RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE

US support for Ukraine is 'nearing inevitable end,' Medvedev says

Washington will soon stop providing support to Kiev, as it spends too much on it to little or no avail on the battlefield, the Russian Security Council’s Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev has said.

"US lawmakers are derailing the funding of Israeli and Ukrainian military spending for this year. The reasons are technical and… not quite technical," he wrote in his Telegram channel.

"While in Israel’s case the reason is obviously technical, for that country is more important to the US Congress than its own, everything is more complicated as far as the Ukrainian regime is concerned," Medvedev said, drawing attention to the fact that "the United States easily writes off its minions when they become useless."

Medvedev forecasts that this is exactly what will happen to Ukraine.

"The reason is not just the Republicans and Democrats are at odds on the eve of the US presidential election. They're just fed up: these minions devour mammoth funds, theft thrives and nothing has been achieved on the battlefield," he explained. "Also, the Israeli-Palestinian crisis has erupted. To put it in a nutshell, the support for this scoundrel on the loose is nearing its inevitable end," Medvedev concluded.

He acknowledged that Washington's support would not run dry overnight.

"More money will be squandered, there will follow more schizoid rhetoric about democracy, bombastic assurances of a coming victory, false promises of allied relations for all time, and so on and so forth. But the situation is clear: the moment when another US puppet will sink into oblivion is drawing near,'" he emphasized.

"The problem is that this Banderovite has not yet realized who he really is," Medvedev added.

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE

Russian shelling kills two, wounds 12, in Ukraine's Kherson region

Russian shelling killed two people and injured at least 12 on Thursday in different areas of southern Ukraine's Kherson region, local officials said.

Regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said a 75-year-old woman had died in the evening in her apartment in Kherson, the region's largest town, as Russian forces shelled from the eastern bank of the Dnipro River that they largely occupy.

Eight people were injured, he wrote on Telegram.

Prokudin had earlier reported an afternoon attack in the village of Bilozerka on the Dnipro's west bank. The body of a man was found under rubble and a man and three women were being treated in hospital.

"A critical infrastructure object was also destroyed. Now Bilozerka and surrounding villages are without electricity," Prokudin said on Telegram.

A grocery store and houses were also damaged, he said. Images from the site shared by Prokudin showed a one-storey building with shattered windows and damage to the walls, as well as several cars covered with traces of shelling.

Reuters could not independently confirm the reports.

Russian troops abandoned Kherson and the western bank of the Dnipro River late last year, but now regularly shell those areas from positions on the eastern bank.

Ukrainian officials this week said their forces had crossed the river and were operating on the eastern bank.