Ukraine promises not to give up ‘a single centimeter’ to Russia in east
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday night that his troops were “1” in the battle for control of the eastern Donetsk region after arguing that the resumption of Ukrainian territory and compensation from Russia were conditions for conducting peace talks. He said that centimeters would not produce either.
Zelensky also said in a video speech that 14 regions and about 4 million people in the capital Kyiv were without power, but that it was stable and not an emergency.
Russian missile and drone strikes have targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure over the past few weeks as winter approaches, with average temperatures dropping a few degrees below 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit) to below -20 degrees Celsius. I’m here.
The focal point of the conflict in Donetsk’s industrial area is around the cities of Bakhmut, Soledar, and Avdevka, the most intense fighting arenas in the country.
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“Occupier activity is still at a very high level, with dozens of attacks taking place every day,” Zelensky said.
He is one of several Russians who claim he occupied the area in late September, seven months after he attacked his neighbor. Moscow has said it will not negotiate the territories it claims.
Zelensky’s earlier remarks on the terms of the negotiations came after a Washington Post report on Saturday that the US had urged Ukraine to show its willingness to negotiate. Zelensky’s remarks are also in line with the US midterm elections, whose results could test Western support for Ukraine.
“Again, restoration of territorial integrity, respect for the UN Charter, compensation for all losses caused by war, punishment of all war criminals and assurance that this will never happen again,” he said. Told.
Ukrainian forces have been offensive in recent months, but Russia is regrouping to defend areas of Ukraine it still occupies, calling in hundreds of thousands of reservists last month.
Russia has been evacuating civilians from occupied territories, especially the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, and Kyiv says the deportation is a war crime. Moscow says it is moving people to safer places.
On Tuesday night, a Ukrainian military statement accused Russian forces of looting and destroying Kherson’s infrastructure.
In the area near the city of Berislav, the Russian army “blew up power lines and seized equipment from solar power plants.”
In the city of Kherson, Russian soldiers are said to have taken exhibits, furniture and equipment from the museum of portrait and landscape artist Oleksey Shovkunenko.
Russian shelling targeted more than 30 of his settlements in the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, and authorities in the Russian-established Zaporizhia region forced residents to accept Russian passports after their Ukrainian documents were confiscated. , the statement said. , the statement said.
Ukraine promises not to give up ‘a single centimeter’ to Russia in east
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