KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday urged the West to ship extra air defence techniques as a wave of Russian missile, drone and artillery strikes killed at the least ten individuals.
Seven had been confirmed lifeless, together with a three-month-old child and two-year-old baby, after an in a single day drone strike on the southern port metropolis of Odesa.
Separate shelling assaults on the frontline Kharkiv, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia areas killed one other three, Ukrainian officers stated.
“Russia continues to hit civilians,” Zelenskyy stated in a put up on social media.
“We want extra air defences from our companions. We have to strengthen the Ukrainian air defend so as to add extra safety for our individuals from Russian terror. Extra air defence techniques and extra missiles for air defence techniques save lives,” he stated.
Ukraine is at present on the again foot within the two-year battle as a vital $60-billion assist package deal is held up in the USA congress.
In Odesa, “a nine-storey constructing was destroyed because of an assault by Russian terrorists,” Inside Minister Igor Klymenko stated on Saturday in a put up on Telegram.
The assault killed at the least seven individuals, together with a three-month-old child, Klymenko stated.
One other baby, aged two, was additionally among the many lifeless, Odesa area Governor Oleg Kiper stated on state TV.
Round 10 individuals had been nonetheless unaccounted for, with nearly 100 rescuers set to proceed a search and rescue operation in a single day.
Footage shared from the scene confirmed a number of flooring of a residential constructing collapsed and its facade ripped off.
Ukraine’s air drive stated falling particles from Russian drones it had shot down fell onto residential buildings in each Odesa and Kharkiv.
Separate shelling assaults within the frontline areas of Kharkiv within the northeast, and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia within the south killed three extra, the provincial heads stated.
‘Troublesome scenario’
The assaults got here with Russia searching for to press its benefit on the battlefield.
Kyiv has admitted it’s closely outgunned and outnumbered, dealing with ammunition shortages amid assist delays.
Half of all promised Western ammunition arrives within the nation late, the defence minister has stated, in what he known as crucial delays that price lives and territory.
Russian forces have superior westwards following final month’s seize of Avdiivka, and have seized a number of small villages in latest days.
Visiting frontline navy posts on Saturday, Ukraine’s new Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky stated “the scenario on the entrance stays tough, however managed”.
Kyiv additionally appeared to have launched its personal in a single day drone assault that broken a residential constructing in Saint Petersburg, Russia’s second metropolis.
Movies on Russian social media confirmed what seemed to be a drone spiralling downwards into the constructing, triggering an explosion, blowing out home windows and inflicting small fires.
Town’s Nationwide Guard division stated its preliminary assumption was that the harm was attributable to a “falling drone”.
Ukrainian media reported that the drone was shot down by Russia’s air defences whereas concentrating on an oil depot round a kilometre from the crash web site.
Kyiv has hit a number of Russian oil services in latest months in what it has known as truthful retribution for Moscow’s assaults on Ukraine’s energy grid.
Russia’s Investigative Committee stated individually that 4 of its officers had been injured when a Ukrainian drone dropped explosives over the Bryansk border area.
Russia additionally expressed outrage at a leak of confidential German military talks during which officers allegedly mentioned missile strikes on the annexed Crimean peninsula.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday promised a full investigation after the top of Russia’s state-run RT outlet posted the alleged leaked recording on social media, in a doubtlessly enormous embarrassment for Berlin.
A spokeswoman for the German defence ministry on Saturday confirmed {that a} secret air drive dialog had been tapped, however that they might not say for sure whether or not any adjustments had been made to the dialog within the leaked audio file.
Russia’s overseas ministry demanded a “immediate” rationalization from Berlin, whereas Moscow’s high diplomat Sergei Lavrov stated it confirmed Ukraine’s European backers had been intent on inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia on the battlefield.
Seven had been confirmed lifeless, together with a three-month-old child and two-year-old baby, after an in a single day drone strike on the southern port metropolis of Odesa.
Separate shelling assaults on the frontline Kharkiv, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia areas killed one other three, Ukrainian officers stated.
“Russia continues to hit civilians,” Zelenskyy stated in a put up on social media.
“We want extra air defences from our companions. We have to strengthen the Ukrainian air defend so as to add extra safety for our individuals from Russian terror. Extra air defence techniques and extra missiles for air defence techniques save lives,” he stated.
Ukraine is at present on the again foot within the two-year battle as a vital $60-billion assist package deal is held up in the USA congress.
In Odesa, “a nine-storey constructing was destroyed because of an assault by Russian terrorists,” Inside Minister Igor Klymenko stated on Saturday in a put up on Telegram.
The assault killed at the least seven individuals, together with a three-month-old child, Klymenko stated.
One other baby, aged two, was additionally among the many lifeless, Odesa area Governor Oleg Kiper stated on state TV.
Round 10 individuals had been nonetheless unaccounted for, with nearly 100 rescuers set to proceed a search and rescue operation in a single day.
Footage shared from the scene confirmed a number of flooring of a residential constructing collapsed and its facade ripped off.
Ukraine’s air drive stated falling particles from Russian drones it had shot down fell onto residential buildings in each Odesa and Kharkiv.
Separate shelling assaults within the frontline areas of Kharkiv within the northeast, and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia within the south killed three extra, the provincial heads stated.
‘Troublesome scenario’
The assaults got here with Russia searching for to press its benefit on the battlefield.
Kyiv has admitted it’s closely outgunned and outnumbered, dealing with ammunition shortages amid assist delays.
Half of all promised Western ammunition arrives within the nation late, the defence minister has stated, in what he known as crucial delays that price lives and territory.
Russian forces have superior westwards following final month’s seize of Avdiivka, and have seized a number of small villages in latest days.
Visiting frontline navy posts on Saturday, Ukraine’s new Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky stated “the scenario on the entrance stays tough, however managed”.
Kyiv additionally appeared to have launched its personal in a single day drone assault that broken a residential constructing in Saint Petersburg, Russia’s second metropolis.
Movies on Russian social media confirmed what seemed to be a drone spiralling downwards into the constructing, triggering an explosion, blowing out home windows and inflicting small fires.
Town’s Nationwide Guard division stated its preliminary assumption was that the harm was attributable to a “falling drone”.
Ukrainian media reported that the drone was shot down by Russia’s air defences whereas concentrating on an oil depot round a kilometre from the crash web site.
Kyiv has hit a number of Russian oil services in latest months in what it has known as truthful retribution for Moscow’s assaults on Ukraine’s energy grid.
Russia’s Investigative Committee stated individually that 4 of its officers had been injured when a Ukrainian drone dropped explosives over the Bryansk border area.
Russia additionally expressed outrage at a leak of confidential German military talks during which officers allegedly mentioned missile strikes on the annexed Crimean peninsula.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday promised a full investigation after the top of Russia’s state-run RT outlet posted the alleged leaked recording on social media, in a doubtlessly enormous embarrassment for Berlin.
A spokeswoman for the German defence ministry on Saturday confirmed {that a} secret air drive dialog had been tapped, however that they might not say for sure whether or not any adjustments had been made to the dialog within the leaked audio file.
Russia’s overseas ministry demanded a “immediate” rationalization from Berlin, whereas Moscow’s high diplomat Sergei Lavrov stated it confirmed Ukraine’s European backers had been intent on inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia on the battlefield.
