2023-07-13 11:21:14
kyiv was again targeted, on the night of Wednesday July 12 to Thursday July 13, by new strikes. This is the third night in a row that the Ukrainian capital has been targeted. At midday, the authorities reported four injuries. The death of a person who was found dead had no connection with the strikes, said the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitali Kitschko, on Telegram, which specifies that the victim was killed in a fire. In addition, the air force claimed to have shot down 20 Russian drones and two cruise missiles which were aimed in particular at its capital. “We successfully carried out an air defense operation”, said his spokesperson. Follow our live.
Eleven Russian drones shot down on Wednesday. The day before, the air alert had been triggered for two hours in kyiv. In the center of the country, two people were also hospitalized with burns after a drone strike. The day before, the Russian army had already carried out a first attack using 28 explosive devices, in particular against a grain terminal in a port in the Odessa region.
US F-16s are a threat “nuclear” for Moscow. The head of Russian diplomacy warned, in an interview broadcast Thursday, July 13, in an online newspaper. “We will consider the very fact that the Ukrainian armed forces have such systems as a threat from the West in the nuclear field” said Sergei Lavrov, stressing that he had warned the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
Ukraine supported militarily by the G7. Kyiv got from Canada, France, USA, UK, Germany, Japan and Italy a commitment to provide it with long-term military aid. This G7 declaration should serve as a framework for future bilateral agreements between its member states and Ukraine, with details of the weapons to be provided.
“After the war, Ukraine will be a member of NATO.” President Volodymyr Zelensky said to himself “confident” about his country’s future membership of the military alliance. However, he regretted that his country did not have a more precise timetable. Member countries promised, from the first day of their summit, that “the future of Ukraine” was “in NATO”.
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