WASHINGTON: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Washington Thursday to attraction for assist combating Russia, successful heat phrases of help and weapons from Joe Biden however confronting skeptical Republicans who need to minimize off support.

“We’re with you and we’re staying with you,” Biden informed the Ukrainian chief after their high groups met at White Home to thrash out Zelensky’s calls for for extra arms to push again the Russian invasion.

Sporting his trademark olive inexperienced military-style shirt, Zelensky stated Ukraine “has precisely what our troopers want” after Biden introduced a brand new bundle of US navy support, together with refined air protection weapons.

However behind the visuals — agency handshakes throughout a grand cupboard desk and exhibits of solidarity within the Oval Workplace — lay the truth that Zelensky’s second wartime journey to Washington was far more durable than the primary.

The place Zelensky obtained a hero’s welcome when he visited in December, this time he spent his closed-door conferences within the US Congress desperately attempting to beat rising struggle fatigue from Republicans.

Hardline Republicans are threatening to dam Democrat Biden’s request for a recent $24 billion support bundle for Ukraine, and it has now turn out to be caught up in a bitter spending battle that might spark a US authorities shutdown.

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Biden stated alongside Zelensky that there was “no different” to backing the Ukraine funding, including that he was “relying on the nice judgment of the US Congress.”

Talking later on the Nationwide Archives, Zelensky stated, “I assured President Biden that we in Ukraine is not going to surrender and he assured me that America shall be with us, so long as it takes.”

The US president stated the primary US M1 Abrams tanks will arrive in Ukraine “subsequent week,” boosting Kyiv’s forces as they battle Russian troops in a slow-moving counteroffensive.

The most recent US bundle would additionally strengthen Ukraine’s air protection functionality, essential at a time when the nation faces repeated Russian missile and drone assaults.

Zelensky arrived Thursday evening in Ottawa, Canada for an unannounced go to. He was to fulfill Friday with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and members of Canada’s massive Ukrainian neighborhood, and provides a speech to parliament.

In Washington the Ukrainian chief arrived proper after one other wave of Russian missile strikes, hitting cities throughout the nation and killing a minimum of three individuals in Kherson and wounding many in different areas.

Zelensky thanked Biden for the “important help offered by the US to fight Russian terror, actually terror.”

As a part of his bid to win over Washington, Zelensky went to the Pentagon the place he laid a wreath at a memorial for victims of the September 11, 2001 assaults.

However in a blow to Zelensky, Biden rejected for now a request for longer-range ATACMS missiles that may strike as much as 300 kilometers (190 miles) away, the White Home stated.

BEIJING: Chinese language President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the extremely anticipated nineteenth Asian Video games to be held in Hangzhou from Friday to Saturday and can maintain a welcoming banquet and bilateral occasions for international leaders attending the ceremony, the Chinese language International Ministry introduced on Thursday.

Hangzhou, the host metropolis, is now below the worldwide highlight because it welcomes about 12,000 members from 45 international locations and areas throughout Asia, marking it the biggest Asian Video games ever.

The Video games – China’s first mega-event because the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics – is not going to solely function an event for showcasing the solidarity amongst Asian international locations amid the frequent interference of US-led Western forces in its regional affairs, and demonstrating China’s inclusiveness and openness, however may also give a brand new push to financial restoration, because the sports activities occasion itself is a vital pipeline for exciting financial exercise within the host metropolis, and even the host nation, boosting exchanges and strengthening public confidence in its future prospects, specialists stated.

The launch of the Video games additionally unveiled a significant diplomatic occasion in China this fall. The international leaders attending the opening ceremony in China embrace King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Crown Prince Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah of Kuwait, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” of Nepal, Prime Minister Xanana Gusm?o of Timor-Leste, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo of South Korea and Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat of Malaysia Johari bin Abdul, Chinese language International Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying stated on Thursday.

As well as, the Sultan of Brunei’s consultant Prince Haji Sufri Bolkiah, the Emir of Qatar’s consultant Sheikh Joaan Bin Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Prince Faisal bin Hussein of Jordan, Princess Sirivannavari of Thailand and Deputy Prime Minister Edil Baisalov of Kyrgyzstan will attend associated occasions, the spokesperson stated.

