UPDATED. Russia has openly acknowledged targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure with waves of missile and drone strikes since the start of last week, in what President Vladimir Putin says is legitimate retaliation for a blast on a bridge.
in the past week, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday, October 18, as Moscow rained more missiles down on infrastructure in what Kyiv and the West call a campaign to intimidate civilians.
“The situation is critical now across the country.… The whole country needs to prepare for electricity, water and heating outages,” Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Ukrainian president’s office, told Ukrainian television. Moscow denies deliberately targeting civilians, though it has pummeled villages, towns and cities across Ukraine in what it initially called a “special military operation” to disarm its neighbor.
However, two senior Iranian officials and two Iranian diplomats told Reuters that Tehran had promised to provide Russia with more drones as well as surface-to-surface missiles, a move sure to infuriate the United States and its allies. His appointment was quickly followed on October 10 by the biggest wave of missile strikes against Ukraine since the start of the war.
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that four Ukrainian regions it claims to have annexed in recent weeks were under the protection of its nuclear arsenal. The statement comes as both NATO and Russia prepare to hold annual military exercises to test the readiness of their nuclear weapons forces.
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