Russia battered Ukraine with multiple missile strikes and struck its largest oil refinery, Kyiv said, while the head of the Wagner mercenary group predicted the long-besieged city of Bakhmut would fall within a couple of months
Following a pattern of heavy bombardments after Ukrainian battlefield or diplomatic gains, Russia launched 36 missiles in the early hours, Ukraine's Air Force said, after NATO alliance officials met the previous day to plot more support for Kyiv.The missiles triggered air-raid sirens and landed all over Ukraine, including at its largest oil refinery, Kremenchuk.
Ukraine said the barrage included three KH-31 missiles and one Oniks which its air defences cannot shoot down. Showing the scale of disruption, Germany said 1.1 million people arrived from Ukraine in 2022, exceeding its unprecedented migrant influx in 2015-16. In an interview with a pro-war military blogger, Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin forecast Bakhmut would fall next month or in April, depending on how many men Ukraine throw into the fight and how well his men are supplied.
President Volodymyr Zelensky's army has received vast amounts of aid, particularly from the United States which has committed more than $27.4 billion since the conflict began. Russia calls the invasion a"special military operation" against security threats and has cast deliveries of heavy weapons to Ukraine as proof that the West is escalating the war.Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and Canadian counterpart Melanie Joly were the latest in a stream of foreign dignitaries to travel to Ukraine.
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