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Pentagon considers diverting Ukraine military aid to the Middle East

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Exclusive Published on 3/26/26 5:45 AM   Weapons that could be redirected from Ukraine include air defense interceptor missiles, ordered through a NATO program.   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits a military site in Germany in 2024. (Jens Buttner/Pool/Reuters) By  Noah Robertson  and  Ellen Francis , The Washington Post The Pentagon is considering whether to divert weapons intended for Ukraine to the Middle East as the war in Iran depletes some of the U.S. military’s most critical munitions, according to three people familiar with the matter.   Although a final decision to redirect the equipment has not yet been made , the shift would highlight   the growing trade-offs required to sustain the war with Iran, where U.S. Central Command has hit more than 9,000 targets in just under four weeks of fighting.   T he weapons that could be diverted away from Ukraine include air defense interceptor missiles,   ordered through a NATO progra...
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Europe [:] Russia hits Ukrainian cities, intensifying bombing as U.S. focuses on Iran

Eight people were killed as Moscow launched a bombardment that included its largest single-day drone assault of the war, according to Kyiv. Yesterday [March 25] at 1:34 p.m.    Smoke rises Tuesday after a Russian drone hit an apartment building in Lviv, Ukraine. (Reuters) By Serhii Korolchuk, David L. Stern and Natalia Abbakumova, The Washington Post   KYIV — Russian  forces have pummeled Ukrainian cities over the past two days, launching more than 1,000 drones that have killed at least eight people and wounded nearly 100, Ukrainian officials said.  The strikes, which included hits on areas in western Ukraine far from the front lines, are a stark reminder that Moscow’s war continues even as Western officials are consumed with the conflict in the Middle East. The bombardment included Moscow’s largest single-day drone assault since it launched its full-scale invasion more than four years ago, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday. Close to 1,000 drones were l...
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Ukraine Finally Got Battlefield Momentum. Now Comes a Russian Offensive.

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Moscow’s forces are intensifying their attacks in southern Ukraine after Kyiv made rare gains along the front. Mykola Tys/Associated Press [:]  A Russian drone hit the 17th-century St. Andrew’s Church in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Tuesday. The building is part of a UNESCO World Heritage site.  Mykola Tys/Associated Press Credit Credit... Pokrovske, a small rural town in the Dnipropetrovsk region of eastern Ukraine, about 60 miles east of Zaporizhzhia, in January. Credit... Tyler Hicks/The New York Times By  Cassandra Vinograd Reporting from Zaporizhzhia and Kyiv in Ukraine The New York Times , March 25, 2026,  5:41 a.m. ET After years of slowly losing ground, Ukrainian forces started the month of March with some rare momentum. Mounting a counterattack on the open steppe of the southern Zaporizhzhia region, one of the most fluid parts of a largely frozen front line, Ukraine in February gained more ground than it lost, for the first month since 2023, accordi...
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