Ukraine says so Shot down a Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber at 308 kilometers (180 miles) It took part in a long-range air raid over Dnipro that killed eight people, including two children. Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s military spy agency GUR, said: “All I can say is that the plane was hit at a distance of 308 kilometers, which is quite far away.”
An intelligence source told Reuters the plane Hit by a modified S-200 Soviet-era long-range surface-to-air missile system. Unconfirmed social media footage showed a fighter jet with its tail on fire spiraling towards the ground. The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the crash occurred in Russia’s southern Stavropol region but claimed the crash appeared to be caused by a technical fault. The Russian governor said that four crew members were ejected and one of them died, two were rescued and the other was missing.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the strike site in Dnipro and Renewed call on Ukraine’s allies to urgently deploy more air defense systems. Zelensky said Russian missiles also struck the Black Sea port of Pivdeni in the southern region of Odessa on Friday afternoon, destroying grain storage facilities and the food inside.
In the U.S, The House has overcome procedural hurdles to push through a foreign aid package that includes $61 billion in aid to Ukraine. Joanna Waters writes. The House is expected to vote on the bill on Saturday. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer told senators to be ready to return this weekend if the package passes the House and returns to the Senate.If passed by the Senate, it would have to be signed into law by President Joe Biden — and then US to send arms to Ukraine ‘immediately’White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Friday.
More than half of the UK Ministry of Defense’s £900m international military fund for Ukraine has yet to be spent because Bureaucracy delays awarding contracts, Daniel Boffey reports. Critics say Ukraine’s international fund has been slow to deliver weapons to front lines Just £404m has been spent, with ministers admitting some equipment is not expected to arrive in Ukraine until next spring.
The fund will be established in August 2022. Designed to be “flexible” and “low bureaucracy”.Defense Department officials said the delays were caused by the need to evaluate each mission A large number of defense companies have tendered For contracts. A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense said: “Industry has received thousands of responses to Ukraine’s international funding requests and each response must be reviewed individually. There is no excuse for us to ensure this is done correctly and in a way that most effectively helps Ukraine. .
