Again, air defense sirens are going off all over Ukraine due to the danger of Russian missile attacks. This is happening after Russia launched a missile attack on Kyiv on Wednesday morning, the Ukrainian Air Force reports. The city’s air defense systems are now operational to defend targets against attack from the air. The mayor of the capital confirms this, and says, according to Reuters, that there have been a number of explosions in the city this morning. He also reports on Telegram that several people in the capital will now be without electricity. news correspondent Kari Skeie is now in a bomb shelter in Kyiv and is reporting the same from the scene. A witness tells the Reuters news agency that a loud bang was heard in Kyiv just before 7 a.m. local time on Wednesday. It is not known if anyone was injured. In Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv, the governor of the city also reports that Russian rockets have hit several places. According to the governor, people should not live in these areas. ARCHIVE: A missile attack in Kharkiv on January 23, 2024. Several people were injured and two killed after a Russian attack. Photo: AFP Critical situation for the town of Avdijivka The situation in parts of eastern Ukraine has worsened recently. This applies, among other things, to the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdijivka, where the situation is critical due to constant Russian shelling and offensives, says a local official. – For several weeks we have said that the situation was very difficult, but under control. Now the situation is very difficult, and in some places critical, says Vitalij Barabasj, who heads the city’s military commission. A photo shows residential buildings damaged by Russian military attacks in the front-line town of Avdiivka, Ukraine on November 8, 2023. Photo: Reuters He continues: “It does not mean that all is lost, but everything is very bad,” he says, pointing out that the Russians have deployed large forces and has broken through the Ukrainian positions in some places. Barabash says there are no street fights in the city, but that Russian sabotage groups and reconnaissance units are entering the city to try to show themselves in the streets. The city, located 5 kilometers from Donetsk city, has been subjected to more than four months of sustained Russian artillery fire, and officials say not a single building in the city is intact. Russian forces have almost surrounded the city and are in control in the north, east and south. Capturing the city would be a rare victory for Russia, almost two years after the invasion was launched. Biden: – The clock is ticking for Ukraine US President Joe Biden notes that the package of aid to Ukraine and increased border security has stalled in Congress. US President Joe Biden and the Democrats have recently tried to get through an aid package of 118 billion dollars with military support for Ukraine, security on the border with Mexico, and support for Israel. On Monday this week, Donald Trump asked Republicans to say no to the package. but Trump has told Republicans to vote against it. – The clock is ticking for Ukraine, Biden said on Tuesday and also stated that it is Russia’s business to oppose support for Ukraine. – We cannot turn our backs until now. That is what Putin is betting on. To support this deal is to stand up to Putin. To reject it is to play into his hands, he said. Biden blames former President Donald Trump, who opposed a cross-party proposal for an agreement on Ukraine and border security in the Senate, and asks Congress to show they have backbone. Biden said Trump would rather make border security a political weapon in his own fight than step in to solve the problem. – Everything indicates that this proposal will not be voted on in the Senate. Why? The simple answer is Donald Trump. It’s because Trump thinks it’s negative for him politically, Biden said.
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