Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is convinced that U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an act on granting lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine since the Congress would overcome his veto anyway, according to the Russian newspaper Kommersant.
The U.S. Congress has requested that journalists and other staff of the Russian propaganda TV channel, RT, hand back over to the press center their accreditation cards allowing access to the Congress and the Senate, according to the BBC's Russian service.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) claims Member of Parliament of Ukraine Serhiy Taruta spreads false information about an alleged hearing in the Congress of the United States of America dedicated to Ukrainian authorities and the NBU.
U.S. Republicans and Democrats have reached agreement on legislation that allows new sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea, leading congressional Democrats said on Saturday, July 22, in a bill that would limit any potential effort by President Donald Trump to try to lift sanctions against Moscow, according to Reuters.
The White House is quietly lobbying House Republicans to weaken a bill overwhelmingly passed by the Senate last week that would slap tough new sanctions on Russia for its meddling in the 2016 election and allow Congress to block any future move by President Trump to lift any penalties against Moscow, the New York Times reports.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on U.S. congressmen to consider a resolution on recognizing the Holodomor in 1932-1933 as genocide against Ukrainians, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
Legislation to impose new sanctions on Russia and Iran that passed the U.S. Senate nearly unanimously last week has run into a procedural problem that could prevent a quick vote in the House of Representatives, lawmakers said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
Legislation that would hit Russia with economic sanctions and limit President Donald Trump's authority to lift the penalties faces an uncertain future in the House despite the bill's heavily bipartisan backing in the Senate, according to the Associated Press (AP).