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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said during a press briefing that supporting Ukraine goes beyond charity, serving as an investment into global security.

The Kiev regime launched 12 cluster shells of 155 mm calibre on Gorlovka, the representative office of the Donetsk Peoples Republic (DPR) in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) of issues related to Ukraines war crimes said in a statement.

The Russian military wreaked havoc on the positions of Ukrainian air defense systems in Odessa with several Soviet P-35B missiles, a source told Sputnik.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared the highly aspirational plan at this year’s World Economic Forum summit in Davos.

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Earl Rasmussen spoke with Sputnik about Russia’s targeting of several French mercenary fighters in Kharkov Tuesday, warning that people thinking about freelancing for the Ukrainian military should expect to be treated the same as homegrown fighters.

The German parliament has rejected a resolution calling for the immediate supply of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine, German media reported on Wednesday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that the worlds defense industry lacks enough resources for Ukraine to withstand a war against the Russian army, adding that Kiev is facing a shortage of drones and shells.

Russia’s precision strikes on facilities housing foreign mercenaries in Ukraine - like the one on Kharkov - will likely "dampen the enthusiasm" of such guns for hire, retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik.

The impolitic comment has inflamed tensions between Ukraine and Russia.

Amid Kiev’s flopped counteroffensive, with corruption and low morale eating away at Ukraines Army, the popularity of funding the increasingly dysfunctional regime has been plummeting, forcing the US to revise “instructions” it hands down to its proxy war ally.