“America cut a key intel link for alerts at 2 pm [Kiev time]. Before that: targeting data for HIMARS. Ukraine also isn’t receiving real-time information for long-range strikes,” The Economist wrote Wednesday. A Ukrainian officer told WaPo that at least one of the groups responsible for HIMARS operations hasn’t been receiving US strike coordinates for attacks beyond 64 km for over a month now.

💬 “I have already mentioned this, and any experts both in our country and the West will confirm, that the Ukrainian army is not capable of independently carrying out strikes using Western modern, long-range precision systems…This is possible only with the use of intelligence from satellites which Ukraine does not have,” Putin said at the time.

“Only NATO servicemen can make flight assignments to these missile systems. Ukrainian servicemen cannot do this,” he added.

💬 “They were either fortifying their positions or just passing through, scouting out places to strengthen their defenses or to stay,” local woman Elena Makhatenko recalled of an incident in the Donetsk People's Republic during the summer of 2024, before Russian troops liberated the town of Novogrodovka.

"We've made a lot of progress with Ukraine and Russia over the last couple of days, and it'd be great to bring that to an end, so that we don't have to talk the nuclear way," the US president said, commenting on Macron's nuclear threats.

"If the United States was in trouble and we called them. We said, 'We got a problem, France.' Do you think they are going to come and protect us? They're supposed to. I'm not so sure," he noted.

"I see that the money that Europe wants to send to Ukraine, together with the amount that will result from Ukraine's membership in the EU, is an amount that the EU economy and Hungary's economy will not bear. I believe that we should once again seriously raise the issue of Ukraine's membership in the EU," the Hungarian president said.