Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy held talks in Kyiv centered on additional British army assist for Ukraine with U.Okay.’s new international 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 international 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 international secretary, occurred.
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”We had a great assembly centered on weapons for the frontline, strengthening air protection, and defending our individuals and significant infrastructure,” Zelenskiy was quoted as saying on X, previously know as Twitter.
”The world isn’t so centered on the battlefield scenario in Ukraine, and this dividing of the main focus 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 army 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’t afford a stalemate within the conflict towards Russia.
”If we need 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 keeping with Zelenskiy, if the conflict turns into a stalemate, the following generations of Ukrainians should battle as a result of Russia ”will come once more if it’s not put instead.”
Ukraine’s air protection mentioned in an announcement 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 towards doable Russian strikes across the metropolis of Starokostyantyniv, the place a army airfield is situated.
Witnesses described listening to explosions, however there was no rapid details about potential victims or injury.
Rescuers working on the web site of a Russian missile strike in Selydove within the japanese Ukrainian area of Donetsk have discovered the physique of a 3rd sufferer below the rubble, Ukraine’s Emergency Service mentioned on November 16.
Regional authorities mentioned Russian troops used an S-300 antiaircraft system to launch 4 missiles on the metropolis early on November 15, hanging a four-story residence constructing.
Two our bodies had been discovered on November 15, together with that of an 85-year-old girl. A number of different individuals had been wounded within the strike that partially destroyed the constructing.
In Russia, a army 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 army’s Common Workers mentioned in its every day report.
Heavy preventing was below manner within the Kupyansk space of the Kharkiv area and round Avdiyivka, within the Donetsk area, which Russian forces have been unsuccessfully making an attempt to encircle for months, the army mentioned.
Ukrainian forces proceed to conduct an offensive operation within the Melitopol and Kherson instructions in southern Ukraine, the army added, with out providing particulars.
With reporting by Reuters and AFP