US still delivering weapons to Ukraine, says Zelenskyy
US weapons deliveries to Ukraine haven’t stopped despite the Iran war, and Ukrainian long-range strikes continue to hammer Russian oil production and manufacturing plants, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday.
“Of course, we are hitting what is painful for Russia, and it is very painful,” Zelenskyy said in voice messages to reporters.
He said that Russian losses in the strikes have reached tens of billions of dollars.
It wasn’t possible to independently verify Zelenskyy’s comments, but Russian officials have reported that attacks have struck infrastructure in regions more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) inside Russia.
While Russia presses its all-out invasion, which began on February 24, 2022, Ukraine is using its domestically developed drone and missile technology to strike Russian territory.
The Ukrainian military also uses American-made Patriot air defence systems to stop Russian missile attacks on Ukraine’s territory.
“We see that the Russians do not want to stop - they are hitting our energy sector and our people. We will respond,” Zelenskyy said.
Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s bigger army drew renewed praise from Prince Harry, who arrived in Kyiv on Thursday for his third visit in a year.
Ukrainians have demonstrated “strength not just in bravery and capability, but in unity, in trust,” he said in a speech to a Kyiv security conference.
Ukraine “continues to hold together, and hold together you must,” he said.
The Duke of Sussex stepped off a train in Kyiv’s main station after an overnight journey from Poland, which is the only way to travel to the Ukrainian capital.
It wasn’t clear whether Harry would meet with Zelenskyy, who was due to attend a summit of European Union leaders in Cyprus on Thursday evening.
Hours before Harry arrived, three people were killed and 10 were wounded in a Russian drone attack on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, according to Oleksandr Hanzha, the head of the regional military administration.
A 13-story building and an administrative building were damaged in the strike, Hanzha said on the Telegram messaging app.
