Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy shakes up government with Svyrydenko as PM

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It comes as Donald Trump confirms he will authorise billions of dollars’ worth of US military supplies to Ukraine including defensive Patriot missiles and the launcher systems, known as batteries, that fire them . The US president and the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, met and announced Ukraine’s European allies would pay for the equipment , with some drawn immediately from their existing stockpiles and then replaced. Svyrydenko posted that she would pursue deregulation, cut back bureaucracy, protect business and reduce non-critical expenditure to achieve the “full concentration of state resources” for defence and post-war recovery . “The state apparatus...