Euromaidan Press Staff

Just as Russia sustains bloody bombardments in Kharkiv, Ukraine's last air defense missiles may launch by March if Congress keeps blocking $61 billion in urgent military funding requested for Kyiv.

By the end of the interview, it became clear that the Russian dictator had no intention of ending a brutal war against Ukraine.

In a significant military leadership reshuffle, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi as the new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, replacing General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi. Ukraine returns home 100 POWs in latest prisoner exchange with Russia.

A Russian missile strike on Kyiv early Tuesday killed 4 civilians and injured 40, hitting residential buildings. The attack came as US Senate Republicans obstructed crucial aid for Ukraine.

In the “Citadel” operation, Ukrainian Special Operations Forces captured crucial Russian equipment from Black Sea drilling platform and destroyed a mast along with its antenna. In a devastating attack on Kharkiv Oblast, Russian forces launched two missile strikes on the town of Zolochiv, killing a two-month-old baby.

Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren announced that the Netherlands is preparing to dispatch six more F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukrainian Lt-Gen Serhii Naiev reveals future defense aid packages for Ukraine will include missiles for F-16s capable of striking targets up to 500 km away.

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Ukraine's intelligence reports suggest a Russian Tu-95 commander involved in attacks on Ukraine was killed in Russia.

Ukrainian troops are firing no more than 2,000 155mm shells a day, less than a third of the ammunition Russia uses, Ukrainian Defense Minister Umerov said. As Ukraine faces a shortage of artillery shells, the Czech Republic pushes the EU to procure ammunition from outside the bloc to meet its commitments to Ukraine.

Ukraine's surface drones successfully sank a Russian missile corvette in the Black Sea - the 17th ship that Russia lost in the war.

The Ukrainian defenders have been exchanged in the first swap since the crash of a Russian IL-76 plane that Moscow claimed had 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war (PoWs) on board.

A cyberattack by Ukraine's military intelligence hackers has frozen vital data flows between Russian military units involved in the war against Ukraine.

President Zelenskyy cautioned halting Western military assistance would leave Europe unable to defend itself, allowing Putin to expand the war and redraw national borders.

Russia fired at least one North Korean ballistic missile at Ukraine's capital in a recent strike. Meanwhile, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has urged the EU to send more aid to Ukraine.