Biden Pledges $500 Million in Aid for Ukraine Bloomberg News U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin feels misled by military officials over the preparation for and conduct of the war in Ukraine, the White House says. Russia has said it’s regrouping its forces in Ukraine in a push to complete the takeover of the eastern Donbas region, a sign that Moscow isn’t slowing all military activity despite a pledge to cut operations near Kyiv and Chernihiv. “The goal of the redeployment of the Russian armed forces is to activate operations in the priority directions, first of all, the completion of the full liberation of Donbas,” Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a statement. He said that forces near Kyiv and Chernihiv had fulfilled their main goals of tying down Ukrainian forces. Russia Tuesday announced it was cutting operations in those areas in what it […]