A nighttime Russian drone attack left nine people injured, including four children, in Odessa, a large port city on the Black Sea in southern Ukraine, the regional governor said.This umpteenth Russian strike “damaged residential buildings” and caused a fire.Follow the latest information.
NIGHT ATTACK IN ODESSA
A nighttime Russian drone attack left nine people injured, including four children, in Odessa, a large port city on the Black Sea in southern Ukraine, the regional governor said. This umpteenth Russian strike against Odessa “damaged residential buildings” and caused a fire, Governor Oleg Kiper said on Telegram.
Among the injured were two babies under the age of one and two children aged nine and 12, who were hospitalized, as well as three adults, the governor said. One person was also injured by falling debris from a downed drone in the Mykolaiv region, also in the south.
POINT POSITION
Here is a summary of the major information related to the conflict of the last 24 hours:
- Deployment of nuclear weapons: Poland has said it is ready to welcome nuclear weapons on its soil if NATO, of which it is a member, decides to strengthen its eastern flank. According to President Andrzej Duda, who made this statement during a trip to Canada, the subject has been the subject of discussions between his country and the United States “for some time.” In response, the Kremlin spokesperson said that Russia would guarantee its “security” if this were to happen.
- New English military aid: Rishi Sunak, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, will be in Ukraine today. A trip to announce additional aid to Ukraine of £500 million and the supply of new munitions.
- An increase in Norwegian military aid: at the same time, Norway has decided on a “significant” increase in its aid to Ukraine. The amount, which is the subject of discussions between the different parties, has not yet been decided. The Scandinavian country has so far committed to providing civil and military aid to Ukraine of 6.5 billion euros over the period 2023-2027.
- American aid that should arrive “quickly”: after a telephone exchange between Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky, the American president announced that he was committed to sending “significant” military aid to Ukraine “rapidly”, once the American Congress had definitively adopted a new envelope of 61 billion dollars for Kiev.
- A Ukrainian-American security agreement: the two states have “started working” on a bilateral security agreement, Volodymyr Zelensky said in his daily message.
- A strike on Kharkiv: shortly before the discussion between Joe Bident and Volodymyr Zelensky, a Russian strike destroyed the television tower in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, located near the border and increasingly targeted by bombings in recent weeks. According to regional governor Oleg Synegubov, this attack did not cause any casualties, but caused “interruptions in the signal for digital television”
- The Russian army is progressing: on the front, Moscow claimed the conquest of Novomykhaïlivka, around thirty kilometers from Donetsk. In recent weeks, several other villages have fallen, with Russian troops taking advantage of the Ukrainian army’s difficulties due to delays in mobilization and the delivery of Western aid.
- A “difficult period” is coming: In this context, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence Kyrylo Budanov predicted that the situation on the front will worsen around mid-May and early June, which will be a “difficult period” for Ukraine.
GOOD MORNING
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this Monday, after a telephone call with his American counterpart Joe Biden, that their two countries had “started working on a security agreement” bilateral. “Our teams – Ukraine and the United States – have started working on a bilateral security agreement.”Zelensky said in his daily address, also assuring that kyiv and Washington had made progress on the issue of the delivery of American long-range ATACMS missiles.
In recent months, Ukraine has signed “security agreements” with several European countries, including France, the United Kingdom and Finland. These agreements are essentially promises from these countries to continue providing long-term military and financial support to Ukraine, to face the Russian invasion.
The US House of Representatives on Saturday approved $61 billion in new aid for Ukraine that had been blocked for months due to political infighting in Washington.
Joe Biden promised Volodymyr Zelensky to send “quickly” this aid, once the American Congress has definitively adopted it, in order to respond to the “Urgent needs of Ukraine”. “I am grateful to the president, to his team, to all members of the United States Congress”Zelensky repeated in his address, having already thanked Biden on the phone earlier for his “unwavering support” for Ukraine.