Ukraine Uses Western Harpoon Missile System to Sink Russian Tugboat

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• Ukraine’s navy stated it hit a Russian vessel within the Black Sea, its first acknowledged use of the Western-provided Harpoon antiship system.
• More bombs fell on Severodonetsk and neighboring Lysychansk, two of the Luhansk area’s final cities not below Russian management.
• The European Union’s govt arm beneficial that Ukraine be thought-about a candidate to be part of the commerce bloc.

The Ukrainian navy struck a Russian tugboat within the Black Sea with a Harpoon antiship missile system supplied by the West, as Russian invasion forces intensified airstrikes and shelling within the japanese Ukrainian metropolis of Severodonetsk, Ukrainian officers stated.

The strike on the Vasiliy Bekh tugboat is the primary time Ukrainian officers have acknowledged deploying the Harpoon techniques, which have been despatched by the U.Ok. and Denmark. The U.S. stated this week it will donate two further American-made Harpoon techniques to Ukraine as a part of a fresh $1 billion military-assistance package.