Russian forces directed Ukraine’s energy and gas infrastructure in his latest Drone and Missile attack, said Ukraine Energy Minister on Friday.
Northern city regional officials -east of Kharkiv in the western city of Ternopil declared damage to energy and other infrastructure. Eight people were injured in Kharkiv and two more, including a child, were injured in Poltava, according to officials.
« Russia continues its energy terror, » said German Minister Galuschenko on Facebook. « Again the energy and gas infrastructure in various Ukraine regions has been located under a massive missile fire and drone. »
« Whenever possible, lifeguards and electrical engineers work to eliminate the consequences. All the necessary measures are being taken to stabilize the power and gas supply, » he added.
Ukraine’s air force said that Russia had fired a salvation of 67 missiles and 194 drones in the night attack, adding that it had decreased 34 of the missiles and 100 of the drones.
For the first time, Ukraine unfolded the warrior aircraft of Mirage-2000 French delivered a month ago to help repel the attack, according to the Air Force. Ukraine also has F-16 hunting aircraft supplied to the west to demolish Russian missiles.
First attack since announced US pullback
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy requested a truce in the air and sea, as well as an additional pressure on Russia.
« The first steps to establish a real peace should be to force the only source of this war, Russia, to stop these attacks, » Zelenskyy said to the Telegram application.
Russia, who once focused its missile and drone attacks on the Ukrainian electricity sector, has sharply increased its attacks on Ukrainian gas storage facilities and in production fields.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said on Friday that their forces had strikes with air, sea and long -term precision weapons against what he called energy and gas infrastructure supported by the Ukraine military industrial complex.
The Friday attack was the first large-scale assault in Russia since the suspension of military aid and the United States’s intelligence in the last days of President Donald Trump’s administration, which has stopped military aid in Ukraine and intelligence sharing, in a reversal of American policies under the predecessor Joe Biden.
Trump and his Vice President JD Vance accused Zelenskyy of not being grateful enough for American support in a remarkable show at the Oval Office exactly a week ago, although there have been modest signs of re-reflection between the United States and Ukraine this week.
Zelenskyy said on Thursday afternoon that he would travel to Saudi Arabia on Monday for a meeting with the Saudi Prince of the Mohammed Bin Salman Crown ahead of the conversations there later on the week between North -American and Ukrainian officials.
« Ukraine is ready to follow the path to peace, and it is Ukraine who strives for peace since the first second of the war. The task is to force Russia to stop the war, » Zelenskyy said in his telegram message on Friday.
Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, who has already had broad conversations with Russian officials, said he was in Ukraine discussions for a peace agreement framework, and confirmed that a meeting was planned with Ukrainians in Saudi Arabia next week.
Hungary’s Orban in Holdout in the EU Predge
On the battlefield, Ukraine is overcome and Russian forces are constantly moving to the Eastern Donetsk region, although slowly and increasing significant pressure on Ukrainian troops trying to keep the territory in the Kursk Russian region.
A statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Thursday that his forces had captured the people of Andriivka, west of the Kurakhove Logistics Center, which Moscow said he had taken in early January.
Ukraine’s general staff did not mention Andriivka to fall into Russian hands. But in a report in the afternoon, he mentioned the settlement as one of the five that had been attacked for 17 attempts by Russian forces to pierce Ukrainian defenses in the Pokrovsk sector in the Donetsk region.
The European Union is studying a help plan of more than $ 1,000 for Ukraine and the expense in defense defense after the suspension of Donald Trump’s military aid in Kyiv promoted the concerns that the EU can no longer rely on the protection of the United States of Russian aggression.
European leaders on Thursday supported the plans to spend more on defense and continue to keep up with Ukraine in a world increased by the change in North -American support. But the statement of support came from 26 European Union countries, not all 27.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban refused to approve the statement and said that the EU could not afford a commitment on Friday. Orban said that the way the EU wants to support Ukraine now, while increasing the expense of defense in Europe, « would ruin Europe ».
« Today it seems that I have vetoed. But in a few weeks they will return and it will be no money for these goals, » he said in a state radio address.
Orban has refused to send weapons to Ukraine since the beginning of the war in 2022 and has close relationships with both Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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