A menorah monument, located at the entrance of the Drobitsky Yar Massacre memorial complex on the eastern outskirts of Kharkiv, is pictured on Sunday, a day after it was wrecked in a Russian shelling.
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A menorah monument, located at the entrance of the Drobitsky Yar Massacre memorial complex on the eastern outskirts of Kharkiv, is pictured on Sunday, a day after it was wrecked in a Russian shelling.
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As Sunday wraps up in Kyiv and in Moscow, here are the main developments for the day:
Ukraine called on the West to send tanks and planes to support the fight against Russia. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attack the US and other Western allies for what he called “ping-pong about who and how should hand over the jets” as Ukraine fended off deadly Russian missile attacks. A day earlier, the Russians make multiple attacks in the western city of Lviv, is said to have injured at least five people.
Two humanitarian paths have been opened, intentionally allowing civilians to flee some of the hardest hit areas of Ukraine, including the besieged city of Mariupol, according to the deputy prime minister of Ukraine.
US officials continue to clarify President Biden’s words that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” Foreign Minister Antony Blinken try to lower the comment carried out by Biden a day earlier, told reporters in Jerusalem that the US had no plans to hide the Russian leader.
Ukraine’s breakaway Luhansk region will hold a vote to join Russia. The head of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic – one of two breakaway regions of Ukraine that Russia has supported militarily since 2014 – hope local residents will decide to join Russia in a referendum on annexation, he said would happen soon.
Russian forces allegedly damaged another Holocaust memorial in Ukraine. Russian invaders fired on Drobitsky Yar, a memorial outside Kharkiv, said the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. About 15,000 Jews were killed there during the Holocaust.
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