Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy held talks in Kyiv targeted on additional British navy assist for Ukraine with U.Ok.’s new overseas secretary, David Cameron, Zelenskiy’s workplace mentioned in a message posted on social media on November 16.
Cameron, a former British prime minister who was appointed overseas secretary in a shock transfer on November 13, visited Kyiv in a present of assist for Ukraine because the conflict in Gaza threatens to attract international consideration away from Russia’s continued invasion of its neighbor.
Zelenskiy’s announcement, which got here amid a recent wave of Russian drone assaults on Ukraine, didn’t say when the go to, Cameron’s first journey overseas as overseas secretary, came about.
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”We had a very good assembly targeted on weapons for the frontline, strengthening air protection, and defending our folks and significant infrastructure,” Zelenskiy was quoted as saying on X, previously know as Twitter.
”The world will not be so targeted on the battlefield scenario in Ukraine, and this dividing of the main target actually doesn’t assist,” he mentioned in a video accompanying his X message.
Within the video, Cameron mentioned that his go to was meant to reassure Kyiv of Britain’s ”ethical assist, diplomatic assist, however above all, the navy assist that you needn’t simply this yr and subsequent yr, however nevertheless lengthy it takes” for Ukraine in its efforts to stave off Russia’s aggression.
On November 15, Zelenskiy mentioned Ukraine can not afford a stalemate within the conflict in opposition to Russia.
”If we wish to finish the conflict, we should finish it,” he mentioned throughout an interview with African journalists. ”Finish with respect in order that the entire world is aware of that whoever got here, captured, and killed, is accountable.”
In response to Zelenskiy, if the conflict turns into a stalemate, the subsequent generations of Ukrainians must combat as a result of Russia ”will come once more if it isn’t put as an alternative.”
Ukraine’s air protection mentioned in a press release on November 16 that it had shot down 16 out of 18 Iranian-made drones launched by Russia in a single day.
The assertion mentioned that air-raid alerts had been declared in lots of Ukrainian areas, with out specifying the quantity. Within the earlier days, Ukraine had twice declared nationwide air-raid alerts.
In Ukraine’s central area of Khmelnitskiy, the area’s deputy governor, Serhiy Tyurin, reported that Ukrainian air protection had been requested to supply safety in opposition to doable Russian strikes across the metropolis of Starokostyantyniv, the place a navy airfield is positioned.
Witnesses described listening to explosions, however there was no speedy details about potential victims or injury.
In Russia, a navy unit within the Volgograd area was focused by a drone strike that burned down an ammunition depot, the Astra channel reported on Telegram, posting a video purportedly displaying the fireplace.
In Moscow, the Protection Ministry mentioned its air defenses had shot down 5 Ukrainian drones early on November 16.
Three drones had been downed off the coast of Moscow-occupied Crimea and two unmanned aerial automobiles had been destroyed over the western area of Bryansk, the Ministry mentioned.
”There have been no casualties or injury. Emergency companies are engaged on the spot,” Bryansk Governor Aleksandr Bogomaz mentioned on his Telegram channel.
Ukraine has not commented on the report, which couldn’t be independently verified.
On the battlefield, Ukrainian forces fought 65 close-quarter battles alongside the entrance line over the previous 24 hours, the Ukrainian navy’s Normal Employees mentioned in its day by day report.
Heavy preventing was beneath manner within the Kupyansk space of the Kharkiv area and round Avdiyivka, within the Donetsk area, which Russian forces have been unsuccessfully trying to encircle for months, the navy mentioned.
Ukrainian forces proceed to conduct an offensive operation within the Melitopol and Kherson instructions in southern Ukraine, the navy added, with out providing particulars.
With reporting by Reuters and AFP