Russia launched a second missile attack on Kyiv in a week. All 10 missiles were intercepted and destroyed by air defense systems overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, but the debris injured dozens of people. Meanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting the US to ask for help from Republican senators who oppose a package for Ukraine needed to continue fighting Russia.

Ukrainian military on a tankPhoto: Yefrem Lukatsky / AP / Profimedia

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 658, LIVETEXT:

07:26 Russia’s second missile attack on Kyiv in a week injured at least 51 people and damaged homes and a children’s hospital, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pleaded with Washington for more aid to his country.

Weapons of the Air Defense Forces of Ukraine shot down all 10 ballistic missiles aimed at the capital at about 3:00 a.m. (01:00 Kyiv time), the Air Force of Ukraine reported in Telegram.

According to officials, falling debris caused injuries and destruction in four districts of Kyiv along the Dnipro River, which flows through the capital.

In the Dnipro district of Kyiv, windows and entrances were broken in a children’s hospital, but according to a preliminary assessment, there were no victims, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko reported in Telegram.

Missile fragments also hit several residential buildings in the Dnipro district, at least 51 people were injured, including six children, Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv Military Administration, reported on Telegram. The district’s water supply was also damaged.

On Tuesday, US President Joe Biden warned Republicans that they would be giving Russia a “Christmas present” if they did not provide additional military aid to Zelensky, whose meeting with a key US lawmaker ended without a commitment to further support.

06:52At the beginning of November, fifty opposition parliamentarians from Georgia appealed to NATO and EU member states to express a unified position regarding Russia’s plan to create a permanent naval base in the separatist region of Abkhazia, reports the BBC and news. .ro.

00:12Zelensky rejects the idea that corruption remains a serious problem in Ukraine

In Washington, in order to force US congressmen to unblock the necessary financial aid to Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelensky tried to convince them that corruption is no longer a serious problem in his country and that this is not a reason to stop providing aid, Sky News reports.

Tom Tillis, a Republican senator from North Carolina, said after meeting with the president of Ukraine: “I think the concept of corruption came about because some (senators) kept saying, ‘We can’t do it because they’re going to buy.’ yachts with money.’ He explained the reforms that were made with the International Monetary Fund and the European Union. There were significant reforms.”

A brief summary of recent events:

  • “Ukraine can win,” Zelensky told Biden at the White House
  • Almost 90% of Russians sent to war in Ukraine were killed or wounded, according to US intelligence
  • Moscow claims that more than 100 Germans and 84 Baltic citizens have requested asylum in Russia
  • Zelensky rejects the idea that corruption remains a serious problem in Ukraine
  • What does Viktor Orbán answer to ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine, who asked him not to block the opening of EU accession negotiations with Kyiv
  • But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell didn’t have good news for the president when reporters briefly caught up with him on Capitol Hill.
  • What the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bucharest says about Russia’s decision to close the Romanian consulate in Rostov-on-Don
  • The USA announces new sanctions against the Russian “war machine”.

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Tuesday’s events related to Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro