During another day marked by the launch of long-range missiles at several Ukrainian cities, Russia, through leader Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, explains that this is due to the Ukrainian authorities’ lack of will to negotiate. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian president saw his request for experts from his country to visit the site, on Polish territory, where a rocket fell, killing two, speculation about its origin and fears of an escalation of the war. And in a long-awaited sentence, three people were convicted of downing a Malaysia Airlines plane in Donetsk in 2014.
Russia continued airstrikes in several parts of Ukraine, hitting both infrastructure and residential areas. In Kiev, air defenses shot down all launched missiles (four) and drones (five), and in Odessa, which has been without electricity for two days, six of the seven missiles were reportedly intercepted (it hit “critical infrastructure”). “).
In other parts of the country, damage and casualties were reported from cruise missile launches from the Black Sea, missiles fired from aircraft and drones from Belarus: seven killed in an apartment building in Vilniansk, on the outskirts of Zaporizia; 23 injured in several residential buildings and one industrial in Dnipro; three injured near infrastructure in Izium, Kharkiv region.
“Russia fights against electricity and heats people, causing power plants and other energy installations to explode,” said Volodymyr Zelensky, who said ten million people were without electricity on the day the snow came. For the Kremlin, Kiev is to blame. “The unwillingness of the Ukrainian side to solve the problem, to start negotiations, the refusal to reach an agreement, this is the result,” said Dmitry Peskov.
The Kremlin spokesman was responding to a question about the ten-point proposal for achieving peace Zelensky unveiled at the G20 summit. “They negotiate, then they refuse to negotiate, then they pass a law that prohibits any kind of negotiation, then they want negotiations, but public negotiations,” Peskov said of the Ukrainians, before rejecting the idea of negotiations in the public square . When asked if the arrival of the cold would provide an opportunity for a break, he replied that “the special military operation continues and is not dependent on weather conditions”.
condemn Russians
In the Polish city of Przewodów, where a missile fell that Ukraine said was Russian but according to preliminary information from Poland was a Ukrainian air defense projectile, experts had already been sent by Kiev. ‘I do not know what happened. We’re not sure. The world doesn’t know,” Zelensky said now, after insisting Russia was responsible for the blast.
What was established after a long investigation was that two Russians and a pro-Russian Ukrainian were to blame for the downing of the plane that connected Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in 2014. Tried in absentia, they were convicted by a court in The Hague for the deaths of the 298 passengers of flight MH17. For Moscow, the life imprisonment for the two Russian soldiers and the pro-Russian fighter is explained by the “unprecedented pressure” of Dutch politicians on the judicial system.
Source: DN
