The Russian strikes on Ukraine killed at least 20 people, announced on Saturday, while heavy air attacks continued after the The United States has stopped sharing satellite images with Ukraine.
The decision to suspend intelligence and military aid came Visit of the Temporal White House last week by the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Without American satellite imaging, Ukraine’s ability to strike in Russia and defend itself against bombing is considerably reduced.
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Friday evening, at least 11 people were killed in several strikes in a city in the Ukrainian Donetsk region. The attack also damaged eight buildings in the city of Dobropilya, which is close to the front where Russian troops have made regular progress.
Zelenskyy said that at least five children were part of the injured in Dobroplyya.
“Last night, the Russian army pulled two ballistic missiles in the center of Dobropilya,” he said. “After the emergency services arrived at the scene, they launched another strike, deliberately targeting the rescuers. It is a tactic of vile and inhuman intimidation to which the Russians often use.”
Six other people were killed in front-line cities in Pokrovsk, Kostyantynivka, Myrnograd and Ivanopilya, said officials, while emergency services reported that three other people died when a Russian drone struck a civil workshop in the northeast region of Kharkiv.
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The dam intervened after the United States suspended military aid and information in Ukraine to accept a peace agreement pushed by the Trump administration.
Friday, a journalist asked during an exchange of oval offices if the Russian president Vladimir Putin took advantage of the American break on the sharing of intelligence to attack Ukraine, President Trump replied: “I think he does what someone else would be.”
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Lieutenant-general retired Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, said Cbs news that the Ukrainians brought the break In the United States, intelligence sharing “on themselves”.
It is “a bit like hitting a mule with one two per four across the nose,” said Kellogg about the impact of the intelligence break on the battlefield. “Attracted their attention.”
Although Kellogg indicated that the sharing of information could resume, he refused to say when. “It depends on the President of the United States,” he told CBS Margaret Brennan’s foreign correspondent in foreign affairs in a Interview with the Council of Foreign Relations.
Trump proposed to impose large-scale banking sanctions and prices on Russia until a ceasefire and a final peace regulation is reached.
Zelenskyy praised the prospect of additional sanctions in Moscow, saying: “Everything that helps Putin finances the war must be broken”.
Ukraine’s Air Force reported on Saturday that Russian troops launched three ISKANDER missiles and 145 drones over the country overnight. The bombing contained a mixture of attack drones and lure intended to confuse the air defenses. A missile and 79 drones were slaughtered, while 54 additional drones were lost without causing damage, the Ukrainian Air Force said.
Meanwhile, Russian troops killed 31 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 26 in the country’s Krasnodar region, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Saturday.
The fall in debris of a drone sparked a fire in the Kinef oil refinery in the northern region of Leningrad in Russia, local governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said in a statement. No victim has been reported.
