{"id":48678,"date":"2024-03-03T15:23:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T05:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=48678"},"modified":"2024-03-03T15:23:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T05:23:31","slug":"zelensky-urges-western-air-defence-as-russian-attacks-kill-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=48678","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky urges Western air defence as Russian attacks kill 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday called on the West to rapidly deliver more air-defence systems as a wave of Russian missile, drone and artillery strikes killed at least 11 people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eight were confirmed dead, including a child and a baby, after an overnight drone strike on the southern port city of Odesa, a regional official said.<\/p>\n<p>Separate shelling attacks on the frontline Kharkiv, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions killed another three people, Ukrainian officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia continues to hit civilians,&#8221; Zelensky said in a post on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need more air defences from our partners. We need to strengthen the Ukrainian air shield to add more protection for our people from Russian terror. More air-defence systems and more missiles for air-defence systems save lives,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine is currently on the back foot in the two-year war as a crucial $60-billion aid package is held up in the United States congress.<\/p>\n<p>In Odesa, &#8220;a nine-storey building was destroyed as a result of an attack by Russian terrorists,&#8221; Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said in a Telegram post Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Around 10 people were still unaccounted for, with almost 100 rescuers set to continue a search and rescue operation overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Footage from the scene showed several floors of a residential building collapsed and its facade ripped off.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s air force said falling debris from Russian drones it had shot down fell onto residential buildings in both Odesa and Kharkiv.<\/p>\n<p>BSS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday called on the West to rapidly deliver more air-defence systems as a wave of Russian missile, drone and artillery strikes killed at least 11 people. Eight were confirmed dead, including a child and a baby, after an overnight drone strike on the southern port city of Odesa, a regional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[668],"class_list":["post-48678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-zelensky-urges-western-air-defence-as-russian-attacks-kill-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}