Russia-Ukraine War Live Updates Today 9 July 2022: Ukraine Live News, Russia- Ukraine Today News, Russia Ukraine War News, Ukraine Crisis News, World War 3 News
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Russia Ukraine War Crisis: Russian forces launched shelling in Eatsern and Southern Ukraine, a regional governor said Saturday as the Ukrainian government urged people in Russian-occupied areas in the south to evacuate “by all possible means.” The governor of Luhansk, Serhyi Haidai, said the Russian forces managing to “raise true hell” in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland despite reports of them taking an operational pause, Reuters reported. He said Russia launched over 20 artillery, mortar and rocket strikes in the province overnight and its forces were pressing toward the border with neighboring Donetsk.
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden signed a new weapons package worth up to $400 million for Ukraine on Friday, including four additional high mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS) and more ammunition. Zelenskyy on Twitter thanked Biden for the HIMARS and shells, which he said were priority needs.
Russia is moving reserve forces from across the country and assembling them near Ukraine for future offensive operations, said the British military intelligence in an update on Saturday. However, many of their infantry units have been deployed with obsolete or inappropriate equipments, it added.
*Ukrainian defenders battled to contain Russian forces along several fronts, officials said, as the United States urged China to align itself with the West in opposing the invasion following an ill-tempered G20 meeting.
- Russia is moving reserve forces from across the country and assembling them near Ukraine for future offensive operations, British military intelligence said.
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