Twelve NATO countries are yet to meet the pledge to spend 2% of their GDP on defense, the American ambassador to the alliance, Julianne Smith, said on Monday. The US-led bloc set the two-percent goal in 2014, after the Western-backed coup in Kiev touched off the Donbass conflict. All members were supposed to make the…

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Ukraine’s leader has thanked US legislators for approving much-needed assistance for the conflict with Russia The decision by the US House of Representatives to allocate tens of billions of dollars to Kiev will bring Ukraine closer to a “just end” in its conflict with Russia, President Vladimir Zelensky wrote on X (formerly Twitter), thanking Speaker Mike Johnson…