Ukraine downed 12 Shahed drones, an Su-34 fighter-bomber and a Kh-59 rocket Sunday earlymorning, according to its air force.
The airplane was shot down over eastern Ukraine, while the drones and the rocket were downed in Chernihiv, Sumy, Poltava, Kirovohrad, and Dnipro oblasts.
Also Sunday, the air force stated that Russia has lost 402,430 soldiers in Ukraine because the dispute started in February 2022.
On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in speaking by telephone with U.S. President Joe Biden, stated he revealed his hope that the U.S. Congress would make a “wise choice” in authorizing a postponed big help bundle for Ukraine.
“We talkedabout the existing front-line circumstance. I am grateful to have President Biden’s complete assistance,” Zelenskyy composed on X, previously Twitter. “I likewise think that the U.S. Congress will make a smart choice.”
Zelenskyy is in Germany to participatein the Munich Security Conference.
Zelenskyy cautioned allies Saturday that low ammo materials might provide Russia breathing space to regroup versus Ukraine, highlighting the requirement for weapons and long-range weapons after his military chief revealed he was withdrawing soldiers from the eastern city of Avdiivka.
During his address at the Munich Security Conference, an yearly event of security and foreign policy authorities, Zelenskyy stated Ukraine is back on the protective versus Russia in the almost 2-year-old war, due to an “artificial deficit” of arms for Ukraine.
“We’re simply waiting for weapons that we’re brief of,” he stated, pointing to a absence of long-range weaponries.
“Ukrainians haveactually shown that we can force Russia to retreat,” Zelenskyy stated. “We can get our land back, and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin can lose, and this has currently occurred more than once on the battleground.”
After a conference with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Ukrainian president and Harris held a joint news conference in Munich. “It is in the tactical interest of the United States to continue our assistance,” stated Harris.
Zelenskyy echoed Harris’s remarks that the help bundle for Ukraine stuck in Congress “is crucial” to Ukraine’s war effort, and he stressedout that Kyiv is counting on the U.S. to stay a “strategic partner.”
Also at the conference, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg highlighted the hold-up in approval of the Ukraine help p