Throughout Russia’s widely condemned two-year war with Ukraine, the country’s Irish Ambassador, Yuriy Filatov, has become a hugely controversial figure. .
US President Joe Biden is considering a one-and-done spending bill for Ukraine, and the White House is already drawing up plans to ask Congress to release a total of $100 billion in a single aid package for Kiev, news outlet reported Saturday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is requesting information from the State Department related to then-Vice President Joe Biden’s actions and decision-making surrounding Ukraine, including threatening to withhold aid to the country unless it fired its prosecutor general.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he was suspending, but not withdrawing from, his country s participation in the New START treaty with the United States that limits the two sides strategic nuclear arsenals.