President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said Ukraine must do all it can to ensure the war with Russia ends next year through diplomacy. The Ukrainian President was reacting to Donald Trump's win in the US election.
NATO has scrambled all its warplanes from Poland and Romania to Ukraine 's fraught borders, after Russia targeted the country's critical infrastructure with a new onslaught of missile attacks that aim to wipe out its energy grid.
'Due to the massive attack by the Russian Federation using cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles on objects located, among others, in western Ukraine, Polish and allied aircraft have begun operating in our airspace,' said a statement from the Polish operational command. Officials have feared crippling damage to the grid that could cause long blackouts and build psychological pressure at a critical moment in the invasion launched in February 2022, 1000 days ago yesterday
'Another massive attack on the power system is under way. The enemy is attacking electricity generation and transmission facilities throughout Ukraine,' Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko wrote on Facebook. Authorities in the Volyn region in northwestern Ukraine said energy infrastructure had sustained damage but did not elaborate.
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