Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure on Wednesday triggered massive power and water outages, particularly in the capital Kyiv, which killed at least six people, knocked out three nuclear power plants and affected neighboring Moldova.
“Any attack against civilian infrastructure constitutes a war crime and cannot go unpunished,” Emmanuel Macron denounced at night.
On Twitter, the Élysée tenant was outraged by the “massive bombings” and recalled that he will welcome “international support from Ukraine to help the country resist and guarantee its access to ‘energy'” in Paris on December 13.
Freezing temperatures in Ukraine
It is not the first time since the start of the conflict in Ukraine, at the end of February 2022, that the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron denounce “war crimes”.
In particular, he announced that France would help gather evidence to prove that Russia had committed war crimes in Ukraine. sending gendarmes and magistrates to contribute to the investigations.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia fired around 70 cruise missiles at Ukraine on Wednesday, 51 of which were shot down, and sent in five suicide drones. They took aim at strategic infrastructure as winter temperatures settled in Ukraine.
“With temperatures below freezing, several million people without power supply, without heating and without water, it is obviously a crime against humanity,” Volodymyr Zelensky lashed out in the afternoon during a brief statement before the UN Security Council.
Source: BFM TV
