The US will supply Ukraine with Bradley fighting vehicles, while Germany said it will provide Marder infantry fighting vehicles and a Patriot air defence battery.
While reacting to Putin's order of ceasefire, Price said, "From our perspective, there is one word that best describes that, and it's 'cynical.' It's 'cynical' in large part because it comes just days after Moscow perpetrated these New Year's Day attacks on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure,
Putin also called on Kyiv to declare a ceasefire so that a large number of Orthodox citizens living in areas of hostilities could attend church services on Orthodox Christmas Eve and Christmas Day , according to the statement.
This comes a day after Pakistan Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Tuesday said that there will be no talks with TTP or any other terrorist organization, Geo News reported. Sanaullah's remarks come amid a recent spate of attacks by the banned TTP after the group ended a ceasefire with Islam
TTP is allied with the Taliban, who seized power in neighbouring Afghanistan in August last year. The radical Islamic outfit has stepped up attacks since it announced the end of an Afghan Taliban-brokered ceasefire with the government in November.
The TTP and the Pakistani government announced the ceasefire in June this year. In recent weeks, Pakistan has witnessed a resurgence of militancy in northwest Pakistan.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former federal minister Fawad Chaudhary on Monday lambasted Shehbaz Sharif's ruling coalition for the country's deteriorating economy and announced that PTI would issue White Paper on Pakistan's worsening economy, ARY News reported.
Five people were killed and 10 others were injured in multiple blasts in Pakistan's Balochistan province, The News International newspaper reported on Sunday.
Over 1,100 Bru-Reang militants will lay down their arms and return to the mainstream at a programme to be held in Assam's Hailakandi district on Monday.
Pakistan rangers fired upon the Border Security Force (BSF) patrolling party in the Anupgarh sector of Rajasthan along India-Pakistan Border on Friday afternoon in a case of ceasefire violation.