Modern history of Ukraine

White House Budget Director Shalanda Young cautioned congressional leaders about dwindling funds for Ukraine in a letter to House Republican Speaker Mike Johnson. The allocated money for Ukraine assistance requested in October, around $106 billion, remains pending in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

Top US diplomat Antony Blinken and defense chief Lloyd Austin spoke with their Ukrainian counterparts on Tuesday as Washington seeks to reassure its allies after a leaked trove of highly sensitive documents appeared online.

The same newspaper also adds that the West has failed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
"It's painful to admit, but Ukraine's victory is becoming less and less likely every day," states the author of the article at the beginning and supports his thesis with facts: the Kyiv army is running out of men and material and technical resources.

In Britain, thousands of people gathered again for demonstrations and marches in support of Ukraine in various cities across the country.

The official Kremlin claims that at least 120.000 Ukrainian soldiers were sent to Donbas.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov referred to the statement of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that there is a need for Moscow to end the war in the region, saying that the situation in Donbas is "an internal issue of Ukraine" and that it can only be resolved among Ukrainians.

By rapidly conquering strategic places along the Dnieper River, including Kiev, the Russian army would actually form a new Ukrainian state that would be pro-Russian. That scenario was announced by Ivan Timofeev, the head of the "Valdai Club", but he emphasized that the chances for this war are very small.

Ukraine celebrated 30 years of independence on Tuesday (24 August) with a military parade and massive festivities in its capital Kyiv, vowing to reclaim territories annexed by Russia, in order to join NATO and the EU and escape Moscow's stranglehold.

Kiev is calling on Russia to end its occupation of Ukraine to achieve stability in the region, said a top official of Ukraine's Foreign Ministry.

Ukrainian police have detained the former president of Georgia who has emerged as an anti-corruption campaigner in his new country.

60,000 people joined a nationalist procession in Warsaw yesterday - the day Poland marks its independence.

The participants chanted slogans of "God, Honor, State" and "Clean Poland, White Poland". A counter-protest was also organized against the nationalists, but it attracted a modest 2000 participants.