The next for assault this quarter saw Russia launch a significant missile and drone attack on Ukraine immediately, as Kyiv’s best military commander claimed the advance of Kremlin forces has mostly stalled on the front line.
The country’s weather army order reported early on Wednesday on Telegram that Ukrainian air defenses broken five of six missiles and all 24 Shahed drones over its northern, southern, and southeast regions.
Ukraine’s captain- in- captain, Oleksandr Syrskyi, however said Russian forces had failed to make substantial progress along the 1, 200- kilometer ( 750- mile ) front line over the last week, according to a Facebook post Wednesday, yet as Russia said its forces had taken a number of villages in the south.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, was traveling to Italy to attend a Group of Seven meeting as part of a diplomatic tour, and he cited the rejected missile- and drone attack as highlighting the urgent need for more air defense. The barrage came ahead of Russia’s National Day, a public holiday.
A day after securing new commitments from allies for military hardware at a conference in Berlin, Zelenskyy said on social media platform X,” Such a result can be our daily achievement if we have enough tools to repel terrorist attacks.” He’ll meet with U. S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday.
Before they reached the capital, all missiles and drones that targeted Kyiv were downed, according to the city’s military administration, according to a statement posted on Telegram. One person was hurt by the falling debris in the surrounding area and was also the victim of a massive fire at an undisclosed industrial facility.
According to regional governor Serhiy Lysak on Telegram, the drone barrage in the Dnipropetrovsk region of central Ukraine injured at least two people and damaged nine residential buildings.
Zelenskyy visited a military base in northern Germany on Tuesday, where Ukrainian troops trained to operate Patriot air-defense systems, one of the most efficient means of defense against missile barrages, and attended a conference in Berlin on reconstruction.
During Zelenskyy’s visit, Germany pledged a number of thousand strike drones and 100 more Patriot guided missiles to Kyiv. Italian military sources reported that it is developing a new military package for Kyiv that will include a SAMP-T defense system.
Russian authorities in the annexed Crimea region reported that Mikhail Razvozhayev, the local Kremlin-appointed governor, was reported shooting Ukrainian missiles over Sevastopol overnight, with debris falling on some streets in the city, according to RIA Novosti news agency.
Although troops have so far failed to capture strategic towns like Chasiv Yar northeast of Donetsk or Vovchansk north of Kharkiv, according to reports from Russia’s Defense Ministry, gains have been reported in the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
The next stage of its joint drills with ally Belarus was an exercise that President Vladimir Putin’s forces conducted in northwest Russia.
As part of the most recent phase of its tactical nuclear weapon drills, the Russian military paraded Iskander- M missile launchers as part of the latest phase of its tactical nuclear weapon exercises, a show of strength to Kyiv and its allies. According to a post on Telegram from the Russian Defense Ministry, the units in the Leningrad region around St. Petersburg practiced loading” special training ammunition” on the systems.
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