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A soldier from the 1st Brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard Bureviy (Hurricane) gives education on the fight of an armored corps of workers at an army education floor in northern Ukraine, Friday, Nov. 3.
KYIV, Ukraine >> Russian strikes in Ukraine have wounded at least 14 civilians over the past day, he said on Saturday, as the head of the European Union’s executive returned to the Ukrainian capital to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The governor of the Zaporizhzhia region, Yurii Malashko, said nine other people were wounded in a Russian rocket attack on the village of Zarichne. A total of 26 towns and settlements in the region were attacked over the past day, he said.
In the Kherson region, five other people were wounded, Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin said. Attacks in the region came from artillery, mortars, drones, fighter jets and tanks.
Nikopol, a city located on the opposite bank of the Dnieper River from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, was attacked, but no injuries were reported, according to Dnipropetrovsk regional governor Serhii Lysak.
On Saturday night, the Russian-appointed governor of the annexed Crimean peninsula said air defense missiles had been fired at the city of Kerch and fragments had fallen on a shipyard. He elaborated.
Kerch is located at the western end of the bridge leading to Russia’s Krasnodar region, which is a canal for food and military supplies. The bridge was hit twice during the first attacks.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Kyiv on Saturday morning and waved through Zelensky at the exercise field.
She tweeted that discussions about its sixth port of call would focus on the way forward for Ukraine’s EU club “and how we will continue to make Russia pay for its war of aggression. “
He arrived here a week before she is due to present a report on EU enlargement, which von der Leyen said will mark Kiev’s progress toward joining the 27-member bloc.
“I have to say that you have made fair progress. It’s impressive to see,” von der Leyen said after the meeting with Zelenskyy. “We will never have to say that you are waging an existential war and at the same time you are profoundly reforming your country. “
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