Volodymyr Zelenskiy pressed lawmakers in Washington for more weapons to fight Russia ahead of a meeting with President Joe Biden as hard-line Republicans threaten to halt additional aid. The visiting Ukrainian president pressed lawmakers for F-16 fighter jets as well as the long-range ATACMS missiles that Kyiv has long sought.
(Bloomberg) — Volodymyr Zelenskiy pressed lawmakers in Washington for more weapons to fight Russia ahead of a meeting with President Joe Biden as hard-line Republicans threaten to halt additional aid. The visiting Ukrainian president pressed lawmakers for F-16 fighter jets as well as the long-range ATACMS missiles that Kyiv has long sought.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters that he didn’t share the “negative attitudes” of other world leaders toward Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We do not have the same attitude,” he said. Meanwhile, Warsaw sought to de-escalate a spiraling dispute with Kyiv by walking back remarks from its premier that the country had stopped weapons shipments to Ukraine. That came after the two nations’ leaders exchanged barbs in an argument over a Polish ban on Ukrainian grain.
Russia launched the largest missile attack against Ukraine’s power grid since early spring after Zelenskiy urged the United Nations Security Council to revoke Moscow’s veto rights at the body.
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