The war between Russia and Ukraine comes to your day 988 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.
While the aggressions between Russia and Ukraine continue because the Russian forces launched during the last morning another massive kamikaze drone attack Shahed and of other models that had among its main objectives the cities of kyiv and Odessa, as reported by local authorities.
In the capital and its surroundings, the Ukrainian army has shot down more than thirty drones. Los Fragments of some of these drones have fallen in residential areas and have caused damage to homes and commercial infrastructure, according to the Military Administration of the kyiv region.
In Odessa, which is located in the south of the country and is Ukraine’s main seaport, a multi-story building and an unknown number of cars were hit during the attack, in which a 30-year-old man was injured. , according to the regional Military Administration.
Los Russian drones have also arrived in the Zhytomyr region of central Ukrainewhere they have hit an electrical infrastructure. Three districts in the region have been temporarily left without power as a result of the impact, according to authorities.
At the same time, a Russian aerial bomb has killed one person in the southeastern Ukrainian region of Sumi, bordering Russia.
Russia attacks Ukrainian territory every night with dozens of Shahed kamikaze drones, a relatively cheap technology received from Iran capable of reaching distances of more than a thousand kilometers.
Ukrainian defenses intercept the vast majority of these drones, which however continue to cause casualties and material damage by directly impacting infrastructure or homes or by fragments of the downed devices falling on them.
Víktor Orban warns that war Russia Ukraine, economy and immigration endanger Europe
He Prime Minister of Hungarythe ultranationalist Víktor Orbán, assured this Thursday that the gukrainian warthe economic situation and the immigration endanger the foundations of the European Union (UE).
“The situation in which the EU finds itself is heavy, complicated and dangerous,” said Orbán when opening as host the summit of the European Political Community (EPC) that meets today in Budapest.
The war “that Russia has started against Ukraine” threatens escalationexplained the prime minister before the representatives of the 27 EU countries and 20 other European countries gathered at the Puskás Aréna stadium in the Hungarian capital.
According to Orbán, the representatives of these 47 countries will have to analyze today if they can find joint responses and if “areas can be identified in which joint action can be taken.”
“Together we can be stronger than apart,” the prime minister emphasized and stressed that the responses that will be given today “will determine the EU for decades.”
Los Representatives of European countries will analyze how peace can be achieved in the EUy “How can Europe assume responsibilities in favor of peace?”said Orbán, considered Russia’s main ally within the EU.
On the other hand, economically, he highlighted the importance of maintaining interconnection and reducing external dependencies.
The leaders of the European Commission, NATO and the European Council, among others, also participate in today’s meeting beyond the 47 European countries.
Russia urges the West to accept the reality in Ukraine and begin negotiating a settlement; accuses kyiv of attempting to commit acts of nuclear terrorism
He secretary of the Russian Security Council (CSR), Sergei Shoigu, urged the West to accept the reality on the ground and start negotiating on Ukrainein clear allusion to the future US Administration after the victory of the Republican Donald Trump in the presidential elections, during a meeting with his counterparts from the countries of the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
“Now, when the situation in the theater of military operations does not favor the kyiv regime, the West faces a dilemma: continue financing it and killing the Ukrainian population, or recognize the current realities and start negotiating”
Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of the Russian Security Council
According to Shoigu, Russia’s Defense Minister until last May, the raid launched by Ukrainian forces in the Kursk regionpart of which they occupy to this day, had as its objective the capture of its nuclear power plant, according to local agencies.
The Secretary of the Russian Security Council, accused kyiv of attempting to commit acts of nuclear terrorism.
“Attacks against the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant and its energy infrastructure continue. What is this, if not an attempt to commit acts of nuclear terrorism? (…) the kyiv regime has now become a dangerous foreign-controlled terrorist that, unlike international terrorist networks, has its own industry and territory.”
Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of the Russian Security Council
He Secretary of the CSR assured that the West, instead of allowing Ukraine to develop peacefully“not only did they shamelessly loot it, but they tried by all means to turn it into a weapon to inflict strategic defeat on Russia.”
“The plan failed,” Shoigu emphasized.
Sergei Shoigu, Russian defense minister/EFE
Volodymyr Zelensky trusts Donald Trump’s leadership for peace
The Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenskicalled this morning the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trumpto which congratulated him on his electoral victory y conveyed confidence that strong leadership from Washington under his command lead to a just peace in Ukraine.
“I had an excellent call with President Donald Trump and I congratulated him on his historic and overwhelming victory, for the tremendous campaign that made this result possible”
Volodymyr Zelensky in his social network account
During the call, the Ukrainian head of state highlighted “the great work” of “Trump’s team and family.”
“We have agreed to maintain close dialogue and advance our cooperation. “Strong and steadfast U.S. leadership is vital to the world and to a just peace.”
Volodymyr Zelensky in his social network account
Zelensky has repeatedly acknowledged that he needs the weapons that Washington sends him to continue confronting Russian military aggression.
Trump and his entourage have raised the possibility of cutting off the tap on supplies to Ukraine y bet on immediate negotiations to end the war. kyiv fears that this solution to the conflict will force it to give up territory.
Training of Ukrainian soldiers in a photo from April 10, 2024. EFE/EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO
(SERGEY DOLZHENKO / EFE)