Amid a growing global food crisis, Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements Friday with Turkey and the United Nations to allow Russia to export grain and fertilizer, officials said.
In Kyiv, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba sounded a more somber note on the grain export agreements.
White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the deal is “going to depend on Russia’s compliance with this arrangement and actually implementing its commitments, and of course ending its blockade of Ukrainian ports.”The United States is sending another $270 million in security assistance to Ukraine, White House spokesman John Kirby said Friday. The latest package includes Phoenix Ghost drones, medium range rocket systems as well as ammunition and anti-armor systems.
The latest aid installment announced by the White House Friday comes on top of about $8 billion in security assistance provided since the war began in late February. It is being paid for through $40 billion in economic and security assistance for Ukraine Congress approved in May. Artillery systems helping stall Russian progress in Ukraine, Pentagon says
Morale and discipline problems have been seen among Russian forces, the military official said. Russian troops are deserting and refusing to fight in the face of stiff Ukrainian resistance.The chief of the United Kingdom's intelligence service called Russia's invasion of Ukraine an"epic fail," adding that the country appears to be"about to run out of steam."
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