They warn that if Vladimir Putin wins the war he will change the history of Europe; Ukraine attacks Russia’s energy infrastructure and more

2024-04-27 09:39:54

The war between Russia and Ukraine comes to your day 791 since its beginning on February 24, 2022, when the Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered a “special military operation” to free the pro-Russian population from the Donbas region of Ukraine.

Hoy Wednesday April 24, 2024, Ursula Von der Leyen says that if Vladimir Putin wins the war against Ukraine, he will change the course of European history.

While at the front Last night, anti-aircraft defenses shot down eight Ukrainian drones over four Russian regionsThe Russian Ministry of Defense reported this Wednesday on its Telegram channel.

Los Russian military indicated that all the unmanned devices intercepted were fixed-wing.

According to the military report, about the region of Kursk and of Belgrade, both borders with Ukraine, three and two drones were shot downrespectively.

Two other devices were destroyedon the territory of the Voronezh region and one on the Smolensk region, Russian federated entities located more than 100 kilometers from the border with Ukraine.

”According to the latest data, there were casualties as a result of the attack,” the governor of the Smolensk region, Vasily Anokhin, wrote on Telegram.

Previously the governor had reported that the Ukrainian attack had caused fires at civilian energy and fuel facilities, without specifying their type.

Volodymyr Zelensky thanks the US Senate for approving aid for Ukraine

The Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, thanked on Wednesday to the US Senate for approval of a military aid package for 61 billion dollars for his country.

“I thank Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell for their strong leadership in passing this bipartisan legislation, as well as all the senators on both sides who voted in favor.”

Volodymyr Zelensky on social networks shortly after the approval

The United States has been Ukraine’s main military support in its war against Russiabut the new aid package spent months stalled in Congress.

“I also appreciate the support of President (Joe) Biden and I hope for the prompt ratification of the law and that the next military aid package is equal to the provision I always see in our negotiations”

Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine

He indicated that “Ukrainian long-range capabilities, artillery and air defense are critical tools for restoring peace.”

The Ukrainian armed forces have faced a severe shortage of weapons and new recruits in the face of increasing military pressure from Moscow.

Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine (X socket)

Ukraine attacks Russia’s energy infrastructure with drones

Ukraine launched drone attacks on energy infrastructure in western Russia on Wednesdayconfirmed military sources from kyiv, which in recent weeks has multiplied its actions against this type of facilities.

With this strategy, kyiv seeks to hinder Moscow’s military logistics and undermine its ability to attack Ukrainian cities or gain ground on the Eastern Front..

He attack was announced first of all for the local authorities of the regions of Smolensk y Lipetskin western Russia.

“Our region was again attacked by Ukrainian drones,” reported the governor of Smolensk, Vasily Anokhin.

In a message on Telegram, Anojin pointed out that the attack “against civil energy infrastructure sites” left no injuries, but caused “fires” in these facilities.

Further south, the region of Lipetskwhat It houses several metallurgical and pharmaceutical companiesalso suffered drone attackssaid its governor Igor Artamanov.

“The criminal regime in kyiv tried to attack the infrastructure of the Lipetsk industrial zone,” said Artamonov, who also ruled out victims from this action.

A kyiv defense source confirmed on Wednesday that The attack was carried out by drones of the Ukrainian Security Service.

This source did not mention the action against Lipetsk, but claimed responsibility for the destruction of two oil deposits in Smolensk.

Russian state energy giant “Rosneft lost two storage and pumping bases for fuels and lubricants in the municipalities of Yartsevo and Rozdorovo,” he said.

The source added that the Drones attacked facilities where 26 thousand cubic meters of fuel are stored and that Ukraine will continue this type of actions.

“These facilities are, and will continue to be, absolutely legitimate objectives,” he defended.

Russia has systematically attacked Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, causing lasting damage to critical facilities.

But in recent months, kyiv has also claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on oil refineries and depots not only in Russia’s border regions.but also in areas hundreds of kilometers from its territory.

2 years have passed since the war between Russia and Ukraine (HANDOUT/AFP)

They warn that if Vladimir Putin wins the war it will change the history of Europe

The president of the European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen, said this Wednesday that a victory for Russian President Vladimir Putin in the war against Ukraine “would change the course of European history,” For this reason, he asked the Twenty-Seven to help kyiv militarily, from the European Parliament on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of European enlargement to the east.

“Putin’s victory would not only change the map, not only mask the face of the Ukrainian nation, but it would change the course of European history. Our Union would never be the same.”

Von der Leyen in a speech at the European Parliament

The president of the Community Executive assured that “there is only one way to face” this situation, that “Putin only understands a single language, that of providing Ukraine with means to defend itself.”

In this sense, he pointed out that the approval in the United States of the 60 billion dollar package to help Ukraine, as well as the assistance that the European Union (EU) provides to kyiv, is “a stimulus” to “do, even, further”.

“We have to be very clear about this: for Europe to win the future, just as it did twenty years ago, Ukraine must win”

Von der Leyen in a speech at the European Parliament

And he predicted that the decisions that the Twenty-Seven make “in the coming days, weeks and months will decide who wins the future of Europe.”

Ukraine has been insisting for weeks that its allies provide it with anti-aircraft defenses to be able to intercept Russian bombings against its electrical installations..

Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission / Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP (SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP)

2024-04-27 09:39:54