Russian forces attacked the energy and gas infrastructure of Ukraine in the last attack of drones and rockets, said the Minister of Energy of Ukraine on Friday.
Regional officials from the north -eastern city of Kharikiv to the western city of Tenopil reported damage to energy and other infrastructure. Eight people were injured in Khark, and two more, including a child, were injured in Poltava, officials gave.
“Russia continues energy terror,” said Energy Minister Galuschenko on Facebook. “Again, energy and gas infrastructure in various regions of Ukraine was under a mass bullet and a fire of drones.”
“As far as possible, rescuers and energy engineers are working on eliminating consequences. All necessary measures are taken to stabilize power and gas, “he added.
Ukraine's Air Force reported that Russia was launched by 67 missiles and 194 drones during a night attack, adding that it shot down 34 missiles and 100 drones.
According to Air Force, for the first time Ukraine deployed the French planes of Mirage-2000 warriors delivered a month ago to help repel the attack. Ukraine also has the supply of the Western F-16 fighter to shoot Russian missiles.
The first attack from the announcement of the American withdrawal
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, called for a truce in the air and at sea, as well as additional pressure on Russia.
“The first steps to establish a real room should be forcing the only source of this war, Russia, to stop such attacks,” said Zelenskyy in a telegram application.
Russia, which has previously concentrated its rocket attacks and drones on the Ukrainian electricity sector, in recent months increased its attacks on Ukrainian gas storage devices and production fields.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Friday that his forces had been held by strikes with a precise weapon of long -range air, maritime and land against the so -called gas and energy infrastructure supporting the military complex of Ukraine.
The attack on Friday was the first attack on a large scale from Russia since the suspension of American help and military intelligence in recent days from the administration of President Donald Trump, who stopped military assistance to Ukraine, as well as sharing intelligence, in reversing American policy under the command of predecessor Joe Biden.
Trump and his vice president JD Vance accused Zelenskyy of a lack of gratitude for American support in an unusual display registered in the Oval Office exactly a week ago, although this week there were modest signs of re -involvement between the US and Ukraine.
Zelenskyy said at the end of Thursday that on Monday he would go to Saudi Arabia to meet with the Saudi prince Mohammed Bin Salman before talking during a week between US officials and Ukrainian officials.
“Ukraine is ready to follow the path to peace, and it is Ukraine who strives for peace from the first second of this war. The task is to force Russia to stop the war, “said Zelenskyy in his telegram message on Friday.
A special envoy of Trump, Steve Witkoff, who had already conducted extensive talks with Russian officials, said that he talked to Ukraine regarding the RAM of a peace agreement and confirmed that next week a meeting with the Ukrainians in Saudi Arabia was planned next week.
Hungary Orban and Holdout on the EU obligation
Ukraine has a numerical advantage on the battlefield, and Russian forces are constantly developing in the Eastern Region of Donetsk, although the main pressure on the Ukrainian army is slowly and growing at the Ukrainian army trying to maintain territory in the Russian region of Kursk.
On Thursday, the statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that his forces were captured by the village of Andriivki – west of the Kurakhove logistics center, which Moscow, she claimed, occupied at the beginning of January.
The general staff of the Ukrainian army did not mention that Andriivka falls into Russian hands. But in the late evening report he mentioned the settlement as one of the five, which were attacked during 17 attempts of Russian forces to break the Ukrainian defense in the SKROVSK sector in the Donetsk region.
The European Union is considering a help plan of over $ 1 trillion to Ukraine and increasing defense expenditure after suspending Donald Trump's military assistance for Kiev, fueled by Kijasz, fears that the EU can no longer rely on US protection against Russian aggression.
On Thursday, European leaders supported the plans to release more to defend and still remain at Ukraine in the world raised by changes in American support. But the statement of support came from 26 European Union countries, not all 27.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban refused to support the statement and said on Friday that the EU could not afford like a commitment. Orban said that the way the EU now wants to support Ukraine, while increasing his own defense expenses in Europe, “ruined Europe.”
“Today I seem to veto. But within a few weeks they will come back and it turns out that there is no money for these purposes, “he said in the radio address.
Orban refused to send weapons to Ukraine since the beginning of the war in 2022 and maintains close relations with Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin.