If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president.

President-elect Donald Trump, on Jan. 7, blamed the outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden for Russia's all-out war against Ukraine. Trump said Biden's support of Ukraine's NATO membership had led to Russia's war against the country.

Keith Kellogg, who will become the US special envoy for Ukraine, aims to find a solution to end the war. His goal is to achieve this within 100 days, Fox News reports. Kellogg supported the criticism of elected US President Donald Trump against US President Joe Biden.

Ukrainian drones struck deep inside Russia in an overnight attack targeting an oil facility serving a military airfield in the city of Engels, nearly 400 miles from the border, Ukraine’s military said Wednesday.

A state of emergency has been declared in the city of Engels in Russia's Saratov Oblast, where Ukraine's defence forces earlier hit an oil depot that supplies fuel to Russian warplanes. Source: Kremlin-aligned Russian news agency Interfax Quote from Saratov Oblast Governor Roman Busargin: "A state of emergency is to be declared in Engels as the area of fire at the industrial facility targeted in a UAV attack has expanded.

Ukrainian officials say that a Russian missile attack in the southern Ukraine city of Zaporizhzhia has killed at least 13 civilians and wounded about 30 others

The attack, which also wounded dozens of people, came hours after Ukraine’s military attacked an oil depot deep inside Russia.

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