Russia attacks Kyiv with drones and rockets

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Russia attacks Kyiv with drones and rockets

Once again, a violent attack brings the residents of the Ukrainian capital for sleep. There are injuries. After the announced weapon delivery stop of the United States, Selenskyj hopes for help from Europe.

Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with dozens of combat drones. At least eight people were injured in the attack, the local military administration said. “According to preliminary information, we have several fires in the Solomjanka district,” wrote military administration leader Tymur Tkatschenko near Telegram. All fires are houses. Damages caused by drones were also found in at least four other districts. Air defense fire was heard for hours in the urban area.

According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the Russian military also used at least one hyperschallraket Kin scarf (dagger). In several waves, ballistic rockets and cruise missiles were also fired on destinations in Kiev and in the surrounding area. According to the unconfirmed information, a main goal was the Wasylkiw military airfield south of the city of three million.

Ukraine has been defending itself against the Russian attack war for more than three years and repeatedly pushes its western allies to strengthen the air defense.

Against the background of a sub-stop of American arms deliveries, the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj meanwhile asked the EU to strengthen its own armaments industry. “We have to build Europe’s own defense industry so that Russia cannot be superior to us in any area,” said the head of state when visiting Aarhus in Danish. According to Selenskyj, despite the provisional delivery stop, Selenskyj continues to support the USA and seeks to talk to US President Donald Trump

In the eastern Ukrainian area of ​​Donetsk, at least five people had previously been killed by Russian attacks on Thursday. Another twelve were injured, the military governor of the area, Wadym Filaschkin, said at Telegram. Two men were killed in the front of Pokrowsk near the front, three more in the villages of Bilezke and Illiniwka.

Also in the east of Ukraine, a couple in the Kharkiw area were violated in a drone attack. The 56 -year -old man and his 51 -year -old woman were traveling by car in the Kupjansk district when a drone met her vehicle, the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform reported, citing the regional prosecutor.

Arms deliveries for Ukraine and new sharp sanctions against Russia are crucial for the security of Europe, Selenskyj said at dinner on the occasion of the takeover of the EU Council Chairmanship by Denmark in Aarhus. The sanctions should be designed in such a way that Moscow no longer receives what can be used for weapon production.

Despite unprecedented sanctions, Russia continues its war against the neighboring country with unchanged hardness and, including the criminal peninsula, which was already annexed in 2014, almost controls a fifth of the Ukrainian state area. With a possible withdrawal from the United States from the support of Ukraine, Kiev threatens to be lost.

US media had reported on Wednesday about an American delivery freezer of certain rockets and ammunition to Ukraine – although they were already agreed. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense then announced that it had not been officially informed about the “attitude or revision of the delivery plans for the agreed military aid”. A telephone conversation with the US colleagues asked for additional clarification of the details.

From the point of view of the new EU Council Chairman Denmark, a possible US weapon delivery stop must also be collected by the European countries. Of course, it would be a big setback for Ukraine, Europe and NATO if the United States decided not to deliver what it needs to Ukraine, the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiks said at a press conference with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Aarhus. The decisions made in Washington will look at Washington, and if gaps arise, then they would have to be filled, said Frederiksen. “As Europeans, we have to deliver what is needed on the battlefield.”