– Zelensky calls on Western countries to “accelerate” arms deliveries
As Russian strikes left eleven dead in the Zaporizhzhia region on Saturday, the Ukrainian president is pressing his allies to deliver the promised war material.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a news conference Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, in Kehrsatz near Bern, Switzerland.
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Russian strikes on a town in the Zaporizhzhia region and villages in the Donetsk region in southern and eastern Ukraine killed 11 people on Saturday, according to Ukrainian authorities. Following the deadly strikes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on his Western allies to “accelerate” their arms deliveries.
“The Russians attacked the city of Vilnіansk,” in the Zaporizhzhia region, and “the enemy killed seven people. Two of the dead are children,” said Ivan Fedorov, the regional governor on a social network. Ten people were injured and several buildings, including residential ones, were damaged, he added.
Vilnyansk is located 29 kilometres northeast of Zaporizhzhia, the main regional city, which is under Ukrainian control. Russia claims to have annexed the Zaporizhzhia region, but while it occupies large parts of it, it does not control it completely.
Russia has already attacked Zaporizhzhia and neighboring cities several times since it began its offensive in Ukraine in 2022, but in recent weeks it has focused its efforts mainly in the east of the country rather than the south.
Ukrainian officials also announced that Russian attacks on frontline villages in the eastern Donetsk region had left four people dead. “In (the village of) Zarichne, the Russians killed three people,” Vadym Filashkin, Ukrainian governor of the Donetsk region, said on social media.
Ukraine’s prosecutor general later announced that another person, a resident of the New York border village, “was also fatally wounded.” New York has been under intense attack since mid-June as Russian forces advance toward the city of Toretsk.
Following these new strikes by Moscow, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on his Western allies on Saturday to “accelerate” their arms deliveries to kyiv’s forces.
“Destroy Russian missile launchers”
“The decisions we need must be accelerated. Any delay in decisions in this war means the loss of human lives,” Zelensky pleaded, calling for the delivery of weapons to “destroy Russian missile launchers.”
The attacks came a day after another in the city of Dnipro, north of Zaporizhzhia, which killed one person and injured 13 others, Ukrainian police said Saturday.
“Police have identified a woman killed in a missile attack on the city of Dnipro. She is a 76-year-old resident of a destroyed building,” according to a press release. There are also 13 injured “including an infant and a pregnant woman”.
AFP
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