NORAD detected and intercepted four Russian aircraft two TU-95 BEAR-H bombers, a SU-30 fighter aircraft and a SU-35 fighter aircraft in the Alaska region Tuesday. Such intercepts are routine, the U.S. military said.
The United States has told its citizens to leave Russia immediately due to the war in Ukraine and the risk of arbitrary arrest or harassment by Russian law enforcement agencies.
The latest round of Russian shelling has left four dead in Ukraine. As per Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, on Sunday three people were killed by the shelling in the southern city of Kherson, while the Kharkiv regional governor reported the death of one person due to another strike.
In his daily evening address, Zelensky said, "Today, the Russian army has been shelling Kherson atrociously all day."
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Germany’s foreign minister on Sunday said that her government would not stand in the way of Poland sending its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. For Ukrainian officials who have been calling on its western allies to supply them will german-made tanks for months, this could be the big breakthrough it’s been waiting for. Berlin has till now stood in the way of sending the tanks itself or allowing other NATO nations to do so.