According to the Ukrainian government, Russia will ultimately harm itself and its citizens with its missile attacks on the Ukrainian energy grid. “With each such missile attack, Russia is only driving itself deeper into an impasse” and heading for an international criminal tribunal, President Volodymyr Zelenskyj said in his daily video address on Thursday evening – just a few hours after the last large-scale Russian attack with cruise missiles and so-called kamikazes. drones. Meanwhile, fighting continues in various sectors of the front in Ukraine.
Zelenskyy: Each attack brings Russia closer to the tribunal
The “world’s biggest terrorist status” will affect Russia and its citizens for a long time to come, Zelenskyj said. “And every missile just confirms that this all has to end in a tribunal, which is exactly what it will be.” In his talks with other heads of state and government, the Ukrainian president is trying to win their support for an international criminal court modeled on the Nuremberg tribunal for Nazi criminals. If it is up to Zelenskyj, politicians and the military from Russia should one day also take responsibility for the offensive war against Ukraine.
According to Zelenskyy, the latest Russian missile attack has again caused serious damage to the energy grid in large parts of Ukraine. In view of possible further attacks, he warned: “This year has two days left, perhaps the enemy will try again to make us celebrate the New Year in the dark.”
Kiev wants to participate in missile tests in Belarus
After a missile was found on Belarusian territory, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry offered to cooperate with the investigation into the incident. A statement from the ministry released Thursday evening said the agency was ready for an “objective investigation into the incident”. State media in the Belarusian capital Minsk had reported that a missile launched by the S-300 air defense system had fallen on Belarusian territory on Thursday morning.
The defense ministry in Kiev pointed out that Ukraine was attacked by a spate of Russian cruise missiles on Thursday. “Therefore, a provocation by the terrorist state of Russia cannot be ruled out, which has chosen a flight path for its cruise missiles in a way that provokes their launch into the airspace over Belarus,” it said. That would be similar to what happened in November when a missile fell on Polish territory.
Belarus is not directly involved in hostilities in Ukraine. However, ruler Alexander Lukashenko has given Russian troops military bases in his country for attacks on neighboring Ukraine.
Ukrainian army attacks positions near Berdyansk
Ukrainian forces say they attacked Russian bases near the industrial and port city of Berdyansk in the southeast of the country. About 50 Russian soldiers were “liquidated” in the process, the General Staff in Kiev said. The information could not be independently verified.
The army in Kiev has not provided any information about the weapon systems used to attack Berdyansk. The city on the Sea of Azov is located almost 100 kilometers behind the current front lines.
Fierce fighting shook the area around the frontline city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine on Thursday. The military leadership in Kiev announced that the advance of the Russian forces there had again been repulsed.
Ukrainian forces are likely to continue to receive significant support in the form of weapons and ammunition from the US. On Thursday evening (local time), US President Joe Biden signed his administration’s new budget bill, which includes billions in aid to Ukraine. The budget, previously approved by both chambers of Congress, is worth $1.7 trillion, of which nearly $858 billion is for defense spending. About $45 billion has been earmarked for aid to Ukraine.
Zelenskyj adviser: 15,000 missing in Ukraine
More than ten months after the outbreak of war, according to Ukrainian presidential adviser Alona Verbytska, thousands of soldiers and civilians are missing in Ukraine. “Russia has currently confirmed that there are 3,392 Ukrainian prisoners of war, but 15,000 people are currently missing in Ukraine, many of them civilians,” she told editorial network Germany on Friday. The fate of these people is completely uncertain, says Verbytska, who works as an ombudswoman for the rights of Ukrainian soldiers. “We don’t know what happened to them.” (sda/dpa)
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