The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has declared that Kyiv will lose the war against Russia if the US Congress does not approve military aid to battle Moscow’s invasion.
Republicans in Congress have been withholding tens of billions of dollars in military aid for Kyiv for months.
“It is necessary to specifically tell Congress that if Congress does not help Ukraine, Ukraine will lose the war,” Zelensky said during a video meeting of the Kyiv-organized fundraising platform United24.
Zelenskyy said it would be “difficult” for Ukraine to “stay” (survive) without the aid.
He said that “if Ukraine loses the war, other states will be attacked.”
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has dragged on for more than two years.
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Africa Today News, New York reports that Kyiv said Sunday that a Russian strike on the town of Gulyaipole in the southern Zaporizhzhia region killed three people.
“Two men and a woman died under the rubble of their own private house, which was hit by a Russian shell,” the head of the region, Ivan Fedorov, said on social media.
Officials said another civilian, a woman, was killed in the city of Kupiansk, in the northeastern Kharkiv region that has seen increased attacks in recent months.
“A woman died under the rubble in an apartment on the fourth floor of a high-rise building,” Ukraine’s state emergency services said, adding that it was a residential building.
Authorities in the main city of Kharkiv said Russia launched another attack on Sunday, wounding five civilians, a day after a deadly attack there.
Russia, meanwhile, said a young woman was killed by a Ukrainian drone strike on the Belgorod border region.
In another report, French President Emmanuel Macron has said that Russia is employing tactics of misinformation in an attempt to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the Paris Olympics.
When attending the opening of a new Olympic swimming facility, journalists inquired about his thoughts on whether Russia was deliberately focusing on the Games.