It is critical that partners support our warriors and Ukrainian resilience with timely deliveries.
“Truly timely ones,” he said in a video statement on X.
A package that truly helps is the actual delivery of weapons to Ukraine, rather than just the announcement of a package.
The attack was launched from two areas in the Kharkiv region early Friday, Ukrainian officials and analysts said.
Russian assault groups attempted to break through Ukrainian defensive lines in the city of Vovchansk and in the region north of the village of Lyptsi.
Separately, Ukrainian forces also launched a barrage of drones and missiles on Friday night, Russia’s Ministry of Defence said, with air defence systems downing 21 rockets and 16 drones over Russia’s Belgorod, Kursk and Volgograd regions.
One person died in a drone strike in the Belgorod region, and another in the Kursk region, local officials said.
Another strike set ablaze an oil depot in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Luhansk region, killing four people and wounding eight more, Leonid Pasechnik, the region’s Moscow-installed leader, said on the messaging app Telegram on Saturday.
There was also shelling in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region Saturday, where three people died when an explosion hit a local restaurant, said Denis Pushilin, the area’s Kremlin-appointed leader.
Eight more people were wounded, including a child.
In the war’s early days, Russia made a botched attempt to quickly storm Kharkiv but retreated from its outskirts after about a month.
In the fall of 2022, seven months later, Ukraine’s army pushed them out of Kharkiv.
The bold counterattack helped persuade Western countries that Ukraine could defeat Russia on the battlefield and merited military support.