Great Britain defence secretary has just announced that the country is planning to supply anti-aircraft weapons and “a small consignment” of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine in their defence against Russia.
It has been announced earlier that Russian troops are approaching the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. So the city needs as much help as it could get. The British MoD said that Russia continues to deploy conscript troops despite the fact that Vladimir Putin himself has assured that this would not happen.
However the Ukraine forces have proved to be quite effective against the aggressor and have caused a couple of losses to the Russian army. In the same time Western officials warned of their “serious concern” that Vladimir Putin could use chemical weapons on Kyiv. In an assessment, they said an “utterly horrific” attack on the Ukrainian capital could be unleashed as Russian forces attempt to overcome the logistical issues that have apparently plagued troops headed towards Kyiv.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the president of Ukraine, has claimed the Russian strike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol as “the ultimate evidence of Russian genocide”. Zelenskiy said children are buried under rubble and the regional governor said 17 people have been wounded. “A children’s hospital, a maternity ward. How did they threaten the Russian Federation?” Zelenskiy added. The Guardian was unable to fully verify Ukrainian officials’ accounts, but video published by the Associated Press showed multiple injured people at the site of the hospital attack.
Source: The Independent
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