Ukraine announced on Sunday that it had destroyed most of the 45 drones launched by Russia overnight, causing little material damage, while an air-guided bomb killed a woman.
A day earlier, a Russian drone strike on a gas station in Kharkiv caused flaming fuel to spill onto the street and kill seven people, including three children.
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European support
“Europe is the leading contributor to support Ukraine with more than 85 billion euros,” recalls European Commissioner Thierry Breton on LCI. “We are now in a defense industry war. Our industries produce far more than Russia’s.”
Yesterday, Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelensky spoke on the phone and discussed the issue of “needs of Ukraine” in arms and ammunition.
Ukrainian Agriculture
European High Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton is questioned at LCI about Ukrainian competition in agricultural products.
Woman killed by bomb
Governor Oleg Sinegobov said an air-guided bomb targeted the village of Vodyan in eastern Kharkiv region, killing a 56-year-old woman.
45 Night Drone Attacks
Ukraine announced that most of the 45 drones launched by Russia overnight had been destroyed, causing little physical damage. “During the night, the occupier launched 45 drone attacks… and at the end of the fighting, 40 Shahed drones were destroyed,” the Ukrainian Air Force said on Telegram. A 39-year-old man was lightly injured when debris fell in the east-central Dnipro region, Governor Serhii Lysak said. According to officials from the capital Kyiv and the central region of Cherkasy, no damage has been reported at this stage.
Ukraine calls to arms
Odessa, Izmail, Kherson region, Kharkiv: Ukraine was hit several times yesterday. The most impressive strike hit a gas station in Kharkiv, killing seven people. An opportunity for Volodymyr Zelensky to reiterate his urgent need for anti-aircraft defense and artillery systems to counter a strike by the Russian military. Ukraine’s needs were precisely at the center of discussions between Emmanuel Macron and the Ukrainian president yesterday.
Hit again, Ukraine demands armsSource: TF1 information
Trump’s Plans for NATO
Donald Trump yesterday threatened that, if re-elected in the United States, the remaining NATO countries would not be defended, even to “encourage” Russia to attack them. The former US president regularly criticizes his allies at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for not funding the organization enough.
A potential candidate against Joe Biden in November’s presidential election, he is also pressuring Republican elected officials in Congress to bury a bill that would have provided for new aid payments to Ukraine.
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Seven people, including three children, were killed Saturday during a nighttime strike by a Russian drone on a gas station in the large northeastern city of Kharkiv. “River of Fire” in a street and destroyed about fifteen houses.
“Russian terrorists must be held accountable for their actions, perpetrators of such crimes must no longer go unpunished”President Volodymyr Zelensky promised in a message on the Telegram network on Saturday.
According to local authorities, the attack, carried out by an Iranian-made Shahed drone, hit a gas station and spread burning fuel, the fire quickly covering a large area and leading to the evacuation of about fifty people.
According to regional governor Oleg Sinegov, seven people were killed in the attack, including three children: a seven-year-old, a four-year-old and a six-month-old baby. Four people, including a child, were rescued from the flames and as many as fifteen houses were destroyed.
