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Tuesday – 4/26/22

Tuesday - 4/26/22

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Ukraine war: Russia targets arms supply routes
Al JazeeraApril 26, 2022
RUSSIA pounds eastern Ukraine
Associated Press, Yesica Fisch et al.April 26, 2022

TORETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russia pounded eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as the U.S. defense secretary promised to “keep moving heaven and earth” to get Kyiv the weapons it needs to repel the new offensive even as Moscow warned such support risked widening the war.

Two months into the devastating conflict, Western arms have already helped Ukraine stall Russia’s invasion — but its leaders have said they need more support fast.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that more help was on the way, as he convened a meeting of officials from around 40 countries at the United States’ Ramstein Air Base in Germany to pledge more weapons. Germany announced it cleared the way for delivery of anti-aircraft guns to Ukraine.

SUPREME COURT to consider ending Trump era policy
NBC News, Pete WilliamsApril 26, 2022

The Supreme Court on Tuesday takes up President Joe Biden’s efforts to shut down a Trump administration program to restrict immigration at the southern border.

The justices will hear courtroom arguments on whether the Biden administration acted properly in trying to end the “remain in Mexico” policy, formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols. It requires people seeking asylum at the southern border, mainly from Central and South America, to wait in Mexico while their claims are decided.

From late January 2019 until Biden suspended the program, nearly 70,000 people were shuttled back to Mexico. Tent cities sprang up in Mexico near border-entry stations, and human rights groups said hundreds of asylum-seekers were kidnapped, raped, tortured and assaulted while waiting to get into the U.S.

GEN. AUSTIN’S ‘weakening’ Russia is strategy
CNN, Natasha Bertrand et al.April 26, 2022

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has transformed into a grinding war of attrition with no meaningful peace deal in sight, the US and its allies have begun to convey a new, longer-term goal for the war: to defeat Russia so decisively on the battlefield that it will be deterred from launching such an attack ever again.

That message was delivered most clearly on Monday, when Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told reporters after a trip to Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv that “we want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.”

A National Security Council spokesperson said that Austin’s comments were consistent with what the US’ goals have been for months – namely, “to make this invasion a strategic failure for Russia.”

Week in Review – Upcoming aircast
Politico, John E. McDonough,

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/04/26/gop-obamacare-aca-health-care-00027585

Freedom to Vote Act
Associated Press, Marina Villeneuve,

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-new-york-legislature-election-2020-congress-a4b0acb7bdc37f642cbbd93c8dfd9cbe

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