The US defense chief vows to protect ‘health and well-being’ of American troops Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said the Pentagon is reviewing its policies and available options “as permitted by federal law,” to protect American servicemembers’ access to pregnancy terminations following the Supreme Court move to repeal Roe v. Wade.

“Those are internal European affairs,” Russian presidential spokesman insists It’s the business of Brussels to decide on whom to grant EU-candidate status, but it should be done in a way that wouldn’t create more problems for Russia, the Kremlin press-secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.

Law enforcement has opened a probe into sales of substandard ‘bulletproof’ vests to the army and volunteers The Ukrainian police have opened an investigation into a suspected fraud after troops and volunteers were sold substandard bulletproof vests, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine’s office said on Saturday. A Kiev resident is said to have been running…