Pentagon officials reportedly said on April 6 that the soldiers are on a pre-scheduled educational assignment in the U.S. and are being trained on how to use Switchblade drones. The U.S. included 100 Switchblade drones for Ukraine as part of a $800 million military aid package to Ukraine.
"I think we're pretty close to a deal," Trump told Fox News, adding: "Ukraine has to agree to it. Maybe they'll say no."
Trump handed the letter to Putin during their nearly three-hour meeting on Aug. 15, two White House officials told Reuters.
The number includes 1,010 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day, according to the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces.
"Putin got his red carpet treatment with Trump, Trump got nothing. ... For the Ukrainians: nothing. For Europe: deeply disappointing."
After speaking with Putin, Trump said he didn't think sanctions on Russia were a necessary measure — despite the lack of ceasefire.
"There’s no deal until there’s a deal," Trump said during a press conference after his meeting with Putin.
The two leaders began their meeting at the U.S. military Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage at around 11:30 a.m. local time. The event will mark their first face-to-face talks of Trump's second term and their first meeting in six years, as well as Putin's first visit to U.S. soil in a decade.
Rozhkova, who started working at the central bank in 2015, has frequently spoken out in favor of the bank’s independence from the executive branch and was one of the few top officials not controlled by the President’s Office.
Nearly half of the active Starlink satellite terminals that USAID delivered to Ukraine were present in territories fully or partially occupied by Russia, raising concerns about potential misuse, according to a U.S. Inspector General report.
The Kyiv Independent visited the front-line city of Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast to hear from its residents what they think about the prospects of land swaps between Ukraine and Russia ahead of the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska.
"The enemy struck civilian infrastructure in the central part of Sumy," Governor Oleh Hryhorov said.
