00:00Donald Trump has said he will send Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine
00:03and that they are desperately needed to defend the country
00:06because Russian President Vladimir Putin talks nice,
00:09but then he bombs everybody in the evening.
00:12The U.S. President did not give a number of Patriots he plans to send to Kiev,
00:16but said the European Union would reimburse the U.S. for their cost.
00:20They are going to pay us 100% for that, and that's the way we want it,
00:24Trump told reporters on Sunday.
00:26The moves come amid a souring of Trump's relations with Putin
00:30and just two weeks after Washington said it would pause some arms deliveries to Kiev.
00:35U.S. Senators touted a bipartisan bill that would harm Trump with sledgehammer sanctions to use against Russia
00:41ahead of the latest visit to Ukraine by U.S. Special Envoy Keith Kellogg.
00:45Trump said he would make a major statement on Russia on Monday.
00:50Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a top ally of Trump,
00:53said on Sunday he had a majority backing in the Senate for his bill,
00:58which was gaining momentum.
00:59As U.S.-led peace efforts in Ukraine struggled,
01:02the bill would allow Trump to go after Putin's economy
01:05and all those countries who prop up the Putin war machine,
01:09he told broadcast to CBS.
01:11Trump has indicated he would be open to the sanctions bill
01:13after repeatedly saying he is disappointed
01:15with Putin over Moscow's deadly missile barges against Ukraine.
01:19Ukraine's SBU Security Service has announced a track down
01:23and killed Russian agents they said had assassinated one of their members.
01:28A two-strong team, a man and a woman,
01:31had killed Karl Ivanbornik in Kiev on Thursday, it said.
01:35A special operation was conducted this morning,
01:38during which members of the Russian FSB agent police put up resistance,
01:41and they were eliminated.
01:43The SBU statement on Sunday said.
01:45It did not specify how many people had been killed,
01:48but the SBU posted a video in which two bodies were visible.
01:52The team that killed Voronik had spent time getting to know his daily schedule and rouse,
01:57the SBU said.
01:59In Beijing on Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
02:02met with his Chinese counterpart to talk about Ukraine
02:06and relations with the United States.
02:09Lavrov arrived in China after a visit to North Korea,
02:12where he received assurances of support in its comfort with Ukraine.
02:16Lavrov and Wang Yi's talks included
02:18the output for settling the Ukrainian crisis,
02:21Russia's foreign ministry said.
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