Up to date August 11, 2023 at 5:09 a.m. EDT|Printed August 11, 2023 at 3:37 a.m. EDT
The primary group of Ukrainian pilots studying to fly the F16 is just not anticipated to finish their coaching earlier than subsequent summer season. This picture exhibits the cockpit of a Danish F-16 fighter jet close to Vojens, Denmark. Copenhagen and Amsterdam have volunteered to guide the coaching efforts of Ukrainian pilots. (Bo Amstrup / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP through Getty Pictures)
Officers in Kyiv mentioned fragments of a missile hit a youngsters’s hospital because the sound of explosions rang out within the capital on Friday. The Kyiv army administration mentioned air protection methods had been working, and there have been no preliminary experiences of casualties or main harm.
In Moscow, Russian officers mentioned they intercepted yet one more drone focusing on the capital on Friday. The Kremlin has blamed a wave of mounting drone assaults in Moscow on Ukraine. Whereas Kyiv has not claimed accountability, Ukrainian officers are more and more asserting that they see targets in Russia as a part of the battle.
Right here’s the newest on the battle and its ripple results throughout the globe.
Kyiv’s mayor mentioned first responders rushed to the kids’s hospital after missile fragments fell on its grounds. Vitali Klitschko additionally reported sounds of explosions and urged residents to remain in shelters. The Kyiv army administration then lifted air raid warnings.
Russia’s Protection Ministry mentioned Friday’s drone crashed in a forest within the Moscow area after being intercepted by digital warfare methods. It mentioned the drone was focusing on a facility in Moscow, with out offering additional particulars. Moscow’s mayor mentioned the drone had tried to fly over the town and reported no accidents or severe harm. A day earlier, Russian authorities mentioned they thwarted two drones close to the capital and 11 others over the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow annexed illegally in 2014.
Kyiv will most likely go one other yr with out F-16 fighter jets, The Washington Put up experiences. A primary group of six Ukrainian pilots is just not anticipated to complete coaching on the U.S.-made plane earlier than subsequent summer season, after delays in an instruction program, in keeping with Ukrainian officers. Though the Ukrainian pilots are fluent in English, they need to first undertake English classes in Britain to be taught terminology related to the jets earlier than fight coaching, officers mentioned.
The co-founder of Russian expertise large Yandex referred to as the battle in Ukraine “barbaric,” in a uncommon show of dissent among the many Russian elite. Arkady Volozh, who has lived in Tel Aviv since 2014, advised the Bell information outlet that he had family and friends in Ukraine and was “horrified by the truth that day-after-day bombs fly into the properties of Ukrainians.” Volozh earned billions since co-founding Yandex, which gives search and a wide range of different on-line providers, in 1997. He resigned final yr after being positioned beneath E.U. sanctions. He mentioned he felt a “share of accountability” for Russia’s actions.
The army administration of Ukraine’s Kupiansk ordered an evacuation of civilians from the world within the northeast Kharkiv area. Authorities have mentioned 1000’s of civilians would want to go away cities and villages close to the fight zone round Kupiansk, the place Ukrainian and Russian officers individually reported a raging battle.
Ukrainian forces have recaptured the heights over Bakhmut and are encircling Russian troops within the japanese metropolis, Ukrainian Deputy Protection Minister Hanna Maliar advised the Guardian. Maliar mentioned progress was being made in outflanking enemy forces after months of lethal battle. The Washington Put up couldn’t instantly confirm the claims.
A strike that pounded a lodge in Zaporizhzhia metropolis killed one individual, and injured at the very least 19 others, together with 4 youngsters, officers within the southeastern Ukrainian area mentioned. The Russian strike on Thursday hit a lodge utilized by U.N. personnel and different help employees in Ukraine, Denise Brown, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine mentioned, describing the assault as “totally inadmissible.”
Round 1,000 Ukrainian Marines are returning dwelling after a six-month coaching in Britain, the U.Ok. Protection Ministry mentioned Friday. The marines obtained coaching that included conducting seaside raids utilizing inflatable boats. Ukrainian models have needed to cross waterways when attacking Russian positions, together with the Dnieper River.
Britain will host an vitality convention across the two-year anniversary of the Ukraine battle in February, focusing partly on vitality safety, the federal government mentioned. It mentioned Vitality Safety Secretary Grant Shapps will invite senior authorities ministers and trade leaders to the convention in London, which follows European efforts to cut back dependence on Russian vitality.
President Biden has requested Congress to approve $20.6 billion extra in funding for Ukraine, together with $13 billion to be allotted to army help. The US has dedicated greater than $60 billion in help to Ukraine in the course of the battle.
A have a look at the quantity of U.S. spending powering Ukraine’s protection: The US has dedicated extra funding to Ukraine in the course of the battle than it distributes in help to every other nation, Ruby Mellen and Artur Galocha report.
The quantity consists of $43.1 billion in army help and over $20 billion in financial help. “A yr and a half into the battle, U.S. public help for funding the battle is wavering, notably amongst Republicans,” they write.
Serhiy Morgunov and Natalia Abbakumova contributed to this report.