“It is not that they are fighting the military, they are just driven by the desire to destroy, destroy, destroy us,” said Yulia Datsenko, a 38-year-old paramedic, as she surveyed the damage to her apartment. In Kyiv, residents cleaned up after this week’s strikes. “While Russian rockets fall on a children’s playground and on people in Ukraine, up to 200 Russian Federation citizens travel to the Czech Republic via international airports every day,” Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said. The Czech Republic said it would turn away Russians holding Schengen-zone visas from 25 October, as it joined other European Union members in tightening entry rules. Since Monday’s attacks, Germany has sent the first of four planned IRIS-T SLM air defence systems, while Washington said it would speed up delivery of a promised NASAMS air defence system. “But he (Putin) has got in his back pocket millions of people he can shove into a meat grinder with no rules, no regard for human lives and innocent people and civilians,” he added. “Russia is actually losing on the battlefield,” Stoltenberg said.īritish Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told the Evening Standard people had underestimated Ukraine and overestimated Russia. NATO’s Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, said Russia’s missile attacks were a sign of weakness. The missiles have mostly targeted civilian electricity and heating infrastructure, while some hit busy roads, parks and tourist sites, including in the centre of Kyiv. Russian attacks using more than 100 missiles have killed at least 26 people across Ukraine since Monday when President Vladimir Putin ordered what he called retaliatory strikes against Ukraine for an explosion on a bridge.Īir raid sirens sounded across swathes of Ukraine for a third day on Wednesday and there were reports of some shelling, but no sign of a repeat of the intensive countrywide strikes of the previous two days. But the Contact Group’s security assistance, training, and sustainment efforts have been vital,” Austin said.
“These victories belong to Ukraine’s brave soldiers. Ukraine had shifted momentum since September with extraordinary gains, but would need more help, he said. More than 50 Western countries met on Wednesday (12 October) to promise more weapons for Ukraine, especially air defences after Russia launched its most intense missile strikes since the war began.Īt the meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Russia’s latest attacks had laid bare its “malice and cruelty” since invading Ukraine on 24 February.
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