The dismissal of Oleksii Reznikov signals a strategy shift. Mr reznikov led the Ministry Since before the start of russias full scale invasion in february of last year, winning praise for negotiations to secure allied weaponry and expanding ukraines army. But as ukraines government has ramped up investigations into corruption, mr reznikov has become the subject of increasing speculation over financial misconduct, though he has not been personally implicated. Meanwhile, on the battlefield, ukrainian generals claim that they have breached russias formidable first line of defences in the south, near zaporizhzhia. General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi told the Observer Newspaper that extensive minefields had blocked troops for several weeks, leaving them vulnerable to russian shelling and drone attacks. But the general claimed that clearing those mines has allowed his forces to advance, saying that ukraine expects weaker Russian Defences ahead. Questions over ukraines slow progress on the battlefie
we are not expecting there to be enough votes to break the 60-vote threshold for the filibuster even if every single democrat senator signs on for the legislation. there are not many republican senators a tht all that would support this, and so that will fail. chuck schumer wants all the senators on the record for where they stand on the issue. other than that the senate is working on trying to pass a ukraine supplemental bill that the biden administration requested a few weeks ago. that s a priority for republicans and democrats. the issue is whether the democrats should combine that legislation with a covid package that they ve already written. the republicans don t want that covid-19 legislation included with the ukraine supplemental package. separately in the house, we re also expecting a bill to be put