The US does not believe that the recently observed increase in Kremlin statements will lead to the use of nuclear weapons.
According to Ukraine’s emergency services, Russia targeted targets across Ukraine on Thursday, including an attack on Kyiv, which hit a residential high-rise building and another building, and wounded 10 people, including at least 10 people. At least one person had to lose his leg.
Russia said on Friday that its forces have destroyed production facilities of a space-rocket plant in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with high-precision long-range missiles.
The US House on Thursday finalized legislation that would give Ukraine and other Eastern European countries US equipment to fight a Russian invasion more quickly a World War II military loan-lease program.
Here are the latest updates:
Lviv
Britain: Russian military has ‘strong morale’
The British military believes that Russian forces in Ukraine are suffering from “weak morale”. The British Defense Ministry made the assessment in a tweet on Saturday as part of a daily report on Russia’s war on Kyiv.
It says Russia “still faces considerable challenges” in the fighting. The British Army believes that the Russian Army has been “forced to merge and redeploy units depleted by unsuccessful advances in northeastern Ukraine.” It did not provide any information on how it arrived at this assessment. However, analysts believe that the Russian army, which failed to capture Kyiv at the start of the war, may have been redeployed without the necessary time to properly regroup and regroup. , PTI
zapsorizia
‘We have our roots’: Ukrainians cross front line for home
A small, Soviet-built car is in bed tonight for an aging couple waiting to risk their lives by crossing the front lines of war in Ukraine. But they’re not running away – they’re going back in.
“Everything is there. Our roots are there,” says the 75-year-old. “Even the people of Mariupol want to go back.”
They do not want to share their names for fear of their safety as they attempt the long drive back to the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, the scene of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. , AP
Kyiv
Ukraine fights to halt Russian advances to the south, east
Ukrainian forces fought to stop Russian attempts to advance to the south and east, where the Kremlin is trying to capture the country’s industrial Donbass region, and a senior US defense official said that Moscow’s invasion was comparable to plan. I am running very slowly.
While artillery fire, sirens and explosions were heard in some cities on Friday, the United Nations called for a pimp to evacuate civilians from the increasingly hellish ruins of Mariupol, where the mayor said the situation inside the steel plant would be The southern port has become the city’s last stronghold. , PTI
Warsaw
The war has shown everyone Zelensky’s true qualities, says wife Olyanas
Ukraine’s First Lady, Olena Zelenska, says that the war with Russia has not changed her husband, but has only revealed to the world his determination to prevail and the fact that he is the kind of person you can count on can trust.
Ms Zelenska, in an interview published on Friday in the Polish newspaper reexpopolitaalso said she had not seen her husband, 44-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, since Russia invaded Ukraine. , AP
Kyiv
Russia ‘attacked’ Kyiv during UN chief’s visit
Russia confirmed on Friday that it carried out an airstrike on Kyiv during the visit of the UN chief, the first such attack on the Ukrainian capital in nearly two weeks and the death of a journalist.
Vera Gyrich, a producer for US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, died when a Russian missile struck a house she lived in Kyiv, the media group said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said it had deployed “high-precision, long-range air-based weapons”, which it said “destroyed the Artem missile and space enterprise production buildings in Kyiv”.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attacks, which immediately followed his talks with Antonio Guterres, were an attempt by Russia to “humiliate the United Nations and everything the organization represents”. , AFP
New Delhi
Nationalism returning to Europe, warns EU’s longest-serving foreign minister
Mr Esselborn is shocked by the events in Ukraine after the Russian invasion. “I never expected this from Russia. There was a certain amount of trust in Russia in a lot of European countries,” he said during an exclusive interview Hindu,