​President Joe Biden on Thursday launched a new effort to convince Americans that they should spend tens of billions of dollars to support Israel and Ukraine in their wars, arguing that only U.S. involvement can prevent global chaos. “America’s leadership is what holds the world together,” said Biden, who put Hamas militants on the same level as Vladimir Putin. “Hamas and Putin pose different threats, but they have one thing in common: they both want to destroy their neighboring democracy,” he said. Biden will ask Congress for $100 billion in new spending, including $60 billion for Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel, reports Reuters source.

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 604, LIVETEXT:

05:45 VIDEO Biden: Hamas and Putin present different threats, but they have one thing in common: they both want to destroy the neighboring democracy / The US President asked the Americans for support to finance Israel and Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars

05:40Zelensky reports that he spoke with Joe Biden: We talked about maintaining aid to Ukraine next year, a significant package of support for our country

01:03ROC would recruit mercenaries for the war against Ukraine (SBU)

A quick summary of the latest information:

• The President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, published a message on the X platform in which she welcomed the decision of the Kyiv authorities to recognize the Romanian language as the official language spoken by the Romanian minority in Ukraine, to which the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky responded. publicly in a comment to the message.
• Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Thursday that the US had agreed to supply Kiev with ATACMS long-range attack missiles “on a regular basis”. His statement came just two days after Kyiv confirmed it had used them for the first time.
• The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the latest report on combat operations on the front line, indirectly confirmed that Ukrainian marines advanced to the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region, capturing Peshchanivka.
• NATO ambassadors to Hungary met in Budapest on Thursday at the initiative of the US representative to discuss their “concerns” about Hungary’s continued ties with Russia despite the war in Ukraine.
• The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Oleksandr Bastrykin, suggested depriving immigrants of their Russian citizenship if they refuse to participate in a “special forces operation.”
• Wives of employees of the Russian embassy in the Republic of Moldova filed complaints about repeated sexual harassment of their minor children by a counter-intelligence officer assigned to the diplomatic mission.
• Literally a day after Zelenskyy confirmed that Kyiv troops had first used US-supplied ATACMS missiles against Moscow, Vladimir Putin made a veiled threat to his American counterpart, Joe Biden, inviting him for “pancakes and a cup of tea.”
• Russia shot down two Su-27 jets and intercepted three British warplanes over the Black Sea. Moscow said Russian fighter jets had been dispatched to intercept “three aerial targets” approaching the border.

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• Thursday’s events related to Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro