Ukrainians may be tiring but won’t compromise with Putin, Zelenskyy’s chief of staff says – POLITICO

And this week another former unpaid adviser to Zelenskyy’s office linked to Tatarov, Artem Shilo, was arrested by detectives with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine on charges of embezzling $2.48 million from Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukraine’s state railway company. The allegation is that he was the ringleader of a group involved in the acquisition of transformers from … Read more

Ukraine embraces far-right Russian ‘bad guy’ to take the battle to Putin – POLITICO

From football fields to the battlefield The 40-year-old Kapustin was born in Moscow. He moved with his parents at the age of 17 to Cologne, Germany, where he quickly established a fearsome reputation as a street-brawling white-power skinhead always up for a punch-up with everyone, especially Antifa activists. He tells POLITICO he was unhappy with … Read more

Biden’s man vows more help coming for Ukraine despite US gridlock – POLITICO

“We will get a strong bipartisan vote in Congress. We will get that money to you as we should, so I don’t think we need to speak about Plan B today,” Sullivan said during a Kyiv press conference on Wednesday. Acknowledging that the new funds are taking “too long” to arrive, he added: “I don’t … Read more

Russia bombs cities across Ukraine in ‘massive’ overnight assault – POLITICO

Russia launched an attack on several cities in Ukraine in a “massive” assault overnight Thursday, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens across the country. Missiles and drones reportedly struck the capital, Kyiv, as well the cities of Kharkiv, Lviv, Odessa, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia. Millions across the country received air raid alerts instructing them … Read more