Ukraine: 4 victims in Russian raid in Dnipro. From London 500 million kilos for air protection | EUROtoday

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In the Synelnykove district, attacked by Russian forces on Wednesday, the dying toll rose to 4. The head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional army administration, Oleksandr Hanzha, mentioned this on Telegram, Ukrinform reported. “According to updated information, four people were killed and three injured as a result of enemy attacks in the Synelnykove district,” Hanzha wrote. As reported by Ukrinform, Russian troops attacked the Synelnykove and Nikopol districts of the Dnipropetrovsk area, killing two folks and wounding three.

On the opposite hand, Russian air defenses shot down 106 Ukrainian drones in a number of Russian areas tonight, Moscow’s Defense Ministry mentioned, quoted by the Russian information company Tass. A missile assault prompted a hearth at a army set up in southern Russia in a single day, forcing the authorities to evacuate the inhabitants of a close-by village. This was reported by the regional governor. “The air defense units of the Russian Defense Ministry repelled a missile attack on the territory of the Volgograd region,” Governor Andrei Botharov mentioned on Telegram. “A fire occurred as a result of debris falling on the territory of a Ministry of Defense site near the village of Kotlouban,” he added.

The UK has in the meantime introduced it can urgently provide greater than £500 million value of latest missiles and air protection methods to Ukraine to guard it from Putin’s brutal assaults on power websites and houses. The Secretary of Defense immediately co-chairs the thirty third assembly of the Contact Group on Defense of Ukraine at NATO Headquarters in Brussels. The Defense Secretary confirms that the UK will present £150 million for the primary time to the NATO Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (Purl) initiative, which ensures the speedy supply of air protection interceptors to defend the skies of Ukraine.

The PURL initiative sees NATO coordinate the acquisition of world-class protection gear from the United States for the protection of Ukraine. At the identical time, the UK is ready to produce an extra 1,000 mild multi-role missiles (LMMs), produced in Belfast, which might be very important in defending Ukrainian infrastructure and cities from growing drone and missile assaults by Russia. This £390m deal builds on rising collaboration between UK and Ukrainian trade to maneuver the manufacturing and assist of Rapid Ranger launchers and command and management autos to Ukraine. The UK may even provide an extra 1,200 air protection missiles and 200,000 artillery ammunition to Ukraine’s defenders by means of the Air Defense Consortium within the coming months