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BRUSSELS (AP) — Within days, Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved what remained out of the grasp of the European Union for many decades — to jointly buy and send weapons to a war zone — and restored something that was broken for years — trans-Atlantic unity.For years, Putin could sit back and relish in…

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said Sunday that “it just makes me ill” to see people inside of the Republican Party praise Russian President Vladimir Putin as he wages war against Ukraine. Romney even went as far as to describe it as “almost treasonous” to side with Putin.”A lot of those people are changing their stripes…

H.R. McMaster, who served as former President Trump’s national security adviser, said on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin “got a lot more than he bargained for” when he invaded Ukraine last week.Appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” McMaster said Ukrainian forces have done a “tremendous” job.”I think Putin got a lot more than he…

The conservative commentator Monica Crowley, a former Trump administration aide, on Saturday said that a presidential run by former first lady Michelle Obama would put Republicans in “a very difficult position.””If they [Democrats] were to run Michelle Obama, that would put us in a very difficult position because they’d reach for a candidate who is…

© Reuters. Swift logo is seen in this illustration taken, Bosnia and Herzegovina, February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration (Reuters) – Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Saturday French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian had supported cutting off Russia from the global SWIFT payment system in a phone conversation with him. France was also ready…

Press secretary Jen Psaki said the White House is outraged over reports from Ukrainian officials that staff at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine have been taken hostage by Russian troops.Russian forces took over the remnants of Chernobyl earlier on Thursday during the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The move indicated Russia is likely to assault…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A picture illustration of euro banknotes, April 25, 2014. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo/File Photo PARIS (Reuters) -Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will dominate EU finance ministers’ planned talks on Friday, officials said, as the EU weighs how much the war on its eastern borders will hit the economy of the 27-nation bloc this…

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a speech announcing a military operation in Ukraine that countries that interfere with Russian actions will face “consequences you have never seen,” The Associated Press reported. Russia almost immediately launched an invasion into the country.Putin says the operation is to protect citizens from Ukraine aggression and to demilitarize the…

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday revealed a few details about the letter President Donald Trump left in the Oval Office for his successor, Joe Biden.“It was long; it was very long,” she said during a recent appearance on “West Wing” actor Rob Lowe’s podcast. “The script, from where I could see, was…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A journalist reports on the ongoing situation in Ukraine as U.S. President Joe Biden meets with his national security team at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 21, 2022. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts By Steve Holland, Jeff Mason, Daphne Psaledakis and Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Tuesday the…