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US aid could buy Kyiv time, but Ukraine needs many more troops
Ukrainian artillery gunners near Kupiansk are hopeful about the imminent U.S. aid package, seen as a crucial lifeline in their battle against Russian forces. The $61 billion aid is expected to replenish Ukraine's low stocks of artillery shells and air defenses. While the aid is anticipated to boost Ukraine's defense capabilities, challenges remain, including manpower shortages and questions about fortifications. The aid's impact may take time, with analysts suggesting a possible improvement in Ukraine's situation from autumn onwards.
Russian missile turns Ukrainian market into fiery, blackened ruin strewn with bodies
The Russian missile that struck Wednesday in eastern Ukraine turned an outdoor market into a fiery, blackened ruin where weeping civilians looked for loved ones among the mangled, burned bodies scattered across the ground. The blast in the town of Kostiantynivka kil...
US announces $1 bn to aid Ukraine as Russian strike kills at least 17
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced $1 billion in aid during a surprise visit to Ukraine. This comes after a Russian strike in Ukraine killed at least 17 people. The attack drew international condemnation and accusations of war crimes. Blinken reiterated US support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia and stated that the aid package would further support Ukraine's counteroffensive. The package includes military and civilian security assistance, as well as depleted uranium tank ammunition.
Russian strikes kill at least 8 civilians as fierce fighting continues in Ukraine's south and east
Russian attacks on 11 regions across Ukraine overnight killed at least eight civilians and wounded others, authorities said Saturday, as fierce fighting continues in Ukraine's attempts to dislodge Russian forces from territory they have occupied. The regional prosecutor's office in the eastern Donetsk region said that at least four people, including a married couple, were killed as Russian forces on Friday night shelled the settlement of Niu-York, south of the city of Bakhmut - the site of the war's longest and bloodiest battle until it fell to Moscow in May.
Russia steps up aerial strikes on Ukraine, killing at least 6 amid Kyiv counteroffensive
In Odesa, three employees of a food warehouse were killed and seven others injured in a strike that damaged homes, a warehouse, shops and cafes downtown, he regional administration said on Facebook. Another six people - guards and residents of a neighbouring house - were injured. Searchers were looking for possible survivors under the rubble, it said.
With no peace in sight, NATO countries eye more Ukraine help
Analysts suspect Putin plans to dig in and hold out against a possible Ukraine counteroffensive in the coming months, hoping that the West's costly support for Kyiv will unravel.
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Russia says it wants to end Ukraine's 'unacceptable regime'
Russia's top diplomat said Moscow's overarching goal in Ukraine is to free its people from its "unacceptable regime," expressing the Kremlin's war aims in some of the bluntest terms yet as its forces pummel the country with artillery barrages and airstrikes.
Russia resumes gas flow to Germany with cutback; 3 killed in Kharkiv market shelling
The resumption of gas flows via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany ended a nerve-jangling 10 days for Europe in which politicians expressed concern Russia might keep it shut altogether after closing it for repairs.
Russian military achieves considerable success in Ukraine
Russian forces have also stepped up attacks in the Donetsk region, getting slightly closer to the belt of industrial towns in the region that runs south from Sloviansk through Kramatorsk to Kostiantynivka. “In Lysychansk and many of the towns studded across the meandering front lines that pass through five regions, the Ukrainians may well face a repeat of what happened in Severodonetsk,..,” according to the CNN report.
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