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Russian forces ramped up their assault on Ukraine on Sunday, with Ukrainian authorities saying the Russians had blown up a fuel pipeline within the northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv and an oil depot in Vasylkiv, a city simply southwest of Kyiv.
Ukraine’s State Service of Particular Communication and Info Safety warned the explosion on the fuel pipeline in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis, might trigger an “environmental disaster” and suggested residents to cowl their home windows with damp fabric or gauze. Residents of the Kyiv area had been warned to maintain their home windows shut due to the hearth on the oil depot in Vasylkiv.
Russia suffered important losses going into the fourth day of its battle in opposition to Ukraine, with the Ukrainian Air Drive saying in a assertion that over the course of Saturday it had downed “a minimum of” 11 helicopters, three Sukhoi Su-30 and two Sukhoi Su-25 jet fighters, and a second big Russian Il-76 transporter airplane, which may carry massive numbers of airborne troops.
In a video posted Saturday night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan “supplied to arrange talks” between Russia and Ukraine, which he stated “can solely be recommended.”
“You already know, at present was an excellent, sunny day in Kyiv,” Zelenskiy stated in his video. “The day the invaders tried to destroy for us, like the whole lot else within the nation. However at present can also be the primary day of the lifetime of a woman who was born in a Kyiv subway this Saturday night time. Now, it’s a shelter … I wish to say only one other thing. We’ll battle so long as it takes to liberate the nation. If kids are born in shelters, even when the shelling continues, then the enemy has no probability on this undoubtably individuals’s battle.”
In the meantime, Western leaders agreed Saturday night to impose extra monetary sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, together with eradicating “chosen Russian banks” from the SWIFT worldwide funds system and restrictions on Moscow deploying its central financial institution reserves.
On Saturday, the German authorities introduced it could present deadly weapons to Ukraine — a historic shift by a rustic that had lengthy prohibited sending such arms into battle zones, and POLITICO revealed the EU would quickly unveil a program enabling all 27 EU nations to supply related deadly help.