Russia is accused of targeting energy and water infrastructure ahead of a cold winter in Ukraine.
| Russia has destroyed almost a third of Ukraine’s power stations in the past week, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday , as Moscow rained more missiles down on infrastructure in what Kyiv and the West call a campaign to intimidate civilians.
Kyiv and the West say intentionally attacking civilian infrastructure is a war crime, and the attacks, aimed at leaving Ukrainians with no heat and power as winter arrives, are Mr Putin’s latest tactic to escalate a war his forces are losing.In a rare acknowledgement of the difficulties Russian forces are facing, their new commander Sergei Surovikin on Tuesday described the military situation in Ukraine as “tense”, especially around the occupied southern city of Kherson.
“Since October 10, 30 per cent of Ukraine’s power stations have been destroyed, causing massive blackouts across the country,” he wrote on Twitter.A Ukrainian family in their apartment in Kivsharivka. Many who have not fled in the east face a freezing winter with little or no power.Mr Zelensky again ruled out negotiations with Mr Putin, a vow he made after the Russian leader announced the annexation of four Ukrainian provinces.
Ukraine accuses Russia of using Iran-made Shahed-136 “kamikaze drones”, which fly to their target and detonate. Iran denies supplying them and on Tuesday the Kremlin also denied using them. NATO will deliver air defence systems to Ukraine “in the coming days” to help the country defend itself against drones, the alliance’s secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said.” in Russian media after serving in Syria and Chechnya, where his forces pounded cities to rubble in a brutal but effective scorched earth policy against its foes.
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