This week, fighting continued to rage all along the front lines. Russian forces continue to advance in Donetsk region, in the country’s east, closing in on the region of Dnipro. Russia continued to strike Ukrainian cities and towns far behind the front lines with missiles and drones. More than 100 drones targeted Ukraine on Monday. Russia launched a major drone and missile attack on Ukraine on Wednesday, targeting gas infrastructure and other energy facilities in the regions of Kharkiv, Lviv, and Ivano-Frankivsk. The enemy did not meeting their goal of disrupting the country’s energy system, officials said.
Ukraine continues to strike military and industrial sites deep inside Russia. The country’s military hit an oil storage, a refinery, chemical and ammunition plants in the Bryansk, Saratov, Tula and Tatarstan regions on Tuesday in one of the largest drone attacks so far. Ukraine also struck an oil depot in the city of Liski, in Russia’s Voronezh region overnight on Thursday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a landmark 100-year partnership agreement in Kyiv on Thursday.
NATO takes over responsibility to coordinate military aid for Ukraine, NATO’s senior military officer says. NATO is taking over some of the responsibility to coordinate military aid for Ukraine earlier held by the U.S., the Chair of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer told a news conference Thursday that followed a meeting of allied and partner chiefs of defense in Brussels.
“The framework after Washington [summit] is to transfer some of the things that were organized by the U.S. now into NATO, the ECCU [European Control Center Ukraine], the IDCC [International Donor Coordination Centre]. That was a group of nations helping Ukraine. Now NATO is taking over that responsibility, and the United States has agreed to that, and that doesn’t change on Monday,” Bauer said, answering a question about how NATO can ensure continued support for Ukraine after Donald Trump takes office.
“The enduring contributions and the enduring mechanisms that are now in place is something that is reassuring for someone like [Ukraine’s army chief] General Syrskyi, because for him, the war doesn’t change because of what happens in the White House. The war is there on Monday as well, and so he needs continued help,” Bauer added.
