Germany clears way for Ukraine to target Russian airspace with patriot missiles
Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city near the Russian border, has faced almost daily bombardment from Russian positions just across the frontier in recent months.
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Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city near the Russian border, has faced almost daily bombardment from Russian positions just across the frontier in recent months.
It comes after the Netherlands and Denmark recently declared they would not object to their supplied F-16 fighter jets being used to strike military sites inside Russia.
In a significant blow, Ukraine's military said it used Neptune missiles overnight to hit an oil depot in Port Kavkaz, a key maritime transit point in Russia's Krasnodar region near the Kerch Strait linking the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov.
In comments to Russia's state Interfax news agency on Wednesday, Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova blamed Kyiv authorities for roadblocking efforts to secure the release of additional POWs held by each side.
The American leaders thought they had missed an opportunity to put the Soviet Union in its place once and for all after it collapsed, Lavrov stated in an interview with Russian state media.
General Vladimir Kulishov, who heads the border service branch of the FSB, told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti that the Kremlin is concerned over increased NATO activities near Russia's borders.
More ships from Russia's Black Sea Fleet appear to be leaving their main naval base in Sevastopol amid continued attacks by Ukrainian forces, according to reports from the Crimean peninsula annexed by Moscow.
Volodymyr Marchuk, an official with the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration, confirmed the airport terminal was hit in comments to The Kyiv Independent on Saturday.
Rescue crews have been working around the clock, but their efforts to locate survivors trapped under the rubble have been painfully slow. As of Monday morning, they had managed to clear just 30% of the debris field, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Situations Service.
Comparative satellite pictures from before and after the night of May 24th reveal craters, burned areas and apparent destruction of buildings and infrastructure at the site, providing evidence corroborating Kyiv's reports of hitting the strategic installation.
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