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War in Ukraine, live: Kiev claims to have repelled a new attack by the Russian army on the city of Avdiivka

Cover photo: A police officer stands in front of a damaged building in the town of Avdiïvka, October 17, 2023. STRINGER / Portal

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin and Palestinian Hamas “both want to destroy a neighboring democracy,” Joe Biden said Thursday evening. The American president assured in a speech at the White House that the United States would be safer “for generations” if it helped Ukraine and Israel and announced that he would ask Congress to “urgently” fund this new aid .
  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy then welcomed the “powerful speech” of the American president, who reiterated his clear support for Ukraine. “America’s investments in Ukraine’s defense will ensure the long-term security of Europe and the world,” the Ukrainian president wrote Friday At.
  • The American president will host a diplomatic summit between the United States and the European Union on Friday, to strengthen their “strategic partnership” and show a united front in the face of the Israel-Hamas conflict and the war in Ukraine. The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, are expected at the White House.
  • The Ukrainian army said on Friday it had repelled a new Russian attack on the city of Avdiivka, while asserting that it had inflicted “numerous casualties” on Moscow. “The enemy has renewed its attacks and is not giving up its attempts to encircle Avdiivka,” an industrial city in the east of the country, the Ukrainian Army General Staff said in its morning report on Facebook. “Our soldiers are holding the defensive lines,” he continued.
  • Russian attacks against the Donetsk, Kherson and Kharkiv regions continued overnight from Thursday to Friday., cause at least one death, This emerges from a message from Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko published on Telegram on Friday morning. One person died in Beryslav in the Kherson region in one of six Russian army airstrikes on the city.
  • Britain’s Defense Secretary believes several Russian military helicopters were “probably” destroyed by ATACMS missiles fired by Ukraine in Berdyansk and Luhansk on Tuesday. “It is likely that nine Russian military helicopters were destroyed in Berdyansk and five in Luhansk, with Ukraine claiming to have used long-range tactical missiles supplied by the United States for the first time,” he said. in his daily report on the conflictFriday.

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