A Ukrainian embassy met on Wednesday with senior representatives of Donald Trump, a family source told Reuters of the meeting. It was the Ukrainian embassy led by Andriy Yermak, chief of staff of the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The group in Washington with Trump’s choice of White House national security adviser, Mike Waltz, and his ambassador to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, the source said, without providing details. Trump’s transit team did not respond to a request for comment about the meeting.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Wednesday that a Ukrainian drone attack on the premises of Grozny injured a special police unit fighting in Ukraine. The government police special forces unit named after Akhmad Kadyrov, the late father and predecessor of our leader, wrote about the state news agency.
Jake Sullivan, Joe Biden’s national security adviser, called the incoming Trump administration for supporting the domestic defense industry, which the incumbent president started and instigated the war in Ukraine. Otherwise, Sullivan said, the U.S. could quickly run out of defense in a war with China. “The war with the PRC is far from over,” said Sullivan. “But any war with a country like the PRC, with a military like the PRC, will involve the exhaustion of its defenses very quickly,” he told the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The the fall of the French empire on Wednesday and was able to pass the budget deficit difficult support for Paris to fortify Ukraine Despite President Emmanuel Macron’s repeated promises to help Kyiv for as long as necessary.
The US on Wednesday revealed sanctions against five people and four entities allegedly involved in a global network of “sanctions circumvention for Russian elites”, the US Treasury said. “Through the TGR Group, Russian tools are used to gain digital assets – in particular US dollar-denominated assets – to evade US and international sanctions,” said Bradley Smith, the Treasury’s official on terrorism and financial intelligence. Treasury called TGR “a wide-ranging sanction evasion and money laundering.”
Britain’s National Crime Agency He said it was part of a coordinated international law enforcement effort against the TGR, codenamed Operation Destabilizethat “ it also launched a network known as Smart that helped Russians under sanctions access the financial system. “For the first time we have been able to describe the links between Russian elites, crypto-cybercriminals and drug gangs on the streets of the UK,” said Rob Jones, director general of operations for the NCA. “The river that bound – the combined force of Smart and TGR – invisible until now.” The operation also involved authorities in France, Ireland, the UAE, the NCA said. As many as 84 were arrested, and over £20m (US$25m) in cash and cryptocurrency was seized.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy On Wednesday, he denounced the actions of the Georgian government in the secession protests as “shameful” and proof that the ruling Georgian party is working for Russia. Georgian Dream, whose re-election is being debated, has sparked the most recent protests devex plans to join the EU. “This is how the current government in Georgia is pushing the country into open dependence on Russia,” Zelenskyy said. “It’s simply disgraceful what they’re doing in their actions.”
Defense alliance between North Korea and Russia signed by the leaders of JuneHe went into effect after the two sides exchanged ratification documents, a North Korean official told the KCNA news agency on Thursday. The ceremony comes as the United States and nuclear-armed North Korea accuse North Korea of sending more than 10,000 troops to help Russia fight Ukraine.