FormerPresident Donald Trump stated on Sunday that he is not actively contemplating sending Ukrainian forces with long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles. In response to a query by a journalist on Air Force One, he answered, “No, not really.” Recent accounts had claimed the Pentagon told the administration that American inventories of Tomahawks were adequate to allow this delivery.
While Ukrainian forces has been requesting Tomahawk missiles to execute long-range attacks against Russian targets, it has still succeeded to wage a successful campaign using its domestically-produced drones and rockets against Russian military and strategic targets, such as oil depots and processing plants. On Sunday, a Kyiv's airstrike struck the port facility on the coast, causing a blaze and damaging two vessels, as stated by Moscow authorities. Adjacent Russian airports in the area also had to be closed.
Turkey's biggest oil refining facilities are boosting procurement of non-Russian crude in reaction to the recent international sanctions on Russia, as reported by market sources. Turkey is a significant purchaser of oil from Russia, along with Beijing and India, but processing companies are following New Delhi's lead in reducing supplies.
One of the largest Turkish refineries, the STAR refinery, operated by Azerbaijani firm SOCAR, has lately purchased multiple cargoes of crude from Iraqi, Kazakh, and additional alternative suppliers for year-end delivery, as per sources. This amount to roughly 77,000 to 129,000 barrels per day (bpd) of non-Russian supply, varying by shipment volume. By comparison, oil from Russia accounted for virtually the entirety of the plant's supply in recent months, amounting to approximately 210,000 bpd, based on market information. SOCAR declined to provide a statement.
The other leading Turkish oil processor – Tupras refinery – was additionally increasing purchases of non-Russian types of crude, according to two sources. The company was furthermore expected to soon completely phase out Russian crude at a key facility of its primary major Turkish plants to maintain petroleum shipments to the EU without violating the European Union's upcoming restrictions. The refiner declined to comment to a inquiry for comment.
Kyiv has sent elite troops to the heavily contested eastern city of Pokrovsk in an attempt to push back an intense Moscow's assault comprising thousands of troops, according to Ukraine's senior commander. The city, dubbed “the gateway to Donetsk,” is located on a major supply line for the Kyiv's army and has been under Russia's sights for more than a twelve months as Russia pushes to control the entire eastern Donetsk area.
At least two hundred Moscow's troops had penetrated the city's defences, Ukrainian officials said recently, while military experts assessed that others were closing in on its outskirts in a pincer-shaped maneuver. In his evening address on this past Sunday, the Ukrainian president spoke of the combat in Pokrovsk and “successes in the elimination of the occupiers.”
The president, who has been urging his allies for more air defense systems to counter Moscow's strikes, announced on this past Sunday that Ukraine had strengthened its air defense capabilities with Berlin's support. “We have strengthened the Patriot component of our national air defence,” Zelenskyy declared, referring to the sophisticated American air-defence systems. Without providing additional information, the Ukrainian president singled out Berlin and its leader, Friedrich Merz, for gratitude.
Moscow's unmanned aircraft and missiles fired at Ukrainian territory killed no fewer than six individuals, including 2 children, and cut electricity to thousands of residents, authorities reported on this past Sunday. Moscow's military struck the Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa areas, according to the representatives of the country's prosecutor general. The victims were male minors aged 11 and fourteen, stated the nation's human rights commissioner. The strikes disrupted electricity to the entire east Donetsk region as well as almost 58 thousand homes in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, their local leaders said. Ukraine’s Eastern army group confirmed a number of its personnel were killed in a particular of the enemy attacks on the region.
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