Zelensky has pleaded for more missile systems and jet fighters to shield the country after Russian missile strike on Poltava kills, injures hundreds
At least 50 people have been killed by a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Poltava, Ukranian authorities say, with more than 200 injuredThe attack highlighted how a shortage of air-defence systems is leaving Ukraine vulnerable to Russian strikesRussian missiles strikes on an educational institution and a hospital in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava have killed at least 50 and injured some 200, officials said, in an attack likely to heap pressure on the West to allow Kyiv to...
Zelensky repeated his calls for more Western air defences and urged allies to allow their long-range weapons to be used for strikes deeper into Russian territory in order to protect Ukraine - something the US and allies currently bar Kyiv from doing. Opposition foreign spokesman Simon Birmingham with Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Defence Dmytro Klimenkov and Deputy Defence Minister for Euro Atlantic Integration Oleksandr Balanutsa in Kyiv last week.
“Ukraine needs to be given the ability to effectively defend itself by striking at Russian military targets. This can only enhance Ukraine’s chances of victory.” Russian officials on Tuesday confirmed that Russian forces had launched a missile strike on the military institute in Poltava.
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