French President Emmanuel Macron denounced this Monday a “profound change in the nature” of the war in Ukraine after a series of Russian attacks throughout the Ukrainian territory.
These “deliberate attacks by Russia throughout the Ukrainian territory and against civilians is a profound change in the nature of this war,” he said during a trip to Château-Gontier in Mayenne.
The president added that he will bring together his concerned diplomatic and military advisers as soon as he returns to Paris to “take stock” of the situation. The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, for his part, denounced “an unacceptable escalation.”
a russian revenge
This Monday morning, Kyiv and many other Ukrainian cities such as Dnipro, Zaporizhia or Lviv woke up to Russian bombing. Strikes that seem like revenge by Vladimir Putin, while the Ukrainian forces have been gaining ground for several weeks.
The strikes, which according to Volodymyr Zelensky were intended to affect infrastructure linked to the “energy system”, left at least 11 dead and 89 injured throughout the country, according to the latest police report.
The Russian president denounced on Sunday in particular a “terrorist act” by the Ukrainian secret services, whom he accuses of being at the origin of the explosion of the Crimean bridge, a very symbolic bridge because it connects Russia and the annexed peninsula.
“If attempts at terrorist attacks continue on our territory, Russia’s responses will be severe and their scale will correspond to the level of the threats posed,” Vladimir Putin said Monday at the opening of a televised meeting of the Russian Security Council. .
Source: BFM TV
