The administration announced Friday that it would send four additional HIMARS High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems to Ukraine, bringing the total to 16.
Mykola Khanatov leads a government in exile, providing relief to displaced residents and waiting for the day when his city is liberated from the Russians.
A spokesman for the State Department said the agency was aware of “unconfirmed reports” that Suedi Murekezi had been captured, but he declined to comment further, citing “privacy considerations.”
That dependency is now partly fueling Russia’s war effort against Ukraine and a renewed push in Congress to reduce the U.S. military’s reliance on Russian-sourced energy.
The first cohort of Ukrainian soldiers, many of whom have no previous military experience, have arrived in the U.K. for combat training as the eastern European nation races to replace troops killed and wounded in the war against Russia.