Severing the land bridge connecting Russia to the Crimean peninsulas is one of the key goals in the ongoing counteroffensive.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.Ukraine’s forces, which are pushing toward Melitopol from the town of Robotyne more than 50 miles away, will remain several miles outside the city
, U.S. officials predicted. If they fail to eject Russian troops from Melitopol, it will mean Ukraine will fail to achieve one of its key goals in the ongoing counteroffensive: to sever the land bridge connecting Russia to the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow seized from Kyiv in 2014., Russia’s Defense MinistryUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday signed legislation extending martial law until mid-November.
“We had big hopes for this plane, that it will become part of air defense, able to protect us from Russia’s missiles and drones terrorism,” Ukrainian air force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat told a joint telethon broadcast by local channels. “It is already obvious that we will not be able to protect Ukraine with F-16 aircraft this fall and winter,” he said.
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