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Russia today launched a new missile attack against Kyiv and redoubled its attacks on the city of Avdivkaon the eastern front, while Ukraine It is still awaiting the release of military aid from the US and Europe.
This morning’s attack followed Monday’s, in which Russia used eight ballistic missilesall of them shot down by the anti-aircraft defense of the Kyivthat has systems Patriot and is the best defended city in the country.
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More than 50 injured in Kyiv
The Ukrainian capital’s air defense systems shot down a dozen missiles, whose fragments caused more than 50 injuries and damaged countless homes, buildings and cars, the report said. Kyiv Military Administration.
The most affected part of the city was that located on the east bank of the river. Dnieper, which practically divides the capital in two. This week’s ballistic missile strikes come after months of relative calm in the capital, where Russia has limited itself to launching sporadic drone strikes.
On the eastern front, during the last day, Russian forces attempted to encircle Avdivka launched more than fifty attacks, all of them repelled by the Ukrainian troops defending that sector, as reported today by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Ukrainian fighters continue to contain the enemy, who continues to try to encircle Avdivka”, reads in the military report, which adds that the troops of Kyiv “they inflict massive losses on the enemy.”
According to US intelligence data, since last October 10 Russia lost more than 13,000 men killed and wounded in attacks on Avdivka.
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Russia attacks with heavy artillery and flamethrowers
In its statement today, the Russian military command reported that its forces repelled a total of thirteen Ukrainian incursions in various sectors of the front and attacked enemy positions with artillery fire and heavy flamethrowers.
He Russian Ministry of Defense He put the number of casualties, including dead and wounded, suffered by Ukrainian troops in the past 24 hours at 615, but reported no progress on the ground.
However, according to the Kiev Center for Defense Strategies, there were “small progress“The Russians east and north of Stepovea city located about 12 kilometers northwest of Avdivka.
According to this “think tank“Ukrainian, Russia would also have advanced in the northwest of Marinkaalso located in the eastern province of Donetsk and another critical point on the front.
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US aid, key
Russian offensives in the east come amid Republican veto on U.S approve new funds to continue sending military and financial aid to Ukraine, which relies heavily on aid from washington to continue fighting with chances of success.
The visit this Monday and Tuesday of the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenskydid not help to unblock the aid, but the president still did not leave USA empty-handed: his American counterpart, Joe Bidenannounced the delivery of a military assistance package worth 200 million dollars to Kiev.
In Oslowhere today he participated in a first meeting with the prime ministers of the Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland and the president of Finland, Sauli Niinistöthe Ukrainian president minimized the importance of having failed to unblock republican opposition to sending new military aid from AND IS.US..
He assured that he had received “positive signs”about this support, but there are issues of time and internal politics in that country.
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Nordic engagement with Ukraine
“The Nordic countries have Ukraineseparately and together, and we will continue to be“said the Icelandic Prime Minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir.
Its Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksenrevealed that tomorrow he will present a new military package worth almost 1,000 million euros and which includes “ammunition, tanks and drones”.
And the host of the meeting, the head of the Norwegian government, Jonas Gahr Storeannounced a new civil and humanitarian aid package worth 3,000 million crowns (254 million euros), drawn from the five-year plan presented a few months ago for a combined value of 75,000 million crowns (6,351 million euros).
Source: Elcomercio
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