Ukraine and Russia start big attacks shortly before Trump's inauguration

Ukraine and Russia start big attacks shortly before Trump's inauguration

Ukraine and Russia recently exchanged massive drone and rocket attacks, while both sides are trying to gain an advantage because the inauguration of the future US President Donald Trump is closer. The upcoming US leader has promised to end the conflict quickly. However, without concrete details to implement his plans, his taking office in the White House brings great uncertainty into a Russian raid that is already going into the fourth year.

massive attacks and escalation of the conflict

In the night from Monday to Tuesday, according to his own statement, Kiev carried out the "most massive" attack of the conflict and attacked deep in Russia with drones and rockets, including six US Atacms-Ballisticrakets . Ukrainian and Russian officials confirmed this.

Green light for the use of American rockets

The outgoing US President Joe Biden gave the green light in November last year for the use of American long-range missiles by Ukraine to carry out attacks in Russia. Moscow considers this decision as an essential escalation. Russia has previously warned that the use of the ATACMs would be answered with the shooting of their new weapon, a hypersian medium -range missile called "Oreshnik". So far, this rocket has only been used once, on November 21st.

targeted attacks on the energy infrastructure

The Ukrainian armed forces reported that military and oil facilities were attacked in the last offensive and announced that they were "completely stopped the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine." In return, Russia started their own bombing of Ukraine from Tuesday to Wednesday, which mainly aimed at the already battered energy sector.

Ukrainian countermeasures and effects

According to the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj, the night attacks included more than 40 rockets, 30 of whom were intercepted. In addition, over 70 Russian attack drones were involved. "Another massive Russian attack. It is in the middle of winter, and the goal of the Russians remains the same: our energy sector," said Selenskyj in a statement.

The attack forced the state energy society Ukrainenergo to temporarily switch off the power supply to prevent the energy system from collapsing. The electricity could be restored on Wednesday until 9 a.m.

repeated attacks and allegations of Russia

Russia has repeatedly bombed the Ukraine energy infrastructure, which forced the country to carry out emergency power failures. This increase in the attacks takes place in the run -up to Trump's inauguration on January 20th.

political statements and threats

nikolai Patrushev, a consultant of Putin, rejected the idea that Russia could be willing to hand over the idea of handing over to Ukraine in an interview with the Russian newspaper Komsomolyskaya Pravda. He also expressed that Ukraine could no longer exist as a sovereign state in 2025 without any further explanations. "It cannot be ruled out that Ukraine will no longer exist at all in the coming year," said Patrushev.

reports on captured Australians

In another development, it is reported that an Australian citizen who was captured in the fight for Ukraine may have been killed by Russia. The Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promised to take the “strongest measures” if this is confirmed. Oscar Jenkins was captured by Russian armed forces last month after a video was released that shows him in uniform and was filmed during his survey. According to reports, the 32-year-old is most likely dead, as both the Australian radio ABC and the CNN partner Seven News report on sources in Ukraine.