The Biden administration is sending further military support to Ukraine for its war against Russia in the final days of the president’s term. The White House announced Thursday a $500 million package to provide Ukraine with air-defense missiles,

If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president.

The White House seized a rare chance to undermine Russia and build up regional allies as it built a coalition to support the Ukrainians.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, one of the European leaders closest to Donald Trump, said on Thursday she believed the U.S. president-elect would defend Western interests once he took office and would not abandon Ukraine.

The Pentagon on Jan. 9 announced the final tranche of military aid for Ukraine under the Biden administration, supplying $500 million in equipment including for the first time F-16 support equipment along with a series of air defense systems.

Ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to office, Ukraine’s future course is shrouded in uncertainty as it loses ground to Russia’s far larger military.

Tensions between Ukraine and Hungary over the war with Russia and the expired gas transit deal continue to increase online.

In the first trading day after Ukraine ceased the flow of Russian gas and oil, benchmark natural gas prices in Europe surged 4%.

The disgraced former FBI informant who falsely accused President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden of taking a $10 million bribe from Ukraine was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison, according to court records.