Russia-Ukraine war news: Ukraine to receive F-16s from allies; Moscow drone strikes

Here’s the most recent on the war and its ripple results throughout the globe.

Denmark will ship 19 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine “when the conditions for such a transfer are met,” together with the right coaching of Ukrainian pilots, it stated Sunday in a joint statement with the Netherlands. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, at a information convention with Zelensky on Sunday, didn’t specify what number of F-16s his nation will ship Ukraine, however stated it has 42 in inventory. He stated a few of the plane in inventory might have to be up to date. Zelensky has lengthy pleaded with allies for the American-made fighter jets to assist Ukrainian forces, who typically fly in older, Soviet-era plane, repel assaults from the extra subtle Russian fleet.

Russia’s Defense Ministry stated it thwarted two tried drone assaults over the Moscow area early Monday. The first drone was detected round 6:50 a.m. and jammed electronically. The ministry stated the drone “lost control” and “crashed” north-west of Moscow with out harming anybody. The second drone was destroyed shortly after 8:15 a.m. over the Istra district of the Moscow area, the ministry stated. Moscow’s regional governor, Andrey Vorobyov, said drone particles fell on a home in Istra, wounding two individuals and damaging three different homes. The Washington Post couldn’t independently confirm the stories.

The air house over Moscow was briefly restricted following the tried drone strikes “to ensure the safety of civil aircraft flights,” Russia’s Federal Agency for Air Transport said early Monday. It stated 45 industrial flights and two cargo flights had been redirected from 4 Moscow-area airports to airports in Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and St. Petersburg. Traffic on the Moscow airports was again to regular at 9 a.m., it stated. Similar incidents disrupted air visitors across the capital on Friday and Sunday.

Britain’s Defense Ministry stated it’s “highly likely” that Russia will kind a brand new army unit “to focus on defensive security operations in the south of Ukraine.” The ministry in its daily intelligence assessment Monday stated that the brand new formation, which it referred to as the “18th Combined Arms Army,” is “likely to consist mostly of mobilised personnel,” with the objective of liberating up “more experienced units to fight on key axes.”

Russian assaults within the Kherson area killed at the very least two individuals and injured three others, its governor, Oleksandr Prokudin, said Monday on Telegram.

Rescue operations for the lethal Saturday assault on Chernihiv have ended, with seven lifeless and 156 injured, Ukraine’s operational armed forces said, including that 66 residential buildings had been broken. In his nightly deal with, Zelensky referred to as the incident a “terrorist attack” and said the army would “respond tangibly.”

E.U. overseas coverage chief Josep Borrell condemned Russia’s strike on Chernihiv as “cowardly and deliberate” in a social media post. Earlier, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the incident a “horrific missile attack on innocent civilians.”

Russia’s overseas minister stated “tectonic shifts are taking place in the world” that may lead to “a more just multipolar world order.” Sergei Lavrov, writing in an article revealed Monday in South Africa’s Ubuntu Magazine, stated the BRICS — a gaggle of rising market economies made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — have an vital function to play on this new world order. South Africa is internet hosting the yearly BRICS Summit, which begins Tuesday, and Lavrov is predicted to attend. As The Post has reported, South African officers stated final month that Russian President Vladimir Putin, who’s going through an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court over alleged war crimes in Ukraine, had agreed not to attend the summit, placing an finish to a diplomatic quandary for South Africa: As a member of the ICC, it will have had an obligation to arrest Putin upon his arrival within the nation.

Zelensky, on a go to to Denmark, stated that “all of Russia’s neighbors are under threat if Ukraine does not prevail.” In a speech to Danish lawmakers in Copenhagen on Monday, Zelensky thanked Denmark for its army help of Ukraine and argued that “democracies of the world, each of them, can become a target, either for missiles, or for mercenaries, or for destabilization” if Russia wins the war.

Ukraine is exploiting President Biden’s cluster bomb gamble: A number of toes away from a pile of U.S.-made cluster bombs, a gaggle of Ukrainian army males hear to an earsplitting increase go off some 50 instances a day — their method of making an attempt to maintain again advancing Russian forces, John Hudson and Anastacia Galouchka report.

President Biden’s resolution to ship cluster munitions to Ukraine is probably the most controversial arms switch of his presidency. Human Rights Watch referred to as the transfer “profoundly troubling,” and Germany, France, Canada, the Netherlands and different NATO allies publicly opposed it.

But the deployment of the weapon has been met with little hesitation inside Ukraine’s authorities and army, which offered The Post uncommon entry to the gear and troopers utilizing the notoriously imprecise munitions.

Mary Ilyushina and Robyn Dixon contributed to this report.