Biden reassures Zelensky of more support for his country
Fighting continues in eastern and southern Ukraine, and millions are left without electricity
Ukrainian soldiers help their wounded comrades in Donbass.
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Yesterday, the Ukrainian General Staff said that Russian forces bombed targets with missiles, drones and artillery in eastern and southern Ukraine at a time when millions remain without electricity amid sub-zero temperatures after Russia intensified its strikes on the main infrastructure, while US President Joe Biden reassured His Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky called for more support for his country.
In an intense activity of Ukrainian diplomacy over the weekend, Zelensky spoke with the leaders of the United States, France and Turkey. Russia and impose compensation on it because of the war.
For his part, Zelensky said he thanked Biden for the unprecedented defense and financial assistance that the United States has provided to his country.
On the other hand, the port of Odessa, overlooking the Black Sea, resumed its operations yesterday, after stopping work for two days as a result of two energy facilities being attacked by Russian drones, and officials said that electricity was slowly returning to work for about 1.5 million people.
Zelensky stressed that other regions suffer from very difficult conditions with regard to energy supplies, including the capital, Kiev, four regions in western Ukraine, and the Dnipropetrovsk region in the middle of it. The Kiev region administration said that 14 residential communities are still completely without electricity, and that 37 others are partially without electricity.
United Nations aid coordinator Martin Griffiths arrived in Ukraine yesterday to see the impact of the humanitarian response and the new challenges that have arisen as damage to infrastructure mounts amid frigid winter temperatures, his office said.
In its daily update of the military situation, the Ukrainian General Staff said that its forces had repulsed Russian attacks on four residential communities in the eastern Donetsk region and eight in the neighboring Luhansk region.
Russia continued its attacks on Bakhmut, now largely in ruins, Avdiivka and Leman and launched two missile attacks on civilian infrastructure in Kostyantynivka, all in the Donetsk region, one of four regions Moscow annexed from Ukraine after referendums.
Ukraine confirmed that the Russian forces suffered heavy losses on the eastern front in fierce fighting, which also led to heavy losses among its forces.
And the Russian forces carried out more than 60 attacks with missile launch systems targeting the infrastructure in Kherson, according to the General Staff, and the authority also stated that the bombing targeted residential communities along the Zaporizhia front line in south-central Ukraine, while the Ukrainian forces bombed Russian control points, ammunition stores and other targets. .
Ukraine claimed responsibility for a series of missile attacks over the weekend on command points and warehouses in Russian-controlled territory.
In addition, the Ukrainian governor of the Luhansk region, Sergey Gaidai, said that the Ukrainian forces attacked a hotel in the town of Kadevka, where members of the Russian private military group Wagner were stationed, killing a large number of them.
For its part, the British Ministry of Defense said, in an intelligence assessment, yesterday that Russia does not currently have the capabilities necessary to control new lands in Ukraine, even at a time when Moscow says that there are large areas of the east and south under its control.
The ministry said Russia is still likely aiming to extend its control over the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, adding that it is unlikely that Russian ground forces will make significant operational progress over the next few months.
Washington prioritizes efforts to strengthen Ukraine's air defenses.
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