property at great risk and at best just an idiot." Court chastises Russia for veiled missile threat "I have no clue why they would give a bravery award to a pilot who was at worst maliciously putting himself and U.S. "I don't know of another military in the world, another air force in the world, that would award a pilot for smashing into a drone," Kirby said at a briefing. Kirby said video of the confrontation does not make clear whether the pilot was "intentionally trying to ram the drone, but he did." handlers crash-landed the reconnaissance MQ-9 Reaper last week after a confrontation over the Black Sea. The Kremlin lauded the pilots for preventing the drone from "violating the boundaries of the temporary airspace regime established for the special military operation." Russia honored two pilots involved in the crash of an American drone with Orders of Courage, while National Security Council spokesman John Kirby dismissed the pilot who apparently hit the drone as "at best just an idiot." Remote U.S. "But even in such villages, people return, and this is proof that life still prevails.'' 'Just an idiot': US disses, Russian honors pilot who downed drone "In some places more than 90% of the buildings in the villages are ruined,'' Zelenskyy said. He also noted that despite power and water service still being restored, and with the threat of violence in a province that remains partly controlled by the invading forces, some residents are coming back. "An absolutely mindless state, purely a terrorist state, which we will neutralize.'' "Even the historical museum in Beryslav is a threat to Russia for some reason,'' he said. In his nightly video address, Zelenskyy said that earlier in the day the Russians had shelled houses, the administration building and a museum in the river town of Beryslav. That's more than twice Ukraine's gross domestic product of $200 billion in 2021, the last year before the Russian invasion. The World Bank said Thursday it would cost $411 billion to rebuild Ukraine after one year of war. Rebuilding Ukraine will cost $411 billion, World Bank says foreign military financing would cover the other $660 million. Under the offer, Slovakia would pay $340 million for the Bell AH-1Z attack choppers in a deal worth about $1 billion. has offered Slovakia 12 new military helicopters as compensation for the fighter jets. The Slovak Defense Ministry said the U.S. "We are doing the right thing because it is Russia that invaded Ukraine, it is Russia that is in Ukraine and it is Russia that, when it withdraws troops, the war will end immediately." "Slovakia stands on the right side, and with this gesture we as a country have written ourselves in capital letters in modern world history," Nad said on Facebook. is among several Western nations supporting Ukraine that have declined to provide jets, citing concerns of expanding the war. Poland has also agreed to supply Ukraine with jets the U.S. Slovak Defense Minister Jaro Nad said nine more jets would be handed over in coming weeks but declined to give a specific timeline. 'BESTIAL SAVAGERY: Russian attacks kill 9 civilians, draw outrage Ukraine to get $16B in IMF aid. ►Explosions reported Thursday in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol were an attempt by Ukrainian partisans to blow up a Russian collaborator's car, according to Russian media. An improvised explosive device was allegedly planted on the car of a police officer, who was hospitalized in stable condition. The proposal had been approved by foreign and defense ministers earlier in the week. ►EU leaders endorsed Thursday a plan to send Ukraine 1 million rounds of artillery ammunition within the next 12 months. ►A Russian court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for opposition blogger Maxim Katz, who has left the country, on charges of disparaging the military, as authorities declared other antiwar activists “foreign agents” amid efforts to muzzle criticism of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. ►In a video address to EU leaders, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lobbied for a peace summit in Kyiv.
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