Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is appealing for more military support following a brutal flurry of Russian missile attacks across the country. The most devastating images on Saturday came from Dnipro, where a residential tower block was largely destroyed in a deadly bombardment.
said the death toll would likely rise in the country's fourth-largest city, centrally located on the Dnipro River and home to a large Holocaust memorial and museum.Dnipro's deputy mayor Mikhailo Lysenko said in a social media video that desperate residents were sending text messages from their destroyed flats, adding:"We stop our work now and then to keep silence, and we hear people scream from underneath the rubble.
Moscow has stepped up its bombardment of Ukrainian energy infrastructure since October, causing large blackouts, cutting central heating and running water.'s forces seek to increase Ukrainian suffering during the freezing winter months. Ukraine's energy minister warned that the coming days would be"difficult" due to the impact of Saturday's onslaught, which also left one person dead in the steel-making city of Kryviy Rih.Allies pledge more assistance
Ukraine's allies have promised to send more military aid, with the White House's ambassador to Kyiv condemning the attacks against Dnipro as"horrifying".The US has promised 50 Bradley tank-killing armoured vehicles in its biggest military assistance package to date.Fourteen Challenger 2 tanks will be sent in the coming weeks, along with around 30 AS90 propelled guns, which are large armaments operated by five gunners.
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