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NATO Secretary General – Ukraine can win this war

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, “Ukraine can win this war,” while speaking to reporters via a video link on Sunday. “Russia’s war in Ukraine is not going as Moscow had planned.

It failed to take Kyiv,” Stoltenberg said, “They’re pulling back from around Kharkiv, their major offensive in Donbass has stalled. Russia is not achieving its strategic objectives.””Ukrainians are bravely defending their homeland. To help them to do so, allies have committed and delivered security assistance to Ukraine worth billions of dollars.

Moreover, he said, “NATO’s door is open” to Sweden and Finland, calling their decision to apply “historic.”

President Zelensky meets with US senators in Kyiv

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader, visited Ukraine on Saturday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky, leading the latest delegation of American lawmakers to the country as the United States deepens its commitment to Kyiv’s fight against the Russian invasion.

The surprise visit by Senator McConnell, who was accompanied by three other Republican senators, comes as the Senate is working to pass a $40 billion emergency military and humanitarian aid package for Ukraine. It follows a string of other clandestine visits, including by the first lady, Jill Biden, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The trip, a rare international visit for McConnell, highlights the widespread bipartisan support for Ukraine in Washington as the country tries to fend off Russia’s invasion, even as questions remain about the Biden administration’s overall strategy toward the conflict and the scope of American assistance.

The visit was first disclosed by Mr. Zelensky’s office, and McConnell later released a statement confirming it after he said the delegation had left Ukraine. The group affirmed that the United States would “sustain our support until Ukraine wins this war.”

“Kalush Orchestra” won Eurovision 2022

Ukraine’s folk-rap group Kalush Orchestra won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, surfing a wave of goodwill from European nations to clinch the country’s third win at the glitzy event.

North Korean Plutonium

North Korea appears to have resumed the constructions at a long-dormant nuclear reactor in recent weeks that, if completed, would dramatically increase its capacity to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons, according to new satellite images obtained by CNN and a source familiar with recent US intelligence reporting on the matter.