Russia Hits Ukraine’s Energy System With Massive Drone and Missile Attacks – POLITICO

The Ukrainian president said that Moscow used different types of drones“as well as cruise, ballistic and aeroballistic missiles,” in the attacks.

In the southern city of Mykolaiv, “a drone strike killed two people and injured six others, including two children,” Zelenskyy said. Another woman was killed in the Lviv region, the BBC reported.

Poland – a NATO member – said it was putting its air force on high alert as the Russian attack pursued targets in western Ukraine. “The ground-based air defense and radar reconnaissance systems reached the highest state of readiness,” the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command said. wrote on X.

The attack in Moscow came after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday. urge him to put an end to the war that has been going on for over two years. But Zelenskyy complained that the conversation undermined efforts to isolate the Russian leader.

“This is the true answer of war criminal Putin to all those who recently called and visited him,” said the Ukrainian Foreign Minister said Andrii Sybiha of the attack. “We need peace through strength, not through reconciliation.”

Zelensky too said Saturday that Ukraine must do everything it can to ensure that the war with Russia ends next year through diplomatic means.