War in Ukraine

Republicans, especially those in the House, have resisted providing foreign aid to places under threat, including Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan.

Exhausted soldiers, on the front lines since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, had no means to rotate out for rest, while many thousands of Ukrainian men evade the draft.

Russia renewed its long-range aerial assaults on Ukraine’s energy system last month, more than two years since the full-scale invasion.

The funds and economic resources of Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven were frozen after the European Council imposed restrictions following the Russian invasion.

Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, reaffirmed solidarity in international affairs at a news conference earlier Tuesday.

Some people chanted “shame on you, shame on you” and “Putin help” at local officials who they said had done too little to help their plight.

Russia declared an emergency in the Orenburg region near Kazakhstan after the Ural River, Europe’s third longest, swelled Friday and burst through a dam embankment in the city of Orsk.

On the to-do list: Ukraine and Israel aid, funding for Baltimore, an expiring surveillance program, reauthorizing the FAA and Senate action on Mayorkas impeachment articles.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, which has experts at the site, said it was the first time the nuclear plant was directly targeted since November 2022 and that the attack had endangered nuclear safety.

House Intelligence Chair Mike Turner on Sunday said several of his GOP colleagues have repeated Russian propaganda on the House floor.

The assault on a military airfield near Morozovsk appeared to be one of Kyiv’s biggest air attacks in the war, coming as its forces stepped up their assaults on Russian soil.