📸 Civilians take shelter inside a metro station during an air raid alert in the centre of Kyiv. A fresh barrage of Russian strikes hit cities across Ukraine Friday, cutting water and electricity in major cities.
During a news conference Thursday, Maria Zakharova said that if media leaks are true, the move by the White House"would be another provocative step."
Two U.S. officials have confirmed to ABC News that the United States has prepared plans to send Patriot air defense missile systems to Ukraine that could be approved by President Joe Biden by the end of this week. "We strongly recommend that the decision-makers in Washington finally listen [...] and draw the right conclusions from our repeated warnings that any weapon systems delivered to Ukraine, including Patriot, and the respective personnel, have been and remain legitimate priority targets of the Russian Armed Forces," Zakharova said.Email this article
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