Ukraine announced on Monday that it had blown up a railway bridge in the Samara region of southwestern Russia.
The Ukrainian military intelligence service announced that the attack was aimed at the supports of the bridge over the Chapajevka River. The agency said that Russia used the bridge to transport military cargo.
The Russian railway operator reported the incident in the Samara region, saying there were no casualties, but traffic was suspended in the area.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to Western countries to provide delayed aid to Ukraine, which is defending itself against Russian attacks despite a shortage of ammunition.
"If this does not happen, it will become one of the most shameful pages in history - if America or Europe are defeated by Iran's 'Shahed' drones or Russian fighter jets. Russian evil should not be fueled by weak decisions, delays in deliveries or hesitation," he said. , referring to the stalled US aid package to Ukraine due to political bickering in the US Congress.
"It is simply impossible to explain how the difficulties of a bleeding country can be used in internal political struggles," Zelenskiy added in his video address on Sunday evening.
Zelensky's harsh tone in his address revealed his displeasure as the death toll in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa rose to 12 on Sunday, including five children, after a Russian drone targeted an apartment block on Saturday.
"Russia has made Ukrainian children its military targets," Zelensky wrote in a post on the Ex platform, after the bodies of three children were pulled from the rubble.
Odesa regional governor Oleh Kiper, writing on Telegram, said rescue teams working on Sunday evening found more bodies. Earlier in the day, recovery teams pulled the bodies of the mother and baby from the rubble.
It has been more than two months since the US last sent military supplies to Ukraine. In Washington, officials are watching with increasing concern the shortage of arms and ammunition in Ukraine and the decline in US shipments.
House Speaker Mike Johnson refused to put the Senate-passed $95 billion foreign aid package, which includes $60 billion in aid to Ukraine, to a vote. That decision could delay passage of the package for weeks after it has been pending in Congress for months.
"We are waiting for supplies that are of vital importance, especially we are waiting for the American solution," Zelenski said in his evening address on Sunday.
Russia has lost 15 military planes since the beginning of February, he added. "The more opportunities we have to shoot down Russian planes... the more Ukrainian lives will be saved," Zelensky added.
Defense Department officials are discussing options that could include diverting Pentagon supplies before Congress approves funding to replenish them, said Sen. Jack Reid, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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