Ex-President Donald Trump indicated on Sunday that he is not seriously contemplating supplying Ukraine with advanced Tomahawk missiles. In response to a query by a journalist on his plane, he responded, “No, not currently.” Earlier accounts had claimed the Pentagon told the White House that U.S. stockpiles of Tomahawks were ample to allow such a transfer.
While Ukrainian forces has been requesting Tomahawk missiles to carry out long-range strikes against Russian targets, it has still succeeded to wage a effective campaign using its own unmanned aerial vehicles and rockets against Russian armed and key targets, such as oil depots and processing plants. This past Sunday, a Kyiv's airstrike struck the port facility on the Black Sea, causing a fire and damaging two ships, according to Russian officials. Nearby Russian airports in the area also had to be closed.
Turkey's biggest oil refining facilities are boosting purchases of alternative crude in reaction to the latest international restrictions on Moscow, according to market sources. Turkey is a significant purchaser of Russian crude, along with China and India, but refiners are following India's lead in cutting back supplies.
A major Turkey's refineries, SOCAR Turkey Aegean Refinery (STAR), owned by Azeri firm SOCAR, has lately acquired multiple cargoes of crude from Iraq, Kazakhstan, and other non-Russian suppliers for December delivery, as per insiders. This represent approximately 77,000 to 129,000 barrels per day (bpd) of non-Russian crude, varying by cargo size. By comparison, oil from Russia accounted for virtually all of the STAR refinery's supply in October and September, totaling about 210,000 barrels per day, according to trade information. SOCAR declined to comment.
The other major Turkey's oil processor – Tupras – was additionally increasing purchases of non-Russian types of crude, according to two sources. The company was also expected to in the near future entirely eliminate imports from Russia at one of its primary main Turkish refineries to maintain petroleum shipments to the EU without breaching the European Union's upcoming sanctions. The refiner declined to comment to a inquiry for comment.
Kyiv has deployed elite troops to the heavily contested eastern city of Pokrovsk in an attempt to repel an fierce Moscow's assault involving a large number of soldiers, according to Ukraine's top military leader. The city, called “the gateway to Donetsk,” is located on a major logistical line for the Kyiv's army and has been in Russia's sights for more than a twelve months as Russia aims to control the whole east Donetsk area.
At least 200 Moscow's soldiers had breached the city's defensive lines, Ukrainian officials reported last week, while analysts concluded that additional forces were closing in on its perimeter in a pincer-shaped movement. In his evening speech on Sunday, the Ukrainian president spoke of the combat in Pokrovsk and “results in the destruction of the invading forces.”
Zelenskyy, who has been pushing his partners for additional air defences to counter Moscow's attacks, stated on this past Sunday that Ukraine had reinforced its air-defence capabilities with Germany’s support. “We've boosted the U.S.-made Patriot component of our Ukrainian air defense,” he declared, referring to the advanced American air-defence systems. Not offering additional information, the Ukrainian leader singled out Germany and its leader, the German chancellor, for gratitude.
Moscow's drones and rockets fired at Ukrainian territory killed at least six people, among them two children, and disrupted electricity to tens of thousands of households, officials reported on this past Sunday. Russian forces struck the Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa regions, said the office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general. The children were male minors of ages eleven and 14, stated the nation's human rights commissioner. Russia’s attacks cut electricity to the whole eastern Donetsk region as well as nearly 58,000 homes in the south Zaporizhzhia region, their local leaders said. Ukraine’s Eastern military unit said a number of its personnel were killed in a particular of the enemy attacks on Dnipropetrovsk.
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