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04/20/2024April 20, 2024
US lawmakers to vote on Ukraine aid package
on a major aid package for on Saturday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been making desperate appeals to his allies to provide more military help as resources and ammunition stockpiles dwindle.
Voting on the foreign aid and arms bill, valued at $95 billion (€89 billion), is expected to begin at 1 p.m. local time (1700 GMT/UTC). It includes around $61 billion in aid for Kyiv, as well as security assistance for Israel and Taiwan.
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04/20/2024April 20, 2024
Russia says Ukraine launched overnight drone barrage
‘s Defense Ministry on Saturday said that launched a barrage of drones overnight and that air defenses managed to shoot down 50.
In the southern Belgorod region, situated near the Ukrainian border, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said that two people had been killed after their home caught fire following an explosion.
In the western region of Smolensk, regional governor Vasily Anokhin said that Ukraine had fired drones at a “fuel and energy facility” but they had been shot down.
“Air defense forces shot the aerial vehicles down. However, as a result of falling debris, a tank with fuel and lubricants caught fire,” Anokhin said.
The AFP news agency cited a source in Ukraine’s defense sector as saying that over eight regions in Russia were targeted and that three electrical substations and a fuel depot were struck.
Kyiv has been attacking Russian energy infrastructure in recent months in response to repeated Russian attacks on its critical infrastructure since the start Moscow’s invasion in February 2022.
kb/nm (AFP, dpa, Reuters)
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