Will evacuate 9,000 children from a border region targeted from the Ukrainian side: Russia
US DEFENCE CHIEF VOWS CONTINUED AID TO UKRAINE
A Russian border region plans to evacuate some 9,000 children from the area as it is continuously shelled from the Ukrainian side, an official said Tuesday. Kyiv's forces have increasingly been striking at targets behind the extensive front line that has changed little after more than two years of war.
The children are to be moved further east, away from the Ukraine border, the governor of Russia's Belgorod border region, Vyacheslev Gladkov, said.
The announcement came a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE (GERMANY): Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin vowed Tuesday that the U.S. will continue to support Ukraine's war effort against Russia, even as the U.S. Congress remains stalled over funding to send additional weapons to the front. "The United States will not let Ukraine fail," said Austin, addressing more than 50 defense leaders from Europe and around the world who are meeting at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany. "This coalition will not let Ukraine fail. And the free world will not let Ukraine fail." The meeting comes a week after U.S. defense officials managed to find and use $300 million in contract savings to fund a new package of military aid for Ukraine, pulling weapons from Pentagon stocks.
the Kremlin wants to create a buffer zone to help protect border regions from long-range Ukrainian strikes and cross-border raids. Ukraine has increasingly used its long-range firepower to hit oil refineries
and depots deep inside Russia and has sought to unsettle the Russian border regions, putting political pressure on Putin.
Three people were wounded in an attack Tuesday from Ukraine on the Belgorod region, Gladkov said, including a 14-year-old who had part of a limb amputated.