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Russia used Iranian-made drones to target energy infrastructure in and around the port city of Odesa, leaving more than 1.5 million people without power, Ukrainian officials said Saturday. “The situation in Odesa region is very difficult,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address posted to his Telegram channel. People watch the soccer World Cup in a restaurant powered by a generator after a drone attack knocked out power in Odessa, Ukraine, on Saturday. The strikes were launched by the U.S.-supplied HIMARS missiles, Yevgeny Balitsky, the Russian-appointed governor of the region, said on his own Telegram. He added that that it would help Ukrainian forces cut supplies to Crimea, which Russia has been using as a launchpad for its offensives and missile strikes.
Ukraine's Zelenskiy asks Israel to join fight against Russia
  + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
JERUSALEM, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday called on Israel to join the fight against Russia and repeated a request for Israeli air defense systems. Zelenskiy said in a video speech to a conference for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Or with those who turn a blind eye to Russian terror, even when the cost of continued terror is the complete destruction of global security," he said. Republican U.S. Representative Mike Turner told reporters on a conference call after he travelled to Ukraine that he was "personally disappointed" with Israel. Zelenskiy said that was not enough and asked that Israeli leaders reconsider sending air defenses as well.
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