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Ukrainians are trying to repair the power grid

After a massive Russian missile strike, Ukrainian technicians have once again tried to restore their country’s badly damaged energy supply. The president’s office in Kiev reported the first successes late on Wednesday evening: Electricity was restored in 15 areas, Vice President Kyrylo Tymoshenko said.

“The occupiers are doing everything they can to make people suffer so that we don’t even feel or see each other,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening video address. He was also associated with a session of the UN Security Council in New York, where he called for Moscow to be condemned. Russia must be clearly identified as a terrorist state.

The current developments in the live ticker:

A dark night in Ukraine

Russia launched about 70 missiles and drones into Ukraine on Wednesday. According to the Air Force, 51 missiles and 5 drones were intercepted. But the remaining missiles killed ten people and again caused serious damage to Ukraine’s power grid. The country’s nuclear power plants shut down and most thermal and hydropower plants shut down, the energy ministry said. Large-scale blackouts occurred.

According to mayor Vitali Klitschko, 80 percent of households in the capital Kiev, with its three million inhabitants, were without electricity and water. Journalists reported that they had never seen the city so dark. The administration wanted to use hand-held sirens and loudspeakers to warn of possible new airstrikes in parts of the city without electricity. “The situation in Kiev is difficult,” Zelensky said. “The work lasts all night.” Results are not expected until Thursday morning.

Russia will continue to decimate Ukraine’s military potential until Kiev takes a “realistic stance” on the negotiations, Vasily Nebensia, Moscow’s ambassador to the UN, told the Security Council. The attacks on infrastructure are in response “to the country being pumped full of Western weapons and the ill-advised calls for Kiev to win a military victory over Russia”. Ukraine is counting on expelling Russian troops from all occupied territories.

Criticism of Russia’s missile strikes

Chancellor Scholz said of the attacks that Russian President Vladimir Putin showed once again how ruthless and ruthless he was in this war. “A war he can no longer win on the battlefield, that much seems clear.” He called on Putin to withdraw his troops and agree to peace talks with Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron described the attacks on Ukraine’s electricity and water supplies as war crimes that should have consequences. Nevertheless, Macron announced that he would be in contact with Putin again soon. The US also condemned the attacks.

At a defense summit of former Soviet republics, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called for a peace deal in Russia’s war against Ukraine. “As for Ukraine, I think it’s time for a collective search for a peace formula,” Tokayev said at the summit of the Russian-dominated Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

European politicians in solidarity with Kiev

Minister of State for Europe Anna Lührmann (Greens) and Vice President of the EU Parliament Nicola Beer (FDP) visited Ukraine on Wednesday together with other European politicians. Lührmann announced another 40 million euros in humanitarian aid for the winter. Another five million euros would be spent on Ukrainian schools. Germany will also supply generators.

Poland proposes German anti-aircraft guns in western Ukraine

Poland changed its position on Wednesday on Berlin’s proposal for a joint defense of the airspace on NATO’s eastern border. Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak wrote on Twitter that the German Patriot air defense systems should not be stationed in Poland as planned, but in western Ukraine. “This will save Ukraine from further casualties and power outages and increase security on our eastern border.”

Last week, a rocket hit the village of Przewodow in eastern Poland, on the border with Ukraine, killing two civilians. Currently, the West assumes that it was a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile used to defend against Russian military attacks. Germany then offered Poland Patriot batteries and Eurofighters to protect NATO’s eastern border.

That will be important on Thursday

Repair work on Ukraine’s power grid will continue on Thursday. Ukraine also expects another ship to pick up grain for transport across the Black Sea. According to the UN, three ships carrying grain left Ukrainian ports on Wednesday. The United Nations and Turkey, in coordination with Russia, had made Ukrainian export possible. (sda/dpa)