2023-10-07 03:28:34
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling for Ukraine’s energy system to be quickly strengthened for the winter in view of expected new Russian attacks. “It is very important to win this winter, overcome all difficulties and provide protection for our people,” Zelensky said in his daily video address on Friday.
Last fall and winter, Russia massively attacked the neighboring country’s energy infrastructure and plunged many Ukrainians into cold and darkness for months. Russia’s leadership always repeats its mistakes and evils. “And when they don’t succeed in something, they think that they probably haven’t done enough evil to succeed,” Zelensky said. He was therefore convinced that Russia would bombard the energy system even more this winter than last year.
According to the Ukrainian president, the country is better prepared for such attacks this time – among other things thanks to the anti-aircraft defenses supplied by the West. In this context, he thanked German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for agreeing to another Patriot system. But he also called on the regional authorities to stabilize the power grid in order to be able to better cope with individual hits.
Zelensky also recalled the recent Russian rocket attacks in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv, in which dozens of civilians were injured and killed. The devastating attacks on the village of Hrosa and the city of Kharkiv itself caused international horror.
After these Russian missile attacks, citizens in Moscow also laid flowers at a memorial for the victims. Almost all yellow and blue flowers – the national colors of Ukraine – were sold out in the neighborhood, the independent Internet portal Astra quoted an eyewitness as saying on Friday. A video shows flower arrangements at the Lesya Ukrainka monument. However, it is said that the city authorities kept clearing the flowers away.
On Friday evening, the authorities in the city of Kharkiv reported the cessation of rescue and search work. On Friday morning, a ten-year-old boy and his grandmother were killed when a rocket hit the Ukrainian city near the Russian border. 30 people were injured, twelve of whom had to be hospitalized. Just the day before, according to official information, 52 people were killed by a Russian rocket strike on a café in a village in the Kharkiv region. The Russian leadership denies that it is also shelling civilian targets in its war of aggression against the neighboring country.
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