▲ While the winter is more severe, Russia attacks electricity generation plants. The image, in the Dobropillya neighborhood, east of Donietsk, in Ukraine.Photo Afp
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La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, December 14, 2024, p. 19
kyiv. Russia launched a massive air attack against Ukraine by firing a barrage of 93 missiles and nearly 200 drones, reported Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky, who assured that it was one of the harshest bombings of the country’s energy sector since the beginning of the war.
The Ukrainian army shot down 81 projectiles, including 11 cruise missiles that were intercepted by F-16 warplanes supplied by Western allies at the beginning of the year, the president said.
The offensive is the latest in a series of similar raids that have raised fears that Moscow intends to paralyze the country’s electricity generation capacity in the middle of the freezing winter.
Russia is terrifying millions of peoplethe president warned on his Telegram channel, while renewing his call for international unity against his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin; A strong reaction is needed from the world. A massive blow. This is the only way to stop the terrorhe sentenced.
Moscow reported that the offensive targeted fuel and energy facilities of critical importance in Ukraine that ensure the functioning of the military industrial complex.
The Kremlin claims that yesterday it responded to the Ukrainian attack last Wednesday in which American-made Atacms ballistic missiles crashed into a Russian air base.
Meanwhile, the spokesman for the Russian government, Dimitri Peskov, affirmed that the rejection expressed by the US president-elect, Donald Trump, to kyiv using weapons provided by Washington to attack targets in its territory, is a position fully aligned with that of Moscow.
Peskov added that the prerequisites to hold peace talks between the warring parties, alluding to the increase in speculation about a possible ceasefire before Trump’s arrival at the White House in January, but refrained from anticipating any future action by the magnate regarding the conflict with kyiv.
We do not want a temporary ceasefire, we want permanent peace, once our conditions are met and all our objectives are achievedsaid.
Meanwhile, Mark Rutte, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, warned that Putin wants erase Ukraine from the mapand assured that there is the possibility that Russia intends to advance on the continent, using drone swarms in Europe after seeing its deadly impact in Ukraine.
Rutte urged Europeans to pressure their governments to increase their defense spending. It’s time to adopt a wartime mentalityRutte said in front of security experts and analysts in Brussels. Britain, Italy and Japan announced the creation of a joint venture to develop, design and build an advanced radar-undetectable aircraft, a major defense project unveiled as European countries rush to bolster their militaries following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Trump’s calls to increase defense spending.