Satellite pictures released on Thursday showed devastation at a Russian air base in Crimea, hit in an attack that suggested Kyiv may have obtained new…
* Western military experts said the scale of the damage and the apparent precision of the strike suggested a powerful new capability with potentially important implications. Moscow had said the explosions were detonations of stored ammunition.
* Heavy fighting raged around Pisky near Donetsk. Further west, Ukraine accused Russian forces of using the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to shield artillery. There was no comment from Russia, which has accused Ukraine of shelling it.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.* Britain and Denmark will provide more financial and military aid to Ukraine, they said.
* China’s ambassador to Russia called the United States the “main instigator” of the crisis in Ukraine, accusing Washington of backing Moscow into a corner with repeated expansions of the NATO defense alliance and support for forces seeking to align Ukraine with the European Union.* Ukraine’s overseas creditors backed its request for a two-year freeze on payments on almost $20 billion in international bonds, helping it avoid a default.
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