολές που έχεις υποκινήσει;
Die Deutschen haben ein Problem mit Helden. Das hat mit unserer Geschichte zu tun, weil beim Begriff des Heldentums stets ein martialischer Unterton mitschwingt. Vor allem aber erscheint es uns als archaisches Konzept, das wie ein Fremdkörper in unsere saturierte, an Mitte und Mittelmaß orientierte Gegenwart hineinragt.
Instead of trying to cajole the Stormont parties ‘back to work’, Mr Johnson should be orchestrating talks with the EU to solve the Northern Ireland Protocol problem
What exactly was Boris Johnson doing in Belfast yesterday?
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is trying to turn what appears to be the most strategic move in NATO’s history into carpet-trading at Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar.
“The Russian-Kurdish nexus has been a recurring feature of Middle Eastern geopolitics for more than two hundred years, since Catherine the Great commissioned the publication of a Kurdish grammar in 1787.” — Michael A. Reynolds, The National Interest, March 1, 2016.
How U.S. Policy Is Making a Bad Situation Worse
In the Balkans, and especially in Bosnia and Herzegovina, images from Ukraine of besieged cities, massacres, and mass displacement are re-traumatizing a society that has never been allowed to heal after the wars that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991. Along with the rest of the world, Bosnians have watched the razing of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol with horror. But having lived through the siege of Sarajevo and similar atrocities, Bosnians recognize the velocity and brutality of Russia’s war on Ukraine more viscerally than others—and it puts them on edge.
It’s Hard for Moscow to Win While Mistreating Its Soldiers
Six days before the invasion of Ukraine, a small group of Russian soldiers huddled together in their tents in Belarus. One of them had covertly acquired a smartphone—barred by the military—and together, the group logged on to Western news sites. There, they read a story that shocked them: according to Western intelligence reports, Russia was about to invade its neighbor.
Some 300,000 metric tons of Ukrainian wheat that had been scheduled for delivery to Egypt in February and March has not yet been shipped, Reuters first reported. One of the cargo shipments remains stuck in Ukraine’s Chornomorsk Port on the north-western shore of the Black Sea, and four have not yet been loaded.