Joe Biden criticized Donald Trump’s statements regarding NATO, calling them “dangerous” and “un-American”. “The stakes for America’s security were already high before this bill passed the Senate last night. But recently, this rate has increased even more. And that’s because the former president sent a dangerous, shocking and truly un-American signal to the world,” the US president charged.

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07:37The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia announced on Wednesday morning that its anti-aircraft systems destroyed 9 Ukrainian drones over Russia’s Belgorod and Voronezh regions, as well as over the Black Sea, RIA reports.

Two drones were shot down over the Belgorod region and one over the Voronezh region (on the border with Ukraine), reports the Russian state agency. It is reported that six drones were destroyed over the Black Sea.

The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, wrote on the social network that as a result of the attack, the woman was hospitalized with injuries. So far, neither Gladkov nor the Ministry of Defense of Russia have given details about possible material losses.

01:16Biden criticizes Trump’s “idiotic” and “outrageous” statements regarding NATO

On Tuesday, the US president warned Republican members of the House of Representatives that “history will be the witness” if they decide to block aid to Ukraine that had just been approved by the Senate, another branch of the US Congress.

00:36 Mountain rescuers were looking for a Ukrainian who would cross the border to reach Romania after receiving a registration order in the Maramures mountains.

Representatives of Salvamont Maramureş revealed that they were alerted by the wife of a 22-year-old man from Ukraine, who called 112, saying that he had left home on Monday morning after receiving a registration order, and told her that he would try to contact Romania any at a price

A brief retelling of the last events of the war:

• Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine to freeze the war has been rejected by the United States after talks between mediators, three Russian sources familiar with the talks told Reuters.
• Donald Trump’s national security adviser told Reuters on Tuesday that he would push for changes to NATO if the former president were to return to power, which could lead to member states losing their protection against external attack.
• The US Ambassador to NATO, Julianne Smith, sharply criticized former US President Donald Trump’s statements about defense spending by NATO member countries, calling them “dangerous and, frankly, irresponsible.”
• The US Senate, the upper house of Congress in Washington, on Wednesday approved a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which will now go to the House of Representatives.
• Armin Papperger, the chairman of one of Europe’s biggest arms manufacturers, the German giant Rheinmetall, has warned that Europe will need 10 years to replenish its stockpiles of ammunition.
• Estonia’s foreign intelligence service said on Tuesday that Russia is preparing for a military confrontation with the West in the next decade, but could be deterred by a counter-buildup of its armed forces.
• Bloomberg: How tankers carrying Russian oil were stopped by US sanctions. A large fleet of oil tankers used to export Russian crude has been grounded, possibly due to increased US sanctions.
• Russia announced its intention to withdraw from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. The Russian Federation is suspending its participation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the speaker of the Russian Parliament said on Tuesday.
• Kaja Kallas, the prime minister of Estonia, condemned Russia’s “usual intimidation tactics” on Tuesday after she, Lithuania’s culture minister and members of the Latvian parliament were targeted by Russia’s interior ministry.
• ​In the war in Ukraine in February 2022, Russia lost more than 3,000 tanks, but it has enough reserves of low-quality armor that can compensate for losses for several years.
• Tsakhia Elbegdorj, the former president and prime minister of Mongolia, mocked Vladimir Putin after he invoked historical arguments in an interview with Tucker Carlson.
• The head of the Bureti region of Russia, Oleksiy Tsidenov, published a shameful photo, which, in his opinion, shows the American TV presenter Tucker Carlson during his visit to Russia.

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