The U.S. will send another $450 million in military aid to Ukraine, including some additional medium-range rocket systems, U.S. officials said on June 23.
"Whoever controls Greenland controls key Arctic shipping lanes and the security architecture protecting the United States. America cannot leave that future in the hands of regimes that despise our values and seek to undermine our security," Congressman Randy Fine said.
The move comes as London looks for stronger tools to disrupt illicit oil shipments that help fund Russia's war against Ukraine, as well as sanctioned exports linked to Iran and Venezuela.
"Ensuring that people can keep warm, cook food, and live reasonably normal lives is vital in enabling them to persevere in this war — a war that they are fighting on behalf of us all," Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said.
Belgorod Oblast Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said the energy supply situation in the region is "extremely dire," noting that the "energy capacity losses are reaching practically catastrophic scale."
The full-scale war in Ukraine entered its 1,418th day on Jan. 11, matching the length of Nazi Germany's fight against the Soviet Union during World War II. Russia has "repeated almost all the worst things that happened in the 20th century," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Emergency services arrived at the scene to extinguish a fire following an alleged attack, according to local residents.
"The wet dreams of British perverts," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.
Russian forces struck an ambulance in the town of Semenivka in Chernihiv Oblast on Jan. 11, injuring two medical workers, a local official reported.
Russia launched a wave of drones towards Kyiv overnight on Jan. 12, striking a building within the city, local officials reported.
