Also: Beijing denies that Russia requested military equipment as China meets with the U.S. on Monday
is expected Monday between Ukrainian and Russian officials to discuss getting food, water, medicine and other desperately needed supplies to cities and towns under fire.U.S. claims Russia requested military equipment to support its war in Ukraine, as representatives of Beijing and Washington meet in Italy
Officials in the United States briefed multiple media outlets anonymously Sunday that Moscow had sought military equipment from China since the beginning of the invasion, sparking concern Beijing might undermine Western efforts to aid Ukraine. A day after expanding the war in Ukraine with an airstrike on a military base close to the Polish border, fighting continued on the outskirts of Kyiv. Ukrainian officials said Russian forces fired artillery on suburbs of the capital, a major political and strategic target for an invasion in its 19th day.
The hope for a breakthrough came the day after Russian missiles pounded a military training base in western Ukraine that served as a crucial hub for co-operation between Ukraine and the NATO countries supporting its defense. The president’s office reported Monday that airstrikes hit residential buildings near the important southern city of Mykolaiv, as well as in the eastern city of Kharkiv, and knocked out a television tower in the Rivne region in the northwest. Explosions rang out overnight around the Russian-occupied Black Sea port of Kherson.
The United States and its European allies have cast Putin’s invasion as an imperial-style land grab that has so far been poorly executed because Moscow underestimated Ukrainian resistance and Western resolve to punish Russia.
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