Russian forces kept focusing their offensive efforts on Bakhmut in the eastern region of Donetsk, Ukraine's military has said, as Kyiv again urged its Western allies to speed up approval for the delivery of advanced heavy weaponry including modern tanks.
- Jan 18, 2023, 7:30 AM CST
It also warned that the threat of Russian air and missile strikes on civilian objects remains high throughout Ukraine. More than 9,000 civilians, including 453 children, have been killed since the war began last February, Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian president's chief of staff, told the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos on January 17. The United Nations has put the civilian toll at more than 7,000.
The two have spoken often since Russia's February 24, 2022, invasion, but this was the first face-to-face meeting of the generals.:"My first personal meeting with #GenMilley, Chairman of @thejointstaff happened in Poland." U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is due in Berlin on January 19 and then will host a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group the following day at the U.S. military base in Ramstein to discuss further support -- including military aid -- for Ukraine with allies.Kyiv has long pushed for tanks and armored vehicles that will help it break through Russia's front lines.
Poland and Finland have already pledged to send some of their Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. Analysts say the Leopard 2 is superior to the tanks Russia has deployed and would give Kyiv a decisive advantage.
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