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What Biden hopes to accomplish at NATO summit; GOP sets 2024 Iowa Caucuses for Jan. 15th
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What Biden hopes to accomplish at NATO summit; GOP sets 2024 Iowa Caucuses for Jan. 15th
The U.S. recently agreed to send controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine. Charlie D'Agata got a look at the devastation these weapons can cause at a clinic in Ukraine.
Moscow is claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with the leader of the Wagner Mercenary Group and his commanders, days after the group's failed mutiny. A Kremlin spokesman said the three-hour meeting took place on June 29 and ended with Wagner forces pledging loyalty to Putin. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata reports.
Moscow is claiming Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with the leader of the mercenary Wagner Group days after the group's failed mutiny. Retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster joined CBS News to talk about that alleged meeting, the U.S. supplying Ukraine with cluster bombs and Ukraine's path to NATO membership.
President Biden met with King Charles Monday for the first time since the king's coronation in May. It comes ahead of the high-stakes NATO summit in Lithuania this week. CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang and Nigel Fletcher, political historian at King's College London, have more on the president's visit to Europe.
Biden sat down with King Charles for the first time since his coronation, but meetings with NATO allies seeking cohesion on Ukraine are the real work.
In Ukraine, CBS News got a rare look inside a medical clinic on the front lines of the war facing the devastating aftermath of controversial cluster bombings. Charlie D'Agata saw the human impact of the weapons up close, at an undisclosed location in eastern Ukraine. Warning, this report contains disturbing images.
As Wimbledon begins its second week of play in London, the world is watching the return of tennis players from Russia and Belarus after they were banned from play last year due to Russia's war in Ukraine. This year a total of 18 players from those countries qualified in singles play, but not without controversy. To talk about the situation, CBS News was joined by Jules Boykoff, an author and professor of political science at Pacific University and a former Olympic soccer player.
CBS News was speaking to a doctor when shrapnel from a suspected Russian cluster bomb tore through soldiers and civilians just yards from his clinic.
NATO allies have been increasing their air patrols, especially near Lithuania, which borders both Russia and Belarus. Holly Williams takes a look at some of the air drills.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Polish President Andrzej Duda on Sunday morning honored the victims of a World War II massacre of tens of thousands of Poles at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists — with the countries now united in the backdrop of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Charlie D'Agata reports from Ukraine.
Ukrainian forces recently began a counteroffensive to take back Russian-controlled territory in the east and south of the country.
The Biden administration announced Friday that the U.S. will provide Ukraine with cluster munitions in its latest $800 million military aid package. Cluster munitions, which break up in mid-air into smaller explosives as they approach their target, are banned by more than 120 countries. Charlie D'Agata has details.
Many U.S. allies have banned cluster munitions, but there is evidence that both Russia and Ukraine have used them on the battlefield.
The Biden administration has decided to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine for the war against Russia, even though the United Nations urges the warring countries to avoid using them.
The Biden administration is expected to announce Friday that it will provide Ukraine with controversial cluster munitions. This comes ahead of the annual NATO summit in Europe next week. CBS News' Holly Williams reports from London.
U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drones were carrying out an operation against ISIS targets when they were confronted by Russian jets for the second time in less than 24 hours, officials said.
It is unclear if Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose mercenary Wagner Group attempted to march on Moscow last month, is in Russia or Belarus. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has given different answers regarding Prigozhin's whereabouts, most recently telling reporters that Prigozhin was in St. Petersburg. Charlie D'Agata reports from Ukraine on the latest.
The rebellion leader's whereabouts have been unclear since his brief uprising, but pro-Kremlin media are showing photos purportedly from his raided mansion.
Russian missiles hit downtown Lviv early Thursday in what Ukrainian officials called the biggest attack to date on civilian areas in the major western city. Ukraine, meanwhile, carried out a strike in Russian-held territory, as both sides accused each other of plotting to sabotage the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
The president of Belarus says the head of Russia's Wagner paramilitary army, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is not in Belarus, but his hometown of St. Petersburg. The Wagner leader hasn't been seen in public since the end of the mutiny he led in Russia nearly two weeks ago. BBC News Russia editor Steve Rosenberg was one of a small group of journalists who attended a round table discussion Thursday with President Aleksandr Lukashenko in Minsk.
Government officials in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, have warned residents to prepare for a nuclear emergency amid concerns the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant could be attacked. Also, at least four people were killed in Lviv after a Russian missile strike on an apartment building. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata has more.
President Biden will attend the NATO summit next week in the Baltics, a key strategic region that borders Russia but is part of the NATO alliance. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams visited a NATO airbase and saw how NATO has ramped up its air policing since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, binds the U.S. together with its allies in Europe with a promise to defend each other if they come under attack. And those European allies also work together to intercept Russian aircraft approaching NATO airspace. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams was on board a NATO aircraft as it carried out a patrol and has more.
With Russia's Vladimir Putin holding territory in Ukraine, America's Baltic allies are having "nightmares" about NATO unity - and American leadership.