Russia Strikes Ukraine’s Railways and Vows to Slow Arrival of U.S. Aid – The attacks killed at least six civilians and injured dozens of others

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  Russia attacked railway facilities in three different regions across Ukraine on Thursday night and Friday morning, as the Russian defense minister vowed to step up strikes aimed at slowing the flow of critically needed American weapons and equipment to the front.

  The latest attacks on the rail network came after Russia’s defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, promised to target Western weapons as they arrived in Ukraine.

  At a speech in Berlin welcoming recent announcements of new aid from the United States and other allies of Ukraine, the NATO secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, stressed the need for quick action: “It is now our responsibility to turn these commitments into real deliveries of weapons and ammunition.

  Russian forces have taken a string of villages west of Avdiivka, in the Donetsk region, but their next big goal in that direction, the city of Pokrovsk, is still 18 miles away.

  Capturing the town would help Russia to launch further offensive operations against larger cities, like Kostyantynivka, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, major population centers in the Ukrainian-held part of the Donbas region.

  Meanwhile, in the northeastern Kharkiv and Sumy regions, close to the Russian border, guided aerial bomb attacks on Friday morning struck two villages, killing one woman and wounding several more people, including at least three children, according to the local authorities and the news media.

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