Ukraine struggle reside: Trump lastly agrees to satisfy Zelensky as Romania scrambles jets
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Donald Trump has finally agreed to meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky after accusing the wartime leader of making “nasty” comments against him.
Mr Trump, publishing a letter from Mr Zelensky requesting to meet, revealed that he would meet the Ukrainian leader at Trump Tower in New York on Friday morning local time.
It has been reported that Mr Zelensky has extended his stay in the US to meet Mr Trump. The former US president has been railing against the Ukrainian leader since he visited a munitions factory in US leader Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania at the top of his US trip.
Mr Zelensky also described JD Vance, Mr Trump’s running mate who has been an outspoken opponent to continued support for Ukraine, as “too radical” in an interview prior to his visit.
It comes as Nato member Romania, which shares a border with Ukraine, was forced to scramble fighter jets after Russian drones targeted Ukrainian civilian infrastructure close to the border.
Two Romanian and two Spanish F-16 fighter jets were scrambled in the early hours of Friday morning to “monitor” the situation, the defence ministry said.
UPD: Russian missile kills one, damages buildings in central Ukrainian city
A Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih struck a five-storey building housing the regional police department on Friday, killing at least one person and injuring five others, officials said.
Several people are feared buried under the rubble, officials said.
The body of a woman was found under the rubble, the regional governor Serhiy Lysak later said on the Telegram messaging app.
He added that 23 private houses, three apartment blocks and an educational facility had been damaged in the attack.
Ukraine‘s emergency services said the attack had partially destroyed the building housing the police directorate for the Dnipropetrovsk region.
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Russia has claimed that its forces have taken control of the village of Marynivka in Ukraine‘s eastern Donetsk region.
Russian forces have in recent weeks accelerated their progress in Donetsk, taking a series of towns and villages.
The Independent could not independently confirm the battlefield report.
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US president Joe Biden is set to host a Ukraine defence group in Germany next month following talks with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Ukraine Defence Contact Group will take place on 12 October in Germany and bring together international partners to coordinate additional assistance for Ukraine.
The White House said in a statement that “President Biden is determined to provide Ukraine with the support it needs to win”.
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We have some pictures from Izmail after Russia attack
Earlier, we reported that a Russian drone attack on the southern town of Izmail in the Odesa region killed three people and injured 14, including three children.
Below, we have some pictures released by the local emergency services as they tackled the fires caused by the attack.
Russian attack on Ukraine’s Kryvyi Rih strikes police department, national police says
A Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Friday struck a local police department, Ukraine‘s national police said in a statement via the Telegram messaging app.
The police said the rescue operation was underway and that the attack dealt injuries to people without providing additional details.
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Russian attack on southern town of Izmail kills 3, injures 14
A Russian drone attack on the southern town of Izmail killed three people and injured 14, including three children, Odesa regional prosecutors said on Friday.
The “large-scale terror attack” in the early hours of Friday caused several fires besides damaging homes, Odesa regional governor Oleh Kiper said on the Telegram messaging app.
Overnight Russian missile attack on the central city of Dnipro also damaged an industrial facility and caused a fire, Dnipropetrovsk regional governor Serhiy Lysak said on Telegram.
Drone and shelling attacks on the region damaged infrastructure, Lysak said, adding that no casualties had been reported in the attacks.
The Ukrainian air force said it shot down 24 out of 32 drones during Russia’s overnight attack on Telegram. One of the drones entered the Romanian air space, it said.
Russian forces also used one ballistic and two cruise missiles during the attack, the air force added.
Source: independent.co.uk
