"Russia cannot redraw maps at will to meet its own ends" per Canada's @AnitaAnandMP "Sovereign nations cannot be erased from the map and @NATO cannot be divided"
#Ukraine officials - "they believe that long-range fires will be key in their efforts going forward" per @SecDef, who says US working to provide them as quickly as possible for the fight in the #Donbas
SecDef Austin is briefing with Canadian Minister of National Defense Anita Anand after they met at Pentagon to discuss Ukraine, "our shared responsibilities for protecting our homelands through the NORAD command" & other "joint efforts to strengthen North American defense ties
"Air defense has been a critical aspect of this entire fight" in #Ukraine, per @SecDef "We need to make sure we are providing them [#Ukraine] with air defense systems if they are taken out" by #Russia, he says "We will continue to use those systems that are most effective"
Russian missile hit first floors of residential building in Kyiv. At least 3 wounded
US, #Canada spoke not just about #Ukraine but also about "a free & open #IndoPacific" per @SecDef
2 year agoTruckloads of grain being carried off toward Russia from Russian occupied Melitopol. Russia stealing Ukrainian grain
2 year agoRussian army shelled Velyka Kostromka with MLRS Grad. 1 person killed
Ukrainian military entered Ruska Lozova town North to Kharkiv
Partial blackout in several areas in Dnipro city
Advisor to the office of President of Ukraine: Missile strikes in the downtown of Kyiv during the official visit of @antonioguterres. The day before he was sitting at a long table in the Kremlin, and today explosions are above his head. Postcard from Moscow? Recall why Russia still takes a seat on the UN Security Council
2 year agoReports of explosions in Fastiv
Training of Ukrainian forces on several systems continues outside Ukraine, senior defense official says. That includes not only the howitzer, but Q-64 short-range air defense radar and the M113 armored personnel carrier
As of today, the Pentagon assesses that more than 1,900 missiles have been launched at Ukraine in 63 days, the senior defense official says. The majority are now landing in Mariupol and in the Donbas region
As of today, the Pentagon assesses that 60 percent of the 90, 155mm howitzers it has committed to Ukraine so far have arrived in country (roughly 54). That's up from about half of the 90 yesterday
As of Thursday, the Pentagon assesses that Russia has about 92 battalion tactical groups in the war. That's up several more from last week, as Putin's forces continue to reset units after their earlier failures and put them back in the war
Explosions reported in Khmelnitsky
While the Pentagon does not assess that Russia has seized control of Mariupol, the senior defense official said today that a "significant" number of Russian forces are beginning to shift from the port city to the northwest
Russian troops launched a dozen of mortar mines from Lomakivka village in Bryansk region towards Semenivska community in Chernihiv region
Rescuers on the site of 2 explosions in Kyiv. Mayor Klitschko says missiles hit Schevchenkyvsky, one of central districts of the capital
Explosions reported in Kyiv
3 missiles were shot down over Odesa
President Zelensky met with Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres in Kyiv
2 year ago1 killed, 2 wounded as result of explosion of a landmine in Pochepyn, Kyiv region
2 year ago3 wounded in a van as result of explosion of landmine near Makariv, Kyiv region
Russian troops unsuccessfully attempted to advance at Brazhkivka, Dovhenke in Kharkiv region, in Rubizhne of Luhansk region, near Oleksandrivka, Tavriyske, Ivanivka and Zahradivka in Kherson region
2 year agoDowned TB2 in Kherson Oblast
Ukrainian army is in full control over Kutuzivka village in Kharkiv region
2 year agoSmall fragments, after the work of air defense, fell at Stroitel
2 year agoUkrainian air defense shot down a missile over Odesa
