Here is the key information from the last 24 hours:
– Friday, the Kremlin welcomed Donald Trump's latest statement opposing kyiv's use of American missiles against Russian territory, in the wake of a new “massive” Russian air attack against Ukraine.
– Moscow also said that these latest strikes were a response to kyiv's firing of American-made ATACMS missiles two days earlier on a “military airfield” in Taganrog, in southwest Russia.
– “We do not want a ceasefire, we want peace, once our conditions are met and all our objectives are achieved,” Dmitri Peskov reacted coldly. He considered that the “preliminary conditions for negotiations” were not met, while Moscow is de facto demanding a surrender of Ukraine before negotiating the conditions of peace.
– Moscow, whose forces are advancing in eastern Ukraine, does not weaken its pressure on the civilian population by launching a new massive attack in the morning against its energy network, causing vast power cuts in soaring temperatures. below zero. “In response to the use of long-range American weapons, the Russian armed forces carried out a massive attack on critical installations of the energy infrastructure” of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Telegram. Russia launched 94 ballistic and cruise missiles as well as 193 drones, the Ukrainian Air Force said. A total of 81 missiles and 80 drones were shot down by air defense and another 105 drones “were lost from radars and did not reach their targets”, according to the same source.
– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the social network If Westerners “are afraid to respond or become accustomed to terror, Putin sees this as permission to continue,” he said. His head of diplomacy Andriï Sybiga called on Westerners to deliver “20 air defense systems, NASAMS, HAWK and IRIS-T” to Ukraine.
– EU foreign ministers will decide on Monday on sanctions against Russian intelligence agents accused of carrying out hybrid attacks in the European Union, diplomats in Brussels said on Friday. The EU and NATO accuse Moscow of carrying out so-called hybrid attacks, acts of sabotage, arson or even assassination attempts, to destabilize the Western camp and dissuade it from continuing its support for Ukraine at war with Russia. .
