Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has dragged on for greater than two years. (File)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated Sunday that Kyiv will lose the battle in opposition to Russia if the US Congress doesn’t approve army support to battle Moscow’s invasion.
Republicans in Congress have been blocking tens of billions of {dollars} in army help for Kyiv for months.
“It’s essential to particularly inform Congress that if Congress doesn’t assist Ukraine, Ukraine will lose the battle,” Zelensky stated throughout a video assembly of Kyiv-organised fundraising platform United24.
Zelensky stated it will be “troublesome” for Ukraine to “keep” (survive) with out the help.
He stated that “if Ukraine loses the battle, different states shall be attacked.”
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has dragged on for greater than two years.
Kyiv stated Sunday {that a} Russian strike in town of Gulyaipole within the southern Zaporizhzhia area killed three folks.
“Two males and a girl died beneath the rubble of their very own personal home, which was hit by a Russian shell,” the pinnacle of the area, Ivan Fedorov, stated on social media.
Officers stated one other civilian, a girl, was killed within the metropolis of Kupiansk, within the northeastern Kharkiv area that has seen elevated assaults in current months.
“A lady died beneath the rubble in an residence on the fourth flooring of a high-rise constructing,” Ukraine’s state emergency providers stated, including that it was a residential constructing.
Authorities in the primary metropolis of Kharkiv stated Russia launched one other assault on Sunday, wounding 5 civilians, a day after a lethal assault there.
Russia, in the meantime, stated it had destroyed 15 Ukrainian drones over its border Belgorod and Bryansk areas, reporting the demise of a younger girl.
Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov stated shrapnel hit a automotive with a household of six inside within the village of Shagarovka, some 35 kilometres (20 miles) from the border with Ukraine.
“Sadly, a lady died,” Gladkov stated, with out specifying whether or not she was a minor. “She died from her wounds on the spot.”
Gladkov stated her father had a head wound and that two youngsters had been taken to hospital.
The Russian military stated it had destroyed 12 Ukrainian drones over the Belgorod area and three over the Bryansk area — each territories have been usually focused by Kyiv.
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