«It is one of the biggest attacks against us energy sector». Ukraine accuses Kremlin troops of targeting its network again electricreporting very serious damage to energy infrastructure and new blackout emergency with the thermometer already below zero. Kiev is about almost 200 drones And 94 missiles fired during the night against various regions of the country, including hypersonic rockets Kinzhal and one North Korean: a rain of bombs like those that have already left millions of civilians in recent winters Ukrainians in the cold, without electricity and without water in the houses. And that for theUN present “reasonable reasons” to speak of “violations of fundamental principles of law international humanitarian».
Russia’s version
The version of Putin’s Russia is that the bombing is a response to the use of American long-range weapons. That is, missiles Atacms with which Ukrainian forces targeted an air base a few days ago Taganrog. “This attack will not go unanswered,” Moscow thundered at the time while claiming in its narrative that it had shot down all six missiles.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin turns out to be in tune with Trumpat least for the magazine interview part Time in which the future occupant of the White House lashed out against the use of American-made missiles in Russia. “I strongly disapprove of launching missiles hundreds of miles into Russia,” Trump said. A position that “completely coincides” with that of Moscow, underlined Putin’s spokesperson, adding however that he believes it is impossible for now to know whether the republican tycoon will revoke Kiev’s permission to launch the Atacms in Russia.
New international tensions
The Kremlin has repeatedly lashed out against the launch in Russia of Western missiles. And at the end of November he announced that he had reacted to this move by firing a new shot at Ukraine hypersonic ballistic rocket: theOreshnik. A missile which, according to two US officials interviewed two days ago by AFP, Russia could soon launch again against Ukraine. Perhaps already over the weekend, according to a source from American Security Council heard from Financial Times.
There is now just over a month left until Trump returns to the White House, and he says he wants to put an immediate end to it war and criticizes American military support forUkraine invaded by Putin’s troops. Many observers believe that i Russian soldiers they are trying to extract as much as possible territory possible to Ukraine, and Biden is trying to strengthen Kiev militarily (he USA announced new arms supplies of 500 million dollars) before the change of leadership in Washington. However, it is difficult to say what will happen with Trump back in power.
Escalation and damage
Putin’s Russia, while stating in words that it wants “peace”, also continues to say that it wants to reach “all” of its “goals» in what he calls thespecial military operation in Ukraine. While regarding the possibility of European troops monitoring compliance with a possible future trucestates that it is too early to talk about it but that “all this can and must be discussed in negotiations”.
The road to the peace However, it still appears to be uphill. And the raids against Ukrainian energy facilities they certainly don’t reduce tensions. On the contrary. Kiev claimed to have shot down 81 missiles on 94 and that at least 191 drones on 193 did not hit the target. But local authorities reported damage to several infrastructures energy and blackouts in the regions of Lviv And Ternopil – where half the oblast would be without electricity – while another region of western Ukraine, that of Ivano-Frankivskcalled the attack “the most massive since the beginning of the war.”
Nuclear and infrastructure crisis
THE’International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported that five nuclear reactors Ukrainians out of nine had to reduce their power due to the raids. While the private company Dtek he spoke of «serious damage» to the «equipment of the power plants thermals».
«Here is the peace plan of Putin: destroy everything. This is how I want it negotiations: terrorizing millions of people,” accused the Ukrainian president Zelenskywho came back to ask for more systems air defense.