Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of trying to ‘kill’ power and heating for millions at the onset of winter, as Germany agreed to send Patriot missiles to Poland as part of an air defence deal.
earlier about the offer, said in the interview that Germany plans to extend a deployment of Patriot batteries in Slovakia, a Nato member state that also borders Ukraine, throughout 2023 — “and maybe even longer.”Russia is targeting key energy infrastructure in Ukraine to “kill” electricity, heating and water supply this winter for millions of people, tantamount to using “weapons of mass destruction”, Zelensky said in a video address to Nato’s annual session in Madrid.
Ukrtransnafta JSC, the operator of Ukraine’s oil pipeline network, informed its Russian counterpart Transneft PJSC that “continued destruction of the Ukrainian energy infrastructure has led to a significant shortage of electricity, an increase in its costs, a shortage of fuel, spare parts,” according to a letter from the company seen by Bloomberg.
Even if allies decide to keep the 2% figure, it will likely be maintained “more as a floor than as a ceiling” for defence spending, he said, speaking before the Nato Parliamentary Assembly in Madrid.Russian troops, which are now concentrated on the left bank of the Dnipro river, to the south of the de-occupied city of Kherson, intensified shelling of the nearby areas, deputy head of the region’s council, Serhii Khlan, said at a briefing.
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