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When we do planning, if there is any chance — even a small one — that we could impact civilian infrastructure, we wouldn’t do that,
The meaning of the deep strikes is huge,
said one of the unit’s co-founders, who goes by the call sign Fidel The work ... When I get old, when I’m a grandpa, I will tell my grandchildren about this.”
I’m sitting in the front seat monitoring basic information about speeds, altitude. We just have to be sure that it’s seeing what we are seeing. You are 100 percent focused on the task.”
Drone operators were too busy to speak with a reporter during the mission, but on a later phone call, an operator explained The strikes are good for morale, complicate Russian planning, and tie up air defenses,
This type of drones, we control only on the launch site,
This confirms that we must continue to pressure Russia for the sake of peace,
I do not believe that we should make any concessions in terms of assistance for Ukraine, but rather there should be an increase in assistance for Ukraine,
Zelenskyy said Wednesday, reaction to the seemingly unchanged Russian demands Eliminating the energy revenue that Russia uses to fund its war on Ukraine is the path to peace. With Russian allies like China and collaborators in Europe, sanctions won't do it alone, so these Ukrainian strikes must expand. Putin the strong leader who loves his country, sure."
Garry Kasparov, vice president of the World Liberty Congress, wrote on X in January Does an energy infrastructure ceasefire make much sense for Ukraine? Their energy system has been hard hit, but Ukraine is emerging from winter. And they've gotten pretty good at roughing up the Russian refining sector with drone strikes, taking roughly 10% of capacity offline."
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, David Sheppard, a journalist, wrote White House readout. Note the U.S. has to get Kyiv to agree to halt bombing of *Russia's* energy infrastructure to make the 30-day ceasefire stick. Kyiv has hit the Moscow oil refinery, the Tuapse oil refinery and (just today) targeted a fuel and energy facility in Astrakhan. You might say Ukraine holds a few 'cards' in this agreement."
Michael Weiss, an editor at The Insider, wrote on X about the White House's press release following Trump and Putin's call Unfortunately, we see that so far there has been no reciprocity on the part of the Kyiv side. There have been attempts to strike at our energy infrastructure facilities,
The president has not given any other orders (to the contrary),
They were just lining up in combat order, six of them were shot down by 'Pantsirs' (a surface-to-air missile system) and another one was destroyed by a (Russian) military aircraft,
And if we have such an agreement, there will be a list of objects, we have it, a list of civilian, energy, infrastructure facilities (we will also prepare this list and give it to our partners), and if the Russians do not hit our facilities, we will not hit their facilities."
Russian air defense forces were ordered to neutralize the drones. Six were shot down by Pantsir air defense systems, while one was intercepted by an airborne Russian fighter jet,
Putin's words are very different from reality. That's why we need defence support, support for our air defence, we need to exert pressure on Russia for the sake of security and saving lives,
the Ukrainian president said Right now you have a lot of guns pointing at each other and a ceasefire without going a little bit further would have been tough. Russia has the advantage. As you know, they have encircled about 2,500 soldiers. They are nicely encircled and that’s not good. And we want to get it over with.”
In his first public appearance since the call, Trump told the Fox News interviewer Laura Ingraham In many regions we can exactly hear what it is that Russia wants,
wrote Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Telegram We agreed to an immediate Ceasefire on all Energy and Infrastructure, with an understanding that we will be working quickly to have a Complete Ceasefire and, ultimately, an END to this very horrible War between Russia and Ukraine.”