The Asian Video games, additionally known as the Asiad, is a multi-sport occasion that takes place each 4 years. The nineteenth version of the Video games was initially scheduled to happen in China in 2022, however was postponed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.

“It’s not solely a sports activities occasion but additionally a significant diplomatic exercise showcasing the solidarity amongst Asian international locations, and the numerous international leaders and senior officers attending the occasion additionally mirrored a consensus on constructing a neighborhood with a shared future in Asia,” Li Haidong, a professor on the China International Affairs College, informed the International Occasions on Thursday.

Such a large-scale attendance additionally reveals the vast recognition of China’s function in worldwide sports activities occasions and different worldwide affairs, demonstrating these international locations’ willingness to coordinate and cooperate with China in selling the reason for human progress, Li stated.

BEIJING: The newly unveiled KVD002 armed reconnaissance drone of the Chinese language Folks’s Liberation Military (PLA) Military has possible participated in patrols and workout routines across the island of Taiwan since 2022, recognized then because the CH-4, analysts mentioned on Thursday.

Shortly after the KVD002 medium altitude lengthy endurance unmanned aerial system was displayed for the primary time in public on the sixth China Helicopter Exposition held in North China’s Tianjin Municipality final week, media studies emerged to say that the KVD002 is a variant of the extremely famend CH-4 specifically custom-made for the PLA Military.

The aerodynamic design of the KVD002 on show on the expo boasted a excessive resemblance to that of the CH-4, and it carried the AR-1 air-to-ground missile that was additionally developed by the Aerospace CH UAV firm, the developer of the CH drone sequence, observers identified.

Neither the PLA Military nor the Aerospace CH UAV firm have formally remarked on the connection between the KVD002 and the CH-4 as of press time.

Since September 2022 and with out the data in regards to the KVD002, the protection authority on the island of Taiwan has often reported the presence of CH-4 armed reconnaissance drones throughout the PLA’s every day patrols and workout routines across the island, which have additionally generally featured Z-10 assault helicopters and KVD001 reconnaissance drones of the PLA Military.

The CH-4 has displayed its capabilities abroad, and it was pure that it received curiosity from home customers just like the PLA Military, Fu Qianshao, a Chinese language navy aviation knowledgeable, instructed the World Instances on Thursday.

The KVD002 can conduct reconnaissance missions across the island of Taiwan and conduct precision strikes when obligatory, Fu mentioned.

Earlier than the presumed commissioning of the CH-4 into the PLA Military because the KVD002, greater than 200 models of the CH-4 have been offered on the worldwide market as of November 2022, Aerospace CH UAV firm instructed the World Instances on the time.

One other high Chinese language drone sequence, the Wing Loong, has been commissioned into the PLA Air Power and given the designation of GJ.

Track Zhongping, a Chinese language navy knowledgeable and TV commentator, instructed the World Instances on Thursday that the PLA Military, Air Power and Navy have all commissioned drones and deployed them in workout routines across the island of Taiwan.

Analysts famous that China’s drone business is providing all kinds of merchandise, together with massive and small drones in addition to refined and price environment friendly ones, from varied suppliers together with the aviation sector, the aerospace sector, the weapons sector and the personal sector.

Totally different navy providers and branches can select from the merchandise that greatest go well with their wants, Track mentioned.

In keeping with an outline offered on the helicopter expo, as the primary armed reconnaissance drone of the PLA Military, the KVD002 can perform precision strikes on hostile air protection techniques, armored targets and fortifications based mostly on air-ground integration plans, cooperate with helicopters by offering reconnaissance information, escort and goal steering, in addition to conduct reconnaissance and strikes independently.

The KVD002 has excellent complete efficiency, is simple to function and preserve, will be expanded for added missions and is able to conducting brief takeoff and touchdown in plateau areas, the outline learn.

Which means that the KVD002 is meant for use in several terrain throughout the nation, not solely within the Taiwan Straits, observers mentioned.