No F-16s for Ukraine, US says as battle continues in east: Prime updates | World News
US president Joe Biden mentioned that the nation is not going to present F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine as Russian forces proceed to make good points within the nation’s east. Ukraine was aiming to obtain the fighter jets after securing essential provides final week, an adviser to Ukraine’s defence minister mentioned.
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“The following huge hurdle will now be the fighter jets,” Yuriy Sak advised Reuters earlier. Forward of Joe Biden’s comment, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned that his nation was going through relentless assaults by Russia within the east, warning that Moscow is aiming to step up its assault additional.
Listed here are the highest updates on Russia-Ukraine warfare:
1. Final week, Germany and the US introduced plans to offer heavy tanks to Ukraine.
2. Administrator of Russian-controlled components of Ukraine’s japanese Donetsk province, Denis Pushilin, mentioned Russian troops had secured a foothold in Vuhledar.
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3. Ukraine nonetheless controls Maryinka and Vuhledar, the place Russian assaults had been much less intense, in response to Ukrainian army analyst Oleh Zhdanov.
4. Kyiv mentioned it had repelled assaults on Blahodatne and Vuhledar.
5; Ukraine’s president Zelensky mentioned Russian assaults within the east had been relentless regardless of heavy casualties on the Russian facet. “I believe that Russia actually needs its huge revenge. I believe they’ve (already) began it,” Zelensky mentioned.
6. Russian forces shelled a dozen settlements within the Bakhmut sector over the previous 24 hours, the Ukrainian Military normal workers mentioned.
7. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned Western international locations supplying arms leads “to NATO international locations increasingly changing into straight concerned within the battle – however it does not have the potential to vary the course of occasions and won’t accomplish that.”
