On Monday, a bipartisan group of six senators urged the Pentagon to do more to help Ukraine defend its cities and military installations from missile and air attacks by Ukraine. Russia.
In one LettersDan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Robert Portman (R-Ohio) and Lindsey Graham (RS. C. ) urged defense leaders to consider recommending fourth-generation fighters, along with funding for flight training needed in future military aid packages.
The senators emphasized the need to transfer modern fighter jets to Ukraine to significantly increase their resistance to deadly missile attacks on civilian cities. They also said in a letter that they met in June with a delegation of Ukrainian fighter pilots and air defense officers to hear first-hand what they needed to protect Ukrainian cities and military installations. against Russian air and missile attacks.
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, now 145 days old, is becoming increasingly bloody. Russian missiles hit the city of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine, killing at least 24 people, including three children, in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called “an open act of terror”.
The midday attack on a city hundreds of kilometers from the front line and far from the invading Russian army came as European Union officials convened in The Hague to discuss Russian war crimes in Syria. Ukraine. The Russians also attacked the shopping center in Kremenchuk, where dozens died and they failed to stop the daily shelling of Kharkiv, Mykolaiv and frontline cities.
