After speaking with Zelensky, Trump will have another important meeting: with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. It is the first time the two have met in person since the war against Iran began in late February. Zelensky and Netanyahu are in Washington to attend the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham, who died this month at age 71.
Tuesday is a big day in Washington DC, even by White House standards. Veteran Republican Senator Lindsay Graham’s funeral will bring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to town. They will meet separately with President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss two different wars: the war in Ukraine and
An opposition MP, who asked not to be identified, put it more directly. “99 percent of these young people on the street have no idea how the Ministry of Defense works or how the General Staff works,” he said. “They think Fedorov is good because he wants to fight with drones and Syrskyi was bad
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired the country’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. His dismissal comes just days after the dismissal of popular Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, a move that sparked street protests across the country. Initial rumors that the end of Fedorov’s tenure was related to a conflict between the two men were soon confirmed. Fedorov, 35,
The campaign’s objectives have been high profile. St. Petersburg was attacked with drones before Putin’s main economic forum in June. Then there were attacks on Moscow itself, leading to videos of explosions that went viral. There is now a confirmed attack on an oil refinery in Omsk, Siberia, 2,500 kilometers from the border with Ukraine.
