Zelenskyy visits Berlin as he seeks more support for Ukraine

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy volition sojourn Berlin to conscionable with caller German Chancellor Friedrich Merz

BERLIN -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy volition conscionable with caller German Chancellor Friedrich Merz successful Berlin connected Wednesday arsenic Ukraine seeks further subject enactment amid a caller escalation successful Russia's bombing campaign, contempt U.S.-led efforts to extremity the war.

Germany has been the second-biggest supplier of subject assistance to Ukraine aft the United States. Merz said connected Monday that Germany and different large allies are no longer imposing immoderate scope restrictions connected weapons supplied to Ukraine arsenic it fights to repel Russia's full-scale invasion, which began successful February 2022.

Merz has plunged into diplomatic efforts to effort to unafraid a ceasefire and support Western enactment for Ukraine intact since becoming Germany’s person 3 weeks ago.

Meanwhile, warring has continued on the astir 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) beforehand line, and some sides person conducted heavy strikes. Russia launched its biggest drone onslaught of the warfare against Ukraine connected Sunday.

Russian aerial defenses downed 296 Ukrainian drones implicit 13 Russian regions precocious Tuesday and aboriginal Wednesday, Russia’s Defense Ministry said.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that aerial defenses changeable down 33 drones heading toward the capital.

Andrei Vorobyov, the politician of the Moscow region, said that 42 drones were downed. He said that drone fragments damaged 3 residential buildings successful the colony of Troitskoye, but nary 1 was hurt.

Moscow airports delayed oregon diverted hundreds of flights.

Overnight, Russian forces launched an onslaught connected Ukraine utilizing 5 Iskander ballistic missiles, 1 guided air-launched rocket and 88 drones, Ukraine’s Air Force said Wednesday. Air defence units changeable down 34 drones, and 37 drones were jammed.

Ukraine’s railway infrastructure and instrumentality successful the Kharkiv, Donetsk and Sumy regions besides came nether occurrence overnight and Wednesday morning, Ukraine’s authorities railway institution Ukrzaliznytsia said. No casualties were reported.

In Kharkiv region, railway postulation was temporarily suspended truthful that constabulary and exigency workers could wide debris from a downed drone that landed connected the tracks. In Sloviansk successful the Donetsk region, the onslaught shattered windows astatine the presumption building, and drone debris somewhat damaged a bid car.

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Hanna Arhirova contributed to this study from Kyiv, Ukraine.

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