Ukraine has only one way to protect itself against Russia’s most powerful ballistic missiles – US-made Patriot defense systems. With the United States now pausing military shipments to Kyiv, they could soon run out of ammo.

The directive, which takes effect immediately, affects more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition in the pipelines and on order.

Russia strikes rained down Ukraine overnight after President Donald Trump ordered a pause on U.S. military aid to the embattled country. A White House official said Trump's aid pause was aimed at pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to engage in negotiations to end the war with Russia.

Three days into Israel's Gaza aid freeze, one aid group says a resumption is imperative: "With humanitarian needs sky high, more aid access is required, not less."

Israel’s cutoff of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive trying to distribute dwindling stocks to the

The aid freeze has imperiled the tenuous progress aid workers say they have made to stave off famine over the past six weeks during Phase 1 of the ceasefire deal Israel and Hamas agreed to in January.