Ukraine called on the West to speed up and increase supplies of artillery shells after a major Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv and other regions on Wednesday left at least four dead in the capital and more than 40 wounded. Officials reported that one person also died in the Mykolaiv region.

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05:22An interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin conducted by American host Tucker Carlson, a close associate of Donald Trump, will be broadcast on his website on Thursday, the former TV star said on Wednesday on his Instagram account, AFP reported, citing Agerpres.

01:00Between the internal quarrels of the Republicans and the conflict with President Joe Biden, the American Congress was paralyzed again on Wednesday, unable to approve a financial package for Ukraine or Israel, comments AFP, reports Agerpres.

In the afternoon, senators rejected a text that would have opened up new funds for the two countries at war and reformed the United States’ immigration system, despite months of tough negotiations.

The Senate will try its luck again with another text, the outcome of which is more uncertain. This is the same bill as the first one, just without the migration reform.

00:08Ukraine will sign the first contracts for mass production of attack drones, similar to the Russian Lancet drones, “in the coming weeks,” Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov said on February 7, Kyiv Independent reports.

Lancet is a kamikaze drone with a range of 40 kilometers manufactured by ZALA Aero Group, a subsidiary of the Russian arms giant Kalashnikov.

Since Russia began mass battlefield use of the Lancet in late 2022, it has proven to be one of Russia’s most effective weapons against high-value targets tens of kilometers behind the front lines.

00:00The Chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army, Valery Zaluzhny, appears to be coming to terms with differences with President Volodymyr Zelenskyi over the scope of mobilization to be carried out and the strategy to be adopted for 2024. Le Point, quoted by Rador, in turn raises the question of who can replace the popular Valery Zaluzhny, and the president of the Kyiv School of Economics, Tymofiy Mylovanov, analyzes the options.

A brief summary of recent events:

• The Turkish defense company Baykar has started construction of a plant near Kyiv
• In the early morning of February 7, Russia carried out another large-scale attack on Ukrainian cities, as a result of which at least five people were killed and about 50 others were injured in the Kyiv, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions.
• EU Foreign Minister Josep Borel was in a bomb shelter during the bombing of Kyiv on Wednesday morning.
• A new tactic by Ukrainian drone operators puts the Russian military in an awkward position and worries Russian military bloggers, according to military analyst Samuel Bendett, an expert on the use of advanced autonomous technologies on the battlefield.
• Swedish prosecutors announced on Wednesday that they are closing their investigation into the September 2022 explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines running through the Baltic Sea.
• Russia accuses that the call of the commander-in-chief of the Romanian army to demand the adoption of a law on the preparation of the population for a possible long war “encourages a kind of military hysteria”.
• The European Union may introduce sanctions against American TV presenter Tucker Carlson
• Wagner Group is building a new headquarters after merging with the Russian National Guard, new CEO Anton Yelizarov said
• Russian President Vladimir Putin may visit Turkey in late April or early May, the Russian news agency RIA reported on Wednesday.
• Two of the five missiles used by Russia during the attack on Kharkiv on February 7 were of North Korean origin, Ukrainian Pravda reports.
• Iohannis sent a letter informing parliament that a NATO response force could enter, deploy or pass through Romania to prepare and/or conduct military operations, if necessary, in 2024.
• The ambassador of the Russian Federation in Bucharest, Valery Kuzmin, was extremely concerned about the attitude of former foreign minister Bohdan Aureska, now a judge of the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague, who, according to him, accused Russia “with foam at the mouth.” “, for mass murders in Buch.
• Ukraine to sign first contracts for serial production of attack drones similar to Russian Lancet drones “in the coming weeks”

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