A Ukrainian soldier watches the attack on Bakhmut from an underground headquarters.Image: AP / Libkos
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Almost ten months after the start of the war in the Ukraine Has Russia intensified its attacks on the country again. The fighting is raging mainly in the east of the country. But the capital Kyiv is also a frequent target of drone attacks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was last week in the United States flown and gave a historic speech before the US Parliament. US President Joe Biden has promised to deliver the Patriot air defense system to Ukraine.
December 29th
Kamikaze drone attack in southern and eastern Ukraine
According to Ukrainian information, Russian military launched a new wave of attacks with so-called kamikaze drones against Ukraine on Wednesday evening. The drones were aimed at various targets in the south and east of the country, said the command center of the Ukrainian air defense south Facebook with. Five drones were shot down in the Dnipro region.
The arrival of several groups of drones was also reported from the Donetsk region, Zaporizhia and Kharkiv. Observers also reported on flights towards Odessa. According to reports from the Unian agency, numerous unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down. Most recently, the Russian military used so-called kamikaze drones made in Iran against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. The supply of water and electricity across the country was severely affected.
Lavrov wants to cut off supplies to Ukraine
According to his own statements, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expects the supply routes to be interrupted soon weapons and ammunition for the Ukrainian army from abroad. “We are observing that Ukraine is getting more and better Western weapons,” Lavrov said on Russian television. Therefore, there are calls among military experts to interrupt these delivery routes. “Railway lines, bridges and tunnels” are being considered, said Lavrov. “I assume they’re making professional decisions about how to make those deliveries more difficult or, ideally, stop them altogether.”
(with material from dpa and afp)
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