Ukraine 'needs reassurance' after Russian attacks: Ex-ambassador

(NewsNation) — At slightest 31 radical were killed successful cities across Ukraine aft dozens of Russian missiles struck flat buildings and a ample children’s infirmary successful the capital.

Now, arsenic satellite leaders hole to stitchery astatine a NATO summit commemorating the 75th day of the subject alliance, erstwhile U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor says Ukraine "needs reassurance" of U.S. support.

"They're looking for President Biden for leadership. And truthful far, that has been the response, that has been the enactment the United States has provided. U.S. allies are looking for that to continue," Taylor said. "We are their biggest ally. They cognize it. We cognize it. We request to supply it. And truthful I got a mates of calls aft the debate, but they conscionable request reassurance that this is going to proceed the enactment that they needed each along."

Reeling from his disastrous June 27 statement performance and struggling to clasp his reelection run together, Biden says radical should look to his interactions astatine the NATO acme for impervious that helium is inactive beardown and vigorous capable to lead.

The latest onslaught was Russia’s heaviest bombardment of Kyiv successful astir 4 months, hitting 7 of the city’s 10 districts. At slightest 7 radical were killed successful the capital, including 2 unit members astatine the hospital. Strikes successful Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskyy’s birthplace successful cardinal Ukraine, killed 10.

The onslaught connected the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital caused debris to autumn into bosom patients’ unfastened chests successful the mediate of surgery. Cancer patients had their beds wheeled into parks and onto the streets.

"This children's infirmary is lone the latest atrocity. Putin, arsenic you know, has already been indicted by the International Criminal Court arsenic a warfare transgression for these kinds of actions. So this is simply a continuation; this is not, sadly, new. This is demonstrating what benignant of hostile the Ukrainians are fighting," Taylor told NewsNation.

Zelenskyy said during a sojourn to Poland that helium hopes the acme volition supply Ukraine with much aerial defence systems.