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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has written to U.S. President Donald Trump and Congress asking for more American-made air defense ammunition to counter intensifying Russian ballistic missile attacks, Kyiv said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Russian lawmakers have backed a draft bill to have bank employees join the fight against Ukraine\u2019s long-range drones that strike deep inside Russia \u2014 with trained bank staff shooting down the unmanned aircraft.<\/p>\n

The steps came after a recent escalation in aerial attacks by both sides in the more than four-year war that followed Russia\u2019s all-out invasion of its neighbor. Neither side has been able to make much progress on the 780-mile front line.<\/p>\n

Also on Wednesday, Anne Keast-Butler, head of U.K.\u2019s intelligence agency GCHQ, asserted that Russian President Vladimir \u201cPutin is going backwards on the battlefield.\u201d New data shows that \u201calmost half a million Russian soldiers have now been killed since the conflict began,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has pounded Russian targets, especially oil facilities and manufacturing plants, with its domestically produced drones. At the same time, the Russian military has intensified its aerial attacks, firing almost 90 missiles as well as hundreds of drones at Kyiv last weekend in an effort to overwhelm air defenses.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy seeks more Patriot defense systems<\/h4>\n

The Ukrainian leader urged Trump and Congress in a letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press, to supply more Patriot PAC-3 missiles and other air defense systems, warning that deliveries to Ukraine are falling dangerously short as the Iran war diverts U.S. stocks.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has raised its drone interception rate to more than 90%, the letter says, and Ukrainian specialists have helped countries in the Middle East \u2014 specifically the Gulf Arab region \u2014 strengthen air defenses. They have also helped at American military bases in the Mideast, the letter says.<\/p>\n

But Ukraine cannot yet produce its own anti-missile defense systems, Zelenskyy said, and for that relies \u201calmost exclusively on the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor us \u2014 for a nation fighting for its survival \u2014 there is hardly anything more painful to see than Patriot batteries with no missiles loaded,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote.<\/p>\n

Deliveries, he says, are \u201cno longer keeping up with the reality of the threat we face.\u201d<\/p>\n

Washington did not immediately comment on the letter.<\/p>\n

The U.S. weapons that European nations and Canada buy to donate to Ukraine are a vital component of the country\u2019s air defenses, but only a few NATO allies are investing significant sums in the arrangement, alliance officials say.<\/p>\n

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Russia wants bank employees to join the fight against Ukrainian drones<\/h4>\n

The ambitious plan approved by the country\u2019s lower house of parliament on Tuesday envisages banks installing electronic jamming systems on their premises while selected employees would be trained to shoot down incoming drones.<\/p>\n

And with banks in almost every town, their incorporation into Russia\u2019s air defenses could help expand its cover.<\/p>\n

The bill, which state news agency Interfax said was first presented last August and later expanded in scope, must still be approved by the upper house Federation Council and signed by Putin before coming into force.<\/p>\n

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Russia is finding it hard to protect its large land mass from a growing number of attacks by increasingly sophisticated Ukrainian long-range drones. Smaller drones are also holding back Russian troops along the front line, Western analysts and officials say.<\/p>\n

As the intensity and depth of Ukrainian drone attacks have increased, Russian authorities have encouraged businesses to contribute to protective measures against aerial strikes.<\/p>\n

Russian banks are not known to have been a prime target for Ukrainian drones in the war that followed Moscow\u2019s 2022 invasion. The plan encompasses Russia\u2019s central bank and other top institutions, including majority state-owned Sberbank.<\/p>\n

With little details included in the bill, it has raised questions about how such a project would work. The widespread installation of equipment and training of staff in how to use it would require a huge organizational effort.<\/p>\n

With Putin keen to shield Russians from the war, the plan could work against his efforts by involving regular citizens in it and making the consequences of the invasion more visible.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s need for drone help suggests its defense are failing, analyst says<\/h4>\n

The proposed measure reflects growing problems for Russia against Ukraine\u2019s increasingly sophisticated drones, according to Thomas Withington, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London.<\/p>\n

The draft bill \u201cseems to indicate that \u2026 military-level drone defense capabilities in Russia are failing, because if they were working you wouldn\u2019t need to do that,\u201d Withington told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis situation is not improving for Russia,\u201d he said, noting that Moscow is battling to keep up with Ukrainian drone innovations.<\/p>\n

The measure seeks to \u201ctry and offload some of the burden of drone protection to the non-military, non-law enforcement sectors,\u201d which are under strain, he said.<\/p>\n

The bill says bank employees may jam or intercept drone control signals, and damage or destroy uncrewed aerial, underwater and ground vehicles threatening their facilities, without waiting for a response from security services.<\/p>\n

\u201cJamming will be used to make it more difficult for (the drones) to target and attack the relevant targets,\u201d Anatoly Aksakov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets, told Russian media outlet RBK. \u201cPlus, we\u2019ll also use means to shoot down these drones, thereby protecting the relevant targets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each organization would determine which employees would be trained to deploy the measures.<\/p>\n

Follow the AP\u2019s coverage of the war in Ukraine at <\/em>https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine<\/em><\/p>\n

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