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of western infiltration among the wagner mercenary group. iran has also said that it will not weaken russia s position in waragainst ukraine. turkey s president recep tayyip erdogan has held a phone conversation with russian president vladimir putin, saying turkey is ready to help in seeking a peaceful resolution to the events. among the former soviet union states kazakhstan has been the only country expressing open reaction to the events in russia over the weekend, with kazakh president saying that russia is a strategic ally. and it s also praised russia s ability in ending the military intervention over the weekend. and also, uzbekistan s president has held a phone conversation with vladimir putin over the weekend expressing his support to the country. zari kargar with some of the reaction. james cleverly will be
this historic fight. we hope that this year the 2023 will become a year of victory, this unprovoked and criminal, russia s waragainst ukraine and against the whole world. in other news, the family of nicola bulley describe their agony as police find a body in the river near the place she went missing. scotland s finance secretary, kate forbes, becomes the third candidate to enter the leadership contest to replace nicola sturgeon as first minister. bbc analysis shows that some of britain s local bus networks have been slashed by more than a third. and after a tour of the uk, dippy the dinosaurfinds a new home in coventry. good afternoon. welcome to the bbc news channel. us presidentjoe biden has made a surprise visit to kyiv his first to ukraine since russia invaded almost a year ago.
waragainst ukraine, must end with the clearing of all ukrainian land from russian occupation and firm guarantees of long term security for both our country and the whole europe and the whole world. let s look at the military aid announced. the us has already given $24.9 billion in aid to ukraine. today mr. biden promised to release another $500 million in military aid in coming days. that will include more rockets for himars rocket systems, javelin missiles and howitzers. but he did not mention the advanced arms orfighterjets that ukraine has sought here s vitaliy shevchenko who is russia editor at bbc monitoring. one thing that was missing from the press statements made by both presidents is the f 16fighterjets. compared to president zelensky s visit to the uk, to london earlier