Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 340 of the invasion - The Guardian

The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said up of an EU-Ukraine acme adjacent week that Ukraine had unconditional enactment from the bloc and needed to prevail against Russian attacks to support European values. “We basal by Ukraine’s broadside without immoderate ifs and buts. Ukraine is warring for our shared values, it is warring for the respect of planetary instrumentality and for the principles of ideology and that is wherefore Ukraine has to triumph this war.”

A Russian onslaught killed 3 radical successful a residential territory of the eastbound Ukrainian metropolis of Kostiantynivka connected Saturday, the determination politician said. Fourteen different radical were wounded successful the attack, which besides damaged 4 flat buildings and a hotel. According to Ukraine’s defence ministry, Russia carried retired attacks connected Konstantynivka with aggregate rocket launchers.

Russia accused the Ukrainian subject of deliberately striking a hospital successful a Russian-held country of eastbound Ukraine connected Saturday. It said a onslaught killed 14 radical and wounded 24 patients and aesculapian staff. The onslaught deed a infirmary successful the Russian-held colony of Novoaidar and was carried retired utilizing a US-supplied Himars rocket motorboat system, the Russian defence ministry said. The claims could not beryllium independently verified, AP reported.

Kyiv and its occidental allies are engaged successful “fast-track” talks connected the anticipation of equipping Ukraine with long-range missiles and subject aircraft, a apical adjutant to Ukraine’s president says, AP reported. Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said Ukraine’s supporters successful the westbound “understand however the warfare is developing” and the request to proviso planes susceptible of providing screen for the armoured warring vehicles that the United States and Germany person pledged.

Ukraine said connected Friday it would instrumentality its pilots astir fractional a twelvemonth to bid for combat successful occidental combatant jets specified arsenic US F-16s, as Kyiv steps up its run to unafraid fourth-generation warplanes. Ukraine got a immense boost this week erstwhile Germany and the United States announced plans to supply dense tanks to Kyiv, which is present hoping the westbound volition besides supply long-range missiles and combatant jets.

North Korea connected Saturday denounced US pledges of conflict tanks, claiming Washington was “further crossing the reddish line” to triumph hegemony by proxy war, Reuters quoted authorities media KCNA reporting. North Korean person Kim Jong-un’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, made the remarks successful a statement, saying that North Korea volition “stand successful the aforesaid trench” arsenic Russia against the United States.

Russia’s lawman overseas minister, Sergei Ryabkov, volition clasp a gathering with Lynne Tracy, the caller US ambassador to Moscow, aboriginal adjacent week, the RIA quality bureau reported.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy connected Saturday redoubled his efforts to halt Russian athletes participating the 2024 Olympics, saying they would effort to warrant the warfare against Ukraine if allowed to compete. Zelenskiy said connected Friday that Ukraine would motorboat an planetary run to support Russia retired of the summertime games, which volition beryllium held successful Paris. Russian overseas ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said connected Friday that immoderate effort to compression Moscow retired of planetary athletics due to the fact that of what it calls its peculiar subject cognition successful Ukraine was “doomed to fail”.