🔗 Share this article Donald Trump Says He Is Not Planning Providing Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine. Ex-President Donald Trump stated this past Sunday that he was not really considering providing Ukrainian forces with long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles. When questioned by a reporter on Air Force One, he replied, “No, not currently.” Recent accounts had suggested the U.S. Department of Defense informed the administration that U.S. stockpiles of Tomahawks were adequate to allow such a delivery. Ukrainian Defense Actions Persist Despite Weapon Lack While Ukraine has been pursuing Tomahawk missiles to carry out far-reaching attacks against Russia, it has nonetheless succeeded to conduct a successful operation using its domestically-produced drones and rockets against Moscow's military and key targets, including fuel storage facilities and processing plants. This past Sunday, a Ukrainian airstrike targeted the port facility on the Black Sea, causing a fire and harming two vessels, according to Moscow authorities. Adjacent Russian airports in the area also had to be shut down. Turkish Refineries Turn to Non-Russian Crude Sources Ankara's largest oil refining facilities are boosting procurement of alternative crude in reaction to the recent western sanctions on Russia, as reported by industry insiders. Turkey is a significant buyer of Russian crude, along with Beijing and India, but processing companies are mirroring India's example in cutting back imports. STAR Plant Diversifies Oil Procurement A major Turkey's refineries, the STAR refinery, operated by Azeri firm SOCAR, has lately acquired multiple cargoes of crude from Iraqi, Kazakh, and additional alternative producers for December delivery, as per insiders. This represent roughly 77,000 to 129,000 barrels daily of non-Russian supply, varying by shipment volume. In contrast, oil from Russia accounted for virtually the entirety of the plant's supply in October and September, amounting to approximately 210,000 barrels per day, according to trade data. SOCAR refused to provide a statement. Another Major Refiner Likewise Boosting Non-Russian Buys The other leading Turkey's refiner – Tupras – was additionally raising purchases of alternative grades of crude, as stated by two sources. The company was also expected to soon entirely eliminate Russian crude at a key facility of its primary major Turkish plants to maintain fuel shipments to the EU without breaching the EU’s incoming sanctions. Tupras did not respond to a inquiry for comment. Ukrainian Sends Elite Units to Pokrovsk Kyiv has deployed elite troops to the heavily contested eastern city of Pokrovsk in an effort to push back an intense Moscow's assault involving thousands of soldiers, as stated by Ukraine's top commander. The city, called “the entrance to Donetsk,” lies on a major logistical line for the Ukrainian military and has been under Russia's crosshairs for more than a twelve months as Russia pushes to seize the whole eastern Donetsk area. Recent Developments in the City No fewer than two hundred Russian soldiers had breached Pokrovsk’s defences, Ukrainian officials said last week, while analysts assessed that additional forces were closing in on its outskirts in a encircling movement. In his nightly address on Sunday, the Ukrainian president spoke of the combat in Pokrovsk and “successes in the destruction of the occupiers.” Ukrainian President Announces Enhanced Air Defence System The president, who has been pushing his partners for additional air defences to hold off Russia’s attacks, announced on this past Sunday that Ukraine had reinforced its air-defence capabilities with Berlin's support. “We have strengthened the Patriot element of our Ukrainian air defense,” Zelenskyy declared, mentioning the sophisticated American defense systems. Not offering further information, the Ukraine's leader specifically thanked Germany and its leader, Friedrich Merz, for gratitude. Russian Strikes Kill Innocents, Disrupt Power Moscow's drones and missiles fired at Ukrainian territory took the lives of no fewer than 6 people, among them two minors, and disrupted power to tens of thousands of households, authorities said on this past Sunday. Moscow's military attacked the Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa regions, said the representatives of the country's prosecutor general. The victims were male minors of ages eleven and fourteen, said the nation's ombudsman. Russia’s strikes disrupted electricity to the whole east Donetsk area as well as almost 58,000 homes in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, their local leaders said. Ukraine’s Eastern military unit confirmed a number of its personnel were killed in a particular of the enemy strikes on the region.