According to Ukrainian authorities, Russian airstrikes on Ukraine’s Chernihiv region have resulted in at least four fatalities and ten injuries, leaving many people without water and power.
The Energy Ministry reported on Tuesday morning that the regional capital, also known as Chernihiv, and the province’s northern region lost all electricity supply as a result of power plant strikes.
Four civilians were killed and ten others were hurt in a later Russian drone attack in Novhorod-Siverskyi, according to the state emergency service.
“Novorod-Siverskyi was attacked by the enemy with strike drones today. Four people were killed and ten more were hurt, including a 10-year-old child, according to preliminary information, according to the emergency service’s Tuesday statement on Telegram.
Local authorities claimed that significant damage had been done to the town in northern Ukraine, which is located 32 kilometers from the Russian border.
People in Chernihiv poured water from cisterns on the streets and headed for “invincibility points,” or tents with stoves and generators set up by authorities to give locals some access to heat and electricity.
Local authorities claimed that Russia had circled drones above the damaged energy plants, preventing the repair process to begin. Oleksandr Lomako, the acting mayor of Chernihiv, claimed Moscow was attempting to stifle local residents’ access to power and heat in the run-up to the icy winter.
They simply hit and destroy everything,” they say. Nataliia, 43, told the news agency Reuters, “There is no end to this.”
Later, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, reported on Telegram that repairs were being made. He claimed that “Russia uses the cold to terrorize people and murder them.”
Vladimir Putin, the country’s president, claims to be ready for diplomacy and peace talks, but in reality Russia launched a brutal missile and drone attack on X, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha.
The nearby Sumy region, where nine people were reported to have been hurt, was also targeted by the Russian attack.
In February 2022, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia has consistently targeted Ukrainian energy sources since the start of the conflict, forcing the nation to rely on subzero power to power its homes and businesses.
Donald Trump, the president of the United States, announced last week that he would meet with Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, and has been trying to put an end to the conflict for months.
A meeting was not scheduled, according to Russian and US officials who spoke on Tuesday.
A senior White House official told Al Jazeera, “President Trump has no intention of meeting with President Putin in the near future.”
Moscow added that preparations “could take time,” and that it was also against the idea of a meeting.
No precise timeframe was set for this, according to Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman. “Serious preparation is required,” the saying goes.
Following a flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at stumbling upon agreements to end Russia’s war, the summit was called off.
Trump has suggested sending Ukraine Tomahawk missiles, which would allow Ukraine to launch further into Russian territory, as Putin appears to be getting angry with Putin’s position on ending the war.
Zelenskyy arranged to meet with Trump in Washington last week, but he did not.
The US president reportedly agreed with Putin that Ukraine must cede all of its eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, despite the rumored tension at the meeting on Friday.
Putin and other EU leaders accused the Ukrainian president of putting a stop to the war by putting up temporary diplomatic efforts and opposed any move to have Kyiv seize land that had been seized by Russian forces in exchange for peace.
Source: Aljazeera
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