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The damage to the Patriot system was so limited that it has now been fixed, oficial says.
#UPDATE Ukraine's army reports several explosions in Kyiv and other parts of the country early Thursday morning, urging people to stay in bomb shelters.
"According to preliminary information, the fall of debris was recorded in the Darnytskyi district of the capital. Data on victims and destruction are currently being verified," Serhii Popko, head of Kyiv's civil and military administration, wrote on Telegram, noting that anti-aircraft defences are working
Video Of Air Defenses Prompts Arrests
The US, Canada and Japan have signed up to a European initiative to create a register to document the damage inflicted on Ukraine by Russia’s invasion
Debates within NATO nations over providing Ukraine with combat jets continues unabated.
Any decision to send F-16 fighter jets to #Ukraine will fall on the White House, the UK and German defense ministers say despite a jet “coalition” announced by Britain and the Netherlands this week.
Update: Reuters: European Union foreign policy official calls on bloc governments for 3.5 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...alling-debris-causes-fire-in-city/ar-AA1bkSIYRussia-Ukraine war live: Kyiv officials decry ‘unprecedented’ recent missile strikes as falling debris causes fire in city
This morning’s strikes on Kyiv are the ninth in a series of recent raids by Russia that are “unprecedented in their power, intensity and variety,” the Kyiv City Regional City Administration (KMBA) wrote a short while ago on Telegram. Air raid alerts are still in place for Kyiv. “This time the attack was carried out by strategic bombers Tu-95MS, Tu-160 from the Caspian region, probably by cruise missiles of the X-101/555 type. After launching the rockets, the enemy deployed its reconnaissance UAVs over the capital,” the KMBA wrote. A fire broke out at a business in the city’s Darnytskyi district as a result of falling debris, and an explosion was recorded in the Desnyansky district, according to Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko.
NATO reaches back to Cold War past with first major defence plans in decades
Rail traffic has been suspended between Simferopol, capital of the Crimean peninsula, and city of Sevastopol,
after a freight train derailment. Journalist Dasha Chernyshova reports from Moscow
Russia arrests hypersonic missile engineers
These arrests were made public in an open letter from the staff of RAS Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, published on May 16.
According to the letter, Valery Zvegintsev, head of the aerodynamics lab of at the institute, has been arrested on charges of high treason.
"The past year has seen the arrest of three prominent aerodynamics scientists at our institute – Anatoly Maslov, Alexander Shiplyuk, and Valery Zvegintsev – on suspicion of committing a crime under the graves article the Criminal Code – high treason," the letter reads.
Arrest of rocket scientists spreads alarm in Russia's scientific community. Listen to @MarkJTrev and @kimvinnell
on the Reuters World News Podcast https://reut.rs/3WcWCDK
Vоlоdуmуr Zelenskyі created a council for the liberation of Crimea.
It included:
Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmуtrо Kuleba.
BREAKING: Ukraine says that it controls southwestern Bakhmut
The Pentagon mistakenly overestimated the cost of equipment transferred to Ukraine by $3 billion, writes Reuters. This mistake allows Washington to carry out additional deliveries.
Ukrainian troops have in recent weeks used the US-made Patriot air defense system to shoot down at least one faraway Russian fighter jet. The Russian jets have largely been staying behind Russian defensive lines, making them difficult for Ukraine to target with shorter-range systems like NASAMs.
CNN: US signals to allies that it won’t block them from exporting F-16 jets to Ukraine.
Sources familiar with the matter told CNN that the Biden administration has conveyed to European allies its willingness to permit them to export F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.
The move comes in response to mounting pressure from Congress members and allies urging the White House to assist Ukraine in acquiring the aircraft as Russian aerial attacks intensify.
