While US company executives insisted they comply with sanctions, senators remained skeptical, citing evidence of new chips in modern Russian weapons systems.
The FBI-obtained documents reveal Russia's extensive disinformation campaign aimed at winning over Europeans' hearts and minds, which entails manipulating UK, Italian, French and German officials, influencers and journalists.
The President of Ukraine emphasized that Russian terror can be effectively stopped only "by strikes on Russian military airfields, on their bases, on the logistics of Russian terror."
The defense official noted that the US are enabling production at scale to supply allies and partners, including Ukraine, with the goal of creating a deterrent effect on potential adversaries.
Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris congratulated Ukraine on its Independence Day and promised that Ukraine can count on the United States' support in the future.
Both countries will expand the production of missiles, which is beneficial to Ukraine, as the country has been designated a ''highest priority recipient'' of US anti-aircraft missiles.
Against the backdrop of statements from Donald Trump and his associates questioning Washington's continued support for Ukraine if Trump returns to the White House, Stoltenberg emphasized that the role of the United States in Western aid to Ukraine is extremely important.
The Foreign Minister of Poland said that he hopes Trump “would want to be a winner, and a winner of getting to a fair peace in Ukraine, which means Ukraine enjoying its liberty.”
According to deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Ihor Zhovka, he already sees the matter of using Western weapons to strike deeper into Russian territory shifting in Ukraine's favor.
The Biden administration and NATO officials came up with the idea as a way to give something solid to Kyiv at the summit even as they maintain the time is not right for Ukraine to join.
US ambassador Nicholas Burns said that despite its claims of neutrality, China was providing a range of technologies to Moscow while maintaining strong trade ties with Russia throughout the conflict.
According to the Associated Press, since the end of May, Ukraine has been able to attack Russian troops and air defense systems 20 kilometers from the border in the Kharkiv Oblast, thereby managing to destroy entire columns of Russian troops along the border.
Systems destined for other countries will be diverted to help Kyiv protect its cities and critical infrastructure, with the US government set to halt all open orders until Ukraine has enough to defend itself from Russia’s air attacks.
According to Sullivan, the bilateral security agreement between Washington and Kyiv also reinforced this, as part of the plan to create additional combat capabilities in Ukraine.
US and German officials have proposed that the alliance pledge that Ukraine has a “bridge” to NATO membership, rather than an “irreversible path” as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in April, in language that is favored by the UK and several Eastern and Central European nations.
"Today, we can already say that our teams have begun to implement it," the President of Ukraine announced, adding that it is about strengthening the security of Ukraine, the whole of Europe, "and therefore America."
Although Zelenskyy did not specify which countries he was referring to, he noted that he was very pleased with the security agreements with the United States and Japan.