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Ukraine has for months sought to be supplied with heavier tanks, including the US Abrams and the German Leopard 2 tanks, but Western leaders have been treading carefully.
Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar says Russia has thrown “a large number of storm groups” into the battle.
"Taking into account the appeal of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, I instruct the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation to introduce a ceasefire regime along the entire line of contact of the parties in Ukraine from 12.00 on January 6, 2023 to 24.00 on January 7, 2023," Putin says in the order, calling on Ukraine to reciprocate.
The Russian military is taking unspecified measures to “prevent similar tragic incidents in the future,” the Defense Ministry said, promising to punish officials responsible for the blunder.
The attack is the the latest in a series of Russian strikes targeting vital infrastructure across Ukraine that began in October, causing widespread blackouts and power rationing.
"A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down at low altitude while approaching the Engels military airfield in the Saratov region," news agencies reported the Russian Defense Ministry as saying.
David Barnea also cautions Iran is intending to "expand its uranium enrichment project" and vows that the Islamic Republic "will not have nuclear weapons, not in the coming years, never, this is my commitment, this is the Mossad's commitment."
The Ukrainian president calls the tens of billions of dollars in US military and economic assistance provided over the past year vital to efforts to beat back Russia and appealed for even more in the future.
Biden welcomed Zelenskyy to the Oval Office, saying the US and Ukraine would continue to project a “united defense” as Russia wages a “brutal assault on Ukraine's right to exist as a nation.”
"On my way to the US to strengthen resilience and defense capabilities of Ukraine," the Ukrainian president tweets ahead of his arrival in US, exactly 300 days since the invasion began. Visit to include speech before Congress, announcement of new aid package.