Putin under pressure as Ukraine invasion falters | DW News

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, and its director, Kyrylo Budanov, was behind Saturday's explosion on the Kerch Bridge.

The FSB said on Wednesday it had detained five Russians and three citizens of Ukraine and Armenia over the blast that caused massive damage to the Kerch Bridge that links Russia to Crimea.

Ukraine's Interior Minister spokesman Andriy Yusov dismissed the allegations as "nonsense."

Ukrainian troops have retaken five settlements in the Kherson region, Ukraine's military command said Wednesday.

The villages of Novovasylivka, Novohryhorivka, Nova Kamianka, Tryfonivka and Chervone are in the southern Kherson region.

International backers of Ukraine vowed to deliver new air defenses "as fast as we can," after a US-led group of some 50 countries held talks at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

"The systems will be provided, as fast as we can physically get them there," United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said after the meeting, without giving details on any new pledges.

"We're going to provide systems that we have available ... We're also going to try to provide additional munitions to the existing systems that the Ukrainian forces are using," he said.

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