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Agence France-Presse

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Kyiv will lose the war against Russia if the US Congress does not approve military aid to battle Moscow’s invasion.
Republicans in Congress have been blocking tens of billions of dollars in military assistance for Kyiv for months.
“It is necessary to specifically tell Congress that if Congress does not help Ukraine, Ukraine will lose the war,” Zelensky said during a video meeting of Kyiv-organised fundraising platform United24.
Zelensky said it would be “difficult” for Ukraine to “stay” (survive) without the aid.
He said that “if Ukraine loses the war, other states will be attacked”.
Meanwhile, Ukraine struck the dome above a shutdown reactor at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear station on Sunday, although radiation levels were normal and there was no serious damage, the plant’s Russian-installed administration said.


Kyiv said on Sunday that a strike on the town of Gulyaipole in the southern Zaporizhzhia region killed three people.
“Two men and a woman died under the rubble of their own private house, which was hit by a Russian shell,” the head of the region, Ivan Fedorov, said on social media.
Officials said another civilian, a woman, was killed in the city of Kupiansk, in the northeastern Kharkiv region that has seen increased attacks in recent months.
“A woman died under the rubble in an apartment on the fourth floor of a high-rise building,” Ukraine’s state emergency services said, adding that it was a residential building.
Authorities in the main city of Kharkiv said Russia launched another attack on Sunday, wounding five civilians, a day after a deadly attack there.
Russia, meanwhile, said a young woman was killed by a Ukrainian drone strike on the Belgorod border region.
Russia’s Lavrov, who will visit China soon, calls Ukraine peace plan ‘reasonable’
Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said shrapnel hit a car with a family of six inside in the village of Shagarovka, some 35km (20 miles) from the border with Ukraine.
“Unfortunately, a girl died,” Gladkov said, without specifying whether she was a minor. “She died from her wounds on the spot.”
Gladkov said her father had a head wound and that two children were taken to hospital.
Additional reporting by Reuters


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Republicans have been blocking tens of billions of dollars in military assistance for Kyiv for months
President Volodymyr Zelensky said it would be ‘difficult’ for Ukraine to survive without the money and said that if his nation loses, ‘other states will be attacked’


The president said that if his nation does not win, ‘other states will be attacked’.
