Vladimir Putin

The U.S. Senate rejected a proposed amendment that would have created an office of Lead Inspector General to oversee the billions of aid sent to Ukraine.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill banning gender reassignment surgeries.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told the Kommersant newspaper that he offered Wagner mercenaries an opportunity to continue serving after their failed revolt.

“Our opponents expected that we would retreat or surrender,” Putin declared. "This will not happen, as we often say in such cases."

"Responsible nations have to come together to hold these perpetrators accountable," Biden told a Washington crowd in April 2022. "We will keep raising the economic cost and ratchet up the pain for Putin and further increase Russia's economic isolation."

Wagner is fully financed by the Russian government, according to President Putin.

U.S. intelligence agencies had alerted top military and administration officials as early as Wednesday about a potential military assault against prominent Russian defense authorities, plotted by Prigozhin.

"The pattern here is clear," said Kennedy. "Not only is the administration deceiving the American people about the motives for this costly and tragic war, but by continually escalating it they put the whole world at risk of nuclear conflagration."

Russia provides about a third of the U.S.'s supply of enriched uranium.