Russian forces tried to advance in eastern Ukraine and trained tank, mortar and artillery fire on Kherson in the south, the Ukrainian military said, as Western allies sought to buttress Ukraine and its neighbors against Moscow
for six National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems for Ukraine was awarded to Raytheon, the Pentagon said.on Wednesday his country needed U.S.-made Patriot missile defence systems to protect its civilian infrastructure, which has been under heavy attack by Russia at the start of winter.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said the outcome showed NATO was "absolutely not interested in a political and diplomatic solution in Ukraine". "We are analysing the intentions of the occupiers and preparing counter-measures - tougher counter-measures than is now the case," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a Wednesday evening address.
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