Ukrainian air defenses shot down a Russian missile barrage headed towards a army airfield within the nation’s west in a single day, the air pressure mentioned early Friday. It mentioned bombers launched the assault from the path of the Caspian Sea.
Moscow accused Kyiv a day earlier of placing a bridge connecting Russian-held territory in southern Ukraine to Crimea. As Kyiv mounts the early levels of a much-hyped counteroffensive within the south and east, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal known as for persistence and mentioned reclaiming swaths of the nation “will take time.”
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The mail service, driver and safety guard “typically make deliveries below hearth, zigzagging alongside bumpy lanes in a s mall white-and-yellow van,” they report from Hulyaipole, which has misplaced most of its inhabitants.
“Any individual has to do that job — and no one needs to do it,” mentioned the mail service, Natalia Hrinenko.