Ukraine-Russia war live: Putin’s forces strike Zelensky’s home city as Biden declares Russia will not prevail
US president Joe Biden insists Ukraine will win the war and Putin ‘will not prevail’
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Russia has fired a missile on Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih, striking a police department and injuring at least three people, local emergency officials have reported.
The attack partially destroyed the five-storey building of the district department of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the emergency services said, as well as damaging some private residences nearby.
More people were likely to be under the rubble, they added.
It comes as Mr Biden, ahead of a meeting with Mr Zelensky in the White House, said Russia “will not prevail” in its war on Ukraine.
“We stand with Ukraine, now and in the future,” Mr Biden said alongside Mr Zelensky. “Russia will not prevail. Ukraine will prevail.”
Mr Biden also pledged to support Kyiv “in its path to membership to both the EU and Nato”, though he stopped short of green-lighting Ukraine’s request to fire long-range missiles deeper into Russia.
Zelensky thanked the US for its “unwavering bipartisan support”.
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He also ordered the Pentagon to expand training for Ukrainian F-16 pilots, including by supporting the training of an additional 18 pilots next year.
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“It’s totally irresponsible,” Mr Blinken told MSNBC. “I think many in the world have spoken clearly about that when he’s been rattling the nuclear sabre - including China, in the past.
“So I would just say especially to do that now, while the world’s gathered... talking about the need for more disarmament, non-proliferation.”
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Britain has announced it is sanctioning five vessels and two associated entities involved in the shipping of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG), with the government saying it was using new legal powers for the first time to target LNG vessels directly.
“Earlier this year, the UK sanctioned Arctic LNG 2, alongside our allies in the US and EU. Since then, the project has been forced to slash production,” the government statement said.
“Today’s action builds on this by targeting ships and entities involved in the Russian LNG sector, which engage with projects important to Russia’s future energy production.”
Thursday’s sanctioned entities were White Fox Ship Management and Ocean Speedstar Solutions OPC. The ships were Asya Energy, Pioneer, North Sky, SCF La Perouse and Nova Energy.
Earlier this month Britain slapped sanctions on 10 further ships in Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” of vessels which it says use illicit practices to avoid Western restrictions on Russian oil.
Russia rejects Western pressure to limit its oil exports, and in the past year there has been a growth in the number of tankers transporting cargoes that are not regulated or insured by conventional Western providers.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky has thanked US president Joe Biden and the US Congress for a new military aid package worth more than $8 billion (£6 billion), saying Ukraine will use it “in the most efficient and transparent manner”.
“I am grateful to the United States for providing the items that are most critical to protecting our people,” Zelensky said on X, mentioning an additional Patriot air defense battery, drones and long-range missiles.
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