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A outer representation shows strategical bomber craft astatine Russia's airfield successful the Saratov portion that was reportedly attacked connected Monday
By Jaroslav Lukiv
BBC News
Washington has "neither encouraged nor enabled" Ukraine to onslaught targets wrong Russia, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.
He was speaking soon aft Moscow accused Kyiv of carrying retired drone attacks connected 3 Russian airfields, 2 of them hundreds of miles from Ukraine.
Ukraine has not commented connected the issue.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly warned the US and its allies not to transverse "red lines" by supplying long-range weapons to Ukraine.
The US-led Nato subject confederation has ruled retired providing specified arms to Kyiv, amid concerns that this could pb to a large escalation with a nuclear-armed Russia. that invaded Ukraine connected 24 February.
Two Russian airfield explosions were reported connected Monday, successful the Ryazan and Saratov regions. The sites location bombers utilized to carrying retired regular rocket attacks connected Ukraine's captious vigor infrastructure.
Four radical were killed successful the latest specified onslaught - besides connected Monday, Ukraine said.
Millions of radical crossed the state are present without energy and moving water, raising fears radical whitethorn dice of hypothermia successful sub-zero temperatures.
At a briefing connected Tuesday, Mr Blinken accused Russia of "trying to instrumentality retired the civilian infrastructure that is allowing radical to person heat, to person water, to person electricity".
He said Moscow was present "weaponising winter" and "that is the regular and nightly world successful Ukraine".
"We person neither encouraged nor enabled the Ukrainians to onslaught wrong of Russia, but the important happening is to recognize what Ukrainians are surviving done each time with the ongoing Russian aggression against their country.
He said helium was determined that Ukrainians person "the instrumentality that they request to support themselves, to support their territory, to support their freedom."
Speaking alongside him, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin stressed that the US would not forestall Ukraine from processing its ain long-range onslaught capability.
"The abbreviated reply is no. We are perfectly not doing that," Mr Austin said, adding that Washington had already fixed Ukraine much than $19bn (£16bn) successful information assistance.
In different developments connected Tuesday:
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited troops successful the eastbound Donetsk portion wherever fierce warring has been going for weeks
- In the evening, 1 idiosyncratic was injured successful Russian strikes successful the central-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, section officials said
- Russian-installed officials successful the metropolis of Donetsk - controlled by Moscow since 2014 - said six radical were killed successful Ukrainian shelling
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