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Zelenskyy Visits Canada Seeking Support09/10 06:22
(AP) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in Canada on Thursday
for talks with Prime Minister Mark Carney, his latest international trip aimed
at locking in future support for Ukraine's fight against Russia's invasion.
Ukraine is under pressure from Russia's air war, which is using ballistic
missiles and jet-powered drones to pierce defenses. Moscow's attacks have
targeted Ukraine's power grid ahead of the upcoming winter as part of its
campaign to demoralize civilians, Ukrainian officials say.
"The main focus will be on supporting Ukraine in protecting our skies and
preparing for the winter," Zelenskyy said of his Canada trip in a social media
post. "We will discuss how to strengthen our resilience, support our people,
and ensure that Ukraine has the capabilities it needs to defend itself."
Canada and European countries are sending their own weaponry to Ukraine and
are also buying American weapons for Kyiv under the so-called Prioritized
Ukraine Requirements List, or PURL. The United States under President Donald
Trump has stopped donating weapons to Ukraine.
Recent U.S. efforts to stop the more than four years of fighting have
delivered no significant breakthrough, although Washington-brokered talks
between delegations from Moscow and Kyiv are expected to continue.
Zelenskyy's arrival on Wednesday night in Calgary, Alberta, came the day
after his flight from Moldova to Norway was delayed when authorities closed
Moldova's airspace because of a drone incursion.
The aerial drone battle between Russia and Ukraine has grown in scale since
Russia's all-out invasion in February 2022. Ukraine's neighbors Romania and
Moldova, and other European countries, have reported repeated drone incursions.
Ukraine's drones now reach targets in Siberia, officials say
A Ukrainian sea drone wounded 28 people, including two children, on the
waterfront in the Russian city of Sochi, local officials said. They said that
beach infrastructure had been damaged but did not provide further details.
Russia's Ministry of Defense said Thursday that its forces shot down 448
Ukrainian drones overnight. The drones were destroyed over 13 Russian regions,
as well as the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and the Black and Caspian
seas, the ministry said.
Falling debris from a Ukrainian drone set fire to a home in Russia's
southwestern Voronezh region, killing one woman and wounding two other people,
local Gov. Alexander Gusev said Thursday.
Ukrainian forces struck eight Russian infrastructure targets supporting the
war effort over the past 24 hours, including a refinery in the Yamalo-Nenets
region and a port in Dagestan, Zelenskyy said Thursday.
Targets in the Moscow, Voronezh, Astrakhan and Bryansk regions were also
hit, he said.
Those targets were hundreds of kilometers (miles) apart, underlining the
scope and scale of Ukraine's domestically developed long-range drone technology
that has unsettled Russia.
The previous day, Ukrainian forces struck an oil refinery more than 3,000
kilometers (1,800 miles) from Ukraine in Siberia, Ukraine's General Staff said,
confirming earlier reports.
Meantime, Russian forces launched 149 drones, many of them jet-propelled, at
Ukraine overnight, Ukraine's air force said Thursday.
One person was killed and two others wounded in a Russian drone attack on
the Kyiv region on Thursday morning, regional head Tymur Tkachenko said.
At least 16 other civilians were wounded in other Ukrainian regions,
according to local authorities.
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