Ukraine’s allies have committed to providing advanced air defense systems to protect against Russia’s missile intensifying missile attacs. Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskky said Th…
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s allies committed to supplying the country with advanced air defense systems as Russian forces attacked the Kyiv region with kamikaze drones and fired missiles at civilian targets elsewhere Thursday as payback for the bombing of a strategic bridge linking Russia with annexed Crimea.
Responding to Zelenskyy’s repeated pleas for more effective air defenses, the British government announced it would provide missiles for advanced NASAM anti-aircraft systems that the Pentagon plans to send to Ukraine in the coming weeks. The U.K. also is sending hundreds of aerial drones for information-gathering and logistics support, plus 18 howitzer artillery guns.
Speaking at a progressive political event in Berlin, German German Olaf Scholz said Russian President Vladimir Putin “and his enablers have made one thing very clear: this war is not only about Ukraine” but rather “a crusade against our way of life and a crusade against what Putin calls the collective West. He means all of us.”
Residents of Ukraine’s capital region, whose lives had regained some normalcy when war’s front lines moved east and south months ago, were jolted by air raid sirens multiple times Thursday after the explosive-packed Iran-made drones found their targets. State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin threatened an “even tougher” response to future Ukrainian attacks, although Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the bridge bombing. The 12-mile span is a symbol of Moscow’s power and carries military supplies from Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. .
“It’s a disaster,” resident Tetyana Patsuk said of her house in the once small and quiet settlement. “I’ve been crying for a month. I am still shocked. I can’t recover from that feeling that I have lost everything now that I am 72 years old, and that’s it.”
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