BREAKING: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been welcomed to the White House by US President Joe Biden. The monumental meeting marks the first time Zelenskyy has left Ukraine since the beginning of the war. DETAILS: 9News
Zelenskyy is meeting US President Joe Biden and deliver a prime time address to the US Congress during his first trip outside Ukraine since his homeland was invaded 300 days ago.
He said special emphasis would go to developing nuclear forces, which he described as "the main guarantee of Russia's sovereignty".
All Russian men ages 18 to 27 are obliged to serve in the military for one year, but many use college deferments and health exemptions to avoid the draft. Some Russian military experts have argued that the more compact units intended for use in local conflicts were undermanned and underequipped for a massive conflict like the action in Ukraine.
The White House announcement of the military aid for Ukraine came just hours before Zelenskyy arrived. The massive $1.8 billion package includes for the first time a Patriot missile battery and precision guided bombs for fighter jets, US officials said. Moscow also was involved in high-level diplomacy. The deputy head of Russia's Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, met Wednesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
In Ukraine, Russian forces pounded populated areas with more missiles and artillery Wednesday. They shelled areas around the city of Nikopol in Ukraine's southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region overnight, its governor, Valentyn Reznichenko, said on Telegram on Wednesday morning. "They simply kill," Oleksii Reznikov wrote on Twitter. He said that as, of December 21, in the country's northeastern Kharkiv province the bodies of about 500 civilians who died during the period of Russian occupation have been found.
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