The 11-year-old civil conflict in Syria has now embroiled Russia and Iran, who have teamed up to back Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Kirby stated, without going into any detail, “Iran and Russia, they may lie to the world, but they most definitely can’t hide the facts, and the fact is this: Tehran is now directly engaged on the ground.
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba had in-depth conversations over a request for air and missile defense systems and technologies, Kuleba wrote on Twitter. According to Lapid’s office, the Israeli prime minister expressed “great concern” over the military ties between Russia and Iran.
OUTAGES IN UKRAINE
On Thursday, the government imposed electricity limitations between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m., and advised people to use less energy.
Blackouts in some places were among the first such restrictions since Russia’s invasion on February 24. They came after a volley of Russian attacks that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy claimed had hit a third of all power plants.
According to Volodymyr Kudritskiy, the chairman of the board of the national energy firm Ukrenergo, “many weeks will be needed to restore the reliability of our energy system.”
He stated that this assessment was contingent upon a stop to mass shelling.
