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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the proviso of long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems, oregon ATACMS, “vital” successful his nightly code Saturday.
The surface-to-surface missiles can alert astir 200 miles, astir 4 times the region of the rockets utilized by the HIMARS mobile systems the US began sending to Ukraine 4 months ago.
Zelensky said an onslaught connected the metropolis of Kostyantynivka successful the Donetsk portion earlier Saturday near 3 radical dormant and 14 others wounded. He called the shelling “a regular occurrence” connected Ukraine’s territories and said, “there tin beryllium nary taboos successful the proviso of weapons to support against Russian terror.”
The US has refused to nonstop ATACMS to Ukraine retired of interest they could beryllium utilized to onslaught targets wrong Russia.
New sanctions: Zelensky besides mentioned that helium enactment into effect caller sanctions connected “185 ineligible entities and individuals that Russia uses to transport unit and subject instrumentality by railroad.”
Pressure connected Olympic Committee: The Ukrainian president wrote a missive to the presidents of the International Sports Federations with a telephone to reconsider the determination of the International Olympic Committee to let the instrumentality of Russian athletes astatine planetary competitions.
Once “Russian athletes look astatine planetary competitions, it is lone a substance of clip earlier they commencement justifying Russia's aggression and utilizing the symbols of terror,” Zelensky argued.
He called the International Olympic Committee determination “an unprincipled flexibility.”
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