Russia pounded a Ukrainian rocket factory following the sinking of its Black Sea flagship, as President Volodymyr Zelensky said his allies could shorten the war by delivering the weapons he had requested.
The Vizar factory, near Kyiv's international airport, was seriously damaged in the overnight strikes, an AFP journalist saw on Friday.
The Pentagon official said survivors were observed being recovered by other Russian vessels, but Ukrainian authorities said bad weather had made rescue operations impossible. The United States has already pledged a new $800 million military aid package for Ukraine this week, including helicopters, howitzers and armoured personnel carriers, and on Friday the German government said it plans to release more than €1 billion in aid as well.
The attack on the Vizar factory was the first major Russian strike around the Ukrainian capital in more than two weeks. For now, Russia's military focus seems set on seizing the eastern Donbas region, where Russian-backed separatists control the Donetsk and Lugansk areas. For its part, Russia on Friday claimed Ukraine was preparing a missile strike on its own refugees at a railway station in the Kharkiv region, in the town of Lozova.
Local authorities say hundreds were killed there, and on Friday the region's police chief said 95% died from gunshot wounds.As well as military aid, Zelensky appealed for financial support in his address late Friday.
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