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January 30, 2023

Ukraine Calls on Allies to Send Long-Range Missiles and Fighter Jets
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Ukraine says Russian strikes on the southern city of Kherson have killed
three people and injured six others. Those attacks followed a Russian
air raid on an apartment complex in the northeastern city of Kharkiv,
where at least one person was killed and three others injured.

Separately, Russia said a Ukrainian strike in the Russian-occupied
Luhansk region hit a hospital on Saturday, killing at least 14 people
and injuring two dozen. Russia's Foreign Ministry blamed U.S.-made
HIMARS rockets for the deaths and accused the United States of direct
involvement in the conflict.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked allies to send long-range
missiles and other high-tech weapons, saying Ukraine's military needs to
counter Russian attacks far from the frontlines.

President Volodymyr Zelensky: "Russia hopes to drag out the war and
exhaust our forces, so we have to make time our weapon. We have to
accelerate developments. We have to speed up the supply and launch of
new necessary military options for Ukraine."

In response, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz ruled out sending German
fighter jets to Ukraine, warning allies against entering a "bidding war"
to supply weapons. Scholz's comments came just days after Germany agreed
to supply Ukraine with Leopard 2 battle tanks.


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