Ukraine kills the Russian Navy

The deputy commander of the Navy of Russia, the former General Mikhail Gudkov, was killed by a Ukrainian missile strike in the Russian city of Russian Kursk, said a Russian media linked to the state on Thursday.

Gudkov, who previously commanded a Russian marine unit involved in the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, died of injuries suffered in the strike in a military administration building, according to the AIF website.

The Russian Ministry of Defense did not provide details, but confirmed that Gudkov died “during combat operations in one of the border areas of the Kursk region.”

The Ukrainians saw it as an impulse to morality at the end of a difficult week. The Trump administration He said Tuesday That he had stopped some weapons deliveries to Ukraine, which caused alarm in kyiv, uncertainty among the United States NATO allies and some Moscow song.

The White House did not confirm what weapons were being taken from the delivery, or the scale of the reduction of US military support to Ukraine.

The announcement occurred approximately one week after President Trump met with his Ukrainian counterpart, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during a NATO summit in the Netherlands. Speaking after his meeting, Mr. Trump said he was considering Send additional patriots missile batteries To Ukraine to help strengthen the country’s aerial defenses against Russia’s bombing.

“They want to have the antimisile missiles … the Patriots,” Trump told journalists after their meeting with Zelenskyy, “and we will see if we can put some available.” He added that the Patriots were “difficult to get.”

The Ukraine Foreign Ministry said he invited the United States Mission Chief in kyiv John Ginkel to the Ministry on Wednesday to emphasize that “any delay or procrastination in supporting the defense capabilities of Ukraine would only encourage” Russia to continue his war, instead of seeking the peace that Trump has said many times that he wants to help Usher. “

President Trump said in a Thursday morning on his real social networks platform that he would speak later with the Russian president Vladimir Putin On the phone.

“Ukraine has not received any official notification about the suspension or review of the delivery schedules of the agreed defense assistance, so we come from the real data and verify the details of each element in the delivery,” said the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in a statement on Wednesday.

Zelenskyy said in a video statement that Ukraine was trying to clarify the details of any change in the defense support of the United States.

Margaret Brennan of News themezone reported Thursday that Trump and Zelenskyy would make a phone call on Friday to discuss the war after the announcement of the reduction of US weapons deliveries.

The Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Andrii Sybiha, emphasized the urgency of the military support sustained in a position on social networks, saying “the only way to force Russia to end war is to increase pressure on Moscow and strengthen Ukraine.”

Moscow’s reaction was also quickly and decidedly more optimistic. Chief spokesman Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, described the news from the White House, “a logical and delayed step”, suggesting that Western fatigue with war in Ukraine would only grow.

“The fewer weapons are supplied to Ukraine, the closer the end of the special military operation is,” said Peskov, according to Tass, using the term of the Kremlin for the war that Russia began with its large -scale invasion on February 24, 2022.

The NATO general secretary, Mark Rutte, acknowledged during the summit that the Trump administration needed to prioritize the inventories of US weapons, but emphasized that Ukraine depends largely on US hardware, especially the systems of ammunition and air defense, and urged Washington to continue being flexible and called the members of the NATO of Europe to increase the contributions of Europe Ukraña.

“It is a clear message to intensify our own support,” said the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, journalists this week, “to increase our European defense capabilities, not only at the level of the European Union, but at the continental level.”

kyiv and several other important Ukrainian cities have faced a flood of missile and drone attacks during the last month, sometimes overwhelming the country’s air defense systems and causing important civil victims and infrastructure damage.

During the weekend, Russia launched what Ukrainian officials called the largest air attack in the war, hitting energy facilities, residential areas and military infrastructure in a coordinated strike that involves dozens of missiles and drones of Iranian manufacturing attack.

Ukrainians say that the increase in air attacks has underlined their need for strengthened aerial defenses.

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