The missile and rocket attacks came as Ukrainians continued to sort through the catastrophic damage that has come with the three-week-old war.
to his counterpart in China not to help Russian President Vladimir Putin by sending him weapons. During a nearly two-hour phone call, Biden threatened Chinese leader Xi Jinping with “consequences if China provides material support to Russia as it conducts brutal attacks against Ukrainian cities and civilians,” according to a White House statement.But it was not clear if China intends to heed the warning.
“This is an attack on the city of Lviv, on a humanitarian hub where there are currently at least 200,000 displaced people,” Kozytskyi said in a The United Nations said Friday that 816 civilians had been killed and 1,333 injured since the start of Russia’s invasion, while noting those figures likely undercount the true scope of casualties.
The administration is instead contemplating sending Soviet-origin S-300 surface-to-air missiles. Such weapons Slovakia, Bulgaria and Greece. This week, Slovakia’s defense minister professed his willingness to help “immediately” on the condition that other NATO allies backfill or supplement their supply of defensive missiles.
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