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President Joe Biden’s surrogates will crisscross the country this week talking up the hundreds of billions he’s pumping into projects such as roads, clean energy, drinking water and broadband — an effort designed to draw a sharp contrast with his predecessor’s series of ineffectual “infrastructure weeks.”The White House hopes the message will help convince Americans that Biden’s programs are improving their lives, just months before they head to the voting booth.Infrastructure Week, which begins Monday, was already an annual industry gathering and D.C. lobbying fly-in before Trump’s administration borrowed the name for its unsuccessful attempts to pitch a $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan that would have offered little new federal funding. Now, Biden’s White House is embracing the real event — and dispatching stand-ins such as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, senior White House adviser Tom Perez and acting Labor Secretary Julie Su to appearances around the country.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has cancelled foreign trips as a Russian offensive in north-east Ukraine intensifies.Russian forces have recaptured the symbolically important village of Rabotino in Zaporozhye Region, the Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.The territorial gain was achieved through military action against the Ukrainian forces in the region, in which the adversary lost up to 25 troops and a US-made M777 howitzer, the ministry’s update on the Ukraine conflict said.Ukraine has pulled back troops from some areas in the border region.But the Ukrainian military insists it is "not allowing the Russian occupiers to gain a foothold."Meanwhile in Kyiv, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces an extra $2bn of US funding for Ukraine."We're rushing ammunition, armored vehicles, missiles, air defences to get them to the front lines," Blinken says
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“There are only two rational outcomes in this war, a Russian victory or a nuclear war. You can get to one of these outco…”