Russia Intensifies Strikes on Ukraine as U.S. Pledges $250 Million More for Kyiv Amid Deepening War
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has announced more U.S. aid for Ukraine just days after the country was hit by one of the deadliest airstrikes since Russia’s invasion in early 2022. On Tuesday, a pair of Russian missiles struck a military academy and hospital in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava, killing at least 51 people and injuring more than 270. “The sense … is that the U.S. is giving Ukraine enough so that it doesn’t lose, but not enough so that it can actually make significant and needed gains,” says award-winning journalist Arwa Damon, who is in Ukraine providing medical and mental healthcare with her organization INARA, the International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance. “This has been going on for well over two years right now, and they really want to begin to be able to see a way out.”
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US helping Israel and Ukraine. Both nazi-states.
Amazing how much money they have for war, isn’t it?
I'm American, can I please just get affordable housing? I work everyday and I'm homeless.
Trump wants to end the land war in Europe quickly while Harris and her newest BFF Dick Cheney want to drop a low-yield nuke on Moscow. How can you Lefties who called my parents Nazis for voting for Ronald Reagan, who signed several SALT treaties, ever justify voting Harris over The Donald whom you all loved back when he was a Democrat appearing in Hollywood movies and on the cover of Playboy Magazine? You supposedly highly-educated voters do realize that "racist" Donald Trump has the EXACT SAME OPINIONS on immigration that CESAR EFFFING CHAVEZ had on immigration, right???
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Dear free world, we are watching the Russian opposition, Navalnaya and other members of the opposition who do not want the liberation of other peoples, unfortunately it is in their blood – didn’t you take into account the experience in the European country of Russia when someone came who destroyed the relationship with Europe and began to use these peoples are in a war against Ukraine!? what if it happens again!? this will definitely happen again, the Russian people don’t need peace, they have been seizing other people’s territories for centuries.
Y'all doing a poor job and lack of knowledge.dont give them no money for what bad leadership
US pledges $250 million nice, but how much does the US pledges to home!!!
If you honor the promises made by US Secretary of State James Baker III, the war will stop immediately. But the US pretends not to know about it.
8:00 Listen to her crying how the west is not giving Ukraine enough to win. No, the west (NATO) committed every war crime they wanted, testing Putin's patience for a nuclear retaliation. They are literally targeting Russian nuclear power plants, in a way so that they can cause another chernobyl, what universe do you live in to not understand what that means? You threw everything at Russia, you LOST miserably and now you are targeting civilians and committing nuclear terrorism. Stop pretending like you have a full deck of cards to play with. You have lost. -Mace Windu
What idiots. Zelensky cant win. Why do countries still care what genocidal America thinks? Russia is not Israel. They're not committing mass murder with Boeing bombs.
Putin's calmness and patience is the only thing that has prevented WWIII so far. It's insane to keep pushing to see how far you can get before he sends some nukes. Idiots.
Help the American people we have our own problems
They should just give them all the money they can print in one day, it doesn't matter because the money has no real vaule
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Zelinski need to be jaild ASAP
Lol dem oc rat news)))
Disgusting
10 million dollars will go to Hunter Biden account aborad to make sure Biden family still have gerneration wealth
To those who have commented comparing the suffering of Ukraine to the suffering of Gaza, Let me quote the father of Hersh Goldberg – Polin the father of one of the hostages murdered by Hamas: "In a competition of misery no one wins."
The money using purchase for more coffins….
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Is America really so stupid? Americans definitely aren't.
Money, money, money …..
Definitely more than what CNN paid.
Smh the usa is the stupidest country n the world n most corrupt n hate this give literally useless
People on the outside doesn't include the callous racists in both the Democratic and Republican parties.
You had to shoe-horn in the Gaza problem into a report of the Ukraine war. Are you people such zealots that you have no shame?
Despite "Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine," as Amy likes to phrase it, Kiev looks nothing like Gaza.
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Monkey land
Waisted money
Nato is criminal organisation should not exist
78 DAYS AND NIGHTS NATO WAS KILLING CHILDREN WOMEN OLDERY IN SERBIA YOU HAVE NOT REPORT THAT
LIKE TODAY ABOUT UKRAINE SHAME ON YOU
USA isn't a reliable ally: Lend Lease approved for Ukraine approved never implemented now expired: Presidential Drawdown Authority expires end of this month almost 6 Billion left? Why the drip feeding USA do you want to have your own boots on the ground in Europe????? Wake the F up get involved send everything to Ukraine how much equipment have you got sitting in the dessert and warehouses ????