u.s. state department

Pentagon has no more money for Ukraine as it hosts a meeting of 50 allies on support for Kyiv

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By TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR (Associated Press) WASHINGTON — For the first time since Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin established the international group to support Ukraine in April 2022, the United States is hosting the monthly gathering of about 50 countries out of money, unable to send the ammunition and missiles that Ukraine needs … Read more

The West has sanctioned Russia’s rich. But is that really punishing Putin and helping Ukraine?

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By EMMA BURROWS (Associated Press) VERONA, Italy — Sitting on a terrace in Verona as the bells toll at a nearby medieval church, Igor Makarov sips coffee as he describes his life as a billionaire under Western sanctions. Most of his fortune earned doing business in Russia and the former Soviet Union is frozen, and … Read more