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Pentagon official Colin Kahl says the Russian president continues to have "designs on a significant portion of Ukraine." Russian troops destroy three bridges leading out of Sievierodonetsk, but Ukrainians continue to try to evacuate the wounded.
"If Israel approves Ukraine's loan request, the Jewish state will not only help 40 million people in their just struggle for survival but also show that it chose the right side in the fight against dictatorship and barbarism," one expert says.
Hundreds of civilians in Sievierodonetsk shelter in the city's Azot chemical plant, creating a scenario similar to the fall of the southern port city of Mariupol, where hundreds of people were trapped for weeks in a steelworks plant.
Report: Russian forces fire Kalibr cruise missiles to destroy a large depot with US and European weapons in Ukraine's Ternopil region. Ukraine says nearly 800 children have been killed or wounded since the start of the war.
3 foreign fighters sentenced to death by pro-Russian rebels and breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine prepare to begin shipping "liberated" grain.
Ukrainian and Russian forces battle for control of Sievierodonestk, central to Moscow’s efforts to capture the Donbas. Russia expresses support for a UN plan for a safe corridor at sea to allow Ukraine to resume grain shipments.
"We have already lost too many people to simply cede our territory. We have to achieve a full de-occupation of our entire territory," says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, who has served as a rabbi in Moscow for the last 33 years, is also president of the Conference of European Rabbis.
Israel has limited its support for Ukraine to humanitarian aid and was the only country operating a field hospital inside the country earlier in the year.
Street fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops raged in Sievierodonetsk as Moscow's forces push to conquer Ukraine's eastern Donbas. Russia warns US media in Moscow they risk losing accreditation.