President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he asked the U.S. Defense Department to continue its surge of weapons deliveries to Ukraine after condemning Russia’s Christmas Day attack against some of Ukraine’s cities and its energy system. Source link
World Over 70 Russian missiles targeted Ukraine’s power grid Christmas morning, leaving hundreds of thousands without heat. Published Dec. 25 2024 10:57AM EST Illustration by Eric Faison/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/Reuters Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here. Source link
Reuters Many Kyiv residents sheltered in metro stations Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia made a “conscious choice” by launching a major attack on his country’s energy infrastructure on Christmas Day. Ukraine’s air force said it had detected 184 missiles and drones, but many were shot down or missed their targets. It said there were…
Alerts ping incessantly in Kyivpublished at 06:56 Greenwich Mean Time 06:56 GMT Will VernonReporting from Kyiv While many people around the world will be waking up to a peaceful and joyous day spent with family, for Ukrainians, Christmas morning began very differently: sirens, explosions, and destruction. Here in Kyiv, alerts from the Ukrainian Air Defence…
When a Saudi Arabian national was accused of ramming a car into a German Christmas market, members of the frequently anti-Muslim European far right said it proved their point. The deadly incident in Magdeburg was another example of Islamist terrorism, they said — and a result of the mass immigration they so vehemently oppose. Except…
Getty Images Stallholders have been allowed back into the Christmas market after the attack “I feel bad, I still do,” said Eidwicht, as she stood in the Christmas market close to the spot where the car sped through on Friday, killing five people and injuring more than two hundred others. “My granddaughter was here. I…